Travel Technology - 19" , 15 lb laptop :o

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=823

Its not exactly 15 lb. With carrying case and extra maybe it'll come to 18 lb. Your very own LCD workout, no need to stay in westin workout rooms :D

...and a 5 minute battery life no doubt. As a desktop replacement, it probably rocks but SHEESH that's insane.

Wouldn't such a computer be better called a benchtop? :)

FewMiles..

is it a kaypro? no, the screen is too big.

Another 19 incher (http://asia.cnet.com/reviews/hardware/notebooks/0,39001743,39095326p,00.htm)! Is this a laptop? Give me a break...

Some desktops weigh less.

excellent for exercising your arm muscles...

Airline announcement: "if your laptop doesn't fit in the overhead compartment or underneath the seat in front of you, we'll be glad to check it for you..."

My first laptop, an Apple Portable of 15+ years ago - before they started calling them PowerBooks, a name which is headed for the history files as well - was about this size and weight. We've come full circle.

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=823

Its not exactly 15 lb. With carrying case and extra maybe it'll come to 18 lb. Your very own LCD workout, no need to stay in westin workout rooms :D

For playing games on the road. Note the video it's equipped with. Dual 7800's!

I've never weighed my laptop but it's probably close to that monster--and has that one beat on most specs. Yes, it's heavy. When you're a programmer you need power, though.

For playing games on the road. Note the video it's equipped with. Dual 7800's!

I've never weighed my laptop but it's probably close to that monster--and has that one beat on most specs. Yes, it's heavy. When you're a programmer you need power, though.The weight is definitely overkill. The heat output from that laptop has got to be over the top.

There are plenty of light weight, power packed laptops that support dual monitors and heavy graphics. With the new Intel duo processors based laptops getting ready to roll out in the next few months, there will be a whole new round of portable notebooks that can meet most programmer/power user requirements.

For playing games on the road. Note the video it's equipped with. Dual 7800's!

I've never weighed my laptop but it's probably close to that monster--and has that one beat on most specs. Yes, it's heavy. When you're a programmer you need power, though.
Yeah, nothing stresses a machine like typing plain text in an editor. If you convinced your boss, though, more power to you.

with all the new technology, it looks like we are going back to this:
http://pc-museum.com/gallery/rcm-002.jpg

and this one for the developers:
http://pc-museum.com/003-osborne/

only difference i see is the bigger screen :D

Yeah, nothing stresses a machine like typing plain text in an editor. If you convinced your boss, though, more power to you.

You forget the compiler--that does soak up the computer power.

Not to mention the fact that the compiler is always working while you're editing so it can help you fill in things. The editor performance *DOES* suffer if it's run on a wimpy computer--if the background stuff isn't caught up and you trigger something that needs it it will freeze until it does catch up. Note that one of the things that triggers it is hovering in any location where you could get information.

The editor performance *DOES* suffer if it's run on a wimpy computer--if the background stuff isn't caught up and you trigger something that needs it it will freeze until it does catch up.

That only happens to Windows... get a real OS!!

I dragged one of these all through airports in the US and UK, back between Summer 1986 and late 1988. Called it my portable sewing machine.

http://oldcomputers.net/compaqii.html

The company I worked for paid about $4500 for it. Serious money for 1986.

Did a project in January 1987 in London and would spend three hours every night from 11pm to 2am hooked up to a 2400 baud modem, sending data to Los Angeles. What fun! :eek:

Jeez, and I thought those Alienware laptops were huge! I wonder how that behemoth can possibly fit into a carrying case :confused:

I dragged one of these all through airports in the US and UK, back between Summer 1986 and late 1988. Called it my portable sewing machine.

http://oldcomputers.net/compaqii.html

The company I worked for paid about $4500 for it. Serious money for 1986.

Did a project in January 1987 in London and would spend three hours every night from 11pm to 2am hooked up to a 2400 baud modem, sending data to Los Angeles. What fun!

Hey I had one of those as well. Used it in 1988 at my office in Toronto.

It was the best keyboard I have ever used.

That only happens to Windows... get a real OS!!

It has nothing to do with Windows--the editor can't display the information until the compiler catches up so if the editor decides it's called for (and it does *OFTEN*--idling in any place that could pop up something causes it to pop it up) it's stuck until it has the info. With a good machine it's almost always caught up so the occasional stalls waiting for it is a price worth paying for the convenience of what it does pop up. The rest of Windows is unaffected.