I am using Sony Vaio with p4 2.6GHz 15" SXGA.....if the LCD quality is the paramount, nothing can go wrong with Sony. Just the the battery life suck big time.....
theITguy said:The reality is seti@home does not stress the harddisk, and PS is a harddisk intensive resource eater most of the time (it uses scratch disk). seti@home is more like a measure of its relative strength in CPU power, without considering some other factors like harddisk, video display etc. Is it a better system than a P4, someone who uses that can only tell us.
theITguy said:The reality is seti@home does not stress the harddisk, and PS is a harddisk intensive resource eater most of the time (it uses scratch disk). seti@home is more like a measure of its relative strength in CPU power, without considering some other factors like harddisk, video display etc. Is it a better system than a P4, someone who uses that can only tell us.
Ian said:True enough, however I also use the centrino in the field for processing Medium Format Digital Scans which are up to 100mb per image in size and it does a sterling job with them (and that my friend is very disk intensive). Disk Speed wise it's not up to my P4 desktops which run a variety of drives depending on the pc (from SATA to raid arrays, ultra-SCSI etc).
to the others re: Mac.
Mac's are a no show guys, not even in the processor race .. that's the bad news.
hwchoy said:setiathome is not a good realworld measure, it just eats CPU and almost no disk activities. We've had this MIPS war for years, then we switched to TPC-A/B/C etc for more warring the days of the big computer companies :lovegrin:
FLiNcHY said:Powerbooks are the way to go man.
get the 12inch with superdrive and you'll be on your way
absolutely no problem with microsoft office. Macs are rock stable and SUPER pleasant to use. I switched last may when i needed a notebook to bring overseas. Sold my pc and bought an ibook
Best decision ever.
Macs are so user friendly and keyboard shortcuts are everywhere. Just lovely to use.
Ian said:True enough, however I also use the centrino in the field for processing Medium Format Digital Scans which are up to 100mb per image in size and it does a sterling job with them (and that my friend is very disk intensive). Disk Speed wise it's not up to my P4 desktops which run a variety of drives depending on the pc (from SATA to raid arrays, ultra-SCSI etc).
to the others re: Mac.
Mac's are a no show guys, not even in the processor race .. that's the bad news.
fox said:Totally agree with Flinchy here. I got the 12"AlPB with superdrive (DVD-Burner). Added another 512MB RAM. Awesome!!! I used the PS CS and it is very stable. MAC does not hang as it is UNIX based. Speed-wise I would say it is the same as a PC. The GUI is much better than WINDOWS and the new EXPOSE function is a God-send with the new Panther OS. However, the 12" Screen is super-clear and super-sharp. If you want a bigger screen you can hook it up to an external monitor as well.
As for softwares, most or in fact all softwares are now compatible with MAC (there is even MAC office with word, excel, powerpoint) as long as it is not .exe or .bat files and hence, there will be very little viruses on MAC as well. You can check out the mac products from www.apple.com.sg
tmc17479 said:How about Fujitsu? Anyone got experience who their products?