Somebody will probably call my laptop junk, but it works OK for me. 1 or 1.5 years ago I bought a Sony VAIO 17 inch VPCEC laptop. It is an i5 chip running at 2.86GHz with 500meg hard drive and 4GB memory. I'm running Windows 7 and 64 bit OS. I'll add more memory when it gets slow. I believe it was originally a video machine so that's worked out for me. Cost me just over $1,100 at Fry's on a walk-in. Regards, Bob S.
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Tom C <[email protected]> wrote: >> From: David Mann <[email protected]> >> >> IMHO I think it's pretty marginal. When I used to upgrade my desktops I'd >> need a new motherboard to upgrade the CPU. Then I'd >> find that the memory slots have changed, the graphics slot has changed, the >> power supply connection has changed and so on. >> So you end up having to buy a whole new machine anyway. >> >> I bought my current laptop in 2007 and it's only just starting to strain... >> mainly because I run a few memory-intensive apps (eg web >> browsers, mumble grumble don't get me started). I'm maxed out at 4Gb and >> I'm salivating at newer 16Gb models that I can't >> afford. >> >> Cheers, >> Dave > > Yeah my 17" laptop was purchased in 2007. Dual core Intel running > Vista, 3GB, with 2 100GB drives, It is slow. With Windows 7 > Professional one can address up to 32GB ram as opposed to 16GB with > the Home version. > > I'm finding that to get the configuration I want and not spend close > to $5000, I'll need to settle for the basics of a processor, lots of > RAM, and an IPS display, and upgrade the hard drives to SSD later. One > can get the SSD's for about half of what many computer builders are > charging for them pre-installed. > > Tom C. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
