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hmmxkrazee posted:That one looks amazing. Looking around though it seems most of the reviews were with the model without the dedicated GPU. The processor should be able to handle Photoshop nicely as well I'm assuming. I tend to work with big file sizes that can lag it up a little bit. The speed (1.3ghz) is trippin' me out a little so I just want to make sure it's good enough. Thanks.
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Amenthes posted:Is 16:9 becoming the new thing for laptops? I can't stand them, but it seems the majority of the new models are more and more 16:9. Yes. LCD manufacturers wanted to save money and use the same aspect ratio as TVs. OEMs haven't had much choice outside of the 14 inch space, where at least Lenovo and Dell's new 14 inch business laptops are still 16:10. It's scary how quickly the 16:10 has been phased out given it took 2 or 3 product generations for 4:3 to go the way of the dodo. It's my admittedly  theory that this happened with the double whammy of global economic recession and the numerous fines handed out by the US government for collusion and price fixing. No longer able to artificially keep prices high was very bad for them.
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Tinitus posted:Samsung R780 to be released any time now: Wow that is pretty sick for under 1k. Any reviews?
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GoldenNugget posted:cross posting from the netbook thread: I think tigerdirect bought circuit city's name and set up a website, so you are probably dealing with tigerdirect. I'm not sure about their reputation. I think the acer timelines got really good reviews. He sounds like a user that would be fine with this computer. It will handle email and youtube just fine. It looks like it comes with windows vista still, which is part of the reason it is so cheap. Here is a review: http://www.laptopmag.com/review/lap...5810t-4657.aspx Here is a similar laptop for $50 more with Windows 7, and more power (I think), but worse battery life and it weighs more: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...N82E16834115674
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duckslut posted:Well, I looked everywhere and the SU, ULV processors all come with a max resolution of 1366x768. Thanks for the suggestion. I dunno though, it has worse everything (except processor and screen) than the 14" Asus UL http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002Q8HK7K which also has an optical drive and costs $150 less. I think I'll just continue to wait and see. I'll keep an eye on the 14z though.
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eelmonger posted:Thanks for the suggestion. I dunno though, it has worse everything (except processor and screen) than the 14" Asus UL http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002Q8HK7K which also has an optical drive and costs $150 less. I think I'll just continue to wait and see. I'll keep an eye on the 14z though. That's a pretty good laptop as long as you don't want to to anything processor intensive. Your going to pay a premium (both in cost and battery life) for a smaller laptop with a 900p screen.
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err posted:Wow that is pretty sick for under 1k. Any reviews? These updates to the series are due out by the end of the month. They were only unveiled at CES last week but the last lot had glowing reviews and the comments so far have been positive (from what I've read) Supposedly, some of the models have already gone on sale in the US (including the one I posted) - I read that you can find them via Samsung's partner sites. There are place holders up on Amazon UK for the I3 versions which I have a feeling will go on sale on Monday. I'm torn between the 15" and 17" model but I've made my mind up about getting one of them. They tick all the boxes for me on specs, price and build quality/looks. http://crave.cnet.co.uk/laptops/0,3...49304640,00.htm Glad I held out but waiting is a pain.
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I bought a HP laptop about 1.5 years back and it's being a real piece of poo poo. Like, apparently the graphics card is faulty (causing all my games to instantly crash the display driver and forcing me to reboot), the fan is excessively loud and the whole thing runs very hot. I'm looking for a new "semi-gaming" laptop - I don't need cutting edge technology but I would like to play games like TF2 at decent settings or whatever. I have it narrowed down to a few choices...any opinions? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...0-639-_-Product Asus laptop that looks pretty decent, although it's also the most expensive. In general all the specs look pretty good, but again, the price is the only thing preventing me from buying it right now. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...N82E16834146612 A Lenovo laptop. When I think of gaming laptops I don't really think of Lenovo but this one seems to have decent specs for a really cheap price. Main differences between this and the previous one are graphics card (GeForce GTX 260M vs GeForce GT 240M) and processor speed (Core 2 Duo P8700 @ 2.53GHz vs P7450 @ 2.12GHz). For $300 is this a decent tradeoff? What kind of difference can I expect? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...N82E16834146613 This is another Lenovo I'm looking at as a compromise. Still has the GT 240M, but has a Core i7 processor which I've heard great things about. The only thing that worries me is that the resolution is 1366 x 768, which seems like a weird resolution. $100 cheaper than the Asus... Then I've been reading about those Samsung laptops coming out - are they worth waiting a little bit for? Edit: looks like they are...but the amazon.co.uk prices are over $1100. I thought they were supposed to be closer to $950ish? Pie Colony fucked around with this message at Jan 13, 2010 around 21:06 |
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Pie Colony posted:I bought a HP laptop about 1.5 years back and it's being a real piece of poo poo. Like, apparently the graphics card is faulty (causing all my games to instantly crash the display driver and forcing me to reboot), the fan is excessively loud and the whole thing runs very hot. I'd go with the Asus. The 260M is one of the best mobile GPUs currently out and the better processor is alright. You don't need an i7 unless you want a lot of CPU power or exclusively play GTA4.
