New Laptop
Ok friends and techy sorts, if I'm going to get a new laptop, er, notebook computer, what should I get?
What I want:
So? What do you folks recommend? I want a big ol' hard drive and enough RAM to run multiple programs at once, because that's how I work best. And what about Vista? I bought a machine with Windows ME years ago and man, I don't want to relive those horrible days. XP has always worked fine for me on the PC side, and I never really got a lot of experience with OSX because I switched to PC when Mac was running 10.1. Lead me, oh wise ones.
What I want:
- a machine that can connect to my home network, even from (gasp) upstairs on the other side of the house
- a machine that can run Firefox, iTunes, and Quickbooks at the same time without choking to death. Double plus bonus points if I can also have a PDF open and Trillian running at the same time.
- a machine that doesn't require me to buy all new software
- a machine with some decent amount of battery juice
- a built-in CD or DVD burner for making back-ups
- a touchpad (instead of the nubbin, which I loathe)
- something that weighs less than the 7lbs of Thinkpad I'm currently carting around (but now we're into optional niceties)
So? What do you folks recommend? I want a big ol' hard drive and enough RAM to run multiple programs at once, because that's how I work best. And what about Vista? I bought a machine with Windows ME years ago and man, I don't want to relive those horrible days. XP has always worked fine for me on the PC side, and I never really got a lot of experience with OSX because I switched to PC when Mac was running 10.1. Lead me, oh wise ones.
Labels: anti-technology, computers
