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That is a 17 in consumer grade laptop with a slow hard drive (you are replacing)and a dedicated video card. The battery life sucks. All 17 in laptops are relatively flimsy due to the size. If you have poor eyesight and do not plan on moving the computer this would be a good fit. Asus and dell both have laptops with IPs screens in smaller sizes. Hp elitebooks have IPs options but they are around 2k.
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# ¿ Jun 13, 2013 11:46 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 16:55 |
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BlackMK4 posted:http://phoenix.craigslist.org/wvl/sys/3920441198.html
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# ¿ Jul 11, 2013 15:57 |
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If you are in Australia, the macbook air 13 starts at $1250. That's a lot better than 2000+ for a dell/thinkpad.
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# ¿ Jul 24, 2013 03:35 |
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Optiquest posted:Guess I'll go with the non touch xps 13. 8.1 or 8.1 pro? 256gb an okay value for the extra $100 or should I just install a bigger ssd myself? The microsoft store is showing the 256gb sdd, 8gb ram, touch screen version for $1300 but out of stock.
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# ¿ Apr 7, 2015 23:44 |
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I have an XPS 13, scrolling, panning, and pinch to zoom work fine in firefox and IE. The app switch gesture only works with metro windows. There is a setting under mouse and touchpad that allows changing the delay so that switching between typing and gestures works faster. It works great with a short delay, with no delay it was moving the mouse accidentally while typing. I would try using the default windows drivers, or installing the newest drivers if you are on a synaptics touchpad that is sluggish.
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# ¿ Apr 9, 2015 23:54 |
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Sataere posted:What about the Y70? I assume if the Y50 is good, that would be better. I ask because I saw one on sale for under $1000. This laptop weighs almost 8 lbs without the power brick. I would get something smaller unless you really need a large screen. The y40-80 has a 5th gen Intel cpu and there are more 15" laptops with Broadwell from many manufacturers coming out now.
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# ¿ Jun 11, 2015 01:55 |
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mind the walrus posted:Myself in a home, library, cafe, or office environment. Possible travel use. I'd give myself a realistic B- in terms of how well I'd care for the machine. It is more realistic to use the computer for 3 years and then get a replacement. The hard drive is absolutely the bottleneck on that computer. Are you planning on upgrading that yourself?
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# ¿ Jun 29, 2015 18:31 |
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Zodack posted:They're that bad? I don't know a lot about laptop resellers but MSI doesn't have their own group and someone in the thread mentioned XoticPC, so I checked them out. My old man likes PowerNotebooks and XoticPC seemed essentially the same but minus a lot of weird ranting about PayPal. XoticPC was offering a free mouse and some other poo poo on purchase so I just figured I'd check them out. My wife uses a giant MSI laptop from powernotebooks.com with a color changing keyboard and a power cable the size of a brick. I would really reconsider getting a huge gaming computer unless you are working on an oil rig or deploying overseas. We went with them because of the Canadian warranty support and good reviews and support. All of these computers are impractical to use, have loud fans, very short battery life, and weigh a ton. If you really need a computer like this and want to customize it powernotebooks.com is pretty good.
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# ¿ Jun 30, 2015 01:08 |
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Zodack posted:I've been read the riot act on "gaming" laptops before but the one I currently have I bought four years ago when I was much dumber (it's an Alienware) and it has served me very well for the last four years while I was in college. Granted it had an HDMI Input port as well as an output which was very convenient for particular things. It's a love hate relationship but the thing is almost done. For grad school could you get a workstation like a Dell precision or lenovo W series? Do you need a large video card or just a quad core cpu and 16+gb of ram?
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# ¿ Jun 30, 2015 03:34 |
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The huge gaming laptops are still expensive relative to their performance for gaming. There are middleground laptops like the y40-80 that have 4+ hour battery life and decent portability, but a 5th gen cpu and a dedicated video card. I would see if the games you want to play would run well on a computer like this first.
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# ¿ Jul 1, 2015 02:06 |
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El Jebus posted:My wife's company has been gifted a $1,500 grant for the purchase of a laptop. I have been given the husbandly duty as her personal tech support to recommend a laptop that she should buy. I have asked if it can be two laptops as $1500 is a decent amount of money, and I have been told no. This is for general office use, mostly workstation/MS Office/note taking. I'm more of an Apple guy so I don't know much about the Windows laptop market. Is the T550 and W550 still the ~$1000 recommended laptop? I'm hoping they can get 3-4 years out of it with regular office use with occasional trips out of the office for focus groups and that sort of thing. The W550s looks like it might fit all of the requirements. Is the warranty worth picking up through Lenovo? Thanks for any and all help you guys can give! E7450 is nice and xps13 is amazing if you do not need an ethernet port or use a dock.
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# ¿ Jul 2, 2015 03:22 |
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Killer_B posted:Which brand rates well so far as used for running Linux, and is more semi-recent? You can get XPS 13 with Ubuntu preloaded
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# ¿ Dec 18, 2020 09:24 |
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LibCrusher posted:Is there a performance hit if I have my external monitors connected to USB-C dock with HDMI instead of directly to the back of the laptop? I’d like to do the whole “one cable goes to laptop, a million cables to hub” thing but I think I’m seeing hitching and weirdness. Is it a usb-c dock with a video card? Or a port replicator?
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# ¿ Jan 1, 2021 05:57 |
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Woebin posted:A friend just asked me what machine to get for video and audio editing, figuring since I'm a programmer I'll obviously know this stuff. Adobe Premier pro and Avid are the main two for video editing professional work. Both are on mac and PC. Final Cut Pro is Mac only and is used as well A desktop would be much more powerful than a laptop, video editing goes much faster on better hardware. Something like a Thinkstation P620 or a Mac Pro tower. Lenovo p1 or Dell Precision would be a better option than a mac, just much more powerful processors with a 45w limit instead of 10w. But if you need a lightweight portable laptop. A MacBook Air or Pro 13, or XPS 13, or Lenovo x1 Carbon are all fine. Macs are nice if you live very close to an apple store, but Dell and Lenovo both have onsite warranty options that are a better fit for most businesses.
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# ¿ Jan 20, 2021 00:34 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 16:55 |
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General_Failure posted:I'll preface I live in Australia. My daughter needs a notebook for her school's BYOD policy. Fuckers. Samsung chromebook 3 is durable and cheap. There are other good options for chromebooks. If everything happens in a browser it should be fine
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