I have no willpower (new laptop)

Pupator

I used to have a pretty good laptop. When I got married, I gave it to my wife and built my dream desktop. It's a beast - very powerful - very nice.

A few days ago I had to attend a MSDN conference so I borrowed my wife's laptop for the event. I used it to get some work done while eating lunch - used it to goof around during the conference - and used it in a coffee shop that night. It was then I remembered how much I missed having a laptop.

I went into Best Buy today to look for something else and walked out with a laptop. Good grief.

For those who care:
Gateway
Pentium Dual-Core Mobile
100GB HDD
1GB RAM (DDR2)
DVD+DL Burner

saurora

I've been fighting the urge to buy one for quite a while! Can't totally justify it financially, and can't make up my mind what size to buy (screen). It would be nice to have as a backup when my desktop has issues. In that case I would prefer a nice big screen........but for portability a smaller one would be more practical. Easier to use CS on a big screen.........but man, I'm getting older and tired of lugging so much heavy equipment!!! So does your desktop have Vista or XP???

Pupator

Desktop has Vista Ultimate - laptop has Vista Home Premium.

I have always gone with power, but this time I went with portability. I took a smaller screen (14.1) and went with a lighter form factor than I normally do. I think this will make it more useful as I'll take it more places.

colourbox

saurora wrote:

I've been fighting the urge to buy one for quite a while! Can't totally justify it financially, and can't make up my mind what size to buy (screen). It would be nice to have as a backup when my desktop has issues. In that case I would prefer a nice big screen........but for portability a smaller one would be more practical. Easier to use CS on a big screen.........but man, I'm getting older and tired of lugging so much heavy equipment!!! So does your desktop have Vista or XP???

Since you have a desktop, you have a big monitor. If you want a very portable laptop, then get a compact one, and when your desktop has issues, plug your laptop into the big monitor that you normally have connected to your desktop. I think all laptops can drive external monitors at decent resolutions, except for the very cheapest or smallest laptops. The last PC laptop I purchased, a lower-end Thinkpad from around 4 years ago, could certainly do it. Small laptop + big external monitor could be the best of both worlds, and you can spread your work across two monitors, too.

(I'm driving a 20" calibrated monitor from a Mac laptop right now, their laptops have driven desktop monitors since about 1991.)