I have a three year old Dell Inspiron 5000 PIII500 that works like a champion. I upgraded it to XP last month and that was a God send. Much better support for laptops especially with power management and display. XP also includes remote desktop and comes with the remote desktop client which will connect to terminal services on Win2k.
The gotchas are - it wont run sql server - need the MSDE version, and of course IIS doesn't run on it. I installed Apache 1.3 as the web server instead. HTH, Duane -----Original Message----- From: Josh Trefethen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 12:31 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: laptop recommendations Any opinions on toshibas? What model is your Sony Kevin? Erika, why win2kServer and not XP? Brian, Gateways are a good choice, I think anchordesk has rated them #1 recently! Thanks everyone for your input! --Josh -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Schmidt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 10:06 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: laptop recommendations The only thing statwise different from my Vaio, is I have a little bigger screen 20 gig HD and 512 mb ram, firewire/iee1394 port. I added the ram aftermarket, it's a lot cheaper that way. Love it and would recommend it to anyone! -----Original Message----- From: Erika L. Walker-Arnold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 11:00 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: laptop recommendations My two pence ... First: Don't run XP. If you get it on the laptop, scrap it and install Win2KServer. Second: I have an HP Pavilion that I've had to use as my development PC for the past 7 months (because of moving to England and having to wait for my Dell Tower). I only have 256MB RAM on it and the hard drive is only 9 GIG ... But I'm running Win2K Advanced, SQL Enterprise, CF 5 Studio and Server, Office XP (which is just OK) and a host of other graphic programs .... It had built-in 10/100, modem, 14.1 screen, DVD, floppy, infrared, USB, serial port, 2 PCMCIA slots ... The works. It's been a dutiful and perfect workhorse. I've had a few network issues that have been all my fault ... But it's been working very hard for me for a long time ... On all day and all night ... For over 7 months, and never a complaint. The HP series is highly recommended by me. Erika ------------------------------------------------------------ >>| -----Original Message----- >>| From: Josh Trefethen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>| >>| Hello all, >>| >>| I am going to be purchasing a new laptop here in the next >>| couple of days and wondered if any of you had some recommendations. >>| >>| I need it to have windows xp pro on it and ms office. My >>| only requirement is that it will run CF server, studio, has >>| sufficient ram and hd space, built in 10/100 ethernet and a >>| decent screen. >>| >>| What have you found to be the best ones? the worst ones? >>| any bad experiences or machines to stay away from? >>| >>| Thanks, >>| >>| Josh >>| >>| >>| ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
