I hate to say it, but so often developer contractors are judged by the bling of their laptops.
Functional is less desirable than shiny for many paying clients. They want YOU to have the gear THEY want. On my budget, that means that big and clunky and functional and cheap went by the wayside, and I had to settle for small and shiny. The small offset the expensive part of shiny. But, with those tiny projectors now-a-days, I found that pairing a small notebook with a tiny projector gave me the "cutting edge" look my clients wanted. With that said, small laptops were fine for html and dev, even Flash dev, but not so good for video. But I wasn't selling much video work, so it wasn't a problem. Because hooking up one or more external flatscreens, keyboards and mice were standard during work hours at home, the small size of the laptop was never a problem. (I had a tiny Viao, a tiny HP, and a tiny Mac, and all were usable,) If I had my choice, and had to pony up for a laptop at the moment, I would probably go for the cheap Mac Air just announced. Way overpriced compared to PCs, but dang, that is a nice form factor. Of course my current at-home laptop is a cheap Toshiba Satellite. it was like $420. Gets the job done, but wouldn't lug it in front of impressionable clients. On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Vivec <gel21...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Ok, I cannot ignore it anymore. I need a new Laptop :( > > My old one has kicked the bucket, and not having a laptop > is making meeting clients difficult. > > I was thinking of a small one, a 14" or so. But I realise that the > power in those just isn't there. > I usually keep my laptops for 4 or 5 years...maybe longer. > > I'm not averse to getting a MAC, but price is a factor. > > I would use the laptop for: > > 1) Development Work in CF > 2) General Word Processing, Excel etc. > 3) Showing off websites and jobs to Clients at their location > 4) Use on plane for travel (if I ever do lol) > 5) Home Media Center hooked up to a television for HULU, Netflix, > Amazon on Demand etc.(BluRay not required) > 6) Looks :-) > > I can google..but I was wondering if you guys had any ideas. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:329561 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
