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Re: Help me buy a notebook! [message #37920 is a reply to message #37914] |
Fri, 23 November 2012 12:23 |
Tom1
Messages: 1242 Registered: March 2007
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Hi,
The generally annoying thing with notebooks is that the touchpad tends to pick up tracking from the palm and cause the caret to jump off the line you're typing, consequently messing up the text. It may be a good idea to test this issue before buying.
Can't really RECOMMEND anything, since nothing really compares to desktop comfort... but I use Toshiba for fieldwork because that brand has given me least trouble over the last twenty years. I will never buy another Dell or Acer.
I would love to get a Panasonic Toughbook CF 31 or 53, but I spend most of my time in the office using desktop PC, so Toughbooks are too expensive per hour of use for me.
Best regards,
Tom
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Re: Help me buy a notebook! [message #37932 is a reply to message #37914] |
Sat, 24 November 2012 04:17 |
Novo
Messages: 1371 Registered: December 2006
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It depends on the amount of money you want to spend. U++ and TheIDE will work fine even on very old laptops
Every brand has professional and amateur series. Almost all laptops are using same CPUs, have same amount of RAM, have similar hard drives ... The difference is qualiy and size of screen, keyboard, quality of build, and your personal preferences.
If you need to use tools like profilers, then Intel is not your friend. Get a CPU from AMD and you will get a free profiler as a bonus. In case of Intel profiler will cost you a couple of hundred bucks.
There are other things to consider. Just make your own list.
If you have enough money, then buy a professional notebook like Lenovo ThinkPad. Get a mate screen, a lot of RAM, probably, a second hard drive instead of a DVD drive, good graphics card ...
If you are not ready to spend that much money, then decide what you are ready to sacrifice ... Just do not buy a laptop with bad keyboard.
Regards,
Novo
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Re: Help me buy a notebook! [message #37942 is a reply to message #37938] |
Sat, 24 November 2012 12:13 |
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mirek wrote on Sat, 24 November 2012 11:33 |
Novo wrote on Fri, 23 November 2012 22:17 | It depends on the amount of money you want to spend. U++ and TheIDE will work fine even on very old laptops
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I have to disagree a bit here. Surely U++ is fine on about anything you can buy today, but to do real development, you need raw CPU power for large recompiles.
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I agree with Novo The most important for me is how the computer "fits me", I spend great amount of time with it, so I prefer the comfortable usage before power.
Two years ago, when I was buying my current computer, I decided that I've had enough of carrying a big heavy laptop everywhere and I bought 11" netbook with Intel Atom cpu and only 1GB of RAM, but it is light and has great battery time. I still use it for my everyday coding and even occasionally for work (when I'm working from home and I'm lazy to bring the big company laptop ).
At work I work on some dell with i7 and 8GB RAM and I honestly don't know what to do with all that power... The only reasonable usage I found for it was to create a tmpfs (ramdisk), put all U++ sources and build U++ debs completely in RAM
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Re: Help me buy a notebook! [message #37957 is a reply to message #37914] |
Sat, 24 November 2012 21:08 |
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bushman
Messages: 134 Registered: February 2009
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I agree with Tom1:
Quote: | The generally annoying thing with notebooks is that the touchpad tends to pick up tracking from the palm and cause the caret to jump off the line you're typing, consequently messing up the text
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Somebody recommended Toshiba? Never, ever again! I had one that needed its cooler replaced twice a year!
Be careful when buying DELL, too! Some models come with a ROM line memory embedded in the power source adapter, which sends a signal to your motherboard indicating it's an original Dell part, under the excuses that this is to make sure you use only DELL adapters, for the sake of the integrity of your own notebook "of course!", if you grasp the irony. So far so good, if it weren't for the fact that that memory chip fries about every half an year of fair use, your notebook consequently does not recognize the adapter as a legitimate Dell power source and the only solution is to buy another brand new Dell adapter, or your notebook battery will never recharge again!
Mirek's HP seems all right. I've had one and no complaints.
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Re: Help me buy a notebook! [message #38006 is a reply to message #37998] |
Wed, 28 November 2012 07:15 |
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lectus wrote on Tue, 27 November 2012 15:43 | Does installing Linux if the notebook came with Windows make me lose the warranty?
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It should not, but it probably depends a lot on your local law I have been using warranty repair services from MSI with my linuxified machine and they were totally cool with it... I wouldn't let them boot an OS on it anyways - I always put a password on bootloader before sending in, it is none of their business
Honza
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Re: Help me buy a notebook! [message #38483 is a reply to message #38348] |
Thu, 20 December 2012 06:12 |
nlneilson
Messages: 644 Registered: January 2010 Location: U.S. California. Mojave &...
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What brand and model Notebook did you get?
Leave the battery in the Notebook. The charging is regulated
lectus wrote on Tue, 11 December 2012 15:46 |
I don't like replacing batteries too.
I prefer my mouse to get replaced ONLY when they break.
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It seems strange you would consider changing the battery in a wireless mouse to be a problem then even consider removing and reinstalling the battery in a Notebook. The manual that came with it probably says you can leave it in.
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