I need to get a new laptop, and I was thinking about a Dell Latitude D800. Has anyone tried this machine? Anyone have any advice?

 

I have decided against having a truely dinky laptop since I will be doing the majority of my work on this. It doesn't really need to be terribly fast - I don't do anything graphics intensive. Battery life is important but 2-3hrs is probably enough.

go to ebay. get some decent laptop deals there.

I bought a laptop a week ago.

I got a compaq presario 2200 series. 1.5 Ghz centrinho with 512 RAM, more than good enuf for me. gives 3 hr battery backup.cost me 2100 Singapore dollars and 0 duty.

gogo apple powerbook linkage!

apple powerbooks are just too good.

My girlfriend has had 2 pc laptops now, and I can quite conclusively say that they both suck, a lot. Windows just doesn't work on a laptop at all.

My girlfriend has had 2 pc laptops now, and I can quite conclusively say that they both suck, a lot. Windows just doesn't work on a laptop at all.

 

That's a bold statement - it implies Windoze doesn't suck on a desktop machine.

Well, as long as you've got Linux dual-booted, it's bearable

 

I'd kill for a G5.

no. u got ur logic all wrong. it doesnt imply anything at all

i used to dual boot my laptop with redhat. will try mandrake soon

The problem with Powerbooks and such is they don't run any other programs. Stupid compatibilty problems....

I hate Macs anyways.

 

BUT ANYWAYS, I also have an old (10 years old) laptop with Windows and it works great. Windows 98, of course, running on 16 MB of RAM and only a 1 gig hard drive.

What's wrong with windows on a laptop?

It's just hard to use. I can't stand it, for some reason. It's just about bearable on a desktop, but if I ever bought a PC Laptop, I'd have no choice but to throw it out of the window.

mac has a wide array of professional software suites available. even latest games like halo and ut2004 are available fo mac nowdays

Plus they're a hell of a lot more secure than 'doze, especially since MS stopped developing IE for OS X

If i try and install linux on my laptop, making it a dual boot, is thereany potential problem that I will face or is there no difference between installation on laptops and desktops ?

no difference at all

I'd kill for a G5.

 

I won't be turning my back on you then

dave... i think that swansont is hinting at something here!

I actually got my laptop from toysrus,it cost £999 and has a very good spec:

3.2ghz p4, 512mb ram, 60gb hd, dvd/cd RW, etc. Ive had no prblems with it whatsoever up to now, if anything the battery life could be better (1 hour 50mins).

I won't be turning my back on you then

 

I hate you

 

Where did you say you lived again?

I am more interested in comments on the actual machine itself. Does it look OK (spec-wise)?

 

OS wise, in the past I have always gone dual boot windows/linux, but this time I don't think I will bother with linux, and just put cygwin on top of windows.

 

I can't stand Macs... (it is a funny thing about macs - they are like marmite: you either love them or hate them)