[ale] Big laptop advice

[Scott McBrien]

On Jun 6, 2009, at 10:55 AM, Mike Harrison <meuon at geeklabs.com> wrote:

>> I'm also a developer (and photographer), so screen size with one of  
>> the
>> biggest factors for me. I ended up with the ASUS G2, a 'gaming'  
>> latop. NewEgg
>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220511
>
> Thanks I was looking hard at that. It looks like a good semi-portable
> development system. As for suspend/sleep.. I seem to always "shutdown"
> anyway,
>
> eSata has been awesome.. I've been buying the Seagate eSata  
> externals and
> using them for system backups, even over ethernet to the servers
> via a laptop.
>
> As I get older, screen size, sharpness and brightness seems to be a  
> major
> factor, glad you likes this thing.
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I know I'm an abberation on list, but one of my top criteria for a  
laptop is weight, probably because I lug it through the airport every  
week.  I've been really happy with my Macbook Pro.  It's certainly not  
cheap, but it has a really nice screen, and in addition to OS-X, can  
natively run whatever Linux flavor you want.  VMware Fusion is also  
super cheap if you'd prefer several OSes in VMs.

-Scott