The good thing with a PC notebook is that you get a usable touchpad and an ALT key that lets you access menus without taking your hands off the keyboard, the lack of both of which drives me up the wall every time I sit in front of a Mac portable.
How to decide on a notebook? Sit in front of those you find interesting (all with dedicated graphics, obviously) and pick the one whose keyboard and screen you like the most. The differences on the outside are bigger than those on the inside. Andreas On 11/30/06, William Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
*** For details on how to be removed from this list visit the *** *** CCP4 home page http://www.ccp4.ac.uk *** Even though I am too cranky about my recent Apple laptop experience to recommend it to anyone other than the most annoying of enzymologists, I will say that the integrated graphics card was one thing that was better than expected. It passes the pymol and coot tests with flying colors, which is great until the machine overheats and shuts down in the middle of a presentation. On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Winter, G (Graeme) wrote: > Hi, > > If you are looking for a machine for doing e.g. model building with > coot, I would look for one with "dedicated graphics memory" and try to > avoid anything with integrated graphics (nvidia & ati are pretty good). > > Hardware wise, I have always found sony systems pretty easy to put Linux > on (I use SuSE, but I anticiate that most are fairly straightforward) > and any laptop you but today should have enough "grunt" to perform > almost all crystallography tasks. The dual core (core duo?) systems are > pretty neat in that regard. > > Finally, have you thought about the mac laptops? From what I can see you > have the advantage that the system comes ready for doing "real work" on > (e.g. you don't have to fiddle with getting linux working) and stuff > like wireless works out of the box as well. > > Hope this helps, > > Graeme > > ________________________________ > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > shivesh kumar > Sent: 30 November 2006 04:07 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [ccp4bb]: laptop for ccp4i > > > Dear all, > For installing CCP4i and CNS and other graphics program which laptop I > should buy.Whether it should be of linux operating system of any > other.How about HP pavillion.Any suggestion is welcome. > Thanx in advance. > S >
