Nah, it's only aluminium, and quite thin at that. Dunno how much use it'd be for reaching something, it's not very thick. You'd be better off standing on a normal PC keyboard.

I'd love to be able to justify a 15" retina one, shame there's no 13" retina/high res model.

 

I'd obviously stick Win 7 on it, but they look niiiiice

Yes. And the 15" one has more pixels than my 27" monitor :&

Ummm, if you're buying it for Sian, surely the important question is whether she likes trackpads, not you, you self-centred buffoon. No wonder she's not bought you anything for your birthday.

Isn't that like getting 400 fps in video games?

Um, not in the slightest. I can quite easily tell the difference between 220ppi and 110ppi. Have you actually looked at a retina display?

 

If they subsequently increased the res to 440ppi then yes, the difference would be barely noticeable and more akin to getting 200fps.

 

 

Well if it was for me I'd take the trackpad out and replace it with a block of cheese. Or maybe a pair of boobs. Although some laptops already come with nipples. I did find the multitouch scrolling pretty useful on my mother in law's laptop recently. Still prefer a mouse though.

 

I'd forgotten how bloody annoying the combat is in Frontier :(

 

And eBay looks like it could be a decent place to get a second hand laptop if I'm lucky. I shall keep an eye out.

I read something yesterday that said the maximum selectable resolution on the new macs is lower than the screen res so probably some scaling going on.

 

I should have been asleep ours ago.

I love the trackpad on my MBA, it's large and responsive, but hate the one on the cheap-as-chips Lenovo at work, it's small and shitty. So I guess the answer is it depends on the trackpad, init?

Well yes, I'd imagine using the screen at native res would be somewhat impractical – yer average 16 pixel icon would be 1.8mm high if my early-morning maths is correct.

That doesn't sound right. Anything lower than native would look awful unless it was a multiple of the native. I really hope that's not true.

They assumed the res (something x 1440?) was being doubled then scaled down. Some games allowed the full Res to be used with teeny tiny console text.

It's 2880x1800, so double the usual 1440x900.

Yes, I think that's the standard "res" that it uses. What I'd read was that even at higher resolutions 1680 x 1050 or 1920 x 1200 the image is rendered at twice the size then downscaled to 2880x1800.

I'm sure some are better than others, I've just never used one that I've liked using.

Oops. I was just writing some stuff down (stock prices so I can do some nice trading) and accidentally pressed the spacebar. I shot my lasers in the dock and now have the police after me. I hope my last save wasn't long ago.

Very quick question:
Anyone know what a Toshiba A100-027 might be like? One ending in 10 mins down the road from me.

 

Looks good, dead battery but pretty cheap.

Quite old. This lot seem to think it's alright apart from battery problems.

http://uk.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/jsp/SUPPORTSECTION/discontinuedProductPage.do?service=UK&com.broadvision.session.new=Yes&PRODUCT_ID=125290

 

Spec wise it looks pretty awful. I've had a Pentium Dual Core laptop and it was utter, utter shit.

Not worried about battery life or that it's old. This PC will still be used the most (especially by me) so it'll only be used for internet and crappy Popcap/Bigfish games.

 

Anyway, just won the bid at £67 which seems a good price for a decent performing laptop. Happy :)