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Srebrenica Surprise posted:No HD5000 on the 35W -M parts There's an HD5100 dual core part at 28 W (i7-4558U). That might be a decent option if you can forgo having a quadcore. I imagine the lack of bigger GPUs on lower power quad-core CPUs has everything to do with how much wattage the GPU takes.
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Am I the only one that couldn't give a drat about CPU performance to the detriment of GPU performance in stuff that isn't Ultrabooks (especially with turbo hitting mid-2ghz in dual core operation anyway)? It seems like for most "mainstream laptop" work, CPU performance is already good enough. HD4600 as the baseline is hardly very exciting.
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It looks like the X1 carbon doesn't ship with a chip >15W. I guess a 28W GT3 Haswell dual core is kind of out of the question for light ultrabooks isn't it?
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T-Shaped posted:Any idea of when Lenovo will start announcing Thinkpad whatnot? I think I saw someone throw out the date June 13th in either this thread or the Intel CPU thread recently. I don't know for certain.
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Shofixti posted:I'm in the same boat. My first choice would be a Haswell Thinkpad but I can't wait until September/October and Lenovo seems determined to make the release dates as opaque as possible. I might just suck it up and get an Air with boot camp. Lenovo just announced the Thinkpad S531 but it comes with an Ivy Bridge chip. What were they thinking?
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mmm11105 posted:That is a Clevo W740SU underneath, I believe. Given that it's a clevo, I'm unsure how well the build quality will hold up, but drat that thing looks impressive on paper (1080p matte + Iris Pro). That's a really serious CPU in terms of TDP rating for an ultrabook. I'm holding out a faint hope that we see a Haswell-Yoga with a pen-digitizer. I was watching videos of handwriting on the Surface Pro in Onenote this weekend and it seems really cool. I'm already a heavy Onenote user and being able to doodle in them sounds pretty fantastic.
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RVProfootballer posted:Does anyone have a good idea how the HD5000 vs. 5100 vs. 5200 shakes out? As far as I can tell, HD5000 and 5100 are both available with ULV cpus, but the HD5100 itself is like double the power draw? Then the HD5200 only comes with mobile quad-core, non-ULV chips, and is again double the power draw of the 5100? I remember reading that the 13" rMBP had some performance issues. Is the 3200x1800 screen in the new Samsung laptop, with a Core i5-4200U and HD4400, really going to avoid those kinds of problems? I'd rather have only like 8 hours battery life, if it means the thing actually runs significantly better. Anandtech has an interesting discussion: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7072/intel-hd-5000-vs-hd-4000-vs-hd-4400 The real answer is that the sum of the power used by the chip won't exceed the TDP rating. Therefore, the real difference between the 5000 and the 5100 isn't that the GPUs are different, just that the 5100 is allowed the power headroom to actually run at higher frequencies. The above linked article talks about how in the low-power chips like the one in the MacBook air, load on the GPU can force the CPU to downclock and vice versa. In their benchmarks the 5000 in the air doesn't really drastically outperform the 4400, which you might expect it to given that it's twice the GPU on paper.
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Has anyone used the Dell Latitude 6430u Ultrabook? I know it hasn't been upgraded to Haswell yet, but it seems like it's a decent looking machine. There are a lot of 13.3" notebooks but fewer 14" ones besides the X1 carbon. Is it worth considering after it's upgraded?
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InstantInfidel posted:If you have room for that laptop, you have room for an mITX desktop that will outperform and outlast that laptop while running you about the same amount of money. If you buy that laptop, you're wasting money. Put another way, the advantage of a small form-factor desktop over a laptop in a situation where you're never going to move it is that you can upgrade the video card in two years and keep playing all the brand new games. There are a lot of people in the Intel thread still using machines with C2Quad Q6600 chips that they've had for years. Since GPUs become obsolete so much faster than every other component, gaming laptops have a shorter usable lifespan simply because the GPUs get old really fast.
