Laptops
I want a nice, light, laptop with a good video card. I bought the one I'm typing this on, an IBM Thinkpad T40p about three years ago. Looking at the likes of Dabs, laptops really don't seem to have moved on. There is a new operating system on the block, Vista, but apart from that nothing much has changed, except there are now quite a few laptops with Nvidia cards.
Word on the street seems to be to avoid Vista at all costs. Certainly the ads don't inspire me to get it. It seems to offer a few fancy graphics UI effects, and 'improved security' (inevitably). Frankly, I don't care a damn. My PC runs twice as fast without NAV running in the background, and since I got rid of it I haven't had a quarter of the problems installing and running new software that I used to have.
There are now lots of different processors, but somehow clock speed doesn't tell you much any more. My tentative choice so far is a Samsung Q70 review, but just because I stumbled across a review of it in CNET. Surely there is some authoritative review site that will explain why a laptop retailing at 1500 pounds is five times better than one retailing at 300.
References
Samsung Q70 review from CNET.
Word on the street seems to be to avoid Vista at all costs. Certainly the ads don't inspire me to get it. It seems to offer a few fancy graphics UI effects, and 'improved security' (inevitably). Frankly, I don't care a damn. My PC runs twice as fast without NAV running in the background, and since I got rid of it I haven't had a quarter of the problems installing and running new software that I used to have.
There are now lots of different processors, but somehow clock speed doesn't tell you much any more. My tentative choice so far is a Samsung Q70 review, but just because I stumbled across a review of it in CNET. Surely there is some authoritative review site that will explain why a laptop retailing at 1500 pounds is five times better than one retailing at 300.
References
Samsung Q70 review from CNET.