[thelist] laptop

[Paul Bennett]

Hi all,

Prob OT (so I'll include a tip)
I'm looking to buy my first laptop. I'm looking at getting my feet wet in the low end of the market and have about 4 machines (so far) around the same price point.

It will be used at home and on the train commute to work (power points available), so not sure how much time I'll spend 'unplugged'.

What should I be looking for? Anything to avoid (apart from the exploding Dell syndrome..)?

Paul

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CakePHP offers a fully developed frameowrk for Rapid Application Development(tm, c, r), as well as a manual and tutorials which are (mainly) helpful:

http://www.cakephp.org

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