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Is a T43 good for programming?
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Is a T43 good for programming?
I was wondering is T43 good for programming?
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Re: Is a T43 good for programming?
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It depends on your programming. If you do some Java, C++, etc. that requires little hardware needs and just needs a screen and keyboard, then you should. If you are doing more intensive things like 3D programming, stay clear. The T43 will not have enough power to do that. If you even try to touch Web Programming on that machine past raw HTML and CSS, well get ready for some bad performance. You should look into a T60p/Frankenpad if you want to do some more intensive stuff. The T60p is around the same price, comes with the significantly more powerful C2D cpus and still retains the 4:3 LCD. If you really need a performace boost, a Frankenpad will do, with up to 8GB RAM, fast C2D CPUs and SATA II performance.
It depends on your programming. If you do some Java, C++, etc. that requires little hardware needs and just needs a screen and keyboard, then you should. If you are doing more intensive things like 3D programming, stay clear. The T43 will not have enough power to do that. If you even try to touch Web Programming on that machine past raw HTML and CSS, well get ready for some bad performance. You should look into a T60p/Frankenpad if you want to do some more intensive stuff. The T60p is around the same price, comes with the significantly more powerful C2D cpus and still retains the 4:3 LCD. If you really need a performace boost, a Frankenpad will do, with up to 8GB RAM, fast C2D CPUs and SATA II performance.
Thinkpad4by3's Law of the Universe.
The efficiency of two screens equally sized with equal numbers if pixels are equal. The time spent by a 4:3 user complaining about 16:9 is proportional to the inefficiency working with a 16:9 display, therefore the amount of useful work extracted is equal.
The efficiency of two screens equally sized with equal numbers if pixels are equal. The time spent by a 4:3 user complaining about 16:9 is proportional to the inefficiency working with a 16:9 display, therefore the amount of useful work extracted is equal.
Re: Is a T43 good for programming?
T43 is OK with a lightweight IDE, and an environment that can run in 2GB or less...
Best run it with Linux and IDEA and you'll get some mileage out of it (IDEA supports many languages).
Nowadays as a bare minimum I'd consider a T61p with 4GB or 8GB... a sweet machine with WUXGA... compiling would be slow'ish... but certainly usable.
Could even use this as my main machine although a bit on the slow side.
Best run it with Linux and IDEA and you'll get some mileage out of it (IDEA supports many languages).
Nowadays as a bare minimum I'd consider a T61p with 4GB or 8GB... a sweet machine with WUXGA... compiling would be slow'ish... but certainly usable.
Could even use this as my main machine although a bit on the slow side.
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Re: Is a T43 good for programming?
It's got a great keyboard and plenty of vertical space.
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Re: Is a T43 good for programming?
As my university needs me to use Python and Pycharm, even the lightweight version of that piece of crap takes a whole 5 minutes before it is fully operational on maxed out T43p. Other versions of IDE, as well as python shell, works perfectly fine, though the newest version of which refuses to run on anything older than Windows 7 as well as linux (because Python only officially support x64 linux for the latest version)
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600 PII-266 416mb 40gb WXP
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T530i 15.6" i7 16gb fp W10
UXGA:
A30p PIII 1.2 1gb W7 (IDTech)
T43p 2.26 2gb fp W10 (Sharp)
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600 PII-266 416mb 40gb WXP
T23 PIII 1.13ghz 1gb W7
Precision M4300 X9000 8gb 160gb WUXGA Ultrasharp fp W10
T530i 15.6" i7 16gb fp W10
UXGA:
A30p PIII 1.2 1gb W7 (IDTech)
T43p 2.26 2gb fp W10 (Sharp)
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