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Hi All What note book brand and why will you choose when working on heavy +/- 30 projects in a visual studio solution ? What is okay enough notebook and value for money ? Speed ? Ram ? Battery Life ? Hard Drive ? Screen size / Antiglare ? Regards :)
Wisdom is often meant as the ability and desire to make choices that can gain approval in a long-term examination by many people.
I bought my Dell Precision M65 notebook with development requirements in mind so I focused on the "Mobile Workstation" series from Dell. This model is not produced anymore but there are new models available in the Precision series[^]. My configuration is: Intel Core2 Duo 2GHz, 4MB L2 Cache 2048 MB RAM SATA hard-drive 7200 rpm and the thing I'm most content about is the resolution (1920 x 1200). At the time I bought it, it cost me about Eur 1700. Having a dual core machine is certainly a performance boost and I recommend a processor speed as high as you can afford it. With RAM you best option is 2048MB as an update to 4096 will up the cost to about twice the price of the machine. And an important thing in my opinion for a development machine is a high resolution so you can fit all those menus from VS and still have lots of space for the coding area. I'm very happy about mine but some people think that this is a bit too large for a 15.4" display. It's better to prior check out the resolution that fits you as LCDs/TFTs having a native resolution, changing it will not be a sharp display. I'm very happy with the configuration and not have any plans to update untill there are some serious improvements on the market.
Cheers, Mircea "Pay people peanuts and you get monkeys" - David Ogilvy
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I'm buying an ASUS tomorrow, with 4 gig of RAM and putting a 7200 RPM HDD in it.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
Christian Graus wrote:
with 4 gig of RAM
Isn't that going to double the price of the machine? For Dell it does, but I don't know for Asus. It probably requires a different motherboard or the manufacture process of the 2048 modules is much more complex, otherwise I cannot explain the big difference.
Cheers, Mircea "Pay people peanuts and you get monkeys" - David Ogilvy
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I bought my Dell Precision M65 notebook with development requirements in mind so I focused on the "Mobile Workstation" series from Dell. This model is not produced anymore but there are new models available in the Precision series[^]. My configuration is: Intel Core2 Duo 2GHz, 4MB L2 Cache 2048 MB RAM SATA hard-drive 7200 rpm and the thing I'm most content about is the resolution (1920 x 1200). At the time I bought it, it cost me about Eur 1700. Having a dual core machine is certainly a performance boost and I recommend a processor speed as high as you can afford it. With RAM you best option is 2048MB as an update to 4096 will up the cost to about twice the price of the machine. And an important thing in my opinion for a development machine is a high resolution so you can fit all those menus from VS and still have lots of space for the coding area. I'm very happy about mine but some people think that this is a bit too large for a 15.4" display. It's better to prior check out the resolution that fits you as LCDs/TFTs having a native resolution, changing it will not be a sharp display. I'm very happy with the configuration and not have any plans to update untill there are some serious improvements on the market.
Cheers, Mircea "Pay people peanuts and you get monkeys" - David Ogilvy
Yeah the Dell hi-res notebook displays rock. I've set the DPI to 120 on mine... so the text is actually readable. So crisp ;)
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I bought my Dell Precision M65 notebook with development requirements in mind so I focused on the "Mobile Workstation" series from Dell. This model is not produced anymore but there are new models available in the Precision series[^]. My configuration is: Intel Core2 Duo 2GHz, 4MB L2 Cache 2048 MB RAM SATA hard-drive 7200 rpm and the thing I'm most content about is the resolution (1920 x 1200). At the time I bought it, it cost me about Eur 1700. Having a dual core machine is certainly a performance boost and I recommend a processor speed as high as you can afford it. With RAM you best option is 2048MB as an update to 4096 will up the cost to about twice the price of the machine. And an important thing in my opinion for a development machine is a high resolution so you can fit all those menus from VS and still have lots of space for the coding area. I'm very happy about mine but some people think that this is a bit too large for a 15.4" display. It's better to prior check out the resolution that fits you as LCDs/TFTs having a native resolution, changing it will not be a sharp display. I'm very happy with the configuration and not have any plans to update untill there are some serious improvements on the market.
