Hi Joe,
AMD 1.5GZ with 1GB RAM, 40GB disk. And - Yes, I have thought that is it
cheaper just to dump hardware and buy new when things go wrong with Windows.
-- But then again, its not very green, and why should MS get another sale
because something goes wrong. Why should they benefit. Besides I would have
hundreds of Laptops if I took this approach!!
Only the other day my 3G connection decided not work when I switched the
machine on - took a day and a half to fix. Was this a waste of time or
should I have bought a new laptop. Windows takes these wobblies.
I have been with PCs since the first ones - even before that with wee Apple
systems - indeed even before that in the 1960s with Fortran IID. Nothing
evolves to get better from the point of view of failures. After all these
years I now just get sick, fed up, angry and frustrated. Round and round in
circles - achieving nothing, just the same s%*t every time. Oh for a decent
OS on a PC like i5/OS. Perhaps I getting too old and grumpy for this.
Syd
-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: 05 October 2008 05:05
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] JAVA coding environment
Dr. Syd Nicholson wrote:
I have WDSC 7.0 on my laptop running XPpro. Its still clunky and slow. It
is
WDSC 7.0 that has the remote network problems I mentioned. I don't use
WDSC
on this machine very often, because the laptop is usually only used when I
am out of the office.
What are the specs on this machine? I run on a 1.6GHz laptop with 1GB
of RAM and a 5400 RPM drive and I get acceptable performance, but
nothing to write home about.
On my new laptop with 2.4GHz dual-core and 3GB of RAM with a 7200 RPM
disk drive, RDi-SOA screams; it's nearly as fast as my 3GHz desktop (but
not quite).
The interesting thing is that neither machine cost that much. My
desktop was $700, including 10K Raptor drive, and my laptop was around
$1100. You say time is money - then you ought to be spending money once
on your hardware to save you time every day you use it.
But perhaps I just view things differently.
Joe
midrange.com
