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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: Kesa on June 17, 2012, 07:36:37 AM
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First of all sorry about starting yet another non Amiga thread. But...
I was wondering what type of laptops people on Amiga.org use and if there are any favourites that Amigan's tend to use. I ask this as i intend to buy this little number this Friday coming up unless if i find something better :D
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Sony-Vaio-F-Laptop-BACKLIT-16-4-i7-2-93Ghz-8GB-nVIDIA-GT-Win-7-Pro-/160710449173?pt=AU_comp_laptop&hash=item256b16d815#ht_5988wt_980
Being a poor student it took me almost a year to save up for this so i'm really excited. I'm pretty brand loyal to Sony but i'm open to other ideas and opinions if anyone wants to give any.
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Never a Vaio, seen the state of gfx driver support. Want the best performance for money - meaning MSI, Asus for instance.
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Mac Air running Windows 7, Toshiba A100 with a SSD running Ubuntu. Old PPC PB, functioning as a paperweight now due to lack of wifi drivers.
Looking at a MacBook Pro with Retina display, might buy one of them when there's full support for the Retina display when running Windows on it.
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I just buy whatever is cheapest that has enough CPU and memory, and ideally as large a screen as possible. This is usually no more than $50 above the bottom of the barrel (last one was $320 Canadian I think). It's worked out well so far, always had good luck with laptops not giving me much grief over the last 15 years. For some reason my last few computers seem to be from Gateway, I guess they give the best bang for the buck around here. The loyalty was not intentional though.
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After two week and as a present to myself for quitting smoking for a year so far This is due for delivery monday :)
1ALIENWARE M17X : STANDARD BASE
1PROCESSOR : INTEL CORE I7 3720QM (6MB CA
1DISPLAY : 17.3" WIDEFHD (1920 X 1080) WL
1CAMERA : INTEGRATED SKYPE HD CERTIFIED F
1LCD BACK COVER : SOFT TOUCH - STEALTH BL
1PLACEMATS : PLACEMATS (ENG, GRE, POL, AR
1RESOURCE DVD : ALIENWARE M17X
1SHIP ACCESSORY : SOUTHERN EUROPE DOCS (E
1MEMORY : 8192MB (2X4096) 1600MHZ DDR3 DU
1HARD DRIVE : 64GB MSATA BOOT DRIVE + 500
1OPTICAL DRIVE : BLURAY COMBO (BLU-RAY RE
1POWER CORD : UK 250V
1POWER SUPPLY : ALIENWARE 240W AC ADAPTER
1BATTERY : PRIMARY 9-CELL 93W/HR LI-ION
1GRAPHICS : 2GB GDDR5 AMD RADEON HD 7970M
1SOUND CARD : CREATIVE SOUND BLASTER RECO
1GAMING SOFTWARE : STEAM GAMING FORUM AND
1WIRELESS : KILLER WIRELESS-N 1103
1KEYBOARD : INTERNAL UK/IRISH QWERTY KEYB
1OPERATING SYSTEM : ENGLISH GENUINE WINDO
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This what been using for last 5 years. Have upgraded memory and HDD.
1LIST N03152- BSD 1501 (2)
1INSPIRON 1501 SEMPRON 3500+ (1.8GHZ 512K
115.4" WIDE SCREEN XGA TFT DISPLAY: 1280X
1MEMORY DUAL-CHANNEL 1024MB (2X512) 533MH
1HARD DRIVE 80GB SERIAL ATA (5400 RPM)
1FIXED INTERNAL 8X DVD+/-RW DRIVE
14 CELL 29WHR PRIMARY BATTERY
1ATI RADEON XPRESS 1150 256MB HYPERMEMORY
1UK MODEM CABLE AND ADAPTER INTERNAL V.92
1DELL™ WIRELESS 1390 802.11B/G MINI-
1UK/IRE - (QWERTY) - INTERNAL KEYBOARD
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Its kind of old now, and I can't afford to get a new laptop...
I upgraded my two year old Toshiba 18.4 notebook with 8gb of ram and a plextor 256mb SSD and Windows 7...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834214051
I would totally buy Toshiba again...
