Hello all,
I'm in the US and have placed an order with NCIX for a 3820TG but received voicemail from them that it does not look like the will be able to fill my order. I'm holding out till I can talk to them again next week and they tell me they absolutely will not be able to fill my order.
Anyway my question is: Should I get a 3820T or is there another system i should consider?
Heres my use cases to help provide context for what I'm after:
This will be my personal laptop. I also have a dell Latitude 6510 for work and a self built quad core 3Ghz gaming desktop. The Dell is heavy and the battery life is around 2.5 hours. So lightweight and long battery life is the primary consideration.
Next I am a software developer and will be running Visual Studio 2010, subversion and Git to do .Net development. I will also be firing up VMWare workstation from time to time as thats what we use for dev environments at work. So an I3 370M is my minimum processor consideration. A socketed main board would be great as I have no fear of opening a system to upgrade the proc to an I5. A system that already had an I5 450M or 520M, minimum, already would just save me the time :-) This also makes me think that a 13.3 is my minimum screen size as VS 2010 is a screen hog, but would consider a 14 inch. Anything bigger and I think I'll be defeating the lightweight considerations.
I have no need of an optical drive, I have ISO's of all my software available via an external drive. And will be doing a clean Windows 7 X64 install from usb stick. I'm still not sure if I would go with an SSD or a 640 or 750G 7200RPM HD. I love the idea of the speed of an SSD but not sure I'm willing to pay for more than 128G at todays prices. And not needing to carry an external drive, suffer the performance hit of accessing that drive via USB2, and the low cost of getting 3/4 of a TB in spinning rust has me leaning that way. Having said that being able to pull out the Optical and replace it with a hard drive so that I could have an SSD for the system drive and a SATA 2 HD for mass storage might be the best of both worlds.
So if you have suffered through my babbling and have an opinion on what I should look at, my thought process and needs or just want to call me crazy or and idiot feel free to reply. You input is very very welcome.
Edit: Under $900 shipped would be my preferred budget. But please don't hold off posting something that you think fulfills my needs just because its over that number. If its the perfect system I'll just have to convince the wife its worth it :-)
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