*Lastly, there has been massive growth in the breadth and diversity of devices made by a wide variety of vendors providing both open and closed systems. *When...
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Shawn Wildermuth
aunyay
Nov 2, 2010 6:34 am
I can't understand your reticence about Silverlight. For Apps (see my post link below) I think it will continue to be a better dev experience than jQuery +...
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Shawn A. Van Ness
arithex
Nov 2, 2010 5:42 pm
I am also extremely pessimistic about HTML for building _apps_. (Indeed, this is why I quit my job at MS a couple months ago. :-) Long live XAML and C#..! -S ...
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Jeroen Frijters
jeroen_nu
Nov 3, 2010 5:03 am
Something to keep in mind about Silverlight is the support lifecycle: http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifean45 In particular: "Microsoft will provide 12 months...
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Mike
ocean_west_2005
Nov 3, 2010 3:19 pm
Yes, the world needs more XML, and more verbose static languages. Better yet, mix them together! :) I'm sure, like with all technologies, once you get into...
Many years ago I used this group for its original purpose. Now I just abuse it, sorry. The Canadian government has made it clear that I need to upgrade my...
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Brad Wilson
bradw_64
Nov 5, 2010 4:37 pm
Battery life will be much better with an i5 than an i7. Unless you intend to do highly compute intensive tasks, I would choose the i5....
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Mark Levison
marklevison
Nov 5, 2010 5:48 pm
... Interesting I've naively assumed for years that more is better. Perhaps its time to recalibrate. Is there any site that provides at least adequate ...
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Brad Wilson
bradw_64
Nov 5, 2010 6:32 pm
C2D is a 5 year old architecture. Power management for C2D sucks compared to all modern i-family CPUs, including the i7, IMO. There's no way I would buy a C2D...
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Marsh, Drew
drew_marsh
Nov 5, 2010 6:42 pm
Hahah, I find it funny that you say 4.5lbs is heavy. My last-gen Alienware "laptop" is something like ~8lbs, down from ~10lbs before that. Can't wait to even...
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Shawn Wildermuth
aunyay
Nov 5, 2010 7:12 pm
I have an like my Studio 17 laptop (at about 7 lbs) but their 15" line is pretty sweet. With a big rig (2 HD's and a huge screen) I am still getting about 3...
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Steve Richter
rautocoder
Nov 5, 2010 7:36 pm
for myself, I would get a laptop that has an Intel integrated graphics adapter. Any of the Arrandale processors ...
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Glenn Carr
glenncarr
Nov 5, 2010 7:59 pm
A non-tech-savvy friend is looking for company to develop an idea he has for a web application. The site would need to collect information from clients, run...
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Drew Marsh
drew_marsh
Nov 5, 2010 8:19 pm
Are you saying this tongue in cheek? The GPU matters more and more these days. You want something like nVidia Optimus so you get full discrete power when you...
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Brad Wilson
bradw_64
Nov 5, 2010 11:50 pm
The M11x, which I have, is refreshed. The older models had C2D in them, the newer ones have i5 or i7. The newer models also have DisplayPort instead of VGA,...
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Mike
ocean_west_2005
Nov 6, 2010 3:48 pm
What is looking nicer is MVC with Razor. I wonder if anyone has anything to say about it, and what is the learning curve for developers who are already very...
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Scott Allen
bitmask
Nov 6, 2010 6:02 pm
Razor / MVC is a great combination - don't even think about using aspx views. If you've studied RoR I think you'll find the learning curve is relatively flat. ...
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Shawn A. Van Ness
arithex
Nov 7, 2010 4:22 am
I have a ~6 mo old Dell XPS 1645... -- 16" LED display -- Core i7-720 -- ATI Radeon HD 4670 -- 128GB SSD drive The performance is fantastic, both CPU and GPU,...
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Shawn A. Van Ness
arithex
Nov 7, 2010 4:28 am
At work I have a new Core i5 ThinkPad, with 15" screen, and I really love it. It's a little less powerful than my Core i7, but the simpler, more conventional...
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Roy Green
roygreen_atl
Nov 7, 2010 5:34 am
Someone tweeted within the past year about a smaller (11" - 12"), lighter, cheaper notebook that had a pretty full feature set, i.e at least a dual core...
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Brad Wilson
bradw_64
Nov 7, 2010 7:26 pm
http://www.apple.com/macbookair/ ? :)...
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Mark Levison
marklevison
Nov 7, 2010 9:30 pm
In the house of windows someone dared too mention the overpriced anti-windows :-) if it wasn't for the degree of control Steve exercises over the platform I...
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Mark Levison
marklevison
Nov 7, 2010 9:36 pm
Shawn, Brad et al. Thanks I wasn't seriously considering an I5. Now i'm. Next I need to find With a good keyboard, build and ctrl in the right place. Also one...
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Roy Green
roygreen_atl
Nov 7, 2010 9:38 pm
Note the word "cheaper"!...
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Shawn Wildermuth
aunyay
Nov 7, 2010 9:38 pm
Gateway, Lenova, Apple are all dead to me because of the ctrl key thing. Thanks, Shawn Wildermuth http://wildermuth.com Note: This was typed on a big ole...
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Mark Levison
marklevison
Nov 7, 2010 11:16 pm
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Shawn Wildermuth <shawn.lists@... ... Wow - thanks I didn't know it was that bad out there. HP is out for ...
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John Elliot
jj5v1
Nov 7, 2010 11:26 pm
... There's a control key on my Mac, and when you run Windows in VMWare Fusion the apple key is the windows key. One problem with the control key is that...
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Chris Sells
csells
Nov 7, 2010 11:32 pm
I don't know if you're ruled this out already, but I'm completely in love with my Dell Precision M4400. It's fast, has a great screen and with a dual core [1],...
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Shawn Wildermuth
aunyay
Nov 7, 2010 11:33 pm
The problem isn't the lack of a CTRL key, it's the placement. Same for Gateway, Lenovo, Sony and Apple. Thanks, Shawn Wildermuth <http://wildermuth.com/>...
