I'm looking for a laptop with these features

wizardzz

Aside from the physics of spinning objects, are SSD's lighter than comparative disc spaced spinners? I would assume they would be quite lighter. When you find this box, let me know... where you keep it at night so I can snatch it.

W Balboos GHB

Hmmm. I was hoping for a laptop, too, of at a least 'C' cup; firm as though in a dream; &etc. How's your search going?

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Espen Harlinn

Have a look at LIFEBOOK T901[^] It has a multi touch, bi-directional rotatable display and it isn't to heavy. I have one of it's predecessors, and I found the rotatable display to be a pretty nice feature - especially when I have a lot of stuff that needs reading.

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Marc Clifton

wizardzz wrote:

I would assume they would be quite lighter.

Definitely. It's just memory chips, doesn't need a shock-proof housing, etc. Marc

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Albert Holguin

The SSD's that I've seen are a bit lighter but not by much... so you're not really saving much on weight.

Albert Holguin

Not really... go look up weight specs... it's not that much lighter... I have both kinds here at work, they're not that much different. You can feel the difference, but it's only about 10-20grams difference (on laptop drives).

Marc Clifton

Weird, but the Fujitsu website lists all sorts of nice options with regards to processor, memory, hard drive. But the Fujitsu store doesn't even list the i7, and the 64-bit version isn't customizable. WTF? Marc

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wizardzz

When memory cards are so light, and spinning disks have a motor and arm and arm controller, I wonder how there isn't a larger difference.

Espen Harlinn

Odd, I just put together a machine with: Intel® CoreTM i7-2620M Processor NVIDIA® NVSTM 4200M Windows® 7 Professional 64-bit 8 GB DDR3 RAM 256 GB Solid State Drive Blu-ray RW Drive Modular Bay battery

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Lost User

New MacBook Pros are rumored for the next month or two.

Marc Clifton

Albert Holguin wrote:

but it's only about 10-20grams difference (on laptop drives).

For some reason, my brain was comparing my snazzy 128GB SSD to the clunky hard drives in my workstation. Yes, laptop drives are a lot lighter. Marc

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Marc Clifton

Mike Mullikin wrote:

New MacBook Pros are rumored for the next month or two.

I've never tried running Windows on a Mac - I basically do a lot of C# development in Visual Studio using a laptop, currently using Oracle as the database. Marc

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Lost User

Windows 7 dual boots wonderfully on Macs. Or you can run Windows in a VM, but if that's your primary environment I wouldn't recommend it.

thrakazog

I'd suggest buying a laptop with all the specs you want minus the SSD. Then buy a top notch SSD and throw away the drive that comes with the laptop. Gives you more control over the final hardware. Not all SSDs are created equal.

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Albert Holguin

Marc Clifton wrote:

my snazzy 128GB SSD to the clunky hard drives in my workstation

Yeah... that's no comparison... 3.5" spinning drives are quite heavy... :)

Albert Holguin

I have the drives... but I'm not taking them apart to tell you where the xtra weight is coming from... you'll just have to take my word for it... :laugh:

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Mike Mullikin wrote:

you can run Windows in a VM,

One of our developers used to do this... he didn't seem to have too much trouble, but he also had other Windows machines that he could switch to if need be.

wizardzz

I believe you, I'm just perplexed. Only thing I can think of is materials used?

Albert Holguin

thrakazog wrote:

Not all SSDs are created equal.

I've found this to be true... but I've also found their quoted specs to not be anywhere near their real performance specs... so it's really hard to find what's a good drive. Although there might be more reviews from third parties now that when I looked into this a couple of years back.

Jorgen Andersson

I would go for a Dell Latitude E6420, it has everything you want. I7, SSD and backlit keyboard isn't standard though, you need to configure it to get that. As a bonus, you can use a dockingstation supporting two monitors and real keyboards and mice.

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