Best Laptop For Remote Viewing

[billm 0]

I'm about to select a laptop for remote viewing and I was hoping to get some suggested models that some of the professional CCTV folks on the forum would find ideal.

 

Mobility is not an issue as the laptop will remain mostly in one place so a larger unit with a 17" screen is preferred.

 

My choices so far are maybe the....

 

HP Pavilion ZD8230US Noteboook

http://pcworld.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=10233926

 

Dell Inspiron 9100 -although it has a 15.4" screen

http://asia.cnet.com/reviews/hardware/notebooks/0,39001743,39018301p,00.htm?

 

Any suggestions that you might place on your own wish list?

 

Thanks

Bill

[rory 0]

here is one:

 

http://www.dynamism.com/m70/

[billm 0]

Rory:

 

That's an impressive laptop, never seen one like that before. Two drawbacks, price and 2.0GHZ chip.

[rory 0]

yep, Dynamism are generally Japanese products that either never make it to the US, or are out in Japan a couple years before they are released in the US. Hence the price, they are translated to English in most cases. I imagine the 2.0Ghz is due to the size. Though another thing that makes a fast PC is the memory, and that one does up to 2GB of ram, the CPU isnt everything, a 2.8Ghz P4 with 128MB ram is much slower than my 2.0Ghz AMD with 512MB Ram, its all about balance .. .just a FYI.

[kandcorp 0]

Yea but you have to remeber it has a Intel Pentium M 760 2.0GHz. From what I have heard and read this is comperable to a Pentium 4 3.0+. That's an awesome CPU especially if you are concerned with battery life. They were made for notebook PC's.

The bottom line is pentium M processors DO run at a slower clock cycle, but are designed to do MORE in each clock cycle making them faster. I would never buy a Pentium 4 again for a notebook. I have a NC6000 HP notebook and it utilizes a 1.6 Pentium Centrino M. I have really enjoyed the performance and the battery life. If you get a P4 3.4 in a notebook plan on only an hour or two of use.

 

Visit http://www.intel.com/products/processor/pentiumm/ for more info on the CPU.

[kandcorp 0]

Check this out as well "Top 5 Powerful Notebooks"

http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,123729,00.asp

They all have Pentium M CPU's

 

 

also

http://reviews.cnet.com/Notebooks/4521-6527_7-5021302-1.html?tag=dir

[eyeonutech 0]

If mobility is not an issue, whey not just get a desktop and save youself some money?

 

If you must have a notebook, you can read reviews and search disscussion forums here http://www.notebookreview.com/

 

I was personnally looking at the ASUS z71v http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=2346

 

or the ASUS Z70Va http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=2540

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=30680 for a comparison. The screens are 15.4, but what I usually do is just use an external monitor when I'm docked and that way the laptop is more portable.

 

You can also go here for additional resource http://www.notebookforums.com/

[Jasper 0]

I have an IBM T42 ThinkPad. 2 GHz (Pentium M. processor), 1 GB memory, 60 GB hard drive 7200 rpm and I believe a 15 inch high resolution screen. Once I used a ThinkPad I never wanted to use anything else but I know there are many good laptops out there. I bought this in August of 2004 and paid $3800 which was a deal at the time.

 

IBM now Lenovo have an excellent reliability and service record. The ThinkPad series of laptops has been the most popular laptop for many years.

 

If I didn't need portability I would definitely buy a desktop. You get so much more for your money and endless expansion options.

 

That second ASUS laptop in the above link looks real nice.

[rory 0]

the mouse is also one of the most important parts of a laptop, i hate those little things in the middle of the keyboard, did IBM get rid of those yet and go with a real mouse ..?

[Jasper 0]

They have 3 of them on the keyboard now.

 

The one you hate.

 

A soft touch membrane type.

 

And the third one which I don't use much.

 

This model also has the embedded security chip and auto hard drive protection feature.