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| Subject: | Re: [gislist] GIS - notebook - Apple? |
| Date: |
07/10/2005 12:30:02 AM |
| From: |
Mohamed Eleiche |
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Analisa,
You got a nice new notebook, Congratulations !!!
I'll tell you my personal experience,
As I run the same GIS applications on diversity of Intel platforms,
If your GIS application is concrete and well coded, it'll run safely on
PIII,
and the extra H/W resources will reduce the processing time,
if you're running heavy applications consuming hours of processing.
On the other hand, if you deal with a handicapped GIS application,
that make you mad when you need a result, specially quickly,
the extra H/W resources had nothing to do with this.
I advise you to keep your nice labtob, and spend your time in migrating
data and application to it, you have along road to walk.
Regards
Mohamed Eleiche
GIS Consultant
GeoTiba Systems
Cairo, Egypt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Analisa Gunnell" <analisa@ecotrust.org>
To: <gislist@lists.geocomm.com>: <gislist@lists.thinkburst.com>:
<SCGIS@PETE.URI.EDU>
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 10:04 PM
Subject: [gislist] GIS - notebook - Apple?
> Hello everyone,
>
> I just purchased a Sony VGN A790 three days ago, hoping that it would be
> a great GIS mobile computer for my work. I chose this computer because
> it has a fast processor speed (2.0ghz), lot's of RAM (1gb, but I'll be
> upgrading to 2gb), and a beautiful monitor (17 inches...this thing is a
> MONSTER!) which is essential for me since I make so many maps. Anyway,
> the point of this email is that I am now getting a lot of people telling
> me that I should have purchased an Apple notebook, and simply bought a
> Windows emulator program in order to run my GIS app's. Then, I could
> use the Apple for all of my other graphic needs (like illustrator and
> photoshop). Has anyone out there tried this? I can imagine that you
> would have significant processing speed issues doing this, which is the
> last thing that I would want. Working on a computer has really made me
> an impatient little thang.
>
> Anyway, if anyone has any additional suggestions on kick-ass GIS laptops
> out there (I am looking for the best) I would really appreciate your
> feedback. I just spent all of my savings on the above mentioned laptop,
> and have 20 days to review it...
>
> Thanks so much in advance!
>
> And HAPPY FRIDAY!
>
> Analisa Noel Gunnell
> Chief Cartographer/GIS Analyst
> Ecotrust
> 721 NW Ninth Avenue, Suite 200
> Portland, Oregon
> 97209
> 503.467.0750
> analisa@ecotrust.org
> www.ecotrust.org
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