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Colin Angus Mackay wrote: Unfortunately, now you've shown me the price of that and I look the same model up on the UK site I find that we're being ripped off again
Score one for Apple in that respect - at todays exchange rates, Macbooks and Macbook Pros are coming in cheaper in the UK than in the US. Of course, if/when the pound strengthens against the dollar, that'll change, but it's nice to see prices that close.
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I too am impressed with Lenovo. We use the Dell Precision mobile workstations at work. A little pricey, but they are real workstations, lots of capability in a decent size. You can use dual monitors with or without (I think) the docking station. I'm pretty impressed with the one I use. 
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I have to say that my work laptop has a tiny screen. Yeah, it's uber-light, but hard to read anything in a standard resolution size. I don't think any laptop gives you the best of all worlds.
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Have you checked out Asus?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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No, but I'll have a look.
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The Dell D series docks will let you do that (1x digital, 1x analog), I assume the E series does as well.
The D's are in the process of being phased out so I wouldn't buy a D dock now unless you can get it really cheap.
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dan neely wrote: The Dell D series docks will let you do that (1x digital, 1x analog), I assume the E series does as well.
I'll have a look at them. Thanks for the tip.
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don't forget your solid state drive 
Charlie Gilley
Will program for food...
<italic>Hurtling toward a government of the stupid, by the stupid, for the stupid we go. —Michelle Malkin
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I do all my coding in C# nowadays. I'm ashamed to admit it  , but before .NET it was VB for me and before that plain old BASIC. I've done a little assembly too so I'm not scared of getting 'lower' level.
I've just landed a new job (woohoo!) and part of it will be developing a bespoke application. There are no time limits on this and I'll be working on it alone, so I wondered if you guys thought it might be worth the effort of going down the C++ route (is managed C++ that much different to C#?) to broaden my experience? I could code it in C# but I fancy learning something that may prove to be useful.
If not managed C++, what would you recommend?
DaveBTW, in software, hope and pray is not a viable strategy. (Luc Pattyn)Visual Basic is not used by normal people so we're not covering it here. (Uncyclopedia)
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Why not challenge yourself and create your own .net language and call it c+# 
KISS "Keep It Simple, Stupid"
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How about F#[^] - learn a new paradigm (functional programming) along with the first language to be added to the release version of Visual Studio (when VS2010 is released) since C#...
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I think that will be my next step too 
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If, like the OP, I developed .NET, I'd be all over F#. As I target native code, I have a bit more freedom, so I tend to use Haskell when I have the chance rather than OCaml, which is F#'s inspiration - I don't know why, but I've always preferred what Haskell offers.
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maybe I have a better idea.
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Thanks for the suggestion - I'll have a good look at this.
DaveBTW, in software, hope and pray is not a viable strategy. (Luc Pattyn)Visual Basic is not used by normal people so we're not covering it here. (Uncyclopedia)
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You can install it into VS 2008 Standard or Pro right now. Or if you don't have those it works with the free VS 2008 Shell Integrated Mode. I played with it briefly a while back but had to uninstall it for other reasons. There is now a quite developed F# dev center.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/fsharp/default.aspx[^]
Kevin
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I've installed it already - haven't had the time to play yet. Hoping this weekend...!
DaveBTW, in software, hope and pray is not a viable strategy. (Luc Pattyn)Visual Basic is not used by normal people so we're not covering it here. (Uncyclopedia)
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It's quite fun but a bit mind-boggling initially. Different paradigm and all that.
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Managed C++ is obsolete; it's now called C++/CLI and it's a pain in the ass. Yes, it has some nice things about it, but for me its eccentricities outweigh its benefits outside of very narrow application.
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine.
- P.J. O'Rourke
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I'd have to agree with Joe Woodbury - though I don't think Anna-Jayne would agree with me.
As far as I'm concerned:
Managed C++ is a syntactic mess, relatively non-portable and isn't as well supported as either mainstream (unmanaged) C++ nor (the arguably easier to use) C#.
For me it's a badly thought out compromise that doesn't really succeed in any way.
I know Anna-Jayne will disagree though. From what I've seen managed C++ is a largely dead language.
Mike
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I would third that. Go with C# if you want to do managed code and if you have any performance critical code create some native c++ code in a dll.
Richard
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C++/CLI is really good for native interop.
I wouldn't develop a fully managed app purely in C++/CLI, no. It still doesn't feel like a first-class .NET language, IMO.
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We have a heavy weight MFC app and we simply include one /CLR compiled module in the main app to get .NET running early and then call a /CLR compiled bridge DLL to add new functionality from .NET dll's.
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