RE: Dell pc's

  • From: "Milton M. Ota" <mota@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 06:29:10 -1000

The only issue you need to be concerned with is the video card and the =
sound
card in the Notebook.

Speed of the processor should not be a primary issue.

For the latest regarding video cards for Notebooks, consult with Freedom
Scientific and others on this list.





Aloha,
Milton M. Ota
Associate Dealer, Hawaii
Island Computer Access Now, I.C.A.N.
1318 Kanewai Street
Honolulu, Hawaii 96816-1718
Phone: (808)734-0612
Cell: (808)295-2528
E-Mail: mota@xxxxxxxx
Website: http://www.hgea.org/~mota
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-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On =
Behalf
Of Reed Poynter
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 6:13 AM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Dell pc's


Howdy,
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My employer is going to replace my existing notepad. The hope is that =
the
replacement will keep me going for the next 2 to 3 years.=20

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The Hardware/Software Procurement person states,=20

"The current company standard for notebooks is the Dell D600 laptop with =
the
1.4GHz Centrino mobile technology processor and the ATI Mobility Radeon =
9000
graphics chipset."

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He goes on to state that,

"Intel has two processors for their laptops, the Mobile Pentium 4 =
processor
and the Centrino mobile technology processor. It is the Centrino =
processor
that

we are using in our new Dell laptops. According to all the benchmarks I =
have
reviewed on this, the Centrino processor outperforms the Mobile P4
processor.

For an example, the Centrino 1.7GHz processor is faster than the Mobile
2.6GHz processor. The Centrino processor also uses less power, =
therefore;
battery

life is 1.25 to 1.5 times longer than with the Mobile P4 processor.".

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I'm an old mainframe dog who supports telephone company prebilling
applications running on an IBM mainframe and a few pc Unix based
applications coded in JAVA.  =20

Our standard pc configuration makes use of the Office 2000 product.  =
Word
and Excell are used for creating and maintaining =
requirements/design/system
documentation.  We use Reflection For IBM (which works very well with =
JAWS)
for our terminal emulation.  For email, we use Outlook 2000.  Mcafee is =
the
security software.  All of our human resources/payroll activities, time
reporting, learning etc is performed on the company intranet through a
central LAN  .  The network is also used to push  software upgrades to =
each
of our pc's.=20

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All of the junk the network guys have running in the background has been
causing my pc to really drag from time to time; preventing me to get =
real
work done. The hope is that this new notepad will improve the situation =
and
keep me going for 2 to three years. Hmmm. =20

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I have been asked to advise if this Dell and chipset is compatible with =
my
voice software.

Do you know of any issues with this 1.4GHz Centrino processor or ATI
Mobility Radeon 9000 graphics chipset?

Would some other DELL notepad configuration work better with JAWS 5.  =
Will
the machine be fast enough?  Ya, ya, I know...What's fast enough?=20

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Thanks.



Reed=20

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