Ok laptop recieved,
A Acer Travelmate 803LCi with all sorts of goodies on it,

Best of the lot is the Wifi Connection, i am now able to sit downstairs (keeps the wife happy) and surf the net on my broardband connection and access everything on my drives on the PC upstairs.
The Conections is really fast and i was even able to install software from the drives on the main PC on the to Laptop.

So far the following software is installed
Windows XP Pro
Office XP Pro
Visio 2002
Money 2003
Photoshop 7
Acrobat 5
Warcraft 3
Nero 5.5
Power DVD
Xara Webstyle 3.1

The Laptop is now pretty much a mirror set-up of my main PC, with access to the second hard drive with all my Music and Pictures on it.
Still having problems with the network set-up between the 2 machines but im getting there

Thanx for all the replys

Phil G

[Edited by philgr - 7/6/2003 8:34:46 AM]

 

Ok,
i have finally took the plunge and ordered a Laptop, one of these intel Centrino Wi-fi thingys

What software does everyone have on their laptops,

advice please

Phil G

 

Software?

An OS would be a good start

H

 

i run MS-DOS 6.22 on my laptop (coz it's a 486 laptop!)

 

my laptops a P2 266mhz with 192meg ram and a 30gig hard drive, i use xp as the os and run office xp and logomanager. Oh and solitare from time to time

 

I still use W98 cause mine's a dog and won't handle XP. XP Home is the OS of choice unless you want to hook it up to a domain in which case you'll be needing XP Pro. Make sure you put it on classic style menu's though

 

Windows 2003 Server

Still boots faster than NT4

Cheers

Ian

 

Another vote for Win 2003 server (Enterprise of course!)

 

OS X - Apple PowerBook

Dan

 

I've got a little 1.2kg Fujitsu with a 633Mhz Crusoe chip in it. I run XP, MS Office 11 Beta, Visual Studio .Net, Dreamweaver, Trillian, Getright, Ahead Nero, PowerDVD, plus a few other bits and pieces. Oh, and WinAmp, to listen to the 32Gb of MP3s I've got on the HDD.

 

Mac OS 9.2 on a PowerBook G3. Hoping to get a 17" PowerBook G4 and run OSX soon.


AllanB

 

windows 95, and some custom subaru ecu software

also eprom programmer stuff.. and Autronic ECU mapping / datalogging software..

My other laptop and desktop pc's are filled with **** (not) lots of music.. listening Kosheen - Hide U (Trance Mix) at the moment..
oh and films..

and lots of car stuff

Windows XP Pro
Visual Basic 6 Enterprise
Visual Studio .Net Enterprise
photoshop 6
MSN Messenger
Outlook Express
UltraEdit
Citrix ICA Client
Nortel Contivity VPN Client
Media Player
PowerDVD
WinAmp
WS_FTP Pro


havent even installed office yet

David

 

Just got my Centrino based laptop yesterday is a Acer TravelMate 803LCiB - very impressed - running XP Pro naturally.

 

XP Home, with little things like eMule, Kazaa Lite, Winamp, mIRC, generally use it for browsing when i cant be arsed kicking up me main PC.

 

XP Pro, however it does need re-installing, I might actually do that tonight!