Hi Kathy,

It's probably not what you want, but I have a Fujitsu Lifebook. It's
industrial strength with good tech support. Lot's of good options to "build
your own."

Paul


"K Barrett" wrote in message
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I'm in the market for a new laptop. I want to run the various orchid
software on it. I'm looking at a windows 7 machine. Question is: Does
AQ+ work equally as well on both the 64- and 32- versions of windows 7?
Does it prefer Home or Pro? Same question for OrchidWiz. Anyone running
these programs with Windows 7?

And for the geeks out there, which chip series is faster? The Intel Core
Duo or the i3 series? I can configure a new laptop with either chip
series. I think the i3,5,7 are geared for laptops to keep the heat down
but they are not necessarily fast, and since the AQ+ is a lot of pictures
to load I think I want fast. [note of explanation I have a macbook and
I'm always the last to load images at the judging table and the last to be
able to switch between images. I'm sick of 'Got it yet?' from my team
mates. They are always waiting for me. I have to boot up two operating
systems as well as the bridging software (parallels) That doesn't leave
much memory left to actually *operate* the program. Or so it seems to me.]

But I don't want to just exchange one dog for another.

Looking around the web it seems the Toshibas are more reliable than either
the Sonys, HPs or Dells. I'm looking at either the M-500 series or the
U-500 series.

Any opinions?

K Barrett