13 MacBook Air weighs next to nothing and is very fast, but has relatively poor battery life.

On Jan 7, 2013, at 7:33 AM, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:

> My dream machine is:
> 
> http://www.lenovo.com/products/us/laptop/thinkpad/x-series/x1-carbon-touch/
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> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 8:42 AM, Jecel Assumpcao Jr. <jecel at merlintec.com> wrote:
>> I'm about to have a two week vacation in Orlando, but would like to do
>> some Squeaking during that time. An option would be to take my current
>> laptop, which is an Apple G3 iBook. That is a bit heavy and slow by
>> today's standards, and since it can only run old VMs I would expect
>> (though I haven't tested) some problems with more recent images.
>> 
>> An alternative would be to buy a new machine, and in that case the focus
>> would be on Squeak. At the very low end are the Chromebooks and though
>> there are no VMs for them (as far as I know) I found out that it is
>> possible to install Linux on both the Intel (like the $199 Acer with a
>> 1.1GHz Celeron) and ARM (like the $249 Samsung with a 1.7GHz Exynos 5)
>> versions. Though it seems that the ARM machine runs Linux a bit faster,
>> I imagine that Cog would be an option on the Celeron and so it might be
>> a better Squeak laptop.
>> 
>> Something that could be really interesting is a multitouch option, like
>> in the $499 11.6" Asus machine with a 1.4GHz Intel i3 processor. I don't
>> like that the operating system is Windows, but could certainly live with
>> that. Would a normal VM be able to pass the touch events to the image?
>> Without that, this hardware feature wouldn't be very useful.
>> 
>> Does anyone have any experience or tips to share?
>> 
>> -- Jecel
>> 
>> 
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