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Hey, so I just bought this laptop and I wanted to get a few opinions. All I want to do is play WoW at a decent frame-rate and do typical word processing stuff, did I make a good buy or did I gently caress myself over?
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professor muthafukkah posted:did I gently caress myself over?
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I'm still deciding between the Vaio SR, Studio 14z and ASUS UL30Vt. The only thing really holding me back on the ASUS is the small-ish resolution because I use Photoshop alot but I'll probably get an external monitor. I wish I could wait for the UL30Jt but I need a laptop by mid-February so I can't wait too long. :[
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...N82E16834115654 I don't know much about laptops - what do you guys think of this model? I'm on a budget, and it looks pretty solid to me for 500 dollars. It should suit my needs - mostly school/work related, but 320 GB hard drive for my music collection is nice too. According to notebookcheck.com and the newegg reviewers (who are slobbering all over it), I should be able to squeeze some decent gaming out of it as well. edit: just realized it's sold out at newegg 
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G-III posted:I was about to put an order for a ul30vt until I read reports from CES that the ulvt will be updated with the i7 processor and will still have the mystical 12 hour battery life of the current ulvt laptops. Damnit, looks like I'm going to have to wait a little longer. The lowest TDP of the i5/i7 series is 18watts compared to 10watts of the su7300 so they're going to have a lot of work to do to get the same battery life out of the same size laptop and battery. That said, I just got my UL30VT in and it is an incredible machine. My only complaint is the LCD is pretty low quality with really bad vertical viewing angles, but I will live with that in exchange for the awesome battery life, awesome form factor, and awesome performance. It can play L4d2 at native res no problem.
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greasyhands posted:The lowest TDP of the i5/i7 series is 18watts compared to 10watts of the su7300 so they're going to have a lot of work to do to get the same battery life out of the same size laptop and battery. That said, I just got my UL30VT in and it is an incredible machine. My only complaint is the LCD is pretty low quality with really bad vertical viewing angles, but I will live with that in exchange for the awesome battery life, awesome form factor, and awesome performance. It can play L4d2 at native res no problem. I think TDP is the max thermal power a chip puts out (at least in intel's case), not some sort of average power. So the claim is that there will be aggressive downclocking of the i7 to keep the power usage down when not needed. I don't think they'll hit 12, but as long as they get 6-8 I'll probably still buy one.
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What is the current listing of smaller laptops for mild gaming with discrete graphics cards? Doesn't have to be king of kings, but enough power to do flash and WoW.
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Two Ton 21 posted:What is the current listing of smaller laptops for mild gaming with discrete graphics cards? Doesn't have to be king of kings, but enough power to do flash and WoW. One thing to note about flash games is that 99% of the time they use software rendering, meaning GPU is completely irrelevent to playing them. It's possible since Flash Player 10 to use hardware acceleration for Flash, but in my experience it can be very sluggish and usually crashes my browser, and very few people bother with it. I realise this doesn't affect your request as you want to do WoW as well, but I'm just throwing that out there in case anyone was for some reason concerned about having a GPU for flash games.
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professor muthafukkah posted:Hey, so I just bought this laptop and I wanted to get a few opinions. All I want to do is play WoW at a decent frame-rate and do typical word processing stuff, did I make a good buy or did I gently caress myself over? I have another question, if I want to connect this laptop to my HD TV, which cables do I need? It says my laptop has an HDMI connection, so if I have an HDMI cable from my xbox 360 could I just use that to connect the laptop to the tv? If not, what do I need? Thanks.
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professor muthafukkah posted:I have another question, if I want to connect this laptop to my HD TV, which cables do I need? It says my laptop has an HDMI connection, so if I have an HDMI cable from my xbox 360 could I just use that to connect the laptop to the tv? If not, what do I need? Thanks. That's all you need, but if you go to monoprice.com (or amazon.com if you have Amazon Prime) and grab an extra HDMI cable for dirt cheap so you don't have to keep going back and forth.
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Two Ton 21 posted:What is the current listing of smaller laptops for mild gaming with discrete graphics cards? Doesn't have to be king of kings, but enough power to do flash and WoW. You should be able to run WoW in the current generation of Asus ULV30s just fine. The refresh is coming out soon-ish (a month or so maybe?) with a new GPU. Also Alienware should be releasing their gaming ultraportable in the next month or so, with a GT330M GPU.
