[dba-Tech] Laptop Recommendation

Francisco:

Well, sorry, finally getting back to this thread.  I have two boys 7 & 14
and they share a machine right now - a rather pokey Celeron tower.  The big
guy, Max, starts high school in September and it's time for him to have a
machine of his own.

He'll just be doing mostly word processing, email, and internet research.
Likes to play Starcraft on line but he can use the other box for that.

Although I've resisted it (I work at home and DON'T WANT to be able to work
anywhere), I'm thinking a laptop would have some uses for me as well as my
wife, the writer.

So it's got to be powerful enough to do Access development, although I'll
only be using it when I travel which is not much.

The idea of the mobile chip is attractive because you can sit down in a
coffeehouse anywhere and be on the internet.  But I suppose you can just get
a PCMCIA Access Point and that will do the same thing?

Fry's was pushing the Sony Vaio the other day for about $1200 with 512mb
RAM, DVD, etc.

Dell looks like they've got some good deals now.

So that's the motivation and the needs.  What's everybody think?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Francisco H Tapia" <my.lists at verizon.net>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues"
<dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 2:14 PM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Laptop Recommendation


> You're gonna receive a whole lotta responses Rocky.  Maybe providing
> more information on what you expect your laptop to be able to do?
>
> - Development work
> - DVD viewing
> - a lot of wireless work
> - Play video games
> - etc...
>
> The Alienware solution is really more for people who are gamers, it is a
> very sweet system, but if you're not gonna game, then the 3d video card
> is going to waste... know what I mean?
>
>
> Jon Tydda wrote On 6/1/2004 2:00 PM:
>
> >check out the Alienware Area-51m... awesome...
> >
> >
> >Jon
> >----- Original Message ----- 
> >From: "Peter Brawley" <peter.brawley at artfulsoftware.com>
> >To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues"
> ><dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> >Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 9:14 PM
> >Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Laptop Recommendation
> >
> >
> >My understanding is that M better than 4 for lightweight. IMO Toshiba
gives
> >more bang for the laptop buck, though.
> >
> >PB.
> >  ----- Original Message -----
> >  From: Rocky Smolin - Beach Access Software
> >  To: dba-tech
> >  Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 2:41 PM
> >  Subject: [dba-Tech] Laptop Recommendation
> >
> >
> >  I'm thinking about getting a laptop.  What's better Mobile Intel
Pentium
> >4, or Pentium M.  Or are they the same.
> >
> >  I'm looking at the Dell catalog.
> >
> >  Any other things to look out for?
> >
> >  TIA
> >
> >  Rocky Smolin
> >  Beach Access Software
> >  http://www.e-z-mrp.com
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> -- 
> -Francisco
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