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doomtuba posted:I just got a Sony Vaio Pro 13 today and the thing is amazing. I obviously haven't had it long enough to test the battery life extensively, but for my light tasks (Internet, Word and music) I've used it for a couple of hours nonstop setting it up and it's still only down to 77%. Do you have any issues with the body flex that some of the reviews have complained about? I'm looking at this notebook too, especially since it's so light.
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VorpalFish posted:I just looked at the 11 inch model of that, and it's almost perfect, except they don't offer a processor option with the GT3 GPU configuration. Anyone know if the laptop I'm looking for exists yet? (probably not I'm really picky) You should take a look at this Anandtech article: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7072/intel-hd-5000-vs-hd-4000-vs-hd-4400 The quick summary is that the 5000 in the low power packages used in the MacBook air barely outperforms the old Ivy bridge 4000 in most benchmarks, even though it's more than twice the GPU on paper. It's limited by power usage when part of the lower-power chips. That's probably why you're going to see a lot of 4400's out there and few 5000's. I suspect that the reason Intel gave the Iris 5100 chips a different name (when they really differ only by allowed TDP) is that the GT3 GPU configuration is really power constrained in the 17W chips and will perform much better in the 28W chips.
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Revol posted:...huh. That's weird. Why such a varying distance in the MBA review? Borderlands 2 gets a few percentage points, but Tomb Raider gets 40%? This is total speculation on my part, but maybe the Tomb Raider benchmark is pretty light on the CPU and that leaves power headroom for the GPU to take up? Regarding the XPS 12, I just wish there wasn't so much bezel on that design. It almost looks like they could have done a 13.3" screen in the same frame.
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I was just looking at customizing a Dell Latitude 6430u through my University's Premier site and I couldn't believe the difference in available options versus the regular Dell website. I can configure one with an i7 and 16 GB of RAM and neither are options on the regular site. There's also a choice of 5 different wireless cards plus 4 different mobile broadband options. Who knew?
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shrughes posted:It won't cause problems, the only problem is that they're usually underpowered. I mean a Thinkpad W530 or Dell Precision will have a pretty unimpressive GPU considering the cost (it isn't as good as the GT 650M), and the previous generation of Latitudes had very weak NVS 5200M GPUs that exist just for some low performance purpose like multi-monitor. They were the same GPU you'd see on the Lenovo T430s, generally speaking the Latitude E6xxx was Dell's alternative to the Thinkpad T-series last year. But weirdly enough the new Latitude E6540 is now for sale with an i7-4800MQ and a Radeon 8790M. You can't order a configurable build yet, but the pre-configured one you can order is smarItly chosen and $1400-something. My experience has been different. I have a Dell Precision M4400 with a Quadro 770FX card and driver support has been horrible as the PC has aged. The most recent Dell driver is several years old and isn't stable on Windows 8. The more-recent Nvidia reference drivers cause the PC to hard-lock almost instantly unless you disable all GPU power management. This GPU was only used in like 2 models of laptop and even though you can find many instances of people complaining about this problem, there has never been and likely never will be a fix. This is one risk of the uncommon professional style cards.
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arisu posted:Here's an example of Intel HD5000 in action on a Haswell Macbook Air: In a CPU without a drastically constrained TDP, there are likely going to be situations where the 4600 is actually faster than the 5000 in a thermally constrained chip despite the difference in the number of cores. This anandtech article details how the GPU in the air essentially has to share a very small power budget with the CPU (17W total) and that in cases where you're near TDP and using a lot of both CPU and GPU, you do so at the cost of clockspeed in one or both components. http://www.anandtech.com/show/7072/intel-hd-5000-vs-hd-4000-vs-hd-4400 Since the 4700 is a 47W CPU/GPU, it'll probably be faster than the MacBook air with its 5000 simply because the 4600 GPU will be able to spend more time at high clockspeeds because of the larger power/thermal budget. Edit: If you compare the benchmarks here: http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-HD-Graphics-4600.86106.0.html and here: http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-HD-Graphics-5000.91978.0.html you'll see that the 4600 (In a 37-47W chip) actually outperforms the 5000 (in a 17W chip) in nearly every synthetic and gaming benchmark. This is pretty much entirely due to thermal throttling in the low wattage chip. Naffer fucked around with this message at 21:48 on Jul 18, 2013 |
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InstantInfidel posted:No, we're talking about 5000. The graph doesn't include it, but it's still better than quite a few dGPUs. The 5000 in a 17W CPU like in the Air should be slower than the 4600 in that benchmark because of GPU/CPU throttling. See my post here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3552651&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=39#post417593375
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Dell just announced the Precision M3800 and that it will have a 3,200 x 1,800 display. At 4.5 pounds it looks to be a direct 15" rMBP competitor.
