i hate you!
On 4/15/05, Spike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah, I got an XPS Gen 2 last week and I'm pretty impressed. > > The only complaint so far is that when I tried to put it in my MXDU bag to > come down to teach Flex in Oakland I realized I couldn't get the thing > zipped up without some serious shoe-horning. 17" is a lot of screen real > estate for a laptop. It's a bit like sitting in the front of the cinema ;-) > > I bought a nice samsonite bag at Oakland airport though, so it's all good. > > I got a full 2 hours of coding plus a bit on the flight down plus a bit in > the departures lounge before hand, so the battery life isn't too bad for > such a high powered machine. That's with the default 9 cell battery, so the > 16 cell one should be good for 3-3.5 hours I think. > > The weight is mid to high range at 8.6lbs, but that's only a pound or so > more than my old machine, so I didn't notice much difference. > > One other thing is that if you're doing hardcore coding or gaming the fans > tend to come on and are a bit noisy, but that doesn't bother me too much and > they're off most of the time. > > Definitely highly recommended for the $2400 that it cost me. That's for 1Gb > of RAM, 2GHz processor, and a 60GB 7200 rpm hard drive. > > The graphics performance ain't too shabby either: > > http://hardware.gamespot.com/Story-ST-15427-1541-x-x-x > > Most of the equivalent numbers in those benchmarks are quite a bit better > than the performance of the alienware :-) > > http://hardware.gamespot.com/Story-ST-15166-1459-1-3-x&body_pagenum=3 > > On 4/14/05, Scott Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > oooh.. smart ass eh. > > > > Actually, luggin that st00pid arse laptop around for the past month or > > so, my shoulders are killing me now. > > > > Anyone want to buy a cheap laptop? $4k (marked down from $4,600) - > > gawna buy the same laptop as Mr Spike. > > > > > > On 4/15/05, Ben Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yes Scott but tell us how you feel about Alienware. > > > > > > --- > > > You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/ > > > > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Scott Barnes > > http://www.mossyblog.com > > http://www.flexcoder.com (Coming Soon) > > > > --- > > You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/ > > > > > > -- > -------------------------------------------- > Stephen Milligan > Code poet for hire > http://www.spike.org.uk > > Do you cfeclipse? http://cfeclipse.tigris.org > > --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To > unsubscribe send a blank email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aussie Macromedia > Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/ -- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.mossyblog.com http://www.flexcoder.com (Coming Soon) --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/
