On 3/29/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 3/29/06, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hmm.. seems to me, you do like your laptops big and heavy and bulky. :-)
> > IIRC, you had a P4 chip in your last laptop? (was that you?)
>
> Yep, except that 'luggable' incurred severe lid cracking last summer
> and I had to replace it. So I purchased a 2.1Ghz P-M 6lb notebook to
> use for about 6 months until the first Core Duo came available. That
> was a nice notebook, even with a 15.4" screen, I found it to be very
> portable.
You have no idea what portable is. One month on a 3.7lb. 12.1 inch
X40 and you'll never go back - even if you wanted to!
> This is my first notebook with a 17" screen, which I really do
> like...except when I have to carry it! That's why I call it a
> 'luggable'. ;->
Just a word of the wise from many experienced laptop users:
If you want to take it with you, less than 5 pounds is a requirement.
You may say you're strong, and I believe you. However, even the
world's strongest man would still have to admit that 13 pounds isn't a
good idea.
Plus, think of it this way:
There are exceptions to the road-warrior lighter-is-better rule, of
course, but not many. If you *need* the power, why not just
SSH/RDesktop into a bigger, much more expensive desktop and leave your
poor laptop battery alone? That's what I do. I have the tiny IBM
X40: not very fast. But then check out my desktop rig: AMD Athlon64
3000+ 2.0GHz Socket 754 1.0GHz FSB w/Hypertransport, 512Megs of RAM,
10,000RPM WD SATA150 Raptor (76GB, I'm not rich enough for the new
150GB) and a killer nVidia GeForce 6800 AGP 8x w/512MB of GDDR2 video
RAM (embedded OpenGL 1.5/DirectX9 processing).
It's my baby - I raised it from just a little Athon K6 900MHz! I
built it myself out of a hulking abandoned server case. When I get
home, do I crunch numbers on the X40? No. I use it for what it's
good for: email, office work, y'know, editing stuff. Compile on the
big machine and you're home free.
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