What laptops do Amigan's use in general?

[chfriend]

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.

[golem]

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

[Digiman]

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.

[billt]

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

[mingle]

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...

[cgutjahr]

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

[Geit]

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

[jj]

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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.

[Dragster]

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.

[smerf]

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.

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

[pampers]

5 powerbooks in here (anyone want some?), PB 5,9 as my main laptop. I got rid of PC laptops some time ago.

[itix]

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.

[RRunner]

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!

[Tripitaka]

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%.

[spaceman88]

Five year old 13" MacBook (2.0 Ghz core duo, 80 gig HD, 2 Gig RAM) running Lion and Windows 7 on Bootcamp.

[commodorejohn]

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