I have a Toshiba Satellite A665 off the shelf at Staples. Win 7 Pro with Intel I3. Easy to read screen. No noise, virtually no heat on a table or on your lap. Probably should have gone with I5 but there has been no performance problems. It actually works better than some desktops at work. I occasionally have the desktops lock up when creating forms with many items on it. The laptop has never locked. I looked the cheap laptops at Best Buy with my son who wanted a smaller version. We ended up about the $600 range for another Toshiba only because it fit easily in his backpack. It had all the stuff the other people were recommending but had 6 meg memory. A local company is buying their reps Asus netbooks. Do not know the model. They look about 12" by 8". Comes with Win7 Pro. Graphics look fine and speed pretty good. These people really like them. Just a simple keyboard, readable screen, I think 4 mg memory. They literally fit into a small case. Cost is about $700.
Tom Frederick President/CEO Elm City Center 1314 W Walnut Jacksonville, IL 62650 W- 217-245-9504 F - 217-245-2350 E - [email protected] From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 9:38 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Laptops and RBase forms I really need to think of retiring my Toshiba Tecra and get a new laptop this year. Need to move up to Windows 7 just as they're ready to push out Windows 8 (I'm always a few steps behind...) I'm not asking for recommendations, although part of me wonders if the $399 deals at Best Buy are good enough for me, but for a specific feature. On this laptop, when I have a big RBase windows (7.6 or 9.1) form open in the designer, after a while the CPU usage doubles, the fan starts whirling, and it sounds like my laptop is going to fly off the desk. If I have 2 forms open, then I expect an explosion. I've learned to live with closing and opening forms repeatedly to give my computer a rest, but it sure would be nice not to have my computer freak out. Not sure if this happens just to me... What particular component of hardware would affect this, so I can make sure I get a better grade of whatever to allow me to have several forms open in RBase? Is it the amount of memory, the CPU speed, something graphics?? Karen
