On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Ian Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > Interesting about that Dell XPS – ignoring the SSD, the cooling problem > seems a bizarre fault. > > 1 hour battery life on the HP is a killer. > > More generally: SSD is of no interest (I have no bias, except cost and the > speed being of no benefit for this purpose). CPU, Graphics card, RAM, > screen, warranty/reliability are more important. > > Although CUDA (and hence NVidia) interests me more, any ‘good’ graphics card > is suitable since it’s usual that the external graphics i/o will support a > higher resolution and can plug into a decent flat screen. Multiple screens – > also, of no interest in a laptop. It’s not for coding, not for high-end GIS > processing/production. > > Toshiba vs HP, Lenovo, Dell?
I u se a dell studio 15 (i think) with the widescreen 1980 or whatever it is. the batterly life (with the extended battery) allows for around 4 hours of non-stop programming. Which is pretty good, i think. Love the keyboard on this, but the default screen res makes websites very small. so i'm often scrolling to increase the size. other than that, it's great. that said, this is only the 2nd laptop i've owned (and the first one was about 7 years ago now). it was also pretty cheap (1200). > Ian Thomas > Victoria Park, Western Australia -- silky http://www.programmingbranch.com/
