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The Rat
Aug 29, 2004

You will find no one to help you here. Beth DuClare has been dissected and placed in cryonic storage.

Just ordered one of these. Hopefully it turns out better than the X230 refurb I got from the Lenovo outlet that only had a wireless range of 4 feet.

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The Rat
Aug 29, 2004

You will find no one to help you here. Beth DuClare has been dissected and placed in cryonic storage.

Just got the X220 I ordered from ebay. Already works better than the X230 I had to return to Lenovo, in that the wireless card has a range of more than four feet! Further review forthcoming.

The Rat
Aug 29, 2004

You will find no one to help you here. Beth DuClare has been dissected and placed in cryonic storage.

Foolie posted:

So, are gaming laptops a lost cause entirely? I haven't been in one place long enough the past ~6 years to justify a desktop and started buying gaming laptops. They tended to be great... for a year. Afterwards, given ~20 hours a day of use, they have committed ritual computer seppuku via fan/overheating/video card problems. The most recent victim has discovered all kinds of interesting BSODs inside of Windows 8. Expected behavior, or I am terrible at quality control and compute care?

I've been using the same Dell XPS14 since Dec 2010 and it's handled every game I've thrown at it. Even at this point I still feel no reason to upgrade yet, since it's doing everything I need it to.

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