Hi-res refurb Dell laptop. Comments?

[Tyler Aviss]

Hey LUG'ers,



I've currently got an Asus laptop. Beautiful power with a Core i7, 8GB
of RAM, etc.

However, I've been doing a lot of dev work lately, and the one falling
point I've run into is that 1366x768 isn't a lot of real-estate
screen-size

I started looking at what's available for larger screens, and noticed
this little guy with a 1920x1200 native LCD resolution.

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834200599&Tpk=M6300


Obviously it's a bit older and the Core2 probably isn't going to keep
up with my i7, but according to here the Linux compatibility is good:
  http://www.linlap.com/wiki/dell+precision+m6300


Anyone have one of these and/or know how well it performs on a recent
linux distro? At $267 the price is quite nice...





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Tyler Aviss
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