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laptop recommendations

Subject: laptop recommendations
From: sethg at ropine.com (Seth Gordon)
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 13:16:53 -0500
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Kalyan Vaidyanathan wrote:
> Hi,
>  I am looking to buy a laptop that can be reasonably used as a dev 
> machine.  I'm thinking atleast 1GB RAM and 80 GB hard disk.  Now questions:
> 1. Any recommended brands that are better and more resilient for dev use 
> and longer lasting battery life
> 2. Any preferences for Intel vs AMD chips.

The sysadmin where I work swears by ThinkPads.

References:
- laptop recommendations
  - From: kalyan_v at hotmail.com (Kalyan Vaidyanathan)

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