suitable laptop for mid-night programmers

Reza Shademani

Hello, I want to purchase a laptop with at least 1 gig RAM and Duo core. In case of easy screen view, easy typeing and performace what are your recommendations? (No more than 1k $$$). Thanks

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Muammar

hi, i'd suggest IBM ThinkPad T41 long life battery, light and small, doesnt get your lap heated, the touch pad is perfect, the keyboard, and it has a marvelous keyboard light on the top of the screen:eek: i basically love it!!

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Sceptic Mole

Muammar© wrote:

i'd suggest IBM ThinkPad T41

I guess it's not sold as new product any more.

Muammar

i know:) you may think im crazy but i replaced it with dell latitude 605!! and i have a new Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Pro, but i gave it to my wife and used this one!!

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Joan M

You are not crazy... 1Gb RAM. 1GB Ethernet. Long battery life even after some years... Great software packages. Great keyboard layout (it lacks the menu key, but shift+f10 works and also it lacks for the windows key, but configuring the keyboard works well here). Two mouse systems. Good hard disk space. lightweight... The only thing that I don't like of it is that the screen resolution is only at 1024x768... I'm still programming with visual studio 6, but I believe that it will be not much for VS2005... ... I couldn't resist

Muammar

thanx:-O and let me tell you im using vs2005 now and it's just fine!! "unless you want to watch movies:laugh:"

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Joan M

How can it be? I've read here in CP a lot of people talking about the amount of resources that VS2005 takes in order to run more or less properly and that the screen resolution is a big problem... Do you work well? really? I must check the specs regarding VS2005...

Muammar

that's funny!! mine is 1024x768 and i dont have any problem!!

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Reza Shademani

How about DELL Inspiron 6400 series?

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Joan M

I've never used them, one coworker has a dell laptop as the home computer and he is fine with it. I must say that in my work the tools that IBM offers are great. I'm continuously changing the IP of my laptop... while I'm connecting to an ABB robot I must be in a network configuration... while I'm in my LAN I need another config... I do that using the "access connections" software: Fn+F5 and select ABB or TAM depending on the desired configuration. I can do it only via keyboard or mouse or whatever... Also sometimes customers come and want me to show them promotional videos of our machines... in that case Fn+F7 helps, you can store several configurations and select the desired one without any effort, everything ready without needing to remember anything. If you want to use bluetooth or WIFI, Fn+F5, and you will be able to activate them as desired... If you want to stop a USB device, you'll need only to use Fn+F9 and then select it using the keyboard or mouse in order to stop it... You can activate the LED in the top side of your screen in order to be able to view the keyboard in dark environments: presentation rooms... Hard disk protection... GREAT... the computer has a device that detects the accelerations that the laptop suffers and stops the hard disk in order to prevent it to be broken. Easily upgrade your computer: if you use HP (for example) you'll need to go to www.HP.com and enter the model number of your computer, then go to drivers section and check if there is anyone that would be interesting for you. Download it and then install it. OK this with IBM is easier: you'll need only to start the "system updater" program, it will connect to the Internet, check for you if there are updates available and then install it automatically (if you have it configured in this way)... even bios updates... I must admit that now that they've sold that series to lenovo, I don't know what to do... I hope to be able to buy the last IBM just before the leave the IBM production and start making only lenovo.

Muammar

i like it:)

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tgrt

My previous employer was all about the Stinkpads. I hate them. They don't hold up to normal usage on the road. I only travelled about 25% of the time and I had things like a loose keyboard, failed harddrive, battery went out after a year, etc. Others that travelled more had even more failures. This was with a T42. Don't even get me going on some of the older models. You would have thought it was manufactured in China back then. The worse thing was the tendency for the screen hinges to break. My new employer let me choose what I wanted and I chose a Dell Precision m65. I love it. I had an issue with the keyboard, but that was fixed quickly. Other than that, it has good battery life, but most importantly a great screen and it's fast (it's a Core Duo of course).

El Corazon

Reza Shadmani wrote:

suitable laptop for mid-night programmers

I obviously had my mind elsewhere.... I didn't think of a computer.... :-O I think they will take away my geek-card soon....

_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)

charlieg

No, no, no.... Jeff you just keep that stuff coming... helps us all recall what a real life is like :) :laugh:

Charlie Gilley Will program for food... Whoever said children were cheaper by the dozen... lied. My son's PDA is an M249 SAW. My other son commutes in an M1A2 Abrams

El Corazon

charlieg wrote:

Jeff you just keep that stuff coming... helps us all recall what a real life is like

charlieg wrote:

My son's PDA is an M249 SAW. My other son commutes in an M1A2 Abrams

obviously you have more of a life than I. :) I will (hopefully) never have children of my own. But I will happily, joyfully raise a step-son. Something about my first two decades of life believing my genes were defective.

_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)

charlieg

Life is what you make it.... and variety is important. To each his own, yes? Now, I'll weird everyone out who might read this... I have one shy of a dozen children... 4 have launched their lives... and the house is starting to feel empty.:wtf: I know, does not compute...

Charlie Gilley Will program for food... Whoever said children were cheaper by the dozen... lied. My son's PDA is an M249 SAW. My other son commutes in an M1A2 Abrams

El Corazon

charlieg wrote:

To each his own, yes?

yup, blonde, brunette, redhead... the spice of life. :-D

charlieg wrote:

I know, does not compute...

computes fine. I love children, just didn't want to pass on my genetic temper my family claimed. I was an adult before I understood that this was not genetic, but a chain of passing on what you learn in life. I rebelled against that chain, so I never wanted children, and eventually learned to unlearn so that even in action it would never be passed on. You've more than made up for me, probably for the better. :)

_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)