windows 7 drivers

[Stirton.M]

Nuts....yer options are rather limited...that said, nothing stopping you (I think, from my own personal experience) from doing a drive swap on the fly for times when you need it...the dells are reasonably easy to pull the drives....but I ditched the Dell I was given...not because it was a bad laptop, but because the battery in it was crap, I was lucky if I got an hour out of it. I do not always have the luxury of a spare plug on some of the machines I visit...so the power cord cannot always be used...so I went out and bought an ASUS 1005PE Netbook...250gb drive in it, 13 hours battery life (more than enough for a typical day). I keep the cord for those rare moments when the battery prematurely dies on me...I also keep a 200GB PATA 3.5 drive that contains a copy of all those images. Incidently, Acronis compresses the drive images...an IC 303 for example is about 7.5 GB for version 3 system. I just move it to my laptop when I need it...copy it while I am opening up the fiery to get at that drive. In some cases, I simply plug in both into the drive adaptor and get the benefit of a little more performance transferring the image directly.

[Mr Spock]

company issued laptop so I take what they give me.....
I was carrying an external usb drive but it started getting heavy.....
As to the battery, I learned a long time ago that at least every other week I kill the battery then do an overnight charge. This keeps a 2-3 hour battery charge and when I am at a machine with an extra plug I recharge. Usually the battery last all day. but then I have a 30-90 minute drive between calls.

[Stirton.M]

Ya, I don't carry my external drive either...I keep it in the trunk box for those times I need it. Which thankfully, is not all that often. These current fiery controllers are a far cry better than those old X3e things found on a 3102 or C350....very rare for them to go south...but then again, they stopped buying the cheap crap from CANRAM, that alone was a major improvement.

[mrwho]

My laptop's HD is quite big, and I didn't fill it up yet. Anway I keep all my stuff on a private ftp server so I access it in case I miss something or if I happen to run out of battery and don't have the charger around (yep, happens more times than I'll admit). Plus I just need to update stuff at home and then grab it when I need it.