Laptop Advice
Everyday I get a little closer to giving up on the holiday and renting an apartment out here until the end of the year. I was looking at prices for furnished apartments in Buenos Aires today and they're actually not that bad for something nice in a nice area.
One effect of all this crazy thinking is that I'm getting closer and closer to buying a laptop. If I go through with this I'll probably do it when I get back to Bogotá. The dilemma I have now, is what type of laptop to get. I don't want to spend "too much", but there's no point getting one if it's not up to the job. I'll mainly be using it as a development station, running Windows XP with MS Dev Studio 2005, Eclipse, Photoshop and the other usual stuff. I'll probably run a little music stuff as well, but not too much (sorry Patrick).
There's a few options at the moment. I'm basically favouring a Intel Core Duo system with a Radeon X1600. At the moment the Asus W3J is looking pretty good, thought it only has a 14" screen. There's also a HP system that's pretty interesting and the Apple MacBook has me drooling, pity the graphics card is down clocked. I'm just not sure if it's worth the extra cost when I won't be using OSX. There's an interesting Acer as well... oh when will this end?
Does anyone have any recommendations?
Oh... I just got deja vu reading a review of the Asus... I must be on the right path.
posted by Phil Chan @ 7:51 am
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Yeah, I've read a couple of negative things about the MacBook, but it sure is purdy! The graphics card was the main kick in the face for me. It benchmarks at less than half the performance of the Asus. Plus it's expensive considering I'd be using Windows almost exclusively.
My main complaints with the Asus are to do with the screen. It's only 14", which isn't much when you're running a dev environment, and it's 1280x768, which is also small for a dev tool. There are devs out there using them though, so maybe it's not that bad.
I'm going to spend a couple of days in a monastary thinking about it... honestly, then play with a few when I get back to Bogotá.
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