{"id":1098,"date":"2010-12-03T00:31:31","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T00:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/?p=1098"},"modified":"2010-12-03T13:40:43","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T13:40:43","slug":"can-you-recommend-a-new-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/2010\/12\/can-you-recommend-a-new-laptop.php","title":{"rendered":"Can you recommend a new laptop?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About a month ago my good old Sony Vaio laptop\u00a0started playing up and kept crashing and refusing to switch on. It has served me well over the last 5 years but it is now time for an upgrade.<\/p>\n<p>The trouble is that I am a bit out of the loop when it comes to hardware and I could do with your advice and\u00a0recommendations. I need a laptop that is good for a\u00a0variety\u00a0of development. Some of this is for the Windows environment but this can be dine in a virtual machine if needed. I think a decent keyboard without a strange layout is my main\u00a0requirement.<\/p>\n<p>I have had a good\u00a0experience\u00a0with my last two Vaios so would like to stick with them, but there are not any in the range that tempt me at the moment, and they are not cheep, so I am looking at other options.<\/p>\n<p>Suggestions\u00a0so far, with reasons why I have not just gone with it&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Apple MacBook Pro &#8211; Expensive. Nice hardware but really expensive.<\/li>\n<li>Dell Vostro &#8211; Can be really nice\u00a0machines, but really bad\u00a0experiences\u00a0with\u00a0defective\u00a0hardware and Dell support on many\u00a0occasions. Would not want to buy direct because of it.<\/li>\n<li>HP &#8211; Nothing really wrong with HP and we had several at the office. Just a bit boring.<\/li>\n<li>Lenovo ThinkPad &#8211; Used IBM ThinkPads in the past and was not overly taken by them, but that was a long time ago.<\/li>\n<li>Toshiba Satellite Pro &#8211; Again nothing really wrong, just a but\u00a0boring.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, what would you\u00a0recommend\u00a0and why. Also what else should I be looking out for in terms of processor,\u00a0chipset, or anything else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a month ago my good old Sony Vaio laptop\u00a0started playing up and kept crashing and refusing to switch on. It has served me well over the last 5 years but it is now time for an upgrade. The trouble is that I am a bit out of the loop when it comes to hardware [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t60H-hI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1126,"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions\/1126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}