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Koramei posted:Wellll I was pretty vague in my previous post but I hope someone can help me this time; I did a bit more searching, can someone compare this against this? If you're not planning on playing AAA video games at high resolutions, the Intel HD graphics are good enough for everything else (streaming video, flash games, etc). You can do some mid to light gaming on the newest versions of Intel HD graphics cards (>4000) too. The Dell Inspirons are fine but not fantastic. In your price range you might be able to bag a Latitude notebook from the Dell Business outlet if you're content with a last-gen Intel processor. The advantage there is that all their Latitude laptops in their outlet come with a full 3 year warranty. This is sort of my personal preference, since business grade laptops tend to be better built. There are some 20% off coupons floating around right now.
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Hadlock posted:The biggest difference on the 440 will be ~3 additional hours of battery life on the stock battery, and for the i7 model, s much better integrated graphics capability. I'm hoping they're offer a 440s with the 5100 Iris GPU.
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Srebrenica Surprise posted:The 730M would probably be faster anyway. Yes but that's a 33W GPU. The Iris 5100 is 28W including both the GPU and CPU, which means it can be lighter and quieter even if the performance is a bit worse.
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Weinertron posted:The lower TDP is the whole problem, when the CPU is going hard then the GPU doesn't have as much room to clock itself up and vice versa. If Intel does a 35W TDP package of the same part it would probably be significantly faster. The 5100 GPU in the 28W processors should be in the ballpark of 50% faster than the 5000 GPU in 17W ultraportable Intel processors if Intel's own numbers are to be believed : (http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/05/intels-iris-wants-to-change-how-you-feel-about-integrated-graphics/) Laptops with 28W 5100 GPUs aren't available yet so there aren't any other numbers available yet. A 15W CPU (~dual core i7) + 33 W GPU is about 50W, which is pretty much dead on what the i7-4750HQ (quad core + Iris 5200 GPU) TDP is. Has anyone seen a comparison benchmark between that 14" Clevo equipped with a i7-4750HQ versus a similar wattage of CPU + Nvidia GPU? Edit: This is a translated German article pretty much answering that exact question: http://translate.google.com.ar/tran...%2F2%2F&act=url">early They match up a i7-4750HQ with Iris Pro 5200 against an i7-4700HQ with an Nvidia 750M. Theoretically, the latter system should have a TDP nearly twice that of the Iris-pro system, but it both performs substantially better and draws only about 7W more (82 vs 89W). Naffer fucked around with this message at 21:32 on Aug 1, 2013 |
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Bob Morales posted:Besides that, newer laptops have much longer lasting batteries and things like nice big touchpads, plus things like USB 3.0, HDMI or DisplayPort output, have better integrated wireless, and better or higher-resolution screens, so it's worth upgrading because of one or more of those features. Also, lithium ion batteries age, so a 4 year old laptop often has abysmal battery life compared to when it was new. 4 years ago a decent laptop had a 2.2 GHz Core 2 Duo with 2 to 4 GB of RAM. If you paid a lot more you might have picked up a 2.8 GHz core 2 duo. Even today, there isn't much that the latter more expensive option can handle that the cheaper one couldn't.
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VulgarandStupid posted:SSDs will make almost any computer seem fast in anything that isn't being processor limited, and you've removed the bloatware. My dm1z has a Kingston SSD+ in it, which is not a particularly fast SSD and its been great. This is definitely true. A new SSD gave my 4 year old 2.2GHz Core 2 Duo laptop a new lease on life.
