Performance through lightweight . . . but NLC!

dezzy · Post by **dezzy** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 11:04 pm

Got my new work laptop the other day . . . Been needing something smaller and lightweight as I travel a lot more these days than I used to and my old one was just becoming impossible to use on the move. Not quite as thin as the new MacBook Air, but I'm so impressed with my new Toshiba Portege

This is it compared to my existing Dell work laptop (huge!) and my MacBook in the background. MacBook is 13.3", Dell is 15" and new Toshiba is 12". It's so light I can't believe there's a 150GB hard drive in it!

The pictures don't do full justice to just how small it is compared to the others!

neil · Post by **neil** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 11:10 pm

I've got one the same - must be the older version though as it doesnt have the internal DVD drive. Looks great but is sooooo slow if you try to do anything with it

heds · Post by **heds** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 11:12 pm

Very nice!

I want one, I want one!

dezzy · Post by **dezzy** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 11:15 pm

neil wrote: Looks great but is sooooo slow if you try to do anything with it

Seems to be okay so far. Will find out once all my development software and Oracle installed. It's higher spec than my Dell, so must be faster than that! 2GB of RAM and I'm still on XP so I'm expecting it to be ok.

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thinfourth · Post by **thinfourth** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 7:37 am

dezzy wrote:
I'm sorry guys if my posts make less sense then normal but i have a new laptop

as you can see i already have two one for my left hand and one for my right

But with this new one i will be forced to type with my nose

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kenny · Post by **kenny** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 9:43 am

Worst 'look at how many laptops I have' thread ever.

dezzy · Post by **dezzy** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 10:08 am

I have one of my own and one for work. I'm just in the process of transferring stuff from old work one to new work one then it's going to someone else

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Andy G · Post by **Andy G** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 10:33 am

I look at that pic and it reminds me just how many years of my life are spent in front on one of those

steve_weegie · Post by **steve_weegie** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 11:01 am

Nice looking machine there dezzy! I've got an OpenSuSE DVD handy if you need

graeme · Post by **graeme** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 11:04 am

I have 2 macbooks... one black, one white.

Can't imagine why you'd want a Windows laptop when you already have a Macbook Dezzy..

If you need to run XP/Dev stuff, try VMWare Fusion for OS X. £70 for a license and it really, really, really works. I use XP under VMWare and haven't booted a 'real' windows box for anything since moving to mac 10 months ago. Newer macbooks can take up to 4GB Ram, so you can even leave windows running in the backgound and just ab between OSes. Awesome!

dezzy · Post by **dezzy** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 4:32 pm

graeme wrote: Can't imagine why you'd want a Windows laptop when you already have a Macbook Dezzy..

Only reason is for work. MacBook is my personal one and work only buy Windows machines. I could definitely use a Mac at work but I don't think we'll ever talk them into letting us get them

GregR · Post by **GregR** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 4:43 pm

good for pr0n?

rossybee · Post by **rossybee** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 3:32 pm

No fecking hands left

GregR · Post by **GregR** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 3:47 pm

Scottish Elises

Performance through lightweight . . . but NLC!

Performance through lightweight . . . but NLC!

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