[geeks] Nice (large) laptop

[Jonathan J. M. Katz]

I'm wondering how capable a hackintosh this would be ....

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 8:07 PM, Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at gmail.com>wrote:

> A while ago I posted about my search for (what I termed) a workhorse
> laptop, and I think I've found a winner. It's a Dell, and while some may
> have had bad exp. with them, I've had good exp.
>
> The laptop I like is the Studio S1747 laptop:
>
>  - i7 quad core CPU (6 Meg cache)
>  - 4 Gig DDR3, takes up to 8 Gig
>  - 500 Gig SATA HD (7200 RPM)
>  - 1 Gig ATI 4570 video adapter
>  - DVD-R/W w/ Blu-Ray player
>  - 17" 1600x900 LED backlight display
>  - eSATA, HDMI, FireWire USB ports
>  - room for a second HD (!)
>  - 9 cell battery (2 hours pluss battery?)
>  - 7.5 pound weight
>
> For $1K even at BestBuy...
>
> They have a nice i5 Dell laptop for under $800, but with integrated
> graphics, no BluRay, no 2nd HD and no 1600x900 display, I think the extra
> $200 buys a much better laptop. The i5 has about 3x the battery life,
> IIRC...
>
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-Jon
Jonathan Katz, Indianapolis, IN.