Yes, battery life ... With long inter-continental flights, you want to have at least some backup batteries. The Dell is nice (sorry for the ruthless promoting ;-)) in that you can have two batteries in the machine at the same time. This makes it very easy to swap out a half-finished battery.
I probably went a bit overboard, but I recently bought an additional 3 batteries (besides my current 2). My rucksack is now really heavy ;-) so the gym membership sounds like a good idea. Another very useful place for lots of batteries are conferences. Talking of conferences, have you heard of the Sun Tech Days happening in Johannesburg this year? Who is going? Regards Heinz -- Dr Heinz M. Kabutz (PhD CompSci) Author of "The Java(tm) Specialists' Newsletter" Sun Java Champion http://www.javaspecialists.eu Tel: +30 69 72 850 460 Skype: kabutz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
