Re: Need opinion on a laptop / company

2009-11-19 Thread Casey Dougall
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Duane wrote: > > I have an XPS laptop I use for dev. Its heavy as hell and really sucks when > I have to go onsite for work and I'm lugging it around the airport, but as > a > portable desktop the thing works like a champ. Lots of horsepower to run > several apps

Re: Need opinion on a laptop / company

2009-11-19 Thread Duane
" To: "cf-community" Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 2:05 PM Subject: Re: Need opinion on a laptop / company > > But it's for gaming...so that tiny computer won't work very well. > > I would go for a Dell XPS 8000 or 9000 with a Nvidia 260 graphics card

Re: Need opinion on a laptop / company

2009-11-19 Thread Vivec
But it's for gaming...so that tiny computer won't work very well. I would go for a Dell XPS 8000 or 9000 with a Nvidia 260 graphics card or better http://www.dell.com/us/en/home/desktops/studio-xps-8000/pd.aspx?refid=studio-xps-8000&s=dhs&cs=19&~ck=mn Honestly these don't take up that much room

Re: Need opinion on a laptop / company

2009-11-19 Thread Michael Grant
Those are actually the headphones I used to use DJ'ing. Except the all black ones. They rule. Good isolation and wicked wicked sound. On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Casey Dougall < ca...@uberwebsitesolutions.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Justin Scott < > jscott-li...@gravi

Re: Need opinion on a laptop / company

2009-11-19 Thread Casey Dougall
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:07 PM, C. Hatton Humphrey wrote: > Space is something of an issue > though a dedicated desk spot is available. > > Should be interesting to see! > > Hatton > > oh, check this thing out then., http://www.dell.com/us/en/home/desktops_great_deals/fs.aspx?refid=desktops_

Re: Need opinion on a laptop / company

2009-11-19 Thread Casey Dougall
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Justin Scott wrote: > > > things. Also, I've never heard of the company. Anyone have > > thoughts/suggestions/ideas on either the laptop or the company? > > I love how the girl in the background is holding a console game controller > and not actually using the

Re: Need opinion on a laptop / company

2009-11-19 Thread C. Hatton Humphrey
Thanks for everyone's comments! Based on Vivec's comments I'm going to poke around for a small desktop to see what could be put together for him. The main reason a laptop was the idea was because mom & dad don't allow computer/tv in the kid's rooms. The thought was that with a laptop he could b

Re: Need opinion on a laptop / company

2009-11-19 Thread Larry C. Lyons
I've been very satisfied with this company's laptops: http://www.ibuypower.com/IbpPages/Notebook.aspx thgey've been quite good for gamiing and development. larry On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 8:24 AM, C. Hatton Humphrey wrote: > > My HR manager just came to me and asked if this: > http://www.msimobi

Re: Need opinion on a laptop / company

2009-11-19 Thread Vivec
I learnt a hard lesson that it is not worth it getting a laptop for gaming. The best gaming laptops are worse than mid range Desktop machines for gaming. It all lies with the graphics cards, which just aren't as robust as their desktop counterparts. For example that 130M GT is equivalent to a des

RE: Need opinion on a laptop / company

2009-11-19 Thread Justin Scott
> things. Also, I've never heard of the company. Anyone have > thoughts/suggestions/ideas on either the laptop or the company? I love how the girl in the background is holding a console game controller and not actually using their product. My only experience with off-brand laptops was horrible

Re: Need opinion on a laptop / company

2009-11-19 Thread C. Hatton Humphrey
> > second life? > for a man of the cloth? > > h Heh, I'm not ordained and I don't "go there" in SL. Besides, haven't you heard about cyber churches? I have been to a few - ALM Cyberchurch - http://almcyberchurch.com/ ... if you listen to the service, I'll warn you about the first 20 m

Re: Need opinion on a laptop / company

2009-11-19 Thread Casey Dougall
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 8:24 AM, C. Hatton Humphrey wrote: > > My HR manager just came to me and asked if this: > http://www.msimobile.com/level3_productpage.aspx?cid=6&id=147 > > is a good fit for a gaming machine for her 14 year old son. From what I > can > see it's a good machine at a reasona

Re: Need opinion on a laptop / company

2009-11-19 Thread Ras Tafari
second life? for a man of the cloth? h On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 8:24 AM, C. Hatton Humphrey wrote: > > My HR manager just came to me and asked if this: > http://www.msimobile.com/level3_productpage.aspx?cid=6&id=147 > > is a good fit for a gaming machine for her 14 year old son.  From wh

Need opinion on a laptop / company

2009-11-19 Thread C. Hatton Humphrey
My HR manager just came to me and asked if this: http://www.msimobile.com/level3_productpage.aspx?cid=6&id=147 is a good fit for a gaming machine for her 14 year old son. From what I can see it's a good machine at a reasonable price, but since my "gaming" experience begins and ends with SecondLi