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Dell E1705Hardware

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Who uses, recommends or left Dell E1705, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Andrei Alexandrescu
Programmer and author of Modern C++ Design and The D Programming Language; a lead contributor to the D language.
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My "work away from work" machine is an 2007-vintage Dell E1705. I recall I got the cheapest machine I could (read: Dell outlet) featuring a 17-inch display with 1920x1200 resolution. I didn't care for speed as by then I was already equating "computing" with "cluster", but I wanted good resolution so I can cram as much information on the screen as possible. I grew fond of that machine. I can't ask more from a laptop keyboard (which, unlike the MacBook's, has two Ctrl keys and doesn't have "cut wrists" on its feature list). It's been through a doctorate and a book, and has the scars to prove it.

His Uses This interview, on his laptops, remote shells and writing toolchain.

2012-05-18·usesthis.com ↗

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