laptop

MiCr0

prob about to get a work laptop
budget approx £3000 total

what should i get/where?

MiCr0

Trojan

You've 3 main choices as I see it:

"desktop-replacement" e.g. Dell Inspiron 7500. Heavy machine but powerful, large screen (e.g 700/256MB/18GB/15.4"LCD).
"ultra-portable" e.g. Sony Vaio. Really thin & light but not so powerful, small screen (e.g 500/96/128MB/6GB/12.5"LCD).
Cheap one. Winbook, etc.

I have an Inspiron 7.5K and the 15.4" screen just rocks. Big as my 17" in viewable terms.

Al.

MiCr0

this is as a desk-replacer and for travelling on business

would i get a dvd,builtin speakers with that?

Trojan

Yep, with the 7.5K - I've an 8x DVD.

Speakers are crap though (well, relatively - they're better than other laptops), good headphones are much better.

Check your eircom for some links.
Al.

OctaviaN

Hey trojan you want the loan of me altec lansing 880D's lol
or the Video logic kit.
and stop braggin about that laptop no.....
tell me the specs once more!!
micro get that 75k!
http://www.euro.dell.com/countries/ie/enu/bsd/products/series_inspn_notebooks.htm

go for it! spoil yerself!

MiCr0

final stupid q
do they come with ethernet cards& modems?

Trojan

Yeah, I got a Xircom card modem, works everywhere (world).

There's also a built-in Winmodem option but....

Note, peripherals are BLOODY expensive! Talking £150 for a 10/100 card...

Al.

It's a Dell Inspiron 7500 650/128mb/18gb/15.4tft

[This message has been edited by Trojan (edited 12-07-2000).]

Trojan

Yeah that's right Alan. I forgot.

I was dreaming about that Xircom n/w card...

Micro, I sent to eircom, got an alternative?

Also Computer Shopper has a review of 50 notebooks ... might be useful. I recommend the 7500 though

Al.

MiCr0

the last email i got sent from u're company took 30hours to arrive
got sent monday morning
arrived tues afternoon?

btw what dept u work in?

Trojan

**** that, most ppl get it in normal time (like 40 seconds or so)

hmm. Must be some strange routing going on between us.

I'll send from rocketmail.

Dept = R&D (s/w house basically)

Al.

MiCr0

rocketmail email recieved few mins ago

re work, i thought that u worked for dell, sry

btw thanx for the links

Hobbes

MAC G3
¥ 400MHz PowerPC G3 with 1MB L2 cache
¥ 128MB SDRAM - 1 SO DIMM
¥ 12GB Ultra ATA drive
¥ DVD-ROM drive with DVD-Video
¥ 56K modem
¥ 10/100BASE-T Ethernet
¥ Two FireWire ports
¥ AC Power Adapter
¥ Battery
¥ Mac OS 9

Price $2999

Want to run PC? Get Virtual PC for it.

Though this depends a lot on what you plan to use it for a desktop as.

And less of the Mac is crap comments k?

Cerberus

Wots rocketmail??
or is that a stupid question??
Please don't anwser the second question unless the answer is "No"

MiCr0

its a cross between email and pigeon post. you write a mail and launch it in a rocket to some one nearby. al works in blackrock and i work in dunlaoire, about 5 miles apart. rocketmail is very quick and efficent for cases like this.

seriously its just like hotmail, yahoomail etc

MiCr0

i need an actually pc
its got to interface with a atm switch and some gsm switches too
and these things are very picky
(well teh ppl who run them are)

Cerberus

thanx man

Trojan

Micro, you may be confused cos I actually did work for Dell, year before last [ spent my time on IRC and writing quake news when Ronin was away (his spelling sucks anyway) ]

Rocketmail is really Yahoo Mail, when Yahoo wanted to challenge Hotmail they just bought rocketmail. It used to be pretty good but now it sucks just like yahoo

Hobbes, that machines alright, but a little expensive. I haven't used MacOS since 1996! It owned Windows then. Pity about their marketing dept. I used to work tech supp for my isp who used exclusively mac, they still do, even the webserver is. I wouldn't like to see uptime statistics on that...

Yeah, ok I'll admit, I'm putting off doing all this bloody documentation I have to do this evening **** it. Still I know what it's like to get undocumented stuff so I guess I better do it.

After I check the other boards of course.

Al.

MiCr0

al,
just got u're work mail now

Trojan

Mail me it back including all the headers will ya? I wanna see where exactly it got stuck.

Cheers,
Al.

OctaviaN

MAC ARE CRAP!
thx

Lump

Mac OWN for Sound/Vision editing and graphics.


John

Terra

Wouldn't mind one of the laptops myself!!

MiCr0

al,
did u send me a mail?
no sign of it yet if u did

Terra

By the way it's a psion not a xircom.