Well having 20 tabs open + doing compter science requires a powerfull CPU. Alienware has extremely good laptops. Take the MX11 and configure some. Core 2 Duo should be enough (dus pricing it at $749) but faster  = better so you can go with the i5 from $...(i forgot). If you configure the MX11 with i5 proccesor + making the default 2GB ram into 4 that adds on to exactly $999.

Of course alienware are really high-end computers. But once again for the requirements you propose take a good proccessor and as much RAM as you can get! Don't mind about video cards really altough there are some pretty mediocre required to run W7 smooth.

Second recommendation is the Dell Inspiron 17R (mind the R ): http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/deals/large-screen-laptops?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&redirect=1
it comes with an i3 Processor which is pretty good and 4GB which should be enough. It is far cheaper saling at $709.99. Included is a 320GB hard drive which can be made a 0.5TB hardrive for about $50 extra. If you have the money go for the alienware, else go for this one.

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figure it out yourself, somehow ;)


THANK GOD!
I really needed this. I truly HATED the new Os except for the highlighting feature. But damn was it slow! TYVM

well i know you have tons of requests so lets rather make this a suggestion. customizable GUI! maybe that is not even possible but personally I don't like having a  castle at the bottom left corner. Not trying to offend in any way but it is just a personal preference, abstract and slick are more my ways of a GUI.

Second suggestion would be to NOT make it a mouse interface. I really hated DoorCS because of that, it's completely inpractical, just stick with the Ti-os way of doing it, it makes going from Ti-os to k-os easier.

third: Command line interface? (I seem to recall that is already planned so my apologies if I bumped it)

It is a really really cool project and quite a challenge! I never installed OS 2 from BrandonW because it did not work for me...I don't think compatability is a issue really but just make sure it easily installs.

hang on to this! as well as tiDE! and your Axe guide

You have, just like me, lots of projects in parallel only that your projects are thrice as complicated. Just keep going at your own pace and keep us posted about (significant) progress!

Good luck!

My second noob question is this: how do I use pointers to make animated sprites? Say I have this sprite [FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF] and this one [3C7EFFFFFFFF7E3C] and both are stored into Pic0 thus making: [FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF3C7EFFFFFFFF7E3C]. Now everytime I hit the <right> or <left>  key I want to alter between them, thus creating the illusion of animation. I am pretty usre this can be done through pointers but I seem unable to figure it out. I do not request a entire example (albeit that would be useful) but some guidance would be very much appreciated!

And thanks so far already for the great and fast help.

that is genius...go yankees!

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.SPRITE                   . header
DiagnosticOff             . turn off indicator/done
10->X->Y                  . initialize sprite position
[3C7EFFFFFFFF7E3C->Pic0   . squares are for squares. therefore, a black circle is stored to pic0.
Repeat getKey(15)         . repeat until clear is pressed
X+getkey(3)-getkey(2)->X  . movement
Y+getkey(1)-getkey(4)->Y  . code
Pt-Change(X,Y,Pic0        . draw sprite to buffer
DispGraph                 . display what's on the buffer
Pt-Change(X,Y,Pic0        . draw same sprite to buffer. since it's pt-change, the sprite is erased on the buffer, leaving no
End                       . residue from movement.
ClrHome                   . clear the screen, move cursor to upper left corner of the screen.
ClrDraw                   . clear the buffer.

you can use a subroutine for pt-change() if those 10 bytes you save are really important to you.

Thanks! but how comes it doesn't flicker? because every time Clear is not pressed it redraws the sprite...

The odds are with me today, I was JUST looking for it. Fairly hard to track it down. Omnimaga made my day...again.