Ideal Laptop

June 16, 2012

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Hardware

  • Choice of AMD 4/6/8 Core 3GHZ+ CPU
  • Radeon HD 7xxx Series
  • Posiblity for external AMD Lightning Bolt or USB3 bluray drive or graphics card if they cannot be included inside.
  • 16:10 resolution.
    • Choice of:
    • Small 13" monitor with 1680x1050 resolution
    • Larger 15" monitor with 1920x1200 resolution
    • Largest 17" or even 18" monitor with 2560x1600 resolution <- this would be my preferrance
  • Coreboot and grub 2 instead of UEFI
  • Built in NFC or ISO14443 Reader
  • Keyboard modeled on Sun Type 5 or Happy Hacking Keyboard
  • Bluray/DVD writer
  • Default 8 GB RAM but upgradable to 32GB after buying (without having to replace the current module).
  • Large SSD.
  • User replaceable parts, such as removable battery.
  • Serial RS232 port
  • 1GB Ethernet or fiber lan ports
  • Inbuilt primesense module including webcam, or alternative 3d motion detection system.
  • Support for Stereo OpenGL through use of active shutter glasses. For example monitor at 120hz refresh and inbuilt infrared or wireless sync.
Software
 
  • Eclipse installed by default including ADT, CDT.
  • Lightweight window manager by default, MATE or XFCE is preferable but with compiz expose/scale installed and enabled by default.
  • Firefox, and chromium browsers
  • Mail client that supports PGP encryption such as evolution
  • Chat client that supports OTR such as pigeon
  • XChat installed default
  • Up to date LaTeX software installed such as Texmaker
  • Use of btrfs and LVM
  • The reset I can download

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