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Inspector_71 posted:I got to play with a few of the earlier model Ativ Books that came into my shop for work (OS/software, not hardware) and holy poo poo they are thin and light as all hell. I would totally pick one up if I had the money for it. Asus had better hurry up and get the Zenbook Infinity out the door, because this one looks like a really nice competitor. It's really interesting how the sum of Haswell and high DPI displays has really made this new laptop generation quite a step forward.
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Dell just announced a 14" Haswell Latitude. It's on the expensive side but will have a 1080p screen option. Right now the only CPU options on the My Premier site are the i3-4010U Processor (1.7GHz, 3M cache) and i5-4200U Processor (1.6GHz, 3M cache), but supposedly there will be an option with Intel 5000 graphics as well. Weirdly enough there is no 5GHz Wifi option yet. Edit: I was wrong, the Intel option is 802.11a/b/g/n 2x2. A detailed list of specs that will be available is here: http://partnerdirect.dell.com/sites/channel/Documents/Latitude-7000-Series-Technical-Guidebook.pdf The list of supported CPUs for both 7-series latitudes is: Intel® Core™ i5-4200U Intel® HD Graphics 4400 Intel® Core™ i3-4010U Intel® HD Graphics 4400 Intel® Core™ i7-4600U (Wave II) Intel® HD Graphics 4400 Intel® Core™ i5-4300U (Wave II) Intel® HD Graphics 4400 Naffer fucked around with this message at 19:23 on Aug 9, 2013 |
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unpronounceable posted:It's not even a particularly good dGPU though. I'd much rather just the integrated graphics, but in a CPU with a larger power envelope. And here I was hoping for a 28W Haswell T440s with integrated Iris 5100 GPU.
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CapnBry posted:The Lenovo U430 showed up briefly on the Lenovo site this morning. Looks like you can make a pretty decent system with the exception it is limited to 8GB of RAM. Only one RAM slot? How am I supposed to have 100 browser tabs open? Also the display is only 250nit and something tells me it is going to be glossy. •The 4th Generation Intel® Core i5-4258U processor •The 4th Generation Intel® Core i7-4558U processor These two chips are 28W Haswell with the Iris 5100 GPU.
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Frankie! posted:Any other Iris 5200 laptops around? Pretty much just the Clevo W740SU: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7182/90-minutes-with-the-clevo-w740su-featuring-iris-pro-hd-5200
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PiCroft posted:Also, was wondering what the concensus is on the GPU, which is apparently a Intel HD Graphics 4400. Is this a decent GPU? The 4400 is quite good for integrated graphics and should suffice for most use cases except for serious AAA gaming. For the 17W low voltage Intel chips, the 4400 and 5000 are pretty comparable in speed since the 5000 is limited by the total CPU+GPU TDP.
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Hadlock posted:My buddy ordered a Yoga from the outlet store on the 11th (sunday) and got it on the 20th, 9 days later. You might be pushing it a little on your window there. 9 days from today would be next friday, which only gives you two days wiggle room. I really want to buy the Yoga, but there's just one too many compromises right now. How much money could they really have saved by not including a proper Intel Wifi card with 5 GHz support?
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Is anyone in this thread close friends with a Dell representative? I'm trying to figure out whether the 1080p panel on the Latitude 7440 is an IPS display or not. The reported view angles (+80/-80 degrees vertical +80/-80 degrees horizontal) don't exactly sound right for one.
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Hadlock posted:Jumping on the Aitv bandwagon here I'd buy that tomorrow if it came with 8GB of RAM, even if it was $1450 instead.
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DrDork posted:Sure, but the price and size difference of a 4GB package vice an 8GB one is pretty small, especially in what are supposed to be flagship products. I expect they'll offer 8 GB along with something like a 256gb ssd and an i7 so they can add 400 to the price for an upgraded model.
