RE: Laptop suggestion ?

I'd concur with Pete, a high speed hard drive and the fastest front side
bus provide more performance gain once you get above the 1gig memory
level. A high quality graphics processor won't hurt either.

I'm running on an Alienware a-51m 3.2ghz HT Pentium 4, 7200rpm drives,
800mhz front side bus, 1gig of memory, radeon 9600 mobility vid.

If initial load time means anything, from click to start, refreshing the
workspace to ready to work is approx 30 seconds. On my old system (T41)
it was about 3 minutes.

Bryan Yates
SR Systems Analyst/Programmer
Information Technology
Collin County Government
http://www.collincountytexas.gov
mailto:byates@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
 

-----Original Message-----
From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Pete Helgren
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 10:25 AM
To: Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Laptop suggestion ?

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. 
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>Any help is highly appreciated. 
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