Laptop of choice for a Programmer, Need Help

Post by drinian » Wed, Jan 14, 2009, 6:29 PM UTC

alnayyir wrote: post #88

drinian wrote: post #42

I just picked up a Sager NP7350 a few weeks ago, in part because Sager resellers like PC Torque or Xotic PC will sell you a laptop without a Windows license (and I'm going to use it entirely with Linux). $1750 including 13" screen with LED backlight, and one of those Intel solid-state disks. Believe the hype, they are ridiculously fast. The machine is dead silent when the unfortunately loud fan isn't running. Ubuntu…

I just started poking around and checking out some of the Sager laptops. Oddly enough, taking from the reviews, they seem to be the only well built laptops anymore. I'm poking around the 12 and 13". If I do the SSD, I'll but it separately, they're way overpriced if you get them from a reseller. That and I'm holding out for the inevitable price-drop from SanDisk and their SSDs.

Post by timcederman » Wed, Jan 14, 2009, 7:19 PM UTC

alnayyir wrote: post #59

timcederman wrote: post #53

I am impressed that you keep reviving yourself from electrocution. Anyway, I love my XPS m1330, and I picked up the 3GB RAM/250GB HDD/dedicated graphics version for $500 just over a year ago. If you get it on sale, it's excellent value.

I just explained that my Dell regularly shocks me because of the shoddy construction and you recommend another one? :( Also: yes the M1330 is okay, and if you get it refurb/on-sale the dedicated graphics model is respectable, but bleurgh. Dell's build-quality makes me sick to my stomach.

Post by alnayyir » Wed, Jan 14, 2009, 9:06 PM UTC

aposteriori wrote: post #97

I've been a long time Linux user and recently got a macbook, partly because it just works and I don't have to read 1001 web forums trying to decide whether the specific NVidia chipset is compatible with the latest Xorg driver. So it's really easy to set up and easy to use, once you get used to the oddities (command Q...). It's basically a BSD, so you get Bash and Python and gcc and Vim etc. However, I'm starting to d…

Post by riobard » Thu, Jan 15, 2009, 2:05 AM UTC

old-gregg wrote: post #67

Bplus wrote: post #19

you obviously want a mac, so just get a mac. you aren't going to regret it.

Sure about that? I bought two (Macbook + MBP) and I do regret. Wasted $3.5K. LCDs on regular Macbooks are as cheap and healthy as $0.99 cheeseburgers and OSX/Finder can't hold a handle to Ghone/Compiz when to comes to window/file management. Font rendering isn't in the same league as what Linux/Freetype is capable of, especially in languages other than English. And lots of interesting software requires googling to in…

Post by aposteriori » Sun, Feb 15, 2009, 11:38 AM UTC

alnayyir wrote: post #105

aposteriori wrote: post #97

I've been a long time Linux user and recently got a macbook, partly because it just works and I don't have to read 1001 web forums trying to decide whether the specific NVidia chipset is compatible with the latest Xorg driver. So it's really easy to set up and easy to use, once you get used to the oddities (command Q...). It's basically a BSD, so you get Bash and Python and gcc and Vim etc. However, I'm starting to d…

I've been poking around a cheap Thinkpad on Craigslist. I didn't know the situation was that hairy with the ports on mac os x. From the way others spoke of macports and fink, it had that same apple 'just works' going on.