This fall I got a Dell Latitude 8100 with the big ol' 15" screen and 1.13 Ghz processor.
I have to say that I've been fairly disapointed with the overall machine. It seems poorly designed and is extremely heavy (granted, I've got 2 batteries but its like 20 lbs and my shoulders are starting to become lopsided from overcompensating with the messenger bag). The keyboard scars the LCD screen which has already been replaced twice; nice keyboard, nice LCD, there just isn't enough space between the two.
The tech support has been pretty good, but the fact that I've had to have three visits in 6 months isn't very encouraging.
My advice: get an Apple laptop, they're a bigger babe magnet then you could possibly believer and really have a way of tying a room together.
Wow.. I bet you're an engineer.. And I bet they told you in school how evolutionarily superior you were to simple 'computer science' students, to the point where you even started using the quotation marks on your own..
What it comes down to is libraries.. lots and lots of libraries.. People aren't computers.. Existance isn't inherently logical... We can only approximate existance using logical steps, 1's and 0's.. and we need lots of shiny colours, animated transitions, synthesized orchestral hits and icons in order to associate anything meaningfull with these inhuman machines..
I have an engineering background.. I also have a computer science background.. The thing that bothered me about engineering is.. wait for it.. the 'God complex'.
Don't believe the hype; we're all just doing what we can so that we can find our places in the world. There isn't some inferior race of Epsilon minuses being churned out by Computer Science facultys througout North America.. Just people who want to try and put their own piece of humanity on a cd.. Denying that anything less is the point of these souless machines is kind of silly and when it comes down to it.. quite incorrect.
But I'm probably wrong, and you're probably right and I'll just go back to writing my windows app..
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I can dig it.
ummmm like.. whats an 'MMORPG'?
This fall I got a Dell Latitude 8100 with the big ol' 15" screen and 1.13 Ghz processor. I have to say that I've been fairly disapointed with the overall machine. It seems poorly designed and is extremely heavy (granted, I've got 2 batteries but its like 20 lbs and my shoulders are starting to become lopsided from overcompensating with the messenger bag). The keyboard scars the LCD screen which has already been replaced twice; nice keyboard, nice LCD, there just isn't enough space between the two. The tech support has been pretty good, but the fact that I've had to have three visits in 6 months isn't very encouraging. My advice: get an Apple laptop, they're a bigger babe magnet then you could possibly believer and really have a way of tying a room together.
Wow.. I bet you're an engineer.. And I bet they told you in school how evolutionarily superior you were to simple 'computer science' students, to the point where you even started using the quotation marks on your own.. What it comes down to is libraries.. lots and lots of libraries.. People aren't computers.. Existance isn't inherently logical... We can only approximate existance using logical steps, 1's and 0's.. and we need lots of shiny colours, animated transitions, synthesized orchestral hits and icons in order to associate anything meaningfull with these inhuman machines.. I have an engineering background.. I also have a computer science background.. The thing that bothered me about engineering is.. wait for it.. the 'God complex'. Don't believe the hype; we're all just doing what we can so that we can find our places in the world. There isn't some inferior race of Epsilon minuses being churned out by Computer Science facultys througout North America.. Just people who want to try and put their own piece of humanity on a cd.. Denying that anything less is the point of these souless machines is kind of silly and when it comes down to it.. quite incorrect. But I'm probably wrong, and you're probably right and I'll just go back to writing my windows app..