My 5 cents (since I cannot find a 1 or 2 cent) I have been using a Toshiba lately. 2 GHz core duo with 1.5 Gb of Ram Screen is 15" wide screen. The one thing that you also need to consider is the amount of traveling that you will be doing with the laptop. If that is going to be a lot, you may want a smaller, lighter laptop - or gym membership.I do take my laptop around and because of that I have not bought a 17" but rather a 15" (and gym membership).
The other thing to is battery life. My wife's lower spec. Fujitsu gets about 2.5 hours on the standard battery where my laptop only gets about 2 hours. PS One last thing about the battery. My old Fujitsu's battery eventually died. No mains power - no work being done. When I got the Toshiba, the manual recommended running the battery down at least once a month and never level the laptop plugged in if its off. That will keep the battery going. Cheers LeRoux Bruce S. wrote: > Hi, > > I'm considering buying a notebook. Never having owned or developed on > a notebook before, I'm not sure what annoyances I'm going to > experience when I start using my first. I am wondering what screen > size/resolution to go for (I generally use eclipse as an IDE on a 19" > CRT monitor with resolution set at 1280 X 1024 or a 17" CRT monitor > with resolution set as high as I can manage...not sure what it's set > to). I realise I won't be able to do that on a notebook. > > I know there are loads of you out there working on all shapes and > sizes. What do you all consider a minimum screen size/resolution for > working with your IDE on your notebook? > > As an aside (coming from someone who hasn't used a notebook before, > and considering that as developers we may tend to have specific > requirements for our machines), anyone got any cautionary advice, > "must have" advice or other? > > Cheers and many thanks, > Bruce. > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CTJUG Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CTJUG-Forum For the ctjug home page see http://www.ctjug.org.za -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
