----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 3:34 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - SV: Slightly off topic: New computer
> Mike, > > My one bit of advice where laptops are concerned is go for the fastest > hardware you can buy, because by year two or so it'll seem slow. > > If you're seriously looking at dual-boot to Vista, make sure the experience > index is 5 or better. Word around is that most laptops get in the twos and > threes, and that can be pretty doggy. > > I'm running Vista on a Dell XPS desktop, not the fastest dual-core but > dual-core, and 4 gigabytes (where the opsys can only see 3 since it >is > 32-bit not 64-bit) and the eye candy doesn't burden the system at all. And there is some gymnastics involved to get access to the 1GB above the first 2GB,AIUI. The current HP config I am looking at is 4GB 2.2ghz Core Duo w 2 250GB HDs although I think 250GB total seems like enough, each time I bought a laptop before, the maximum storage I could get always came up short at sometime.. Thanks Emmitt.. > -------------- Original message -------------- > From: "MikeB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Now Dennis.. Look at me with a straight face and tell me it makes a hoot of >> a >> difference "which" Chinese plant my laptop is made.. >> >> But seriously, I bought my grandson a dv8xxx model for college and it seems >> to be a pretty good machine so far. I was thinking of a dv9700 series. I am >> open to experiences though. Be mindful, I damn near never use a laptop >> except >> for the excursions to PA and when traveling a few times a year, so I am >> going >> to spend less than $2500. Oh, and I have to have 17" screen (they still look >> small). >>
