gary wrote:....real engineers use desktop computers - go to your dump shop and grab a P4 for $5-$10 - it will do a much better job than ANY laptop for what we want to do. Rant, rave, and general mutterings of discontent....
I concur. My almost eight year old laptop went to that great skip in the sky a couple weeks ago. When new I used it on a job in the middle east for a couple of months then it became my internet machine. I used it for browsing here at home and nothing else. Nothing.
The only reason I bought it in the first place was the client insisted I brought one with me.
It did a great job of browsing I have to admit, but that's I used it for. With the issues with Windoze security in those days I ran it on Linux until its demise. Its replacement (this machine I'm using right now) is also an old-ish P4 desktop I cobbled together from a pile of junk, it also runs Linux.
Unless you need to do Power-Point presentations to a bunch of corporate goons...never buy a laptop. They get stolen, dropped, and are simply a headache unless you truly need that portability.
Steve A.