Andrew, a couple things I have in mind: * Buying RAM and hard drive is always cheaper by going 3rd party and that for almost if not all manufacturers. Apple is the same as is Dell. This is one of their way of screwing customers :( Get the minimum and replace as soon as you get your machine.
* Graphics card is slowluy being used for other things than games only. It may be used for anything from Photoshop, 3D software and heavy computational applications (and even Win7 interface is graphics accelerated). Well everything Math, CAD etc might benefit from it and will more in the near future. I dunno if it fits your potential use case but it is good to know. * About nVidia graphics, if I understood well, you can on some models, dynamically switch from Intel to Nvidia and vice versa which means that on a power consumption point of view, you lose nothing by choosing nvidia if you do not use it much. Budget though is a different issue. -- Thibault Massart aka Thibouille/Thibs ---------------------- Photo: K-7, Sigma 28/1.8 macro, FA50/1.4, DA40Ltd, K30/2.8, DA16-45, DA50-135, DA50-200, 360FGZ KX, MX, SuperA+Motor, Z1, P30 Mamiya C330+80/2.8 Sekonic L-208 FalconEyes TE300D x2 Studio flashes Laptop: Macbook 13" Unibody SnowLeo/Win7 Programing: Delphi 2009 _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
