New Laptop
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having stripped my packard bell down to the mainboard to fix a loose power adpater with a soldering iron and some strong glue which failled to fix the loose connection. I went out and bought a new laptop as 10 pm on a Saturday evening (don't you love 24-7 shopping). I got a Gateway with Dual core 1.73GHz, 2Gb ram, 120Gb disk and 17" screen with a full sized keyboard to boot and Vista Premium, all for £550 GBP. I'm downloading C# 2008 beta :)
Grady Booch: I told Google to their face...what you need is some serious adult supervision. (2007 Turing lecture) http://www.frankkerrigan.com/[^]
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having stripped my packard bell down to the mainboard to fix a loose power adpater with a soldering iron and some strong glue which failled to fix the loose connection. I went out and bought a new laptop as 10 pm on a Saturday evening (don't you love 24-7 shopping). I got a Gateway with Dual core 1.73GHz, 2Gb ram, 120Gb disk and 17" screen with a full sized keyboard to boot and Vista Premium, all for £550 GBP. I'm downloading C# 2008 beta :)
Grady Booch: I told Google to their face...what you need is some serious adult supervision. (2007 Turing lecture) http://www.frankkerrigan.com/[^]
Cool - I priced the Dell I'd like to get for USD2600 today, I will compare with the AUD price and decide which way to go. Similar specs, better video, smaller screen
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )
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Cool - I priced the Dell I'd like to get for USD2600 today, I will compare with the AUD price and decide which way to go. Similar specs, better video, smaller screen
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )
I tend to but fairly cheaply and replace more often. Due to the very strong pound recently there are some real bargains out there.
Grady Booch: I told Google to their face...what you need is some serious adult supervision. (2007 Turing lecture) http://www.frankkerrigan.com/[^]
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having stripped my packard bell down to the mainboard to fix a loose power adpater with a soldering iron and some strong glue which failled to fix the loose connection. I went out and bought a new laptop as 10 pm on a Saturday evening (don't you love 24-7 shopping). I got a Gateway with Dual core 1.73GHz, 2Gb ram, 120Gb disk and 17" screen with a full sized keyboard to boot and Vista Premium, all for £550 GBP. I'm downloading C# 2008 beta :)
Grady Booch: I told Google to their face...what you need is some serious adult supervision. (2007 Turing lecture) http://www.frankkerrigan.com/[^]
Cool, got me a new one the other day for £520 with a half price backpack style carybag thrown in. Fujitsu-Siemens with Core 2 Duo 1.5 GHz, 2GB Ram (2 x 1GB so can upgrade), 160GB HD, 15" widescreen and intel 965 graphics (that has upto 400MB RAM). Also has Vista Home Premium. Realy nice machine and it runs VS 2008 beta 2 with a smile :-D I like Vista as well so far. Couple of little things that they can fix or add to make it realy worth the difference. While on the subject, I have also be working with MacOS X Tiger at work (Molecular Biology Lab) and it is painfully obvious that MS has taken quite a number of the eye candy stuff from Apple? :-O
Francois Benadie
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Cool, got me a new one the other day for £520 with a half price backpack style carybag thrown in. Fujitsu-Siemens with Core 2 Duo 1.5 GHz, 2GB Ram (2 x 1GB so can upgrade), 160GB HD, 15" widescreen and intel 965 graphics (that has upto 400MB RAM). Also has Vista Home Premium. Realy nice machine and it runs VS 2008 beta 2 with a smile :-D I like Vista as well so far. Couple of little things that they can fix or add to make it realy worth the difference. While on the subject, I have also be working with MacOS X Tiger at work (Molecular Biology Lab) and it is painfully obvious that MS has taken quite a number of the eye candy stuff from Apple? :-O
Francois Benadie
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it is painfully obvious that MS has taken quite a number of the eye candy stuff from Apple?
Imitation has always been the sincerest form of flattery.