Reply to: New laptop thread

[d000hg]

Not made of money man!

What is so special about a spakbook anyways?

It runs MacOs, is what an iFan will tell you.
Nothing, it's overpriced, a Mac-hater will tell you
Otherwise, it's a nicely styled PC. If you think style and sleekness are worth money, and aren't the sort to upgrade their laptops, it's a fair choice.

Although beware, Apple announced this week they will likely be dropping Java support from the next version of MacOs.

[suityou01]

Should have spent more money on a macbook pro.

Not made of money man!

What is so special about a spakbook anyways?

[Moscow Mule]

Should have spent more money on a macbook pro.

[suityou01]

Just watched the opening bars of Sweeney Todd in HD. Looks like HD to me. But what would I know.

[suityou01]

have you tried playing a blueray film on it?

No,not yet.

Thhe tactile response of the keyboard is sublime, but the mousepad is all bumpy.

Also when I got into task manager there appear to be 4 cores, but I remember this being advertised as a dual core box. Praps each core is hyperthreaded or summat.

Who the frak cares. It's shiny, big, new, and I popped my VM on it and it didn't even break sweat.

Off to grab a blueray disc now, what am I expecting to see? <A film says suityou02 in my ear as I type this> Har bloody har.
Is it going to be crap quality? Am I going to be blown away with HiDef amazement?

[Clippy]

As a long time user of Sony IT equipment I can tell you that you need to be aware:

• They are always overpriced
• The drivers are often a problem
• Support is so expensive that replacement is cheaper
• Their kit is pretty and robust but is always weak on something, such as disk performance or battery life or the absence of an essential port.
• When you get a good one and learn to live with its foibles, you'll be over the moon with it.
• They always come installed with large amounts of bloatware which reduces the performance to that of a Casio scientific calculator

FTFY.

[Spacecadet]

It has a blueray player and hdmi out

have you tried playing a blueray film on it?

[suityou01]

17.3in display.
Resolution 1600 x 900 pixels.

Not even Full HD and its a 17.3in display

It has a blueray player and hdmi out

[Spacecadet]

Settled on this

Sony VAIO EC 1 Series 320GB 17.3in Blu-ray Laptop - White

17.3in display.
Resolution 1600 x 900 pixels.

Not even Full HD and its a 17.3in display

[RichardCranium]

Settled on this

Sony VAIO EC 1 Series 320GB 17.3in Blu-ray Laptop - White

As a long time user of Sony IT equipment I can tell you that you need to be aware:

• They are always overpriced
• The drivers are often a problem
• Support is so expensive that replacement is cheaper
• Their kit is pretty and robust but is always weak on something, such as disk performance or battery life or the absence of an essential port.
• When you get a good one and learn to live with its foibles, you'll be over the moon with it.

[suityou01]

Settled on this

Sony VAIO EC 1 Series 320GB 17.3in Blu-ray Laptop - White

Around £200 over budget, but it is quite shiny.

I was sold on the I5 processor and 6GB ram. Need plenty of head room for all those virtual machines.

[VectraMan]

I do most my coding on my 15" Dell Latitude from 2 years ago. It's fine - decent screen and keyboard, and fast enough processor and hard disk. The only problem is that everything is clunky with VS2010, but I suspect that's down to the graphics speed. All previous versions are okay though.

I think (but can't swear) that I had VC6 installed on Windows 7 at one stage. But as others have said there's always a VM.

[Scrag Meister]

Alienware M17X

I've got a Dell XPS M1730 which is this before the Alienware takeover. Nice machine, fast great for SQL and processing power in general, but a bit of a lump. Expensive.

I've also got a Dell M1330 which is highly portable but not so nice for coding as the screen is smaller, and genrally not as performant.

[d000hg]

I prefer "time seasoned", expert, pinnacle of my career.

Go on grandad, tell me you've forgotten more about software development than I know. It might even be true... but I know more than you've got left to forget. Sticking with VB is probably a good idea.

[Spacecadet]

Lenovo Thinkpad W510 or T510. The HP EliteBooks look quite good as well.

Dell Precision
I think Chef has one of the current models