I did have P4 Sony Vaio. I gave it to my mom... She used it for a long time and it is her backup now, but still works except for the battery. Which is a amazing, most P4 notebooks have burned out a long time ago.
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Alienware make a real nice laptop, JJ - should be very happy with it!
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Never a Vaio, seen the state of gfx driver support. Want the best performance for money - meaning MSI, Asus for instance.
I own a Sony Vaio, and for the last two years Linux Drivers where not stable. But it has changed. Still the Drivers are proprietary, but that`s only a concern for purists.
Drivers on Windows work very (!) well, except for the webcam on Windows 8.
I like the Sony better than my 1st gen MacBook Air: there is a huge performance benefit, bigger harddrive and built in optical drive. So if you don`t rely on Mac OS and don`t need something very light, there is really no reason to prefer the Air.
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What ever you do don't buy any Lenovo crap.
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I've used a succession of MacBook Pros... Currently thinking about a MacBook Air... As portability is becomin more imptortant to me than performance.
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MacBook Pros (3 x 17", 1 x 13") for work and leisure, PowerBook G4 for MorphOS. Though I must confess that one of the 17" MBPs is a backup device and not used often.
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My work Laptop is an old Dell Lattitude D620 1GB with Nvidia Video and core 2 duo. ~2007 Vintage but still runs fine on XP SP3. If you don't open more than a taskbar full of apps.
At home, when I'm not at my PC, I use an eMachines eM250 Netbook upgraded with 2GB Ram, 750GB HD and a HiDef Video Decoder and a wireless mouse. It's 2 years old and cost next to nothing. Again XP SP3 but with a Windows7 skin. It runs WinUAE fine.
Have you looked at the Asus i7 Zenbook ? A bit more expensive than what you're looking at but a nice looking machine.
BTW: JJ that sounds like a mean machine.
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Discarded HP Compaq nc6000 from work; Pentium M 1.4, 768 MB - pretty sufficient for my mobile needs... ;)
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I have a Thinkpad T510 that replaced a 4 year old T60 last year. I sold the T60 for $200 to one of my friends and it's still running.
I will never buy an HP and a Sony again. I had a Sony several years ago that had a buggy BIOS that automatically loaded failsafe values every few days, which would disable USB 2 and drop the RAM speed to 266MHz. It affected several VAIO desktops based on the same motherboard and Sony never fixed it.
I had an HP that had the hard drive controller crap out after about 15 months. It was fine when I left the house, came back a few hours later and it was frozen solid and wouldn't boot again. He also use HP's at work and we consistently get laptop models that are just plain junk. They will either have motherboard faults or will be built with the thinnest, junkiest plastic HP can get their hands on.
I have no idea why the person above said to never buy Lenovo "crap", but they consistently beat out every other PC manufacturer in customer satisfaction and support ratings and I've never had a problem with any of my Thinkpads, IBM or Lenovo.
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I've been using discarded laptops from work since 1998. Mostly IBM (Lenovo). Never actually forked out the money on a new laptop. Currently using Lenovo Thinkpad T60
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Never a Vaio, seen the state of gfx driver support. Want the best performance for money - meaning MSI, Asus for instance.
DIRT!
If a laptop does not have a proper dedicated memory and GPU it is a doorstop. I owned a C64 and Amiga not a Spectrum and Atari ST most of my life, this means graphics performance is important and I have no use for ASUS/ACER/MSI junk that can only surf the net or be used to play MP3s and flat refused to run even a 7 year old game like Battlefield 2 LOL
My work laptop actually runs rings round EVERY new laptop under £1000, it's a Dell Inspiron 9400 with a 2.23ghz C2D 64bit. But it's the GFX card (512mb Nvidia 7900GT) that makes it worth so much to me, I can actually play games in PS3 quality, unlike new machines stuck with browser based flash games. My other machine is a 2.23ghz Centrino D810, again with 128mb ATI X600 graphics, which still runs Need for Speed Most Wanted as well as the badly programmed Xbox360 port.
