Do you own a laptop?

[fatomelette]

I want to buy one so tell me about yours. Why does it rock/suck? Does it have burner? What did you name it?I want a macbook partly because I want software that can edit Quicktime files but mainly because I spent too much time on the apple website

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[garethness]

hai, i've been the lucky owner of 2 laptops. The first one i bought was an acer, i bought it because i was naively looking just at specs (this is back in 05). i got a 17" widescreen laptop weighing 4-5kg with a pentium 4 processor 3ghz (no centrino or mobile edition). I could make toast on the exhaust fan. It was bloody powerful, but with a battery life of 30 minutes, it wasnt exactly mobile, or fun to carry around.

I recently bought a sony vaio tz. it's 1.3kg in weight, has 5-10 hours battery life, depending on what i'm doing. and is incredibly mobile. it has an inbuilt hsdpa module so i can put in a cellphone sim card and go online in the middle of a field! if i wanted to... It isnt incredibly powerful though, it has onboard graphics, and a 1.06ghz core2duo processor. It runs windows fine (and i run windows with lots of crap open), but as an experiment i tried it running world of warcraft. With all graphic settings turned down, i still only got around 15 frames per second. so that will give you an idea of its graphics grunt! It has mucho connectivity for such a small laptop though. it somehow has fitted in a dvdrw drive, firewire, 3usb, modem, ethernet, bluetooth, etc etc etc.

If you're looking at an apple, it's all good. just dont buy the macbook air!

http://www.trustedreviews.com/notebooks/review/2007/07/23/Sony-VAIO-VGN-TZ12VN/p1

^^ that is one of the 8 varients of the vaio TZ series. i have a TZ WN. basically the same but with a 100gig hard drive, and more affordable :D

happy browsing

i bloody love it though.

[fatomelette]

Wow thanks, that's really comprehensive! Guess I was lucky for a 'self-confessed technophiliac' to find this post, though I'm curious about how you came across it.

[garethness]

i stumbled across your post via 'explore lj' under the tech heading one morning :P