My dream machine is:

http://www.lenovo.com/products/us/laptop/thinkpad/x-series/x1-carbon-touch/

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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