Laptop Advice? [modified]
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I just collect key chains from wherever. I'm trying to get as many countries as possible. My sister in law just brought me back keychains from Cyprus, Rome, Egypt and another Greek island I can't remember. While in your country her rental car broke down and I believe it was a Sunday so no one was around. She finally found a local man (who didn't speak English) to help her. He was very interested in her Swiss army knife and she tried to give it to him for payment but he wouldn't accept. So she has a very positive view of the people!
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leckey wrote:
I just collect key chains from wherever. I'm trying to get as many countries as possible. My sister in law just brought me back keychains from Cyprus, Rome, Egypt and another Greek island I can't remember.
I'll check if I can get something and let you know, though it can take me days or longer. ;)
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Hello everyone, I'll have to upgrade my development desktop PC soon, and I'm thinking of moving to a laptop. Mainly because I work both at home and in the office, and currently depend on a fast internet connection to work over remote desktop. So to avoid this, and to also avoid trying to keep my environment on 2 PCs in sync, I guess a laptop would be a better choice. I'm sure many of you here use laptops as your main development machines, so if you have any models to recommend, things to watch for, brands to look at, I'd be most grateful. I don't need the fastest & most powerful laptop available today, but want a solid and stable machine. I was looking at Acer TravelMate 8210, friend's coworker has got this one and said it's pretty good but a bit noisy, and they only offer 1-year warranty. On the other hand I've seen 2 low-end Acers that were quieter than 2 HPs I've had a chance to work with, so I don't know. Basically I'm looking for this: - A Core Duo CPU (the TravelMate above has a Core2 Duo, 2GHz) - 15" wide high-res display (1440x900 or 1600x1050) - 1 GB RAM - 100+ GB HDD - DVD-RW drive, preferrably with DVD-RAM support - good battery life Thanks for any suggestions in advance! Rado -- modified at 16:18 Thursday 11th January, 2007 I'd like to thank everyone for their suggestions, now I have a lot of information and models to go through :-)
I've got an Acer Travelmate 8215WMLi (similar spec, but 2GB RAM and 160GB HDD), and so far it's solid. Not particularly noisy as far as I can tell - and the battery life is good, even when running under heavy load. :)
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I've got a Vaoi[^] and love it. Only 13.3" but the screen resolution is what you are after and is incredibly light with good battery life and all the bits you are after.
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Just wait until you have to upgrade the disk... :evil grin:
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I've got an Acer Travelmate 8215WMLi (similar spec, but 2GB RAM and 160GB HDD), and so far it's solid. Not particularly noisy as far as I can tell - and the battery life is good, even when running under heavy load. :)
Anna :rose: Linting the day away :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "If mushy peas are the food of the devil, the stotty cake is the frisbee of God"
So it seems you're satisfied, right? :) How long have you had it? Don't you know if the DVD drive supports DVD-RAM for both read/write? I guess how people react to the noise is really subjective... Thanks again, and sorry to bother you with more quetions. :rolleyes:
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One of the Lenovo/IBM Thinpads or an Apple MacBook Pro (quiet, good battery, Core 2 Duo, 1GB RAM, 100+ GB HD, 15" screen at 1440x900.)
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I don't see it happening, at least not until it becomes pointless.
I recently got a MacBook Pro and I'm a heavy Windows guy. (not overweight, I use Windows a lot.) I'm liking the OS X for the non-work related stuff. However, I used MSDN XP Pro ISO for the Windows partition. Everything is working flawlessly. It's the best lap top I've ever owned. I have had a ThinkPad (good, but stripped down) and several Dells (nothing really wrong or right about Dell). I would highly recommend the Mac, as it seams like they spent more than 15 minutes on the industrial design.... Also, Lenovo is not IBM. The quality and customer service is beginning to change for the ThinkPads.
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My sister in law lived in Hungary for awhile and traveled through Slovakia. I collect key chains but she couldn't find any. Apparently it's not a huge tourist destination. I know Gateway has online stores for UK/France/Spain.
