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On 3/29/06, Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On 3/29/06, Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@×××.com> wrote: |
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> > Hmm.. seems to me, you do like your laptops big and heavy and bulky. :-) |
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> > IIRC, you had a P4 chip in your last laptop? (was that you?) |
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> Yep, except that 'luggable' incurred severe lid cracking last summer |
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> and I had to replace it. So I purchased a 2.1Ghz P-M 6lb notebook to |
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> use for about 6 months until the first Core Duo came available. That |
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> was a nice notebook, even with a 15.4" screen, I found it to be very |
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> portable. |
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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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> This is my first notebook with a 17" screen, which I really do |
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> like...except when I have to carry it! That's why I call it a |
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> 'luggable'. ;-> |
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Just a word of the wise from many experienced laptop users: |
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If you want to take it with you, less than 5 pounds is a requirement. |
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You may say you're strong, and I believe you. However, even the |
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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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Plus, think of it this way: |
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There are exceptions to the road-warrior lighter-is-better rule, of |
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course, but not many. If you *need* the power, why not just |
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SSH/RDesktop into a bigger, much more expensive desktop and leave your |
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poor laptop battery alone? That's what I do. I have the tiny IBM |
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X40: not very fast. But then check out my desktop rig: AMD Athlon64 |
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3000+ 2.0GHz Socket 754 1.0GHz FSB w/Hypertransport, 512Megs of RAM, |
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10,000RPM WD SATA150 Raptor (76GB, I'm not rich enough for the new |
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150GB) and a killer nVidia GeForce 6800 AGP 8x w/512MB of GDDR2 video |
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RAM (embedded OpenGL 1.5/DirectX9 processing). |
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It's my baby - I raised it from just a little Athon K6 900MHz! I |
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built it myself out of a hulking abandoned server case. When I get |
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home, do I crunch numbers on the X40? No. I use it for what it's |
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good for: email, office work, y'know, editing stuff. Compile on the |
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big machine and you're home free. |
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