I am looking at my options of keeping my whiz bang machine for FS and getting a run around notebook, it was built for FS and have been offered 1100pounds for the box and guts of it alone 6 months old, it is meant to be an amazing machine for FS, yeah it does it good, but a computer is a computer to me. I have uit set up with two 21' trinitons and lots of bells and whistles, (peddles, yokes, MCP, Freznals, etc). All I know is that it has a top of the line processor, some good graphics card I forget the name of and a gig of RAM and it's in a black box with lots of fans in it. The other advantage of a new laptop would be I could network it appartently and connect a touch screen to it and put the FMS on to that screeen for a cheap fully functional FMS. (They are expensive little suckers those FMS keypads.)
Below is a low end IBM notebook, I would upgrade. If I keep my main machine and dedicate that to FS, Do you think this would be enough for run the usual Microsoft Office, email, and run FS smothly enough when I go away for 2-3 weeks trips? It is new and about 450 pounds.
Thanks chaps.
Features
* Product Description: ThinkPad R50e 1834 - Celeron M 330 1.4 GHz
* Dimensions (WxDxH): 33.2 cm x 26.9 cm x 3.7 cm
* Weight: 2.7 kg
* Built-in Devices: Speaker, wireless LAN aerial (NO WiFi Card Included), ThinkLight
* Processor: Intel Celeron M 330 1.4 GHz
* Cache Memory: 512 KB - L2 Cache
* RAM: 512 MB (installed) / 2 GB (max) - DDR SDRAM - PC2700 - 333 MHz
* Hard Drive: 40 GB - 4200 rpm
* Optical Storage: CD Rom - integrated
* Display: 14.1" TFT active matrix XGA (1024 x 768) - 24-bit (16.7 million colours)
* Graphics Controller: Intel 855GM