RE: Hardware again... yawn.....

["Jennifer Goldfinch" <jgoldfin(at)Softimage.COM>]

Hush!

 

That was Mark. I spilled a glass of wine on mine. That's what happens when you work at the dinner table the night before Siggraph. A perfect time to blow up a laptop, BTW. It eventually got fixed. Thanks HP!

 

(oh ya, I spilled a drop of coffee on an old loaner after that..oops.. that was a bad time)

 

jen

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From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Sam Cuttriss
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 12:24 PM
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: Hardware again... yawn.....

you pour coffee on sub standard laptops right?

_sam

Sam Cuttriss n old  3D Aficionado

Jennifer Goldfinch wrote:

I am not a hardware expert, but I know Colin Hodges in our special projects group has been very pleased with his 9440 running XSI.

 

I have the 8440 version, and its been my favorite laptop ever, for all the other non-XSI stuff that I do.

 

jen

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From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Dan Yargici
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 10:11 AM
To: xsi(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: OT: Hardware again... yawn.....

I'm looking at buying myself at new laptop (Yes I know this is the 18889002347th thread about this...)

I've decided that if I'm gonna get a 17" machine, it *must* be able to display full HD (1920x1080) and it should have a numpad on it's keyboard.... Doesn't leave many options let me tell you....

Anyway, after much searching I found this badboy at PCWorld of all places.... Like every machine out there it has it's pros and cons and I'm aware of most of the cons, I was just wondering if anyone could see a glaring fault that I've failed to notice.

I should mention that I'm writing this mail on my HP laptop that i've been very happy with for the last 4 or so years, so this being an HP machine is also a big plus for me.  I also checked the price and it seems to only be about 100 pounds more than it is in the US (well - from HP's US webshop at least)

http://www.pcwb.com/catalogue/item/HPN0081

Thanks for any opinions!

DAN