On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Aditya Sengupta apsengupta@iitb.ac.inwrote:
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 12:26, Rony gnulinuxist@gmail.com wrote:
On Sunday 30 May 2010 12:40 AM, Mukesh Yadav wrote:
Hi, I'm planning to buy my first laptop, and I'm confused. Can you people suggest me.
Budget is 30-35 K Use :- For development purpose. It should run Eclipse, Firefox (
atleast
20-25 tabs), Multimedia. at the same time. on my current office laptop( Dell latitude D810 with 2GB Ram) I can
only
run firefox, and small IDE. No multimedia at one go. It hangs... though
I
use xubuntu.
OS :- Kubuntu.
For the price mentioned above you will get the latest i-core series processors with 3 GB RAM, 320 GB HDD in Acer. A little more and you will get the same in Dell. Do give Ubuntu a trial too.
Yeah- Acer is definitely decent value for money. I bought an Aspire 4736 with a C2D processor, 3GB DDR3, 320GB HDD at some 32K over a year ago. If your budget is 35K, you should definitely be able to get a much better config. Pretty much everything works out of the box for Ubuntu. I needed good number crunching ability- and have got it. If you don't need that sort of power, you can save yourself a lot of money.
so what is batter life ? how much time it can run with full charge ?