Comment Re:Portable desktop (Score 1) 497
Portable desktop indeed, and better for LAN parties!
I've preferred laptops almost exclusively since 1999. My current machine now is as follows:
* OS: Windows XP Pro (yes, yes, I know)
* CPU: Pentium M 770(2.13GHz), 533MHz FSB
* Chipset: Intel 915PM+ICH6M
* HDD: 100GB Seagate 5400RPM
* RAM: Kingston 1GB DDR2 533, x2
* Video Card: nVIDIA GeForce Go 6600 128MB
* Other: Logitech MX518.
It may not sound like much, but it plays Oblivion, the HL2 episodes and Doom 3 at average-ish quality, and far better than my fiance's desktop computer. I've seen it out perform computers with processors up to 2.6ghz with slightly better video cards, mainly because it was a fairly dry minimum windows install, and thus has fewer background processes. It has a beautiful high-rez wide screen, which accommodates a full size keyboard. I keep it propped up at an angle (the only thing the vantec lapcool is good for) and at a good height to make it fairly ergonomic - history of carpal tunnel, and I don't even notice. Plus, I can take it back and forth when I travel between college and my home state (which said fiance lives in) with relative ease. I haven't had a wireless problem since the last time I updated the driver for my card. That's the number one problem I've run into, both for myself and in helping others - severely out of date NIC drivers. Other than that, it's got the convenience of portability, plus the comfort of a desktop. All this is accomplished using only accessories that do, in fact, fit in the average laptop carrying case. Maybe that's the future: sacrifice the quest for the newest mini-something in order to have comfort, quality AND convenience.
I've preferred laptops almost exclusively since 1999. My current machine now is as follows:
* OS: Windows XP Pro (yes, yes, I know)
* CPU: Pentium M 770(2.13GHz), 533MHz FSB
* Chipset: Intel 915PM+ICH6M
* HDD: 100GB Seagate 5400RPM
* RAM: Kingston 1GB DDR2 533, x2
* Video Card: nVIDIA GeForce Go 6600 128MB
* Other: Logitech MX518.
It may not sound like much, but it plays Oblivion, the HL2 episodes and Doom 3 at average-ish quality, and far better than my fiance's desktop computer. I've seen it out perform computers with processors up to 2.6ghz with slightly better video cards, mainly because it was a fairly dry minimum windows install, and thus has fewer background processes. It has a beautiful high-rez wide screen, which accommodates a full size keyboard. I keep it propped up at an angle (the only thing the vantec lapcool is good for) and at a good height to make it fairly ergonomic - history of carpal tunnel, and I don't even notice. Plus, I can take it back and forth when I travel between college and my home state (which said fiance lives in) with relative ease. I haven't had a wireless problem since the last time I updated the driver for my card. That's the number one problem I've run into, both for myself and in helping others - severely out of date NIC drivers. Other than that, it's got the convenience of portability, plus the comfort of a desktop. All this is accomplished using only accessories that do, in fact, fit in the average laptop carrying case. Maybe that's the future: sacrifice the quest for the newest mini-something in order to have comfort, quality AND convenience.
