[ale] OT Laptop pref

[Jeff Hubbs]

I'm going to be jumping into this particular fray soon - a laptop will
be the first serious business purchase my new LLC will make, I expect -
and one thing I've already decided, regardless of what I wind up
getting, is that it's going to be MAXED OUT on memory from the day I buy
it.  That way, I'll never have to concern myself with finding new RAM
for it down the road and all the compatibility hassle that that
implies.  

I wouldn't care about processor speed if not for the fact that I'm
probably going to be compiling Lord knows what on it, especially if I go
the Gentoo route.  

Since I am likely to also use said laptop for grad school, I can expect
to have multiple documents onscreen (i.e., browser and word processor)
so the "widescreen" models appeal to me on that basis alone.



On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 04:36, George Johnson wrote:
> Stephen Turner wrote:
> 
> >yea well i decided to hold out as long as i can till i really need one.
> >then see whats out. im not really satisfied with any of the laptops. i
> >really had my heart out for the mac the way they boasted it (being 3 times
> >faster than p4 equivs) but then i realize that the mac compared to new
> >cpus really aint much faster if any. the mac laptops look sweet and sounds
> >sweet but according to 3rd party tests performs just like amd vs intel,
> >better in some respects worse in others. however ive now gotten curious
> >about this pentium M, they say it whips the g4 in single cpu tests. altho
> >the mhz is higher :-p by the sounds of it a nice 2ghz M processor would
> >really be nice but then the price is way up there with mac and the laptops
> >include that cintrino package that doesnt work with linux GRRRRR YOU HEAR
> >ME INTEL? and even then they dont have a lotta goodies, but ive seen a few
> >:D running 3k+ but anyways. Is the pentium M all they claim? faster than
> >g4 (1.6ghz pentium vs 1.25 g4) and more power conservative? has anyone
> >been playing with that and linux?
> >
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> Basically I held out as long as I could too.  I finally needed to 
> upgrade from my Toshiba Tecra 720 which is a 133MHz Pent.  I did not 
> really think it was worth it to go for a highend system so I tested a 
> Toshiba Satellite system with  Celeron 2.4GHz processor.  It worked with 
> no problems with Knoppix 3.3 in the store so I bought it for $899.  It 
> runs all the games I have put on it so far along with the real estate 
> software I need to start my new career.  I really did not think that 
> spending $2k or more on a laptop was worth it IMHO.
> 
> George
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