[AccessD] OT: Need new laptop

> Will it be as
> much faster than this one as this one was
> over the PII 233 mhz?  Doubtful!
My guess it will, John: by the time you purchase the new
notebook it might be an n-core processors Intel device:

http://www.intel.com/cd/ids/developer/asmo-na/eng/234550.htm

And MS Windows Vista with Windows Presentation Foundation
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Presentation_Foundation) and
applications running on this notebook will be well tuned to take advantage
of multicore processors...

Shamil :)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John W. Colby" <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'"
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 8:28 PM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Need new laptop


> I purchased my last laptop when in Ireland working with Mark Breen.  That
> was November, 1997.  The laptop was a PII 233 mhz with a MAXIMUM of 180mb
> ram, a 5 gbyte hard drive and 800x600 screen.  I actually replaced the
> keyboard on that one because I spilled water on it.  In the end, the
> backlight just got too dim to see it any more and it wasn't worth even
> thinking about fixing.
>
> I purchased my new machine about 2 years ago, so the old one lasted 5
years
> - but in the end it was really too slow to use for much.
>
> The new machine is an AMD64 2.8 ghz with a maximum of 2 gbytes of ram,
> populated with 1.25 gbytes (a 1 gig stick and one of two original 256m
> sticks), and I upgraded to the faster 7200 rpm drive.  I can still upgrade
> the RAM by replacing the 256 mbyte stick with another 1 gbyte stick.  In
> theory the processor is upgradeable as well (it is in a socket).  At this
> point in its life it still FEELS as if it will be fast enough in three
more
> years, OTOH I haven't had an opportunity to feel any of the 4 ghz class
> machines, and of course at this point they are moving away from faster
clock
> speeds to more processors.
>
> I think in 3 more years the laptop itself will be "worn out" and I will
hand
> it down to my son, who will be around 7 by then and should be able to lug
a
> 7 lb. machine around the house.
>
> I paid right at $1500 for this machine so if I get 5 years out of it, that
> will be $300 / year - not too bad for a laptop TODAY.  And in another few
> years the machine I will get for $1500 will be even better.  Will it be as
> much faster than this one as this one was over the PII 233 mhz?  Doubtful!
>
> John W. Colby
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
>
> Contribute your unused CPU cycles to a good cause:
> http://folding.stanford.edu/
>
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