Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 09:59:15AM -0700, Ken Restivo wrote:
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On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 03:56:20PM +0900, Joel Roth wrote:
On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 08:55:51PM -0700, Ken Restivo wrote:
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I'm a hardware idiot. I have the worst luck buying hardware: I
always buy the wrong thing and end up getting screwed. Plus I
don't have a lot of money, so when I get screwed, it's
devastating.
So that's why I avoid buying hardware. But still, I need a laptop,
and so here I am shopping and probably about to make some stupid
and unrecoverable mistake that will cost me everything.
Perhaps there are guys here who can recommend a specific model for
doing sound. If I didn't want to make a mistake I would try to get a
firm recommendation and if that were lacking, the output of
cat /proc/interrupts; lspci; dmesg; etc.
from a linux live CD. At least you could know the hardware you have
and the interrupts configuration.
A good utility would be a test script to measure data throughput and
latency. There must be such tools around.
Thanks. OK, I'm buying the PATA unit. Thanks to everyone who helped
me with the SATA/PATA background, and who recommended ASUS laptops in
a previous thread. It's been very helpful.
Reading my last post seems like I was getting a lot more emotionally
overwrought about something as dry as a hardware purchase. But I'm
feeling a lot more confident now... hopefully this will turn out well.
Thanks again.
I'm hoping it wasn't just me who recommended asus ... I'm feeling less
certain about that at the moment. I bought a "whitebook" last year.
There are a number of things that make me think I'll just suffer the MS
tax next time around:
After careful consideration ;), I went for a Dell Latitude D820. I took
a look at Sampo's D820 on LAC, and it's configuration was good (irq's
well distributed). But I guess Dell's support is the thing that really
convinced me.
Specs:
CPU: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T7200 2,0 Ghz
MEMORY: 2,0 GB, 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
GRAPHICS: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 110M 256 MB
15,4-inch WUXGA LCD (1.920x1.200)
HARDDISK: 80GB, 7.200 rpm
OPTICAL: DVD RW
WIRELESS: Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 802.11a/g
Bluetooth
BATTERY: 9-cell li-ion battery
4 year CompleteCare MultiCover (accident, theft, ...)
4 year International next business day service
The price for this system (without VAT) is €1538, which is actually very
good. For reference, The MacBook Pro with similar specs (though 2.16GHz)
costs €1817 (1 year support) and €2188 (3 year support). A similar Asus
costs €1700 (2GHz / 160GB@5400RPM / ATI X1700, 512Mb).
For me the 4 year guarantee and completecare really makes the
difference. I guess that if it breaks down after 4 years I'll get a new
one :).
Greets,
Pieter
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