Charlotte Foust
cfoust at infostatsystems.com
Tue Oct 4 11:10:32 CDT 2005
Five or six years is more than I expect out of them, John. If I get 4, I consider it good performance. It isn't that the machine breaks down, but the software keeps demanding bigger and better and faster processors, larger and larger hard drives and higher and higher screen resolution. Plus with laptops, you can't mix and match the components and after an indeterminate period, you can't necessarily find the memory to upgrade them or other components, like DVD-R drives. Hah! Try to find a floppy or zip drive for a laptop bay these days! ;-} Of course, I do tend to wear the letters off the keys too, so I'm ready for a new laptop when the keyboard wears out! LOL Charlotte Foust -----Original Message----- From: John W. Colby [mailto:jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 8:27 AM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Need new laptop Processors have finally (more or less) leveled out in terms of performance increases, at least for the common man. I bought a laptop with a 2.8g AMD64 with 1.5g RAM and a 1280 x 800 screen. I replace the HD with a 7200 rpm 60g unit which REALLY helped the load speed. I bought it almost two years ago and it is still an amazing machine. Yea, the more I load on it the slower the load, but the actual use is very fast. I may be able to replace the processor some day with a 4+g unit, not real sure if that will ever happen really since it is the 754 pin processor, which would have to move to the next lower die size in order to reduce the heat for the speed increase. In the end, I think this machine will still be fast enough even in another 3 or 4 years. 5 or 6 years is truly all you can expect out of a laptop anyway. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com Contribute your unused CPU cycles to a good cause: http://folding.stanford.edu/ -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte Foust Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 11:17 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Need new laptop LOL I just got this one last year. I think it will hold me for a while, but thanks for the invitation. ;-} Charlotte -----Original Message----- From: Joe Hecht [mailto:jmhecht at earthlink.net] Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 11:07 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Need new laptop Charlotte, Next time you are in LA come by my store. I have a few like that. Besides, I need to pay for my new HP that I should have by the end of the week. -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte Foust Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 8:58 AM To: access at joe2.endjunk.com; Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Need new laptop My laptop has a full P4 processer, not a Pm, and 1Gb ram. I'm very happy with it, but I always find odd laptops because I insist on a built-in number pad on the right of the keyboard and those are hard to find. Charlotte Foust -----Original Message----- From: Joe Hecht [mailto:jmhecht at earthlink.net] Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 10:38 AM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: [AccessD] OT: Need new laptop My Dell is dying. It is time to replace it. Does any one have thoughts on the following: Pentium vs. Celeron vs. AMD Mostly runs office. Some flight sim. Some Ipod support. Will defiantly have 512 megs of Ram looking to try for a gig depending on $ -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com