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[Dishevelled Den]

MacBook
MacBook
MacBook

 

Are they a Scottish brand?

  very good Martin 

[Lazydocker]

When I was looking a while back I couldn't decide what I wanted but my main need was a good battery life... Thought about the netbook route and found that it would be more hassle than it was worth for my requirements so I ended up with one of the new Acer 4810 Timeline laptops. Nice and light and the claimed 8 hour battery life is easily achievable without dropping everything into power save mode as I've seen over 7 hours!

However... The price I've had to pay is a slightly slower processor than I wanted but it seems OK. The most frustrating thing is that I missed out on a free upgrade to Windows 7 but 3 Days If I'd known I would have hung on before buying

[AlanV2]

Windows 7 runs better on my X1 than Vista did (so far anyway) and it does not even meet basic spec.

I'd go fo as much RAM as I could buy, hard drives can always be backed up to external drives and it's all well and good having the fastest proc but if the rest of the system can't keep up then no need for big fancy proc.

look for procs designed for notebooks as they drain less battery.

As for what brand to go for - best not to ask me as I work for one of the big ones 

[cem_devecioglu]

operating system : depends on your preference..

hardware : Toshiba with a big screen..

7200 rpm disk (although will consume more power)

[KillerWatt]

7200 rpm disk (although will consume more power)

As well as run considerably hotter.

[cem_devecioglu]

7200 rpm disk (although will consume more power)

As well as run considerably hotter.

yep..but I think its worth the %50 decreased latency..

[KillerWatt]

7200 rpm disk (although will consume more power)

As well as run considerably hotter.

yep..but I think its worth the %50 decreased latency..

I doubt very much the performance is increased by 50% over the 5400rpm version of the same drive.

[TheBoy]

7200 rpm disk (although will consume more power)

As well as run considerably hotter.

yep..but I think its worth the %50 decreased latency..

I doubt very much the performance is increased by 50% over the 5400rpm version of the same drive.

Depends on the benchmark to be honest, but in real life, its noticibly quicker, but for my needs not worth the extra power.

It depends on your own needs - if battery life unimportant, and you do a lot of disk activity tasks, it may be worth considering

[TheBoy]

Windows 7 runs better on my X1 than Vista did (so far anyway) and it does not even meet basic spec.

I'd go fo as much RAM as I could buy, hard drives can always be backed up to external drives and it's all well and good having the fastest proc but if the rest of the system can't keep up then no need for big fancy proc.

look for procs designed for notebooks as they drain less battery.

As for what brand to go for - best not to ask me as I work for one of the big ones 

No point sticking more than 3.5Gb RAM in any desktop 32bit system, it will not be used.

No point going 64bit (that can use more than 3.5Gb) unless you really need 64bit, as 64bit needs more memory than 32bit.

[KillerWatt]

but in real life, its noticibly quicker, but for my needs not worth the extra power.

Without doubt you can see the difference between the two (as you could see the difference between 5400 and 4200 drives), I was just saying (based on personal experience of testing god knows how many drives to see which was fastest) that I doubted that both the latency & throughput performance figures will be increased by anywhere near 50%

[TheBoy]

but in real life, its noticibly quicker, but for my needs not worth the extra power.

Without doubt you can see the difference between the two (as you could see the difference between 5400 and 4200 drives), I was just saying (based on personal experience of testing god knows how many drives to see which was fastest) that I doubted that both the latency & throughput performance figures will be increased by anywhere near 50%

I agree with you for real life use (except those 1 or 2 cases that actually do massively suit the faster spindle), but could get some benchmarks to show that they can be faster that the 30% or so faster spindle would suggest...

[Martin_1962]

Any video editing would be done on the desktop.

Mainly for casual browsing, homework, holiday use, freeing desktop for us to use

[cem_devecioglu]

if you will install .net on lappy and start compiling even 7200 will be slow..

[mathewst]

Well people can say what they want but for any kind of 3d gaming you NEED a separate grafic card, not the integrated cr..
As for OS whatever wondows you choose they are all lousy ( Vista especially) but I've seen Windows 7 and it looks promising (all Windows looked promising )
And one other thing, had a couple of laptops from different brands and Acer was one of the best actually (low price, great performance and really good equipment). My friend works as a chief engineer for one of the bigest pc selling companies in my country and actually he said that for evey Acer laptop which is returned in service at least 2 HP come back!
Also one good brand (from my experience) is definitely Asus. Although they definitely aren't cheap.
As for processors in the laptops I would rather not go into the eternal argument about Intel and AMD