had enough of mac, looking for new OS and laptop

[James Coplin]

Lenovo or Toshiba.  Both have extended life batteries as options.  I get
around 12 hours with mine.  Both have the best options if purchased direct
and configed via their websites.  I found the pricing wasn't better by
buying from a reseller if you want anything besides the absolute base
options.

James

> -----Original Message-----
> From: music-bar-bounces at lists.music-bar.org [mailto:music-bar-
> bounces at lists.music-bar.org] On Behalf Of Tony Scharf
> Sent: Monday, August 01, 2011 3:17 PM
> To: Music-bar
> Subject: Re: had enough of mac, looking for new OS and laptop
>
> Personally, I would go with windows 7.  It is not the same old crap MS
> OS.  i actually really *like* it.
>
> Tony
>
> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Paul Maddox
> <paul.Maddox.mail-list at synth.net> wrote:
> > Guys,
> >
> >  My mac is now really pissing me off, the new MIDI interface keeps
> > dropping bytes and misbehaving. The machine sometimes recognises
> > external drives in some windows but not others and the whole web
> > browser just sucks ass. no way in hell I'm ugrading to the latest OS.
> >
> >  So I'm after some advice..... I want a new laptop and new OS, here's
> > what I need ;
> >
> > 1) AVR Tool C Compiler and programmer, don't care what compiler, I'm
> > happy with GCC for the AVR aslong as the IDE usable)
> > 2) AVR Assembler, again, don't what or how, as long as I can edit
> > text, assemble it and program it
> > 3) Must support Eagle
> > 4) Must have "drop box" available for it.
> > 5) Must have LONG battery life i.e. more than 8 hours
> > 6) needs to be portable (13" screen is big enough, 15" is too big).
> > 7) Needs at least 2 USB ports, ideally 4
> > 8) Needs an "office" type suite that supports .docx and .doc
> > 9) Needs a PDF creator
> > 10) when I close the lid, I want it to suspend, when I open it, I
> want
> > it to restart... don't wanna screw around pressing "start, shutdown,
> > suspend".
> >
> > it doesn't need super fast CPU or wizzy graphics, this is for coding
> > and drawing schematics.
> >
> > i'm totally open to OS, windows7/ubuntu/whatever and machine.
> >
> > Willing to pay up to 800 quid, but would prefer to pay less than 500.
> >
> > Paul
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