Sadly new laptops are marketed to nobs with 4gb ram and huge hard drives and a graphics solution that is inferior to what was on some Pentium 3 laptops last century and can not do transform and lighting in hardware in any way shape or form. Toys for little girls who spend all day on facecok.
VAIOs do have nice screens, and they used to have ATI dedicated GPUs, hopefully they still have something good given their pricing.
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I'm soon to order either a dell latitude e6530 or an hp elitebook workstation. need an expresscard slot and apparently it's a lot easier to find them on enterprise class laptops now. waiting for ivy bridge goodness.
and of course an amigaos netbook as soon as i can
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Have used a succession of IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad machines (600, 600X, T40) and currently use an old R51 (Win XP).
Have dallied with other brands (HP, Compaq, Digital), but none come close to the reliability & toughness of the Thinkpads.
Next system will be either a T410/420 or L520...
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sorry about starting yet another non Amiga thread.
Just use the dedicted forum for non Amiga threads, then there's no need to be sorry.
Here's a selection of threads you started in "General chat about Amiga topics", I fail to see the Amiga relevance in any of these:
What laptops do Amigan's use in general?
That dreadful Apple startup sound.
St Patricks Day. Strictly non Amiga related!
IPad 3 Concept video
Paranormal Activity 3 Snapshot
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MacBookPro 17", iBook G4, but mostly the iPad these days as it is small and I can do most stuff with it.
I can confirm the lenovo stuff and add Acer to the crap list, as I know several people having trouble with it. :) Any laptop with a plastic case is a no-go by default these days.
Of course that is only my oppinion.
Geit
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BTW: JJ that sounds like a mean machine.
It sure does, i have to wait few more days as will not be in when its going to be delivered. By far the most powerful spec machine I will have ever owned.
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I used to have a Toshiba x205-SLi1 but.. the nvidia 3d chipset burned.. and now it's barely usable.. I disassembled it and I'll probably buy the needed parts if I don't buy a new one by the end of the year. Currently I'm using a PowerBookG4 1139 with MorphOS 3.0 ;-)
Chreers,
Dragster.
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It sure does, i have to wait few more days as will not be in when its going to be delivered. By far the most powerful spec machine I will have ever owned.
Hi,
@JJ,
Sorry to hear you bought an Alienware Dell laptop.
but take a look at the Eurocom Panther 2.0,
CPU - 3.3 ghz intel core I7-980x
Ram - 16 gb DDR3
Chipset - Intel X58
Drives - Micron 256 gb SSD SATA 600
RealSSD C300, 500 GB 7,200 rpm
hybrid, SATA 300
Optical - Hitachi - LG CTION Blu-ray player
GPU - 2X AMD Radeon HD6970 XT 2GB
Display - 17.3 inch LED backlit, 1920x1080
Connectivity - HDMI out, HDMI in, DVI, Ethernet, two USB 3.0, three USB 2.0
eSATA, Firewire, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi,
headphone, mic, line-in, S/PDIF out
media reader, webcam, fingerprint sensor
LAP/Carry - 13 lb, 3.2oz/ 16lbs, 8.7 oz
Price $5,373 at http://www.eurocom.com
OK JJ, nice unit hope you enjoy it, listen my laptop is a Toshiba Satellite that is about 12 years old. just trying to turn you up.
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Just think you could of had a Eurocom instead.
really a nice unit, enjoy it, the monster above in June 2011 was the top of the line fastest laptop on the market. Don't know if it still holds that title.
I am just jealous
smerf
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5 powerbooks in here (anyone want some?), PB 5,9 as my main laptop. I got rid of PC laptops some time ago.
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My work laptop is two years old Lenovo Thinkpad running XP. Chinese crap.
My home laptop is five years old HP running XP but is on loan.
My gf is using my PowerBook running MorphOS.
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DELL Vostro 3500 for work with 6 GB ram, 500 GB HD and NVidia graphics. Not to happy with it though. It has a design flaw and that causes it to overheat. Had mine replaced twice under warranty and most of my coworkers have had theirs replaced too. Now I am having a new hardware problem that is causing the machine to lock up half a dozen times a week. I can hardly wait until the warranty runs out. Work says that they will consider replacing it with one of the new Mac Book Pro's with retina display that just came out. Sweet!
