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On 3/29/06, Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On 3/29/06, Lord Sauron <lordsauronthegreat@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > You have no idea what portable is. One month on a 3.7lb. 12.1 inch |
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> > X40 and you'll never go back - even if you wanted to! |
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> Well, everybody has different needs/tastes. Frankly, I wouldn't even |
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> want to _touch_ something with a 12.1in screen. ;-> |
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That's just you - and as I said, there are a few exceptions. However, |
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for most users, 17" isn't necessary, wouldn't you agree? |
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> Portability is not my primary concern. Nor is battery life. Reading |
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> and responding to email on the road is not something I need to do |
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> frequently, or when I do, I can wait until I get to the hotel or the |
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> conference room. I have never even had a desire to pull out a laptop |
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> on a plane...heck, I don't even bother with an ipod or pda usually. |
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Yeah, however, I see all these people buy a cheap laptop from Dell and |
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expect it to run stuff like Doom 3. They end up hating their laptop |
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because it's slow, heavy, and by running D3 they kiss whatever was |
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left of their poor battery goodbye. |
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> My big issue is screen resolution; I need a very high resolution |
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> screen for viewing technical schematics with good scope and readable |
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> fonts. I was working with a visitor recently who constantly had me |
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> print out schematics because he could not read them on his laptop or |
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> the available desktop without zooming in so far that he couldn't see |
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> the overall diagram. On my 17" screen at 1920x1200 though, neither of |
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> us had any problems with the display. |
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That's you and what you do. A guy who does finances at Safeway corp. |
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hq doesn't need the equivalent of Bill Gate's mansion in screen real |
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estate. You do. |
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> The _minimum_ I can work with is about 1400x1050 (1680x1050 in a wide format). |
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Great for you. However, if you got a laptop for non-work use |
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(personal, communications, mobile DVD viewing, &c) would you rather |
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get the massive 9 pound thing you use at work, or a nice small 14" |
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portable? |
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When you get the 17", you're buying for necessity. Go smaller if you |
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can afford it. You can't ATM. There's nothing wrong with that. |
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> > Just a word of the wise from many experienced laptop users: |
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> Does using a laptop for 12-14 hours/day every day for the last 3 years |
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> count as 'experienced'? ;-> Including international travel? |
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Yeah, experienced in your area of expertise and how it relates to |
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laptop buying decisions. Different people have different patterns of |
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mobile use. ~90% of the people I know need to use their laptop on the |
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go. They're the people my advice is aimed at. |
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> > world's strongest man would still have to admit that 13 pounds isn't a |
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> > good idea. |
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> No argument there...9lb + case + power supply is more than most people |
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> would want or need to deal with. But there is no sub-5lb laptop |
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> available today that can meet my display needs. |
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Yeah... Lenovo, to give them credit, came really close. 15.1" in |
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their Z60t at only 4lbs. |
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Before I forget: I lied. I doublechecked the #s and my X40 is really |
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2.7 lbs. Srry... won't let it happen again ; ) |
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