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March 2, 2005
Scylla, meet Charybdis
I just got a sneak peak at our D610 and D810 eval units from one of the guys in IS. Gosh, do they suck.
Maybe I'm just being a whiny bitch (entirely possible) or an overly harsh judge of design (highly likely), but what's up with notebooks that look and feel like they were designed by Mary Shelley?
The 610 isn't bad - provided you don't need screen space. If you're using Office you'll be fine - if you're using Eclipse, well, you'll be less fine (or, again, maybe I'm just whining).
The 810, on the other hand, is an abomination. It weighs a ton (and they claim it's a half pound lighter than the 800 it's replacing), and it's gratutiously thick and clunky. The screen is marginally larger than the screen on my powerbook, and the overall form factor is way lots larger. For all that weight, you don't get anything significantly better than (for example) a Hypersonic Aviator CQ6.
Standards - insuring we all suck the same...
Posted by dberger at March 2, 2005 2:42 PM