For couch lounging and such... I love my 32 GB BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. Never thought I would get a tablet but absolutely love this one. I am a long time iPhone user and have played with the iPad many time but believe it or not I currently prefer the PlayBook!
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I use a netbook rather than a full laptop. Specifically a Toshiba NB100. It's main usage is as the PC element when modding consoles (as I can move it to whatever room the console is in easily) and for watching video in bed. Best of all, it was given to me free by a friend of mine, it was his daughters one but he upgraded hers to a full laptop and had no need of it, all I had to do was wipe it, reinstall the OS and replace the keyboard as it was faulty. Bargain! I would love to see a specific AROS build for it, a specific Ubuntu build already exists and works 100%.
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Five year old 13" MacBook (2.0 Ghz core duo, 80 gig HD, 2 Gig RAM) running Lion and Windows 7 on Bootcamp.
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I just buy whatever is cheapest that has enough CPU and memory, and ideally as large a screen as possible.
Pretty much this, though I do do some checking around to make sure it's not a cheap piece of crap before I buy. Getting it refurbished instead of new helps, too, as long as it's the kind of refurbisher that offers warranties.
Currently I've got a Compaq nc4400 - 12" 1024x768 screen (I wanted to move up from my Eee's 9" screen, but I hate the widescreen gigalaptops that seem to be ubiquitous these days,) Core 2 Duo @ 1.83GHz, 2GB RAM (I intend to kick this up to 4GB in the near future, that should let me turn off the pagefile altogether.) The resolution isn't exactly impressive and it's another friggin' Intel 950 video chip, but I don't need much acceleration, and I greatly prefer 4:3 screens. It's got a decent array of ports, even a PCMCIA slot, but annoyingly the three USB ports are placed one to each side (front excepted.) I've heard a lot of unkind words for modern HP products, but this seems to be fairly solid, though I've never had a computer where the plastic felt so much like Rubbermaid.
But in any event, it was cheap, fits my performance needs, and meets my most important criteria: it runs Windows XP. The pre-purchase research for every model I looked at involved checking the manufacturer's website for XP drivers :lol:
Also got a Haiku partition on there, which I've been experimenting with. It's got a ways to go yet (for one, they need to fix power-management support on multicore systems - at present it damn near boils and it's only the mighty fan and the fact that I replaced the thermal paste with high-quality stuff when I bought it that keeps it from overheating proper,) but it's very intriguing, and I look forward to seeing what it's like when they get the bugs worked out :)
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Dell E6420, pretty nice machine, but why oh why not put a damned keyboard in which uses the entire width of the machine!
I also have a some D620s, a Core2Duo MSI, and P3 era Compaqs (awesome machines these) stacked up in the corner.
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Another Mac user here. My main machine is an old 13" 2.4GHz core 2 duo MacBook Pro. I also have a 17" machine for recording and compute intensive stuff.
I'm contemplating getting one of the new retina macs. Seen one yesterday, it's *very* nice. Really thin light, probably lighter than my 13" machine!
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I'm using an old Thinkpad T60 with Windows 7. Would never switch to any other brand. Even my old T600E still works (except for the BIOS battery).
Might switch to a T400 as we're currently replacing those at work due to age.
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Old Thinkpad T42 from work.
Cannot suggest the Vaios. 2 people I know having them had too much problems. 1 with HW the other with drivers and the crappy support.
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Dell Latitude D430.. Thinking about upgrading to an E4200 soon.
Can't afford them brand new, these old ones will have to do.
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Another -1 for Vaio laptops. My mom's had to have a new hard drive and I had to disassemble the whole thing just to swap out the old one. It is working now running Xubuntu Linux but I'm not so hopeful that it will last.
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I use a MacBook Air. The MacBook line of computers, be they the pro or the air are absolutely awesome computers. Great hardware and equally capable of running both Windows and MacOS natively. They are somewhat pricey but IMHO they are worth it.
