My wife has a Mac Powerbook (provided by her employer) and it is the nicest
PC I've ever used. The Mac OS is wonderfully intuitive and easy to work
with. It boots up quickly and shuts down quickly, is whisper quiet, found
our wireless network at home effortlessly, is a solid hunk of hardware, not
cheap. Spendy but very nice.
John Lee
At 02:32 AM 4/27/06 -0400, Skiba, Bruno wrote:
>Au contraire, mon frere!
>Apple now has MacBook Pro's with Intel Core Duo processors.
>
>It was a big announcements when they announced they were going over to
>Intel.
>I think they just released either the smaller 12" Macbook pro or the 17"
>one.
>They are very high on my "want-it-bad!" list. Premium hardware in my
>book.
>The wife said we might splurge and get an iPod+video (60gig - she knows
>me well ;-) for the Christmas though.
>As far as travel-sized notebooks, I saw this Toshiba at BestBuy that was
>one of the slimmest full-featured notebooks I've ever seen. $1,999.
>Not sure of the specs but Denys is right. I wouldn't buy any
>PC/Notebook that couldn't expand to 2 or more gig of ram.
>
>You should also consider hard drive specs. New laptop drives are
>offered in 7,200 rpm models from Hitachi and I think Seagate. Stay away
>from Toshiba laptop drives. Toshiba doesn't even use them in their
>mobile pc's.
>
>Also some of the newest models offer mobile PCI-express card slots now
>instead of/in addition to PC-Card slots (which are archaic.)
>
>Definitely go with a dual-core processor no matter what else you choose.
>They are amazing!
>--Bruno
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>Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 8:48 PM
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>Gosh, that's a lot like asking: "What kind of car would you recommend?"
>or "What kind of rifle should I get?"
>
>You have to give us some parameters. The most important factor to know
>will be the price. How much do you have in mind as the maximum price?
>
>Next, what do you mean "Laptop for the house"? Is you house able to use
>a laptop by itself or does it need help?
>
>Just kidding, who is going to use this notebook? Is this the only
>system in the house? Do you have a wireless network in the house? Do
>you plan to travel with this notebook? Will you be watching movies on
>this notebook?
>In an ideal world, how long do you think you want to use this notebook?
>
>My notebook is my only personal computer. I use it all the time so I
>spend money on it when I buy one, I do not look for the cheapest.
>
>Whilst I travel a great deal, I wanted a 17inch screen. I most usually
>have my notebook plugged in, so battery life is not critical.
>
>I know a lot of people who absolutely have to have a small, lightweight
>system with a long battery life.
>
>The latest technology now is Intel's Core Duo, essentially twin Pentium
>M CPUs, giving great performance and low power consumption. Many high
>end notebooks now have twin disk drives providing RAID-0 or the more
>desirable RAID-1.
>
>Memory is usually expandable to 2GB and starts at either 512MB or 1GB,
>anything less should be shunned regardless of the type of notebook.
>
>Brands to consider: HP/Compaq, Toshiba, Dell, Alienware, Asus. You
>might even look at Apple, but I do not believe they offer Core Duo yet.
>
>DVD player and writer, look for DL (Dual Layer).
>
>Wireless B/G minimum, maybe A if you see a need.
>
>Some notebooks are now offering built-in wireless broadband access, is
>this something you need/want?
>
>Anyway, that's some food for thought, tell us more and we can be more
>focused.
>
>
>Denys
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>Hi Denys & Olav :)
> I definitely second Denys comments... I am now in the process of
>slowly collecting info and data on selection of a new Laptop for the
>house as my HP Pavillion N5190 is not able to realistically support XP
>of any flavor... let alone Vista or whatever it is being called today...
>
> So, at the risk of really starting a holy war... other than Macs
>anyone want to make recommendations on features I should be looking for?
>CPU model? Manufacturer? I must admit that I am a bit biased against HP
>and Panasonic... The HP bias is because of the construction of the N5190
>didn't live up to my expectations... so not a hard and fast bias..
>
> So let the "discussion" begin ... hehehe
>
>Art "just being me :) hehehe" Bahrs
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>Seriously, a quick search at www.compaq.com shows that the Presario 5248
>is only supported under Windows Me, 98 and 95. There is no mention of
>Windows NT, 2000 or XP so I think you do not want to install any of
>these on this PC.
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>The 5248 has a 400MHz AMD-K6 with 64MB of slow RAM for a maximum of
>384MB.
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>This is woefully inadequate for W2K or WXP.
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>Denys
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>Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 8:37 PM
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>PC experts:
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>I am trying to install either w2k or wxp on a oldish PC Compaq Presario
>5248 with AMD.
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>The reason is that the system just froze when booting up.
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>The problem is the system will not go past the identify of hardware.
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>Any suggestions ?
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>Olav.
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