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greasyhands posted:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...x_ya_oh_product Should I go for this or for a Sony Vaio FW560 http://tinyurl.com/FW560 which is currently on sale for the same price? Three hours doesn't seem near as impressive as the half-day battery, and I do plan on taking it on the go frequently. But the Vaio's Radeon GPU seems to have a much better rating than the 210M. EDIT: Also, the first i3's have hit Best Buy, saved some info from the Sony Vaio VPCCW21FX # Windows 7 Home Prem. 64-Bit # 4GB DDR3 Memory # 500GB Hard Drive # 4 Hour Battery # NVIDIA GeForce 310 w/ 256MB Dedicated Memory # 14" 16:9 Display # 5.3 lbs. Currently priced at $750, but more models will be displayed until January 17th. Jeff Goldblum fucked around with this message at Jan 15, 2010 around 20:34 |
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greasyhands posted:The lowest TDP of the i5/i7 series is 18watts compared to 10watts of the su7300 so they're going to have a lot of work to do to get the same battery life out of the same size laptop and battery. That said, I just got my UL30VT in and it is an incredible machine. My only complaint is the LCD is pretty low quality with really bad vertical viewing angles, but I will live with that in exchange for the awesome battery life, awesome form factor, and awesome performance. It can play L4d2 at native res no problem. Backing on this statement, I just picked up the new UL50vt from best buy (15.6 inch instead of 13) and it is a great machine. Battery life isn't quite 12 hours, more like 8 hours while surfing the web and doing tasks with brightness up, maybe 12 hours at low brightness and wireless off. Touchpad isn't as bad as some say, but the buttons for left and right click are hard to press. 500gb hard drive, 4 gb ram, Nvidia GPU, and light as hell for only $699, I was hard pressed to find better online.
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How's the screen. Good enough for photoshop and digital imaging? I'm upgrading from a HP tx2500 tablet which had bad viewing angles and grainy screen so it can't be worse than that, can it? And I was okay with that screen.
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hmmxkrazee posted:How's the screen. Good enough for photoshop and digital imaging? I'm upgrading from a HP tx2500 tablet which had bad viewing angles and grainy screen so it can't be worse than that, can it? And I was okay with that screen. I use an IPS panel on my desktop so I might be kind of spoiled, but the LCD on the ULV30 series is seriously lacking... not so much so that I wouldn't recommend it, but it is definitely near the bottom of the scale of "acceptable"
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greasyhands posted:I use an IPS panel on my desktop so I might be kind of spoiled, but the LCD on the ULV30 series is seriously lacking... not so much so that I wouldn't recommend it, but it is definitely near the bottom of the scale of "acceptable" The LCD on the UL50 isn't all that bad, although I have to tilt the screen about 10 degrees as the viewing angles aren't too great. Colors seem good, but I have had lasik eye surgery so I can't really tell differences between screens like I used to be able to. only the 14 and 15's come with DVD drives. I was surfing the web last night without the AC power and windows was showing 10 hours with 95% charge with wifi and medium brightness.
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I have an older Gateway m-6862, the hard drive in it is a SATA 1.5 250 GB. Can I use a SATA 3.0 hard drive in it to upgrade to one of the 500 GB hard drives? Specs can be found here: http://support.gateway.com/s/Mobile/2008/Tempest/1015594R/1015594Rnv.shtml
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hmmxkrazee posted:How's the screen. Good enough for photoshop and digital imaging? I'm upgrading from a HP tx2500 tablet which had bad viewing angles and grainy screen so it can't be worse than that, can it? And I was okay with that screen. I may be looking for a tablet. Email me specs/condition/price if youre lookin to sell. RodShaft(at)Gmail.com
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I'm on the Sony website right now customizing a laptop (the CW Series) and I could use a spot of advice. Here's what I have: -14" LED Backlit Screen 1366 x 768 -Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium 64-bit -Intel Core i5-520M 2.4Ghz (Turbo Boost Technology: 2.93Ghz) -320GB Hard Disk Drive (7200rpm) -4GB (2GBx2) DDR3-SDRAM-1066 -Blu-ray Disc™ player -Large Capacity Battery (VGP-BPL13) -Nvidia 310 256Mb Also has HDMI, Bluetooth, cam, blah blah Total is $953.99 before tax. I'll admit that I don't know much about computers, but what I do know is that this system has basically everything I'm looking for in a laptop right now - i5 processor, relatively small screen, and Blu-Ray drive. I'll be using it for pretty basic stuff - web browsing and watching blu-rays basically, often at the same time. Some light game play. Basically all I want to know is whether this is the best my money can buy right now with these particular specs. I know better deals are bound to come along in the future, but I'm asking about the present. Can I find a better deal on a comparable system today, or is this the best I can do?