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@ work a Vaio and @home a Macbook air. But I really don't like notebooks.
I'm still a desktop guy! @ home, as my main computer, I use a custom-made old Core 2 Quad in a nice NZXT H2 Silent case (http://www.ninjalane.com/reviews/cases/nzxt_h2) with 3 panels (a huge IPS in the center (landscape) surrounded by two in portrait).
Desktops Forever!
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Never really used a laptop. The company did buy me one in.. er thinks.. er 2007 I think. Still in the bag by the TV and never been used. I guess its for people on the go. Bit like a mobile phone.. don't have one or use one of those either. Nothing beats sitting down in front of a big screen and having the keyboard just in the right place to use without having to stretch a mile to use them. I like a workstation, always have and really I've always managed to get to a proper computer daily for work ( CAD Designer ) and a land line for the telephone. And thats the way it'll be I guess till I'm out of here. Been using a computer every day now for like 20 odd years... Started on a 4 screen Intergraph beast with giant tablet. Hardly a laptop, but still way better in my opinion.
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Just use the dedicted forum for non Amiga threads, then there's no need to be sorry.
Here's a selection of threads you started in "General chat about Amiga topics", I fail to see the Amiga relevance in any of these:
What laptops do Amigan's use in general?
That dreadful Apple startup sound.
St Patricks Day. Strictly non Amiga related!
IPad 3 Concept video
Paranormal Activity 3 Snapshot
Like the mayority of threads at this forum.
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Not a laptop user. My wife had a G4 powerbook for a while, which was good, though the power bricks have a really short lifespan.
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Hi,
@JJ,
Sorry to hear you bought an Alienware Dell laptop.
but take a look at the Eurocom Panther 2.0,
CPU - 3.3 ghz intel core I7-980x
Ram - 16 gb DDR3
Chipset - Intel X58
Drives - Micron 256 gb SSD SATA 600
RealSSD C300, 500 GB 7,200 rpm
hybrid, SATA 300
Optical - Hitachi - LG CTION Blu-ray player
GPU - 2X AMD Radeon HD6970 XT 2GB
Display - 17.3 inch LED backlit, 1920x1080
Connectivity - HDMI out, HDMI in, DVI, Ethernet, two USB 3.0, three USB 2.0
eSATA, Firewire, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi,
headphone, mic, line-in, S/PDIF out
media reader, webcam, fingerprint sensor
LAP/Carry - 13 lb, 3.2oz/ 16lbs, 8.7 oz
Price $5,373 at http://www.eurocom.com
OK JJ, nice unit hope you enjoy it, listen my laptop is a Toshiba Satellite that is about 12 years old. just trying to turn you up.
but
Just think you could of had a Eurocom instead.
really a nice unit, enjoy it, the monster above in June 2011 was the top of the line fastest laptop on the market. Don't know if it still holds that title.
I am just jealous
smerf
That system looks good smerf. Alienware have probably improved but in "2009" I steered away from alien ware due to being the worst value at the time and not having LED backlit or Full HD screen yet wanting $500 or more than mine...............
Clevo 870WU 17.3" full HD LED, Intel I7 extreme turbo 3.2 ghz, 4gb RAM, Nvidia gtx 280M, 128 gig SSD (2 hard drive bays), HDMI, E-sata, 64 bit windows 7 professional and blu ray.
This is a custom build laptop that has no manufacturer bloatware and is "upgradable" like a tower system. The only thing I am going to change out is the nvidia card due to some issues to an ATI one which should resolve them.
Also have 4 year old + ASUS netbook (10") we bought for touring the U.S. and Canada with hdmi, 2 gig RAM, nvidia graghics and windows 7. Plays full HD video on my TV but atom to slow for winUAE:cry:
As for HP:pissed: only dud laptop ($3000 worth!) myself or friends have had. Hundreds of man Hrs and money lossed trying to fix. They were good I guess "back in the day". Yet cheap as chips laptop like compaq back then ($1000) (owned by HP I beleive) I gave as a gift still working.
