New Notebook Recommendations?

[Mike Butash]

	Depends what you want to spend really.  I bought one of the satellite
5005-507's with the gf4 video that rocks.  You can't beat 1600x1200 on a
laptop with a burner for friendly backups on the fly or lan gaming on the
clock getting decent framerates with 4xAA turned on.  I've heard of bios
issues with lockups and the proc running at a lower frequency, but honestly
I've never had a bit of problem with it.  ACPI gets a bit flakey in XP as
the display won't shut off (only the screensaver will kick in), but im sure
that's more M$'s fault than Toshiba's.

	Not sure how the newer dell's are, but my company uses dell exclusively,
and just about every laptop ive seen floating around is broken, usually with
a keyboard.  The RMA fix?  Replace the motherboard in them systematically.
My partner's won't post before shutting itself down currently...  I've got
an inspiron 8000 that locks constantly on me, so much I use my satellite
more for work.  I reboot the Satellite every few weeks, even in and out of
sleep mode daily, never hard shutdown.  Only problem with the satellite is
no serial port which makes configuring routers difficult, but I got a usb
serial adapter for 30 bucks that works flawlessly for that.  My satellite
also cost about 1200 less than a comprably equipped dell inspiron.

my two cents...

-mbutash

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From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
[mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Logan
Kennelly
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 12:24 PM
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Subject: New Notebook Recommendations?


I am looking into buying a new notebook computer for use as a
general-purpose machine.  One of my primary uses on the old laptop was
for testing new *nix systems (FreeBSD, various distributions of Linux,
etc.).

I am considering buying from PC Club (www.pcclub.com), but if anybody
else has any suggestions, I am willing to listen.

The question I am more interested in, however, is whether I should go
with an Intel or an AMD mobile processor.  Intel seems to have some very
nice features for their mobile line, but I have been unable to locate
some good comparisons of the two.  If somebody on the list has
researched this item, I would love to hear from you.

Thank you ahead of time.

PS: I would really love an Apple system, but then I couldn't use it as
test bed.  Still, if someone can sell me on Mac OS X . . .

PPS: I am sorry that I butchered the English language in the above message.
I am hungry, and my brain is not working properly.

--
						Logan Kennelly
      ,,,
     (. .)
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