RE: Laptop suggestion ?

I am actually in the market for a new laptop also and have been very
disappointed by some of the leading laptop vendors (dell, IBM err...
Lenovo).  They just don't sell a power packed laptop anymore.  For instance,
you can't even find a Dell with a Pentium 4 in it anymore (at least I
couldn't).  At Dell it is all "battery conscious" processors which equates
to less horse power.  On ThinkPad's site I was unable to configure a machine
to have both a Pentium 4 HT proc along with a 7200RPM 80GB HD.

So I said forget it. . . I will just go and see what Gamers are using now a
days.  You want a laptop that is the "sha shizzle" (as I heard a rapper once
say :-) then head on over to http://alienware.com/.  Check out this machine:
http://tinyurl.com/3vx4k and note that you can get a large HD running at
7200RPM, you can get a 3.x GHz P4 HT processor, 2GB memory, etc all in one
machine.  Sure it will be a brick but how often is battery power more
important than the endless hours you will spend programming plugged into a
wall.  Is it a little on the spendy side?.... Not really, because you are
going to save A LOT of time by not waiting for programs (like WDSc) to run.
If your boss debates it because "it is just a cool toy" tell him you will
prove it isn't by painting it pink and slapping .NET stickers all over it
;-)  

HTH,
Aaron Bartell


-----Original Message-----
From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Pete Helgren
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 3:41 PM
To: Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Laptop suggestion ?

I'd say in *general* yes. Eclipse/WDSC went from about 45 seconds to open
down to about 20 seconds. Opening large documents and files has improved,
regardless of application doing the opening.

Of course after paying a few $$$ for the hard drive, I may be perceiving a
benefit to justify the cost ;-)

Pete


Colin Williams wrote:

>Pete,
>
>was that a marked improvement on all applications running on your PC, 
>or just WDSC?
>
>
>
>On 06/12/05, Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  
>
>>I have a Gateway M450 (Pentium M 1.5 Ghz) that originally had 1Gb and 
>>I upgraded to 2Gb and I saw no improvement in WDSC performance. 
>>However, when I upgraded to a 7200RPM drive from 5400RPM drive I saw a 
>>marked improvement.
>>
>>As was mentioned elsewhere, Eclipse is I/O intensive so a FAST hard 
>>drive is where to put your money.
>>
>>Pete Helgren
>>
>>thalaivar chengalvaran wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>Could somebody suggest a Laptop higher of 3.0GHz being used for 
>>>Eclipse/portal/Cloudscape developments.
>>>
>>>Any help is highly appreciated.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>__________________________________________
>>>Yahoo! DSL - Something to write home about.
>>>Just $16.99/mo. or less.
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
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