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leckey wrote:
I collect key chains
Hehe, is that your "oddity"? Everyone has one... :)
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Hello everyone, I'll have to upgrade my development desktop PC soon, and I'm thinking of moving to a laptop. Mainly because I work both at home and in the office, and currently depend on a fast internet connection to work over remote desktop. So to avoid this, and to also avoid trying to keep my environment on 2 PCs in sync, I guess a laptop would be a better choice. I'm sure many of you here use laptops as your main development machines, so if you have any models to recommend, things to watch for, brands to look at, I'd be most grateful. I don't need the fastest & most powerful laptop available today, but want a solid and stable machine. I was looking at Acer TravelMate 8210, friend's coworker has got this one and said it's pretty good but a bit noisy, and they only offer 1-year warranty. On the other hand I've seen 2 low-end Acers that were quieter than 2 HPs I've had a chance to work with, so I don't know. Basically I'm looking for this: - A Core Duo CPU (the TravelMate above has a Core2 Duo, 2GHz) - 15" wide high-res display (1440x900 or 1600x1050) - 1 GB RAM - 100+ GB HDD - DVD-RW drive, preferrably with DVD-RAM support - good battery life Thanks for any suggestions in advance! Rado -- modified at 16:18 Thursday 11th January, 2007 I'd like to thank everyone for their suggestions, now I have a lot of information and models to go through :-)
I recently bought a Toshiba A100, with a Core Duo 1.8Ghz, 1Gb ram, 100Gb hdd, DVD+-RW/DVD-RAM ram drive, win XP pro, WiFi, Bluetooth. It's got a 15.4" display, but the weird 1280x800 resolution is a bit of a pain for developing (I actually bought it to accomapny my digital camera when I go travelling), but it's one of those snazzy looking glossy numbers. There's a memory card reader built in, which is really handy for me. And a fingerprint scanner, which is pretty much useless. Cost me about $1800 Australian, and I absolutley love it! Cheers, Anthony.
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Hmmmmm, these MacBooks are really tempting but I've always been a Windows person... hmmm. You're not making it easy for me :)
The MacBooks are able to run Windows (and my co-workers do this most of the time, actually).
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Just wait until you have to upgrade the disk... :evil grin:
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Can't be as bad as my iBook[^]...15 pages of instructions...
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Can't be as bad as my iBook[^]...15 pages of instructions...
Sony don't give you instructions - they make it as hard as possible and then scream "warranty invalid" if you actually do it. X|
Anna :rose: Linting the day away :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "If mushy peas are the food of the devil, the stotty cake is the frisbee of God"
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So it seems you're satisfied, right? :) How long have you had it? Don't you know if the DVD drive supports DVD-RAM for both read/write? I guess how people react to the noise is really subjective... Thanks again, and sorry to bother you with more quetions. :rolleyes:
I'm happy with it - had it since November. I don't know about DVD-RAM support (I don't use it) but I believe the previous Acer laptop I had (8206LMi) supported it, so there's a good chance. :)
Anna :rose: Linting the day away :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "If mushy peas are the food of the devil, the stotty cake is the frisbee of God"
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I'm happy with it - had it since November. I don't know about DVD-RAM support (I don't use it) but I believe the previous Acer laptop I had (8206LMi) supported it, so there's a good chance. :)
Anna :rose: Linting the day away :cool: Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "If mushy peas are the food of the devil, the stotty cake is the frisbee of God"
Thanks, I guess it will support DVD-RAM as the drive is described as "super multi" which should mean just that. It's really hard to find this in laptop specs on manufacturers' websites... Thanks again! Rado
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Hello everyone, I'll have to upgrade my development desktop PC soon, and I'm thinking of moving to a laptop. Mainly because I work both at home and in the office, and currently depend on a fast internet connection to work over remote desktop. So to avoid this, and to also avoid trying to keep my environment on 2 PCs in sync, I guess a laptop would be a better choice. I'm sure many of you here use laptops as your main development machines, so if you have any models to recommend, things to watch for, brands to look at, I'd be most grateful. I don't need the fastest & most powerful laptop available today, but want a solid and stable machine. I was looking at Acer TravelMate 8210, friend's coworker has got this one and said it's pretty good but a bit noisy, and they only offer 1-year warranty. On the other hand I've seen 2 low-end Acers that were quieter than 2 HPs I've had a chance to work with, so I don't know. Basically I'm looking for this: - A Core Duo CPU (the TravelMate above has a Core2 Duo, 2GHz) - 15" wide high-res display (1440x900 or 1600x1050) - 1 GB RAM - 100+ GB HDD - DVD-RW drive, preferrably with DVD-RAM support - good battery life Thanks for any suggestions in advance! Rado -- modified at 16:18 Thursday 11th January, 2007 I'd like to thank everyone for their suggestions, now I have a lot of information and models to go through :-)