on 05/10/04 19:33, Andrew at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yup, just as the modern 3 and 4lb laptops are a joy to carry compared to the > late 90s Wallstreet. Even on modern hardware, the 12" PB, as an Apple > example, gives up very little to the 17" in terms of performance, but sheds > a whole lot of size and weight, not to mention dollars. I would still > choose the 12" over the 17" if their prices were reversed, as I simply have > no desire to own a heavy and/or bulky laptop anymore when the smaller and > lighter machines are so nice to use. [snip!]
I guess it's mostly personal taste. I've been carrying a 17" to the office and back home for the last 3 weeks and I don't feel it too heavy. Whenever I open it up, I'm glad I did pick up the 17" as the screen is really gorgeous and must needed with OS X, for the kind of work I do, mostly programming... -Laurent. -- ============================================================================ Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat: LaurentDaudelin <http://nemesys.dyndns.org> Logiciels Nemesys Software mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] fandango on core n.: [Unix/C hackers, from the Iberian dance] In C, a wild pointer that runs out of bounds, causing a core dump, or corrupts the malloc(3) arena in such a way as to cause mysterious failures later on, is sometimes said to have `done a fandango on core'. On low-end personal machines without an MMU (or Windows boxes, which have an MMU but use it incompetently), this can corrupt the OS itself, causing massive lossage. Other frenetic dances such as the cha-cha or the watusi, may be substituted. See aliasing bug, precedence lossage, smash the stack, memory leak, memory smash, overrun screw, core. -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
