On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 08:40:43 -0800 in K Barrett wrote:
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?
Sorry, I don't do windows.
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.]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Core#Core_i3
If TDP wasn't a pulled from the middle back pocket, I'd say go with
the lowest priced one with the lowest max TDP (Lower TDP means less
power draw on the battery).
As for your macbook. If you're just boot it directly to Windows
instead of bothering to boot OSX, start parallels, and then boot
that to Windows. (IE use bootcamp), Windows should run quite speedily.
Power management will suck, but it probably did with parallels anyways.
The other option is see if you can get AQ+ to run under WINE.
No, I don't know how well WINE works on OSX.
http://wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX
Might help you make a decision. Remember, if it breaks, you get to keep
both parts.
Also, have you maxed out the memory on your macbook? Some macbook pros
can be expanded to 8GB RAM.
And as for me. If I didn't have kids, I'd probably be looking
at a Lenovo T510 with discrete graphics and HD+ display.
But I don't want to just exchange one dog for another.
Especially when there are some things you can do to pep up your old dog.
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?
I'm addicted to the trackpoint with 3 buttons, so it would be a Lenovo
Thinkpad for me. The last time I looked at Sonys, they looked really pretty
but fell apart if they were looked at crosseyed. I found consumer grade
Dell laptops to also fall apart easily, corporate laptops have been
hit or miss. And HP's configurators never gave me enough information as
to what is in the machine for me to be able to fairly compare them with
their competitors.
I've seen the fujitsu notebooks take an awful lot of abuse at tech
conferences, but the bulk of the ones I've seen were purchased by people
that regularly travel to Japan and bought them in Japan.
K Barrett
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Chris Dukes