My missus has a fugistu laptop, runs XP and I havn't touched it since new.(says Made in Japan on case)
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A 17 inch MacBook Pro and a 13 inch MacBook Air.
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Dell Latitude CPX and Dell Inspirion.
Yep, i am Retro Computer Men!
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HP Tablet/Notebook combo, with touch screen, 350 GB HDD & Asus Pentium i7, 500 GB HDD.
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PowerBook G4 with MorphOS.
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I'm sure I have no less than 5 working laptops kicking around, but the one I'm enjoying the most is obviously the one in my sig. 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD (though I'll probably put the original 750GB drive back in,) i7, nVidia graphics with 1.5GB memory, and my favorite feature, the customizable, animated backlit keyboard.
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I just bought a new i3 Lenovo Thinkpad with all the goodies. I used a Thinkpad 600 for 8 years till the poor little guy just couldn't run XP w/SP3 any longer. Then used a Thinkpad T42 maxed out ram for 5 years - great machine (both machines still run). I will sell new Thinkpads but i WILL NOT sell Idea Pads.
Now, what NOT to buy... I repair and sell laptops everyday.
I will NEVER sell any HP product in my store and 90% of the time when peeps bring them in (we're talking anything DVx(xxx) and the F series and the CQ - GQ series) it's motherboard failure. Here's why... HP went "green" 8 years ago and they don't use lead in their solder. All the solder joints are like pot metal and crack. One day they might turn on and the next not. I hate HP! I lose customers and revenue because of them! NX and NC were a fairly decent machine though.
Nor will I sell ANY Acer, or any Toshiba. Any Toshiba newer than 2 years old is a peice of sh*t! Period. I see screens going out all the time and the DC jack will simply fall into the case due to the body being practically made of paper.
Good laptops: Sony, Asus, Dell (but NOT Inspiron), MSI (but they have nearly priced themselves out of the market), and believe it or not Gateway makes a fairly decent machine (some models are crap - some are great - I have sold hundreds of Gateways). Now I know there's exceptions and preferences but seriously - HP is THE Worst (not to mention their business practices).
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Top specced Dell Latitude E6520 for now. Happy camper.
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Sorry to hear you bought an Alienware Dell laptop.
but take a look at the Eurocom Panther 2.0,
CPU - 3.3 ghz intel core I7-980x
Ram - 16 gb DDR3
Chipset - Intel X58
Drives - Micron 256 gb SSD SATA 600
RealSSD C300, 500 GB 7,200 rpm
hybrid, SATA 300
Optical - Hitachi - LG CTION Blu-ray player
GPU - 2X AMD Radeon HD6970 XT 2GB
Display - 17.3 inch LED backlit, 1920x1080
Connectivity - HDMI out, HDMI in, DVI, Ethernet, two USB 3.0, three USB 2.0
eSATA, Firewire, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi,
headphone, mic, line-in, S/PDIF out
media reader, webcam, fingerprint sensor
LAP/Carry - 13 lb, 3.2oz/ 16lbs, 8.7 oz
Price $5,373 at www.eurocom.com (http://www.eurocom.com)
OK JJ, nice unit hope you enjoy it, listen my laptop is a Toshiba Satellite that is about 12 years old. just trying to turn you up.
but
Just think you could of had a Eurocom instead.
really a nice unit, enjoy it, the monster above in June 2011 was the top of the line fastest laptop on the market. Don't know if it still holds that title.
I am just jealous
smerf)
My system matches or beats that in a few areas and cost a fraction of the price you have quoted.
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Chromebook, They really are quite good for most tasks. HP laptop though for gaming/development which I am quite happy with. Oh and a thinkpad for work, wont hear a word against thinkpads they are brilliant! Great keyboard and hard as nails! Outlast a macbook any day!
