Sorry to hear about your loss!!
18 months ago I converted to laptops to do my LAMP dev. It reduces heat in my
home office. I've learned a couple things through the process.
One of my laptops was a Black Friday special from 3.5 years ago. It has an AMD
single core with 3Gb of RAM. I use it as a LAMP server. The other was bought
just before Black Friday a year and a half ago. It is a dual core AMD with 4Gb
of RAM.
I paid $370 for each. Not bad.
>From this experience here is my suggestion:
A Chrome book will cost about $300. It is low power.
For about $100 more you can get a Dell with a 17" screen and and entry level
third gen i3. That is like twice the machine. It will have the power to do
just about anything you need to do.
One of the things I would consider is virtualization. Even though you think you
may not want to use these laptops for work, it could happen. So you will want
to have IE available (considering you will install Linux) to ensure your
webpages render well in IE as well as FF or some other browser.
Here is an i3 with a 17" screen and Win7 for 499.00. Do the chat thing with a
rep and they might give you $25 or $30 off to motivate you.
http://www.dell.com/us/p/laptops.aspx?ref=tile2#!facets=55846~0~14833549,228279~0~14814752&p=1
Here is a 15.6" for $449 and you might get it closer to $400 by chatting with
customer service. They always give me a discount when I chat with customer
service.
These two have much more power than my laptops and I use mine daily for LAMP
dev.
Just as a side note, I'm moving away from AMD. I do not think AMD CPU's are as
good as Intel's.
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Keith Smith
--- On Sun, 7/7/13, Betty I <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Betty I <[email protected]>
Subject: Yarnell fire and new computer
To: [email protected]
Date: Sunday, July 7, 2013, 3:07 PM
Hi all;
(I used to be the lady that was 'nice penguin @ webcanine dot com' but had to
change my email so now I have this one.)
We lost our house in Yarnell to the fire last weekend and are staying in
Phoenix. But you guys have always been good for information on computer stuff
in general, so i thought i'd ask here first.
We have good insurance, and it is going to cover replacement cost for our
computers up there. They were old, pentium III's that i had put ubuntu on and
were great desktops. but i am thinking that since we don't do a lot of computer
intense work up there, just surf online and read emails, that maybe it would be
better to just get laptops. Then i was thinking maybe of getting a chromebook
instead of a 'regular' laptop; but my son said that those are all 'cloud '
based.
But does that mean that they have no functionality if we're not online?
What do you guys think?
I have time, since it's going to take about 4 months to get a new manufactured
home up there :(
also, OT, i did just finish an html class and made my final project a few
webpages with photos of the place and the fire stuff. of course, we haven't
been allowed back up there but we're hoping for early this week.
http://ipmarizona.com/eclass/before.html
well, thanks for any ideas.
betty i
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