Purchase check / review

M

Monkey God

Mangina Full of Sand
Joined
May 7, 2007
Messages
6,723
About to spend some cheddarz on a new laptop. Looking for some feedback, suggestions, etc.

Main requirements are battery life, reliability. Only high horsepower requirements are running excel spreadsheets with maximum rows (64K) crunching numbers from logged data. Maybe an occasional old game or non HD video for long flights, but no modern games, nothing GPU intensive.

1000HE
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220505

2GB upgrade
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227236

30GB vertex SSD
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=10009849&prodlist=celebros

Anything else im missing or could use? Dont need a portable DVD.
 
Lebowski said:
I wouldn't waste the money on the SSD
Click to expand...

Thats what I was wondering, I dont think that crunching excel sheets is very disk read/write intensive, its more CPU. Pocket the difference from the SSD, and get a 500 gig harddrive, if you'd like. The 1000HE is more than a capable netbook.





Im risking a flamewar / banning here but:

I'm for Obama, but anti murder.
 
I dont need alot of space.
The SSD is for more battery life, and for shock resistance. This will be a working laptop. The money is not really the issue. $100 for an SSD is nothing.
 
I have "working laptops" that see use in an office or in mining environments and a standard platter drive works fine. If there is a drop sensor in the drive or laptop you're even safer.
 
xenotype said:
Im risking a flamewar / banning here but:

I'm for Obama, but anti murder.
Click to expand...

Keep that stuff in General Mayhem, specifically the Soapbox portion. No need for any of that here in the Mobile Computing subforum.

Anyway, OP, your planned setup looks good to me. A bit too expensive for my tastes but still good part choices all around
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top