I had a customer today ring up about cheap laptops. They were $600 and she wanted to see if I could match the price. The computers were celeron M processors with 512Mb of memory running Vista Home Basic. Hardly the fastest machines, in fact running them would be downright unpleasant.
I think that the minimum for a Vista laptop would be a T2*** cpu with at least 1Gb of memory. I'm writing this in an IBM Thinkpad with a T7250 cpu and 2 Gb of memory and Vista isn't the quickest. We forget how large the operating systems are getting. I have a Pentium III in the workshop running Windows 98 and 256Mb of memory and it starts up within 30 seconds and is extremely quick.
talking about Laptops I didn't like the Thinkpad at first as I have been selling ASUS laptops. The ASUS are extremely stylish while the Thinkpad is very square. However, after using one for a little while, I find I like the keypad and you get the feeling that you could throw the machine across the room and it wouldn't break.
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Saturday, January 26, 2008
Monday, December 31, 2007
Using .NET
I've spent the last 27 years programming in various languages. I started with Fortran and moved on from their. Almost any language after a break I can pick up again pretty quickly. I don't know if it is just me but this isn't the case with .NET. I always seem to spend hours doing the simplest kind of stuff (Making a grid update a database). You have table-adaptors and datasets and grids and all seem to have an update command but finding which ones to use is painful. In the examples, the seem to do everything directly from the ADO connection/command and dataset objects.
In the end it only ends up being a couple of lines of extra code but why can't you throw a grid on a screen, bind it to a recordset and make it automatically manage add/update/delete. If you want to manage this yourself then you add extra code. The problem is that I only do this every six months or so and if I still had an older version of VB or Visual Studio that supports ASP I would probably use those. It would be a lot more coding but I would spend less time stuffing around.
In the end it only ends up being a couple of lines of extra code but why can't you throw a grid on a screen, bind it to a recordset and make it automatically manage add/update/delete. If you want to manage this yourself then you add extra code. The problem is that I only do this every six months or so and if I still had an older version of VB or Visual Studio that supports ASP I would probably use those. It would be a lot more coding but I would spend less time stuffing around.
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