RE: WSSD

How much development compared to other stuff?  If you go with a full
blown P4 laptop, you will have little battery life.  If you go with a PM
1.7 you will have a slower machine but you can still get the 2 GB of
ram.  Look for a 60 to 80 GB drive that is 7200 RPM.  Standard is 4200,
fast is 5400, but 7200 will really make a difference though hard to
find.  

You really need to look at your overall usage and guestimate how much
you will run on batteries.  Generally removing what you don't need such
as the media bay and turning off the wireless when not needed, you can
significantly increase your battery life.  2 GB of RAM will shorten you
battery life so start looking at your memory usage on your current
machine.  Do you really need 2 GB?


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-----Original Message-----
From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Steve Simpson (AVR IT Dept)
Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2005 12:41 AM
To: 'wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [WDSCI-L] WSSD

I currently use a desktop PC (IBM ThinkCentre 3.2Ghz with 2Gbyte memory)
running WSSD and portal toolkit and I want to get it replaced with a
laptop as I'm going to be out of the office a lot but still need to do
development on the road.  What spec laptop would you recommend?