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Mon, 19 May 2008
Little laptops that can - 18:15
With apologies to
Walty
Piper I must say the power available in modern laptops is staggering. I am
getting a new work laptop sometime this week (or maybe next). The laptop I
have been using since August 2004 is a lovely Dell X300, a small, light
portable laptop that I still find remarkably powerful and useful. Specs are
"Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.40GHz, 640 MB RAM, 60 GB HDD". The laptop I
chose to replace this is a Dell XPS M1330 (they come with pink lids, how could
I pass that up). This will have a T9300 CPU (Dual core 2.5 GHZ, 6 MB of L2
Cache), 4 GB of RAM, 320 GB HDD, built in dvd burner, a host of other things,
a pink lid (I may have already mentioned this, but I am excited about that)
and still only weigh around 1.8 KG (thus still be portable).
All this in such a small package is mind boggling to pretty much anyone who
has been around computers since 486 or earlier model chips powered most PCs. I
doubt I will be getting any
Heidelberg
Scars now.
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