How do you use your Dell?

Hi

Since 2004 (M60), 2007 (M6300) and 2009 (M6400) I use my Precisions for developing Addons for CAD Software (AutoDesk, Nemetschek (ArchiCAD) and Bently).

Developing on a mobile Platform brings a lot of vantages:
you are not bound on a fixed workplace
you can develop on demand nearly everywhere
you can work at home and night (maybe this is not a good benefit )

Using MS Visual Studio (6.0, 2003 and 2008) a couple of APIs and the different CAD Software Versions for Testing an Debugging needs a powerfull Notebook which i allways found in Dell Precisions so far.

With my new Precision (M6400) i have to fight a little with Windows Vista 64Bit but now i can realy develop also for this OS. I don't miss any tool from XP, most of them run also under Vista64 and those which are not running are useless or i found a version or similar tool for Vista.

Still using my M6300 (a replacement for my M60) for WinXp and 32Bit.

Also in my realy spare free Time i use them for play some games.

regards
Christopher

 

I got a M4400 with my assignment, web-designing, MSN, 3dmarks, and games like crysis lol

 

I have an M6400 (quad core, 16GB RAM, 512GB Raid0 HD...)

It is mainly used docked to 2x 26" monitors, but, like now, sometimes un the garden on its own.

I am a software developer - main software is Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 6 (for some legacy C++ stuff). It runs Virtual Server as well (hence the huge amount of RAM) and often has 2 XP sessions running on that.

I don't run SQL Server on it, but some of the virtual PCs that it hosts does.

 

My E6400 gets to do whatever I need to do wherever I need to do it. Mainly work, plus emails, web browsing and the occasional DVD.

In 24 hours time both it and me will be trying to catch some sleep on a plane.

John

 

I use my Dell Notebook (not a Latitude, however) for all of my computing needs.

Programming (Visual Studio 2008)
AIM
Email
Web Surfing
Movies (YouTube, Hulu, etc)
Music (iTunes, WMP)
Photoshop
Light Gaming (AoE2 mainly)
Anything school related (ie MS Office, etc)
And pretty much anything else.

It's been a trooper.

 

I have Latitude E6400. Most of the time for work and traveling.

Browsing, email, excel, and all those crap stuffs.

Sometimes I think why do we need powerful PC if I just do email, excel, and browsing? I tried to install Crysis and other 3D game stuffs, unfortunately E6400 isn't designed for gaming.

One more thing:
I do a lot of browing for work, usually open 3 IE with 5 tabs in each IE. At first, IE only takes around 35,000K memory, but after browsing, at the end of the day it is a whopping 404,284K. Is this normal or what? Is firefox same like this?

 

I use Firefox, usually opened 10-20 tabs, used approx. 160,000K

 

You don't I came to the same conclusion and scrapped my Nvidia card. Much happier with the Intel solution.

In some extreme scenarios I've encountered similar with Firefox. I usually leave the same instance of Firefox running on my HP for days at a time over multiple standby cycles... I've seen it go up to 700MB after a week or so after which it actually starts to lag and requires a reboot.

 

Easiest to hardest:

MS Office
AIM/MSN
Internet Browsing
Youtube
Video Editing
Gaming
Multiple virtual machines

It functions as my "desktop" of sorts.

 

Well, IE8 has each tab in it's own instance like Google Chrome...so that could account for that if some of the tabs have intensive stuff going on in them like Flash video, games, etc.

My E6400 does everything from writing papers last minute to gaming sessions with FC2, CSS, L4D, and even TF2.