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Best Business Laptop? Any Advice?

by cyberwebsoft Jul 16, 2009 2:26AM PDT

We are looking buy few portable laptops that can run high end applications. Any recommendations.

Some of the tasks we perform using the laptop will be - photoshop, dreamweaver, visual studio, developer edition MSSQL server, MYSQL.

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by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator Jul 16, 2009 3:15AM PDT

We would see those applications on any current machine.

However I would try Dell's business laptops with the ones you have downgrade rights to XP Pro if you get bound up into a corner with Vista.

More at http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=vista+downgrade+rights

Remember we used to run such demanding things on 1GB RAM, XP Pro, single core machines. You will likely get dual core and 3 to 4 times the ram so I won't call this demanding.
Bob

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