Saturday, June 26, 2010

Need advice from Gadget gurus

I am planning to buy a new notebook for my home office use. Though I don't run a business from home it simply means that i will have the following application server, web server and a database server installed for my learning. Mostly the list will include
  1. IBM Lotus Domino server V8.5.x
  2. IBM Lotus Quickr server V8.5.x
  3. IBM Lotus Symphony
  4. IBM WebSphere Portal V6.1.x with WCM
  5. DB2 / My SQL / MS-SQL
  6. IIS, IBM Http server / Tomcat / JBoss
  7. Lotus Notes, Lotus Domino Designer and Administrator V8.5.x
  8. Eclipse / RAD tools
  9. MS Visual Studio
  10. MS - Office full suite including Visio, Project etc
  11. FeedDemon reader
  12. Windows live writer
  13. Nokia PC suite
  14. IE, Firefox and Chrome
  15. IM tools, Skype
  16. Photo editing tools
  17. Plus the Windows 7 system programs and Laptop manufacturer specific programs
  18. And sometimes go crazy download and install web frameworks and once in a while gaming, watching movies etc
I am pondering over Lenovo Thinkpad 410 vs Thinkpad 410i vs Samsung R480
  • Lenovo Thinkpad 410 Configuration priced around SGD 2250
Processors Intel® CoreTM i5-520M processor
  (2.40GHz up to 2.93GHz with Turbo Boost, 3MB L3 Cache)
Operating system12        Genuine Windows®7 Professional
Chipset  Mobile Intel® QM57 Chipset
Memory8  2GB DDR3 SDRAM
Hard disk4  320GB SATA HDD (7200 rpm)
Optical device5 Dual Layer Multiburner Drive (DVD-RW)
Graphics Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator HD Graphics
Display  14.1" WXGA+ TFT with X201 LED Backlight Display
Battery  6-cell Li-ion Battery
Warranty   3-year on-site Warranty
  •  Lenovo Thinkpad 410i Configuration priced around SGD 2050
Processors Intel® CoreTM i5-430M processor
  (2.26GHz up to 2.53GHz with Turbo Boost, 3MB L3 Cache)

Operating system12        Genuine Windows®7 Professional
Chipset  Mobile Intel® QM57 Chipset
Memory8  2GB DDR3 SDRAM
Hard disk4  320GB SATA HDD (7200 rpm)
Optical device5 Dual Layer Multiburner Drive (DVD-RW)
Graphics Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator HD Graphics
Display  14.1" WXGA+ TFT with X201 LED Backlight Display
Battery  6-cell Li-ion Battery
Warranty   3-year on-site Warranty
  •  Samsung R480 Configuration priced around SGD 1500
Processors Intel Сore i5 540M, 2.53 GHz

Operating system12        Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium (32 bit).
Chipset  Intel HM55 Express
Memory8  4GB (DDR3/2GB x 2)
Hard disk4  500GB (5,400rpm S-ATA)
Optical device5 Super Multi Dual Layer (S-ATA)
Graphics nVIDIA GeForce 310M 512MB gDDR3
Display  35.56cm (14.0 inch) LED HD (1366 x 768) 16:9 Gloss
Battery  6-cell Li-ion Battery
Warranty 2 year local warranty
For the requirements stated above, which once would be a better choice? While i am tempted to buy Samsung purely because of pricing, i am not sure whether it can meet my requirements given above.  Thanks in advance. Happy weekend ;)

5 comments:

  1. Anonymous12:10 PM

    u can't buy anything less than 4 gb ram. its min req because 1 to 8 are heavy, if you run more than 2 or 3 stuff at the same time.

    i wud suggest u buy a dell server.SMB server, and then use laptop/desktop to connect..

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  2. Anonymous1:19 PM

    buy hp laptop.. 2 gb ram is enough for people like u.. u r only manager rt?

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  3. Anonymous11:47 PM

    go for japan make laptop la

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  4. Go for thinkpad if you can afford. 2gb RAM is not good.Atleast 4GB.

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  5. Thanks for the inputs. I have purchased Thinkpad T410 which is option 1. More on that later

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