what laptop do you use?

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what laptop do you use?

winston Smith

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July 20, 2010 at 11:42 am

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im looking into getting a new laptop for study, work, recreation etc.
My idea is to get a Dell Latitude E6140 with extended battery, dock and 24" monitor. This would give me a good desktop type setup when sitting in the office, but still give me plenty of portability.
TO help me weigh up what might be best though, id like to know what you guys use day to day.

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Ray K SSC-Dedicated Points: 31163 More actions · Answer 1

My work laptop is a Lenovo T500.

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736212 More actions · Answer 2

I bought a Lenovo W510, widescreen. I think it's great, though a little $$$

I had a Toshiba Qosmio before, which was great value, but I had some issues and CS really annoyed me. They have gotten good CS reviews in the past, and I liked the machine before it failed.

Jim McLeod SSCarpal Tunnel Points: 4057 More actions · Answer 3

I've got a Sony Vaio Z (VGN-Z48GD). Good points - battery life isn't bad. Two solid state disks, in a RAID-0 configuration are very nice (200 GB). Bad points are the price, and the fact that my son is obsessed with the glowy green power light, and frequently shuts the machine down when I'm using it :hehe:

It's only 13", which works well on the train, and plugs in quite happily to the 24" monitor in the office. 4 GB of memory is plenty for Office, SSMS, BIDS, and multiple SQL Server instances, and it can cope with games - but there's not much point on a 13" screen.

WayneS SSC Guru Points: 95460 More actions · Answer 4

I have a HP DV-7.

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PaulB-TheOneAndOnly SSC Guru Points: 66772 More actions · Answer 5

Old-n-good Lenovo T60 - very reliable.

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quackhandle1975 SSChampion Points: 11055 More actions · Answer 6

Dell Studio 1555. Owned since Feb, no problems with it so far. Runs very fast, not used it for SQL Server though. 🙂

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July 21, 2010 at 9:07 am

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Lenovo Y550 is pretty good choice

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736212 More actions · Answer 8

I'll chime in with another note for Dell. I have a 17" Dimension laptop, circa 2002, that still runs fine. The battery is shot and the internal radio is whacked, but an external USB works fine and it performs well still. My kids use it at times. Still runs SQL 2000/2k5 as well.

I wanted to try something else so I went with Toshiba and then Lenovo, but Dells have been good to me.

Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 9

HP Pavillion Wide-screen 15.4. It's an entertainment notebook, which for me means pretty good specs without too high a price. Runs SQL well, plays movies, runs games, just about anything I want to do with it. Plus, important consideration for me, a full keyboard with number pad.

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 10

GilaMonster (7/21/2010)
HP Pavillion Wide-screen 15.4. It's an entertainment notebook, which for me means pretty good specs without too high a price. Runs SQL well, plays movies, runs games, just about anything I want to do with it. Plus, important consideration for me, a full keyboard with number pad.

Full kybd with numpad would be great on a laptop.

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SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 11

I run a Dell 17" recently upgraded to Win7. I have SQL 2005 and SQL 2008 installed. 2Gb memory which is a little on the short end for me. It runs fine - minus the Win7 external kybd bug that affects laptops (it was also a bug in Vista and Win7 uses the beta keyboard driver from Vista - ouch).

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Ben Teraberry SSChampion Points: 11845 More actions · Answer 12

Dell XPS M1730 ... nothing like running SSMS with SLI enabled!

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Dwayne Dibley SSCrazy Points: 2350 More actions · Answer 13

I use a Dell Studio 1537. It handles SQL 2005/208 Oracle XE and VS2008 easily. It has had to be repaired twice which was done by an engineer coming round. The second repair was down to a hard disk failure straight after the first repair:S

Hurrah for good backups!:-D

Peter Maloof SSCommitted Points: 1733 More actions · Answer 14

I use a Dell Inspiron 9400 that I salvaged out of a recycle bin.

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