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I bought A New laptop a few weeks ago, I had enough with my old $800 Celeron, Too much too slow and I am glad to see  it now delegated a new life in the lounge room.

With a $915 dollar tax rebate coming my way thanks to a stimulus package I decided to spend big and went with a $1800 HP that I bought from JB-HiFi. An I did get suckered in for extra 2 years insurance.

Here are some photos:

From the Amazon  a quick rundown on specs

• 15.4 in (Diagonal) High Definition Brightview Infinity Display 1280 x 800 Resolution
• 2.00 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor P7350 with 3 MB L2 Cache
• 4096 MB DDR2 System Memory (2 Dimm), 320 GB (5400RPM) Hard Drive (SATA), NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS NB9M-GE with up to 2047 MB Total Graphics Memory with 256 MB Dedicated
• LightScribe Super Multi 8X DVD±R/RW with Double Layer Support, Intel WiFi Link 5100AGN and Bluetooth
• Windows Vista Home Premium 64 with SP1, dims in inches: 4.3 (W) x 14.05 (L) x 1.65" (H) approx., 5.83 lbs.

I’ve been doing some work in PHP  and my normal IDE Visual Studio 2008, obviously does not support php syntax. I was introduced to Aptana by an article from site-point into development of AIR apps.

It has the features that I need PHP support, SVN integration and CSS,JavaScript and html syntax highlighting and has code-assist for a number of JavaScript libraries like extJS and jQuery.

From the Aptana website:

Aptana Studio is a complete web development environment that combines powerful authoring tools with a collection of online hosting and collaboration services that help you and your team do more. 

For under $200 AUD with the features I want it was worth the investment. My on quibles are with the FTP support which is not as good as it could be and the speed is not always fantastic on larger documents.

Also on a minor note.

I also signed up to a SVN service, I wanted a repository for a few projects now and in the future and since I have an IDE with support it felt a good time to sign up.

Is a host service that includes SVN and Git repositories , Access management a ticket and wiki system and millstone tracker, many good tools for teams, I am using a free plan atm while I trial it but a basic plan is only about 20 dollars AUD a month.