Cheers, Mircea "Pay people peanuts and you get monkeys" - David Ogilvy
Mircea Grelus wrote:
SATA hard-drive 7200 rpm
I only found 5400 rpm models on the page. You paid extra money to upgrade to 7200 rpm HDD?
Maxwell Chen
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Mircea Grelus wrote:
SATA hard-drive 7200 rpm
I only found 5400 rpm models on the page. You paid extra money to upgrade to 7200 rpm HDD?
Maxwell Chen
Click the "Customize it" option and it will give you a list of options to choose from.
Cheers, Mircea "Pay people peanuts and you get monkeys" - David Ogilvy
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Hi All What note book brand and why will you choose when working on heavy +/- 30 projects in a visual studio solution ? What is okay enough notebook and value for money ? Speed ? Ram ? Battery Life ? Hard Drive ? Screen size / Antiglare ? Regards :)
Wisdom is often meant as the ability and desire to make choices that can gain approval in a long-term examination by many people.
i have a nice A4 Ringbound pad from staples..
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Christian Graus wrote:
with 4 gig of RAM
Isn't that going to double the price of the machine? For Dell it does, but I don't know for Asus. It probably requires a different motherboard or the manufacture process of the 2048 modules is much more complex, otherwise I cannot explain the big difference.
Cheers, Mircea "Pay people peanuts and you get monkeys" - David Ogilvy
Ram upgrades are treated as license to print money even worse than extended warranty's. I recently put 4gb into my laptop for $80 ($60 post rebates).
Otherwise [Microsoft is] toast in the long term no matter how much money they've got. They would be already if the Linux community didn't have it's head so firmly up it's own command line buffer that it looks like taking 15 years to find the desktop. -- Matthew Faithfull
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Ram upgrades are treated as license to print money even worse than extended warranty's. I recently put 4gb into my laptop for $80 ($60 post rebates).
Otherwise [Microsoft is] toast in the long term no matter how much money they've got. They would be already if the Linux community didn't have it's head so firmly up it's own command line buffer that it looks like taking 15 years to find the desktop. -- Matthew Faithfull
Hmmm I've just checked the Dell site and it appears they've updated the price as well: extra $365 for upgrade from 2 to 4GB. That's not outrageous. When I bought mine it cost almost $2000 the upgrade. You might be right here.
Cheers, Mircea "Pay people peanuts and you get monkeys" - David Ogilvy
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Hmmm I've just checked the Dell site and it appears they've updated the price as well: extra $365 for upgrade from 2 to 4GB. That's not outrageous. When I bought mine it cost almost $2000 the upgrade. You might be right here.
Cheers, Mircea "Pay people peanuts and you get monkeys" - David Ogilvy
Mircea Grelus wrote:
Hmmm I've just checked the Dell site and it appears they've updated the price as well: extra $365 for upgrade from 2 to 4GB. That's not outrageous.
Since that's over a 300% markup over neweggs pricing I strongly disagree with your characterization. The fact that the price used to be even more obscene doesn't make the current sticker price reasonable.
Otherwise [Microsoft is] toast in the long term no matter how much money they've got. They would be already if the Linux community didn't have it's head so firmly up it's own command line buffer that it looks like taking 15 years to find the desktop. -- Matthew Faithfull
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Christian Graus wrote:
with 4 gig of RAM
Isn't that going to double the price of the machine? For Dell it does, but I don't know for Asus. It probably requires a different motherboard or the manufacture process of the 2048 modules is much more complex, otherwise I cannot explain the big difference.
Cheers, Mircea "Pay people peanuts and you get monkeys" - David Ogilvy
It adds about $200.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )