[cfaussie] Re: OT: Best development laptop?

2006-09-08 Thread peter
The ideal web development laptop is a MBP with an install of Win XP on the same machine. This way you are able to test on all major browsers. Show your clients what their site looks like in IE6 and in Safari without having to take two laptops with you. :-) I'm still on a Powerbook (which in is a

[cfaussie] Re: OT: Best development laptop?

2006-09-07 Thread Scott Barnes
to:cfaussie@googlegroups.com ] *On> Behalf Of *Scott Barnes> *Sent:* Friday, September 08, 2006 4:08 PM>> *To:* cfaussie@googlegroups.com> *Subject:* [cfaussie] Re: OT: Best development laptop? >>>> I have an ASUS W1J Laptop, $2,5k plays all the latest games ok, handles

[cfaussie] Re: OT: Best development laptop?

2006-09-07 Thread Scott Barnes
aussie@googlegroups.com [mailto: cfaussie@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Barnes Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 4:08 PM To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com Subject: [cfaussie] Re: OT: Best development laptop?   I have an ASUS W1J Laptop, $2,5k plays all the latest games ok, handles quite well with bot

[cfaussie] Re: OT: Best development laptop?

2006-09-07 Thread Haikal Saadh
Yeah, Apple has moved their entire line to intel now. Scott Barnes wrote: > Is there anything you don't sell? hehe > > Do the new Apples have Intel now? (ie the dream of having both PC + > Apple software in the one hit through say VMWare alive and well? or is > it all marketing poo?) > > > On 9

[cfaussie] Re: OT: Best development laptop?

2006-09-07 Thread Dmitry Yakhnov
Subject: [cfaussie] Re: OT: Best development laptop?   I have an ASUS W1J Laptop, $2,5k plays all the latest games ok, handles quite well with both FLEX Builder 2, CF7, Photoshop and SQL all running at once. On 9/8/06, Scott Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there anythi

[cfaussie] Re: OT: Best development laptop?

2006-09-07 Thread Scott Barnes
I have an ASUS W1J Laptop, $2,5k plays all the latest games ok, handles quite well with both FLEX Builder 2, CF7, Photoshop and SQL all running at once. On 9/8/06, Scott Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there anything you don't sell? heheDo the new Apples have Intel now? (ie the dream of havin

[cfaussie] Re: OT: Best development laptop?

2006-09-07 Thread Scott Barnes
Is there anything you don't sell? heheDo the new Apples have Intel now? (ie the dream of having both PC + Apple software in the one hit through say VMWare alive and well? or is it all marketing poo?) On 9/8/06, Robin Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was going to upgrade my PowerBook G4 but am

[cfaussie] Re: OT: Best development laptop?

2006-09-07 Thread Haikal Saadh
Now give us stuff! :D Robin Hilliard wrote: > :-) Thanks for the shameless plug... > > __ > > Robin Hilliard > > > On 08/09/2006, at 12:26 PM, Haikal Saadh wrote: > > >> I wonder if Rocketboots will do us a good deal? I'm sure there are >> quite >> a few people on this list who

[cfaussie] Re: OT: Best development laptop?

2006-09-07 Thread Robin Hilliard
:-) Thanks for the shameless plug... __ Robin Hilliard On 08/09/2006, at 12:26 PM, Haikal Saadh wrote: > I wonder if Rocketboots will do us a good deal? I'm sure there are > quite > a few people on this list who are interested. :D --~--~-~--~~~---~

[cfaussie] Re: OT: Best development laptop?

2006-09-07 Thread Haikal Saadh
I know it's an apples to oranges comparison (ha!) but while we're tossing dirt on this grave... Funny that the 15" MBP is slightly lighter and about 1cm thinner. Oh, and on an related note: Toshiba gets a medal for one of the worst websites ever... * Links break because of a session ID... how

[cfaussie] Re: OT: Best development laptop?

2006-09-07 Thread Bjorn Schultheiss
Sent: Friday, 8 September 2006 1:57 PM To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com Subject: [cfaussie] Re: OT: Best development laptop? But you can write on it! and make it flat to read stuff on it... I tell you.. it's cool... (I feel like I'm not going to win this one) Mark On 9/8/06, Bjorn Schu

[cfaussie] Re: OT: Best development laptop?

2006-09-07 Thread Mark Mandel
But you can write on it! and make it flat to read stuff on it... I tell you.. it's cool... (I feel like I'm not going to win this one) Mark On 9/8/06, Bjorn Schultheiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Man a 14.1" monitor, uuh, > Programmer please,... > > I have never been a mac guy, > But the i

[cfaussie] Re: OT: Best development laptop?

2006-09-07 Thread Mark Mandel
MAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Haikal Saadh > Sent: Friday, 8 September 2006 12:26 PM > To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com > Subject: [cfaussie] Re: OT: Best development laptop? > > > Mind you, these are still mostly rumours and speculation... who knows? > We might just get them t

[cfaussie] Re: OT: Best development laptop?

2006-09-07 Thread Bjorn Schultheiss
: [cfaussie] Re: OT: Best development laptop? Mind you, these are still mostly rumours and speculation... who knows? We might just get them this year... I will be getting one when they come out, whenever that is. I wonder if Rocketboots will do us a good deal? I'm sure there are quite a few p

[cfaussie] Re: OT: Best development laptop?

2006-09-07 Thread Haikal Saadh
Bjorn Schultheiss > Senior Flash Developer > QDC Technologies > > -Original Message- > From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Haikal Saadh > Sent: Friday, 8 September 2006 12:05 PM > To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com > Subject: [cfaussie] R

[cfaussie] Re: OT: Best development laptop?

2006-09-07 Thread Bjorn Schultheiss
- From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Haikal Saadh Sent: Friday, 8 September 2006 12:05 PM To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com Subject: [cfaussie] Re: OT: Best development laptop? Hmm.. I'm putting off upgrading my G4 pb till one of these comes out, but oh well... 2

[cfaussie] Re: OT: Best development laptop?

2006-09-07 Thread Haikal Saadh
jorn Schultheiss > Senior Flash Developer > QDC Technologies > > > > *From:* cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > *On Behalf Of *Robin Hilliard > *Sent:* Friday, 8 September 2006 11:45 AM > *To:* c

[cfaussie] Re: OT: Best development laptop?

2006-09-07 Thread Bjorn Schultheiss
loper QDC Technologies   From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robin HilliardSent: Friday, 8 September 2006 11:45 AMTo: cfaussie@googlegroups.comSubject: [cfaussie] Re: OT: Best development laptop? I was going to upgrade my PowerBook G4 but am now delaying a

[cfaussie] Re: OT: Best development laptop?

2006-09-07 Thread Brett Payne-Rhodes
Hi Ryan, I've just upgraded to a new Toshiba Satellite A100. I got a good deal on the price but it has a dual core processor, 1GB of memory, 80GB disk and a wide(ish) screen. Running XP pro. Not very heavy but the standard battery life is only about 3 hours, though I think you can buy an exten

[cfaussie] Re: OT: Best development laptop?

2006-09-07 Thread Robin Hilliard
I was going to upgrade my PowerBook G4 but am now delaying a month to see if the Merom 64-bit version is about to be announced - now THAT is going to be a seriously high performance laptop :-)Parallels is a completely serious option - 3 or so students in my Flex 2 class were using it to run FlexBui

[cfaussie] Re: OT: Best development laptop?

2006-09-07 Thread Peter Tilbrook
Yep!On 08/09/06, Bjorn Schultheiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That ferrari notebook looks pretty cool.. Is that the one with the carbon-fibre hood on it? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie

[cfaussie] Re: OT: Best development laptop?

2006-09-07 Thread Bjorn Schultheiss
AMTo: cfaussie@googlegroups.comSubject: [cfaussie] Re: OT: Best development laptop? I have a great Acer Ferrari F3400 notebook. AMD Athlon 64, 1Gb RAM and built-in wireless. It rocks! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to

[cfaussie] Re: OT: Best development laptop?

2006-09-07 Thread Andrew Mercer
I am happy with my Dell Inspiron 6000It has 2Gig of RAM and runns virtualPC with win2003 server nicelyDell Support have been very good to me as well.and it is not one with an exploding battery :-) On 9/8/06, Peter Tilbrook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a great Acer Ferrari F3400 notebook. AMD A

[cfaussie] Re: OT: Best development laptop?

2006-09-07 Thread Peter Tilbrook
I have a great Acer Ferrari F3400 notebook. AMD Athlon 64, 1Gb RAM and built-in wireless. It rocks! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googl

[cfaussie] Re: OT: Best development laptop?

2006-09-07 Thread Toby Tremayne
I use a 17 inch macbook pro, and I absolutely love it.  It has the power of unix if you need it, it has the ease of use of mac software and hardware and with parallels I can comfortably run windows and windows apps at full speed.  Under parallels win2k and winxp run faster than they did on the desk

[cfaussie] Re: OT: Best development laptop?

2006-09-07 Thread Haikal Saadh
Shame that it has to be a PC... a 17" Powerbook/MBP would fit the bill nicely. It might be worthwhile seeing of there are Mac alternatives to the software you use? I don't know how much of enterprise manager's feature set you need, but there are heaps of tools that do what query analyser doe

[cfaussie] Re: OT: Best development laptop?

2006-09-07 Thread Bjorn Schultheiss
I've been thinking macbookpro running parallels.     Regards,   Bjorn Schultheiss Senior Flash Developer QDC Technologies   From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ryan SabirSent: Friday, 8 September 2006 11:01 AMTo: 'cfaussie@googlegroups.com'Subject: [cf