...but I took a gamble on HP's ad-copy for their LiveStrong series right after Lance won 'yet again' and they had a massive sale. I've regretted it every day after for the last 3 years.
Never again, ThinkPad's all the way for the indefinate future. Got the 15.4" widescreen here, it's a hair 'larger' but actually more comfortable in my lap than my old HP. And after trying it, yeah, this box makes viewing dual-page PDF's a joy compared to most machines I've tried it on.
And oddly enough the 2.5Ghz CPU option I took was about $250 below the top 2.6Ghz option, but it's one of the 6MB L2 Cache new T9x00 series chips, which I think was why they were having the ludicrous sale they were. Only features I 'splurged' on were the ram (full 4GB limit), opting for the 'Certified Wireless USB' in case that takes off later, and grabbing the Quadro FX570M option. That last bit caused me minor nightmares because it's such a new video card the 'nv' driver won't load on it but most of the LiveCD's I have tried anyway so I got to cold-boot it a few times until I figured that out.
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Date: 2008-03-18 08:30 pm (UTC)Never again, ThinkPad's all the way for the indefinate future. Got the 15.4" widescreen here, it's a hair 'larger' but actually more comfortable in my lap than my old HP. And after trying it, yeah, this box makes viewing dual-page PDF's a joy compared to most machines I've tried it on.
And oddly enough the 2.5Ghz CPU option I took was about $250 below the top 2.6Ghz option, but it's one of the 6MB L2 Cache new T9x00 series chips, which I think was why they were having the ludicrous sale they were. Only features I 'splurged' on were the ram (full 4GB limit), opting for the 'Certified Wireless USB' in case that takes off later, and grabbing the Quadro FX570M option. That last bit caused me minor nightmares because it's such a new video card the 'nv' driver won't load on it but most of the LiveCD's I have tried anyway so I got to cold-boot it a few times until I figured that out.