So, I'm in the market for a lappy.....well, at least I think I am. Mainly because my main PC has everything I could want, it is was a highly spec'd machine. I guess it's either an upper mid-tier, or a low upper-tier computer nowadays (especially 'coz one of my DIMMs is now corrupt - don't ask).
Anyways, my PC is used for everything except development!! You'd think that I'd be using my PC for development, seeing its what I (should) do at work, right? Well I don't because there are many distractions from doing work/development in my room, namely:
I think that's about it, so whenever I'm on my PC I always find something else to do....but anyways, back to my point.
See I need a lappy-top so that I can escape the confines of my room and the distractions lying within. So I could buy a laptop (or is it notebook these days?), and go to....the kitchen, or the front room, or even my rooftop balcony outside my window, and from there concentrate on the development.
But my predicament is this:
My lack of familiarity with laptops leads me to not know what to buy. Especially since I made my last PC, I want the parts in my laptop to be "above average", this is part is due to my snobbishness at the specifications and to brand loyalty. For example, I don't want to buy a Intel Core 2 Duo T5600 with a CPU speed of 1.83GHz because I know that it only has 2MiB of level 2 cache with the FSB of 667 MT/s with the multiplier set at x11. Whereas the next model up (also my starting processor of choice), the Intel Core 2 Duo T7300, has 4MiB of L2 cache and a FSB of 800MT/s with a x10 multiplier.
But, I will buy an AMD Turion 64 X2 processor over an Intel Core Duo (pre-Merom chips), as they are better value for money, they run cooler (I think, I read that somewhere, or they're more energy efficient), they have double the memory bandwidth of the Intels (10.7 Gbytes/s as opposed to 5.3 Gbytes/s), the AMDs are 64-bit (note the Core 2 Duos are 64-bit), and because I'm an AMD whore.
So I don't want a low/mid spec laptop, but I don't need a high spec laptop just for development or media, but then I also don't want to spend too much money...
Then I see THIS on my RSS feed, and now I'm kinda feeling those tablet PCs. It's even got a Wacom digitizer!! And it's not badly priced.....shame Gateway are only USA based....
So I'm at a loss as to what to buy....if anyone can offer some advice or recommendations, please feel free to suggest in the comments. I might post my minimum/optimum system requirements later.
Peace out.
J
Anyways, my PC is used for everything except development!! You'd think that I'd be using my PC for development, seeing its what I (should) do at work, right? Well I don't because there are many distractions from doing work/development in my room, namely:
- PC Games
- Movies (on my pc or DVD)
- Internet
- Wii
- PS2
- Nintendo DS
- Sony PSP
- TV shows (on my pc or TV)
- My electric guitar
- My acoustic guitar (they don'r make it anymore, maybe I'll find the model and update this list)
- My other electric guitar (except with covered humbuckers and trapezoid fret inlays)
- My guitar rig modeler
- My wah pedal
I think that's about it, so whenever I'm on my PC I always find something else to do....but anyways, back to my point.
See I need a lappy-top so that I can escape the confines of my room and the distractions lying within. So I could buy a laptop (or is it notebook these days?), and go to....the kitchen, or the front room, or even my rooftop balcony outside my window, and from there concentrate on the development.
But my predicament is this:
My lack of familiarity with laptops leads me to not know what to buy. Especially since I made my last PC, I want the parts in my laptop to be "above average", this is part is due to my snobbishness at the specifications and to brand loyalty. For example, I don't want to buy a Intel Core 2 Duo T5600 with a CPU speed of 1.83GHz because I know that it only has 2MiB of level 2 cache with the FSB of 667 MT/s with the multiplier set at x11. Whereas the next model up (also my starting processor of choice), the Intel Core 2 Duo T7300, has 4MiB of L2 cache and a FSB of 800MT/s with a x10 multiplier.
But, I will buy an AMD Turion 64 X2 processor over an Intel Core Duo (pre-Merom chips), as they are better value for money, they run cooler (I think, I read that somewhere, or they're more energy efficient), they have double the memory bandwidth of the Intels (10.7 Gbytes/s as opposed to 5.3 Gbytes/s), the AMDs are 64-bit (note the Core 2 Duos are 64-bit), and because I'm an AMD whore.
So I don't want a low/mid spec laptop, but I don't need a high spec laptop just for development or media, but then I also don't want to spend too much money...
Then I see THIS on my RSS feed, and now I'm kinda feeling those tablet PCs. It's even got a Wacom digitizer!! And it's not badly priced.....shame Gateway are only USA based....
So I'm at a loss as to what to buy....if anyone can offer some advice or recommendations, please feel free to suggest in the comments. I might post my minimum/optimum system requirements later.
Peace out.
J
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