Laptop suggestion for travel

possible not much use but you can buy that express card reader in UK!

http://www.warehouseex​press.com …cards/readers.h​tml#cftoex

Thanks I was looking for UK shops that ship out of UK so far no luck but warehouseexpress does ship to Denmark.

I think I found ZEE ULTIMATE (said in schwarzenegger voice) travel laptop: The dell xps m1210. A 12" screen, core 2 duo processor, 160gb hard drive, full size keyboard, and 2gb of ram with a dvd burner and built in card reader (doesn't accept CF cards though)....All with a 6.5 hr battery life.

It's an XPS computer (dell's top of the line/gaming computers) so the quality is pretty darn good. It retails for about $1800 or more but if you go to dell.com/outlet and watch their inventory (keep hitting refresh every couple minutes) and you can find a great deal. I got a "scratch and dent" one from them for only a grand and the ONLY scratch/dent it had was the windows sticker was a little scuffed. I ordered a much cheaper laptop for my mom...also a scratch and dent, and also with a scuffed windows sticker. Apparantly those windows stickers are trouble!

That definately sounds like a great travel laptop. But as with everything else it is much more expensive in Denmark that configuration would cost $2800.

Cathpah wrote in post #2394646
I think I found ZEE ULTIMATE (said in schwarzenegger voice) travel laptop: The dell xps m1210. A 12" screen, core 2 duo processor, 160gb hard drive, full size keyboard, and 2gb of ram with a dvd burner and built in card reader (doesn't accept CF cards though)....All with a 6.5 hr battery life.

It's an XPS computer (dell's top of the line/gaming computers) so the quality is pretty darn good. It retails for about $1800 or more but if you go to dell.com/outlet and watch their inventory (keep hitting refresh every couple minutes) and you can find a great deal. I got a "scratch and dent" one from them for only a grand and the ONLY scratch/dent it had was the windows sticker was a little scuffed. I ordered a much cheaper laptop for my mom...also a scratch and dent, and also with a scuffed windows sticker. Apparantly those windows stickers are trouble!

My niece-in-law has the same Compaq laptop as me and has peeled off all the stickers. I seem to leave the stickers on but if they begin to peel or look scruffy then off they'll come.

EOSAddict wrote in post #2393670
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I don't think i've accidently uploaded the nude photos...

But i defintely love Picasa for the quick viewing stuff.

tommykjensen wrote in post #2394293
Thanks I was looking for UK shops that ship out of UK so far no luck but warehouseexpress does ship to Denmark.

Speedgraphichave them I think.

olz wrote in post #2395906
Speedgraphichave them I think.

Thanks. I ordered it from warehouseexpress.


Update.

I tested the battery performance. I got 3 hours on battery. There are better performers out there but I think this will be just fine. Sure I won't be able to use it all the time on the flight to Namibia but thats ok. To test the battery I had the laptop running a DVD. The first 2 hours was from harddisk and the last hour from the DVD drive. Wireless and bluetooth radios were off but cable lan was connected (will performance be longer if the lan connector is off? ).

I don't see how LAN would have much effect on battery life. You might gain a few minutes by turning it off, but a big help is the LCD. If you can get away with turning down the brightness when on battery juice, do so, and turn it down as far as you can and still read it comfortably. Even small LCDs eat up a lot of power. I can gain an hour and a half on my estimator just by turning the LCD to minimum from maximim brightness.

What the Don man said and don't play DVD's. Three hours seems pretty good to me. When we're there we may go maybe 2 days max with no power and then if you get short you can just turn it on for 15 minutes at a time to store images or backup. So what you gonna be doing with it for 10 hours on the plane, your annual accounts?

Hehe I wouldn't want to use it for 10 hours even if the battery lasted that long. But it is nice to be able to see a dvd if the inflight movie (if there are any?) is booring.

cdi-ink.com wrote in post #2398159
I don't see how LAN would have much effect on battery life. You might gain a few minutes by turning it off, but a big help is the LCD. If you can get away with turning down the brightness when on battery juice, do so, and turn it down as far as you can and still read it comfortably. Even small LCDs eat up a lot of power. I can gain an hour and a half on my estimator just by turning the LCD to minimum from maximim brightness.

The lcd makes sense and I can see on my dell that it automatically adjust when disconnecting power.

As for the lan connection. The reason I asked about that is that my dell displays a message that the lanconenction has been powered off if I start the laptop on battery and don't connect the lan cable. So I thought it would save on the battery.

tommykjensen wrote in post #2398187
The lcd makes sense and I can see on my dell that it automatically adjust when disconnecting power.

As for the lan connection. The reason I asked about that is that my dell displays a message that the lanconenction has been powered off if I start the laptop on battery and don't connect the lan cable. So I thought it would save on the battery.

I forgot all about having to override that to stay connected (I have a Dell also). I haven't noticed any significant drain on the battery though. I'm sure it saves some, but it's probably negligible. Wouldn't hurt to turn it off if you aren't using it though.

me neither, to be honest i dont know why the network card has the option. i get just over 4 hours on average out of my latitude d820 centrino duo..