RE: [aus-dotnet] Development notebook

[Sam Barber]

Title: RE: [aus-dotnet] Development notebook

Dell is one of the brands I’m avoiding this time, partially due to the fact I can’t salary sacrifice them.  I’m also aware that Santa Rosa will be common in the next couple of months, but going from recent history, the specs on the Macbook Pro won’t be matched in a light laptop with long battery life.

 

The Backspace key missing is not ideal.  I use that key all the time J 

 

So at the moment it has no right mouse button, no backspace key, no Windows key.  Especially as a programming laptop it’s starting to sound a little average. 

 

I might have to wait and hope for something decent to popup from one of the Windows laptop makers.

 

Sam.

 

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From: peter@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:peter@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ken Schaefer
Sent: Tuesday, 12 June 2007 11:19 AM
To: dotnet@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [aus-dotnet] Development notebook

 

Erm - hasn't Dell been shipping Santa Rosa laptops for a few weeks now?

 

I can't speak about the Macbook Pro, but I have a Macbook and the lack of certain keys (Backspace, Windows key) etc is problematic. There are apps out there (I can't recall any off the top of my head) that can let you remap an existing key to one of the desired keys, but you do need to decide what key to give up)

 

Cheers

Ken

 

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From: peter@xxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Sam Barber
Sent: Tue 12/06/2007 11:09 AM
To: dotnet@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [aus-dotnet] Development notebook

Slightly further off the original topic, but has anyone tried a Macbook
Pro running Windows for Visual Studio and other programming/database
work?

I've been waiting for the new Intel chipset for a couple of months now
in laptops, and the Macbook is the first to be sold in our stores,
coming in this Thursday, and from it's specs it's everything I want:
$2899 15" LED backlit screen (1400x900), 2.2GHz CPU (new Core 2 Duo's),
2GB RAM standard, 120GB HD, 8600GT graphics card (very nice), wireless
N, 2.4kg and 5.5 hours battery life.  You can upgrade to a better
specced 15" or a 17" model, but I don't think they're worth the extra
money.

With those specs and battery life, it's pretty much everything I want
out of a laptop (plus some), but I'm only looking at bootcamping into
Windows and couldn't care less about OSX.  I'm mainly worried about not
having a right mouse button or Windows key, as I won't always have a
mouse to use, but if anyone knows any other reasons not to go for it,
I'd love to hear it, because I'm seriously considering this as an
option.

Sam.

-----Original Message-----
From: peter@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:peter@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Price,
Stephen
Sent: Monday, 11 June 2007 10:40 AM
To: dotnet@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [aus-dotnet] Development notebook

I do a little bit of dev on my XPS m1210 which is very similar. I've
blogged a few of the issues I came across but they were not really
related with development, more Vista related.
http://littlevoices.blogspot.com

I know Brian Madsen has an XPS m1710 and he did have some issues with
Orcas installation. You can find some stuff on his blog.
http://msmvps.com/blogs/brianmadsen/default.aspx

nice machine but the price tag is pretty heavy when it's spec'd up.

The XPS m1210's graphics card isn't as powerful as I'd wished for. The
XPS m1710 has a faster one but I wanted a more portable machine (and it
was $2000 cheaper).

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> Has anyone on this list had experience with the Dell XPS M1710
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> for
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