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Viscardus posted:Yeah, that's definitely something to consider. I'm pretty sure my current laptop has a battery life of well under half of what it originally did, probably in large part due to my bad habit of having it constantly plugged in even when fully charged. It's interesting that you mention this. I was playing with a Vaio Pro 13 recently and noticed that you can set it to charge only to 80% capacity to extend the life of the battery. It seems like a good idea for people who are plugged in the vast majority of the time.
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bull3964 posted:Dell announced their new latitude line yesterday. The Latitude 7440 looks really nice but isn't going to come cheap. I priced one out with an i5-4200U, 128GB SSD, 1920*1080 screen and 8GB RAM on my premier site and it was ~$1400. That's pretty similar to an X1 Carbon with similar specs, but the Latitude weighs an extra half pound and comes with a 3 year warranty.
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Boner Slam posted:Which brings me to Dell The IPS touchscreen on the 7440 looks fantastic. I think I might pick this one up when it becomes available on my premier page. I'm a little sad that the page up and page down buttons are now near the arrowkeys, but at least they didn't do the mini-arrow keys like Apple and Sony have been doing lately.
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A hands-on review of the 440s was posted on a german forum. Translated link: http://www.microsofttranslator.com/...G-BILDER-VIDEOS The short video showing the clickpad makes it look unbelievably bad. There's no way Lenovo would actually ship that is there?
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QuarkJets posted:So while we're waiting for more Haswell HD5000+ laptops to come out, what do we think the low-end price point is going to be on these initially? More than $1k? The i7-4500U that everyone but apple is using right now (with HD4400) is only $50 cheaper than the i7-4550U (comparable turbo clocks, lower base with HD5000). With regard to 28 Iris 5100 CPUs, The i5 versions should be similarly priced or less than the i7 with HD4400. The big issue is that HD5000 is so power constrained in the 17W CPUs that there's not a lot of reason to pay for an HD5000 over similar GPU with an HD4400, especially since you pay not only in price but in lower base clocks. 28W CPUs with Iris 5100 graphics should provide the power budget for the integrated graphics to really stretch its legs. You can see the penalty imposed on the HD5000 by power constraints by comparing it to the HD4600 in higher wattage chips. The HD4600 is faster even though it's half the GPU.
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TomWaitsForNoMan posted:I don't think I would be paying a lot more money though, because as far as I can see the Ativ Book 9 Plus is the same price range as the other laptops I mentioned in my post at the top of the page I'm actually deciding between the same laptops as you, and right now I'm leaning towards the Latitude 7440 pending the final price. The images of the model with the 1080p touch screen make it look fantastic. I know it's a bit heavier and doesn't have the high resolution of the Ativ Book 9 plus, but I'm hoping it'll hold up better over time. Plus the non-chiclet keyboard and 3 year standard warranty wins points.
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TomWaitsForNoMan posted:Other than the lack of driver updates, is there another reason not to get a Vaio Pro? I have used one a fair bit. It seems to be getting pretty frequently updated still. My biggest complaints are that there isn't a lot of travel on the keys, which is pretty common on superlight ultrabooks these days, and that the screen angle can't be adjusted back past a certain angle. For normal use that isn't a big issue, but sometimes I wish I could push the screen back a little further when working with it on my lap. The fan is a touch on the whiny side when it's going full tilt too, but that isn't very common. It's unbelievably light and the screen looks fantastic. Going from a 5-6 pound laptop to a sub 3 pound laptop makes your laptop bag feel nearly empty. It's pretty great.
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Cacator posted:Do you have any issues with the flex in the screen or the keyboard? I don't doubt the strength or the lightness of the carbon fibre but I can't help feel like it would annoy me. And how is the battery life? I should say that it's my significant other's laptop and I only use it occasionally, but the flex isn't really as bad as it's made out to be. Yes there is a little bit more give then you might be used to, but you don't notice it after using it for a day or two. If you primarily use it on a desk or tabletop, you'll probably never notice it at all. It's a bit more noticeable when you're using it on your lap.
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