From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
news:44182792{at}w3....
> Hey, Antti,
>
> Have you actually run largish test datasets on your 610, locally?

Not really, I think the biggest test DB I run on it is something like 5 G
at most. Takes about an hour to build. I have an old server which has 2 *
1Ghz processors, 2G memory and 6 SCSI disks in a RAID array, and the same
DB takes less than 10 minutes to build there. It's 99% up to the disk
speed.


> Painful?

No, I'm "old" enough to take it easy. I have a guitar at the office ;-)


> The classic advice is not to bother with notebooks for this, but I see
> more and more developers carrying one machine around everywhere, doing
> builds and quick fixes on site, both, on one notebook.  As long as they
> back up, it's very convenient.

I use my laptop as my primary development machine. They're so much better
now than some 5 years ago, that it's almost no trouble at all, plus my main
development tool is Delphi where 2 million lines of code do a full build
(compile & link) in less than half a minute, so it's peanuts anyway.

Biggest improvement (sorry Geo) is Windows XP because of it's really fast
startup - you can't leave your laptop on when traveling, so it's shut down
and restarted a lot, and W2k, while otherwise perfect, is just pig slow to
start up.


> I make it a point to slap them upside the head until they do, when I have
> the authority.

I've got a self-made tool for backups which I use at least once a day. Muy important.


> Two years ago, 7200rpm drives ran too hot for many laptops.  Things seem
> to have gotten better.  This is a hint to install a SMART temperature
> monitoring util and tell me the HD temp after a build on your 610 (pretty
> please). Thanks in advance.

I'd rather not - I don't want anything "extra" on my machine (I
generally dislike all them tweak/monitor/clean utilities). But I can tell
you this: it's a *lot* cooler than my previous one, which was Latitude
C810. It feels (by hand touch) like the cpu is still the hottest part.

The C810 was almost too hot to keep on your lap, but the D610 is just warm.


Antti Kurenniemi

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