Best laptop computer for pilots?

[av8orboy]

Dell 700m

 

[CFIse]

I use an ho ipaq (pocket pc) Does nearly everything my laptop did including plays dvds (of course you need a $30 separate program) and you don't have to take it out of the bag going thru security.

Downside: Getting used to the small screen while internet browsing.

How good is the Internet browsing - while I think we can all agree porn is important, how about some other things, like reading Webmail, special Web sites like, oh, say flightinfo?

Thanks

 

[CA1900]

How good is the Internet browsing - while I think we can all agree porn is important, how about some other things...?

There are other things?

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[indianboy7]

i have a fujitsu 13"...very light and it's a great laptop....the price for this model is down to 1100..i got it for 1400....if you want light and rugged, this should do it......

http://www2.panasonic.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/vModelDetail?displayTab=O&storeId=15001&catalogId=13401&itemId=94956&catGroupId=25095&modelNo=CF-W4GWCFZBM-EC&surfModel=CF-W4GWCFZBM-EC&cacheProgram=11002&cachePartner=7000000000000005702

...kinda pricey though.....

 

[ReverseSensing]

My company provides the pilots with the Motion Computing LS800. It is great.


www.motioncomputing.com

My company payroll deducts for the Osborne 1. It's a little on the heavy side, but with 2 5 1/4" floppy drives, who can complain?



http://www.boingboing.net/2005/03/22/the_birth_of_the_not.html

 

[contactapp]

That may be the case under Windows; I haven't used a dual-processor or dual-core Windows machine, so I haven't seen its impact.

But on the Mac side of things, the OS is very effective at using multiple processors (or cores). The current top-end machine uses two dual-core G5 processors -- basically a four-processor machine.

The OS will divide up the running processes between the two, and it makes the whole machine so much more responsive, letting you do other work while tasks are running in the background.

Say you're compressing video, for example, to burn to a DVD or move to an iPod. Properly-written, multi-threaded software will be able to use part of both cores. But even software that hasn't been written to be multi-processor aware will still be able to have 100% of one of the cores, leaving the other to do everything else, without a hint of sluggishness. On a single-processor machine running a complex task like that, all the other processes will slow down as the system divides up the processor's time. Not the case with multiple processors.

This is a really good thing, and "casual users" will definitely see a real benefit because the whole machine will be snappy, no matter what it's doing.

Wow, do you work for apple? I think you are under Steve Jobs' reality distortion field.

 

[CA1900]

Wow, do you work for apple? I think you are under Steve Jobs' reality distortion field.

No, I'm just refuting the claim that "casual users like most of us will get little if any benefit out of" a multi-processor machine. I've used them, both Dual Xeons and the Dual and Quad G5s, and it does make a significant difference in my experience.

Nothing to do with Jobs; I'm only relating my experience with the machines I've used. I haven't seen the new Core Duo in action yet, so I'm only speaking of multiprocessing in general. And, properly implemented, it works very well indeed. Even for "casual users."