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i have two Laptops,
a ASUS EeePC 904HA for a little bit internet
at work a get a new laptop (hp Elitebook) so i get my "old" laptop form work in the next days:
hp compaq nc6400, parts for update (250GB HDD, 2GB RAM, dockingstation) i have bought to make it ready for the next years. :)
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Dell Latitude, E6500, E6510, E6520, E6320, etc., that's all we use here (corporate IT). Great hardware support & warranty, easy to find updated drivers on the support site, powerful systems for the money (buy from Dell Factory Outlet, certified refurbished, same hardware warranty as new, half the cost). Set them up with a corporate image that includes all the latest updates and no junk, plenty of expansion ports, they work great for us! :)
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i use an acer aspire ethos, pricy, but its worth it. its big though, 18.4". but its got a hell of alot of power.
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i use an acer aspire ethos, pricy, but its worth it. its big though, 18.4". but its got a hell of alot of power.
If that's a laptop, you have a hell of a lap. :/
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If i were to get a new laptop i think I'd get an Alienware MX11 because most of the time when I travel via plane my toshiba 18.4 is just too much. In fact, if it was even 1/8" larger it would not fit in the TSA security bins. I end up taking my netbook and a netbook with even dual core atom is not like a real computer...
I guess is a real shame they are discontinuing the MX11... http://www.neowin.net/news/alienware-laptops-refreshed-mx11-discontinued
just can't afford to get one now unless I want to live without a refrigerator.
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Asus G50VT-X5
Awesome lappy for me!
3yrs now running and rock solid! Upgraded hard drive and added a 2nd Hard drive in spare bay. Bay 1 - 750 gig bay 2 500 gig
Video VGA-out, HDMI
Audio Stereo speakers with subwoofer, headphone/microphone jacks
Data 4 USB 2.0, SD card reader, eSATA, mini FireWire
Expansion ExpressCard/54
Networking Ethernet, 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi (added blue tooth too)
Optical drive DVD burner
Upgraded to win7/lion
see sig below for vid's.
Processor 2.13GHz Intel Core 2 Duo P7450 Memory 4GB, 800MHz DDR2 Hard drive 320GB 7,200rpm Chipset Mobile Intel PM45 Express Chipset Graphics 512MB Nvidia GeForce 9800M GS Screen size (diagonal) 15.6 inches
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I've only used HP laptops for the past 12 years I believe and have never had a problem. In my experience as long as you work atop a ventilation pad and don't restrict the airflow when working off a desk notebooks should not give you any problems hardware wise.
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Now I know there's exceptions and preferences but seriously - HP is THE Worst (not to mention their business practices).
My experinece mirrors this. Won a HP 2133 mini-note. Died after 3 months. Always ran hot. Googled and found I wasn't the only one. I then stupidly bought a HP DV4 because at the time the specs were the best for the money. Its always running hot as well. I use an old Toshiba M4 Portege, running Ubuntu 9.10 because i fear the DV4 will die any minute.
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I have a crappy HP Supplied HP Probook 6460b which is a/ heavy /b big (for a 15" laptop) and c/ has a crap low-res screen.
If I had my choice I'd buy a new Apple MacBook Pro and maybe even add the retina display.
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Side note, have a hp G6, hp mini1030ca, acer mini 150d, emachines 620d and all worked as good as day one when i bought them. The netbooks i have replaced the power cords (bricks) on each and the batteries on the acer, emachine and the hp netbook.
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I haven't touched a laptop since I bought myself an iPad. Before that, Powerbook and iBook.
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How strange! The guy just raised the sale price to $1295. It was only $915 this afternoon when i paid for it!
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Sony-Vaio-F-Laptop-BACKLIT-16-4-i7-2-93Ghz-8GB-nVIDIA-GT-Win-7-Pro-/160710449173?pt=AU_comp_laptop&hash=item256b16d815#ht_5942wt_980
Anyway i have been using an Acer Aspire 5315 for the last 4 years. It cost me about $400 and was meant to be a temporary solution and 4 years later it is still my main computer. The thing has pretty much been switched on for 4 years non stop and still going strong! But it's now too slow to even run firefox or MS office so this is going to be a treat :)
Also i thought it was interesting to see what everyone else was using although i couldn't see any patterns. I thought it was going to be maybe Apple vs everything else.
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Yeah, it's meant for desktop replacement, but if you can haul it around(and don't mind the weight) it's good on the go.