Re: Pentium M and Oracle Performance

In article <3fc2c014$1_at_rutgers.edu>, T_at_T says...

we need the system just for customer presentation, but it has to be ultra-portable because we reach our customer by train or plaine and we wont carry a lot of stuff with us.

So a Notebook is for us the only way to deal with.

Wolfgang

>
> Is there a reason why you're going to run 9i on a laptop? Personally, I'd
> rather set up a server- or a hopped up desktop machine- to run 9i, and use
> my laptop and a good ethernet connection to access the database through a
> VPN. As a developer who's never found a "fast" laptop yet, it's my opinion
> that a laptop is a great and handy mobility tool- it sure beats driving to
> the office on a weekend- but it'll never be the workhorse that a desktop or
> server can be- even if you consider component failure due to heat! My
> laptop fans are always kicking on and blowing out hot air, but I've never
> felt the fans on my desktop or servers blow out hot air. (And no, I'm not
> running Oracle server on my 1.6Ghz P4 notebook w/XP Pro, just the Oracle
> client.)
>
> Besides, if you cram two hard drives and two batteries into a laptop, you
> might as well carry a desktop machine under your arm! :) Like I said, this
> is all just my opinion, but I'd bet you'd be happier with a small (and
> expandable in the future) server and a "portable" laptop, and would probably
> wind up spending the same amount of money. What happens when you need
> another 100 GB, and you can't put another drive into the laptop? A server
> would be more then willing to take another drive into it's case...
>
> -Thomas
>
Received on Tue Nov 25 2003 - 03:13:05 CST