On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Alan B. Pearce <Alan.B.Pearce@stfc.ac.uk>wrote:

> I must admit that I do like the Dell machines, although my current work
> laptop could have better looking (Latitude E6400). I have had good
> reliability out of them - my previous work Inspirion 8600 served me well
> for
> around 6 years, and is still a working machine.


I agree, at my workplace every workstation is Dell (except my laptop which
is an IBM T42), and I had an Inspiron 6400 at home which got stolen, now a
Vostro 1700 and I am happy with both of them. There are only two things I am
not satisfied and both related to the screen:

1. It has a glossy screen which may be better for films but terrible when
coding (too much reflection)
2. It has a wide screen which is again great for films, terrible for
programming (less lines can be shown on the screen)

This latter one is a a tendency with every manufacturers as what they do is
cutting off the portion of the screen so it makes it cheaper to produce. So
for example if the screen was normally 1280x1024 then it will be 1280x768 in
wxga.

Tamas




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