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If I'm considering a 13" Macbook Pro, what are the PC equivalents in terms of size, weight, and power that I should also consider? I have no particular fondness or need for Mac OS.
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Rashomon posted:If I'm considering a 13" Macbook Pro, what are the PC equivalents in terms of size, weight, and power that I should also consider? I have no particular fondness or need for Mac OS. Don't touch a HP Envy. The only real competitor the the 13'' MBP is the Sony SR series. Light, as powerful as the MBP and is also a 13'' laptop too.
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Rashomon posted:If I'm considering a 13" Macbook Pro, what are the PC equivalents in terms of size, weight, and power that I should also consider? I have no particular fondness or need for Mac OS. Dell Studio 14z. If you want to go with a lower power more battery sipping processor, the Hp dm3 and Lenovo Thinkpad Edge 13 may also be considerations.
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Coredump posted:Dell Studio 14z. If you want to go with a lower power more battery sipping processor, the Hp dm3 and Lenovo Thinkpad Edge 13 may also be considerations. The 14z doesn't have a DVD drive. fakeedit: Feature for feature, that Sony SR series of notebooks match the 13'' MBP. Nothing in the Windows world really comes close to matching the MBP. Normally I would recommend a ThinkPad but Lenovo doesn't make 13'' ThinkPads.
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So I'm looking to get a new laptop, and it looks like pricing has changed considerably in the 2 years since I've done this. Some of the basic things I'm looking for are: - 15" or so screen - 5+ hours battery life - Light gaming; I don't need to play Crysis or anything, just run WoW smoothly at high settings. - Good reliability and durability - Reasonably good media output - Large HDD a plus My budget's around $800-1k, so I honestly just want the best thing I can get for that money; if it's a little overkill, that's fine. A quick browse of Newegg brought up this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...N82E16834220608 Which does look pretty good, but I'm honestly rusty when it comes to graphics cards, etc. Would that one be a good choice, or is there something glaringly wrong with it that I'm missing? Is there a better value I should look at?
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Godzilla07 posted:The 14z doesn't have a DVD drive. Yeah, but it may be something a person can go without day to day. Did you know that Lenovo put out two new thinkpad's here lately though? A 13" they call the Thinkpad Edge, and a 11.6" netbook called the Thinkpad X100e.
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Z. Autobahn posted:So I'm looking to get a new laptop, and it looks like pricing has changed considerably in the 2 years since I've done this. Some of the basic things I'm looking for are: I think that graphics card is a little weak. Check it out on this list: http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile...List.844.0.html But Asus is a good brand. Just filter down to the Asus brand on Newegg, then do a advanced search and look up each gpu they list on the benchmark list until you find one that's gonna be strong enough for you. The GTX260 would be ideal. I like this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...N82E16834220639 You get: 1080p screen. Gtx 260m graphics card which is buff as stuff. P8700 Core 2 Duo - the p series intel use less power than the t series.
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Z. Autobahn posted:So I'm looking to get a new laptop, and it looks like pricing has changed considerably in the 2 years since I've done this. Some of the basic things I'm looking for are: That's actually pretty good. It'll be able to play WoW nicely. It also has good battery life to boot. Asus is a great brand with good reliability. Coredump, he wanted good battery life. That laptop will at best get a little over 2 hours of battery life. Then again, battery life isn't the greatest concern for a laptop that weighs 7.2 lbs.
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Hmmm, it seems like Macbooks really do have a leg up on the equivalent PC options. For ~$100 more (if you buy a refurb or with education discount, which I would) you get an optical drive, really high quality construction, a real processor, great battery life, AND the acceptance of fanboys and hipsters.
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Godzilla07 posted:Coredump, he wanted good battery life. Completely missed that.
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Rashomon posted:Hmmm, it seems like Macbooks really do have a leg up on the equivalent PC options. For ~$100 more (if you buy a refurb or with education discount, which I would) you get an optical drive, really high quality construction, a real processor, great battery life, AND the acceptance of fanboys and hipsters. There aren't any refurb 13'' MBPs in the Apple Store right now which is what I'd recommend. They're $999 and you can upgrade them to 4 GB of RAM and a 500 GB hard drive. You'd still come out paying less than you would if you got a brand new MBP. Apple refurbs are great and are like buying brand new.
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Zarfol posted:Backing on this statement, I just picked up the new UL50vt from best buy (15.6 inch instead of 13) and it is a great machine. Battery life isn't quite 12 hours, more like 8 hours while surfing the web and doing tasks with brightness up, maybe 12 hours at low brightness and wireless off. Touchpad isn't as bad as some say, but the buttons for left and right click are hard to press. 500gb hard drive, 4 gb ram, Nvidia GPU, and light as hell for only $699, I was hard pressed to find better online. Just picked up one of these for my sister today, and I have to agree with everything. Really slick laptop.
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