Posts by cemack

yep, agreed. ram is critical. 1gb has been sufficient for my needs so far, although at work my workstation is usually 2 or 4gb. i just tone down some of the memory hogs like the database server on the laptop. I honestly don't see the...

messaging is banned? like msn messenger type of stuff?????? sounds like a great price though. fantastic if you take the train a lot.

from the reveiws that i've read, and the general satisfaction levels of asus owners versus sony owners (just have a read through the respective forums here) i believe the asus build quality will be higher than the sonys. reliability (or...

i got it from ncix.com, but i got the last one in stock, sorry. milestonepc has them in stock too, so they shouldn't be hard to find. both are the same price, but ncix is in vancouver, and as i'm in ontario i saved the pst. prices may...

i have one ordered. should arrive next week. will post something when i get it...

decided to go with the asus in the end. just ordered, should get it next week. basically, there were pluses and minuses to both machines. but at the end of the day, reliability swung it for me. I've had a sony before, and had to send it...

also from a development perspective - i agree completely with wilco. firefox is simply a better, more standards-compliant browser.

have a look at the samsung x11. Not available in the US though. Pretty much everything you want i think except no biometric. Around $1700 or so i think too. I have the x10 (previous generation), and it`s been the most reliable,...

Hi! I`m in the market for a new laptop, and currently the sony SZ and Asus W7J are top of my list. They`re both really similar: Both have good 13.3" screens with 1280x800 resolution, around 4lbs light, come with duo core CPU,...