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Does anyone know offhand what shipping carrier Dell Canada uses for laptops? The last thing I got from them (a TV) shipped Purolator Freight, and that is a mess I would rather not go through again. A big enough mess that I would rather buy from another company. That was an oversized item though, so maybe laptops are different.
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Hadlock posted:Your TV likely came LTL (less than truckload) which is a different class of freight than parcel. It did, but Purolator Freight also takes parcel sized packages too apparently, so Dell might still use them for a laptop so I don't know. The main issue was my billing address is a PO Box. This is a huge problem for Freight, but not a big deal for Purolator vanilla.
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Aug 13, 2013 18:18
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Hadlock posted:I don't live in Canada, I can't speak to who does what with which packages, except that LTL is generally handled differently in my country. UPS Freight (white) is only at a very general level loosely associated with UPS Parcel (brown), so your Canadian freight carrier may or may not be completely different. Yeah, that was the case. In my town, all Purolator courier packages go to a local Purolator shipping agent and we just pick up from them. Purolator Freight however has to deliver to you, personally, at the address you gave Dell and they need to see an ID with your name and that address on it. The problem was Dell didn't tell me they were using Purolator Freight and not courier when I asked, so I put the shipping agent's address. Naturally I don't have an ID with the shipping agent's address on it. I worked it out eventually, but it took too much time and too many phonecalls. If a laptop just ships regular courier then there should be no problem though. I need a new laptop for work, and the XPS12 looks like exactly what I need. In the past I've just ordered through our supplier, but they don't have Dell stuff. If I'm getting something new, I'm getting something actually new. Aphrodite fucked around with this message at 20:56 on Aug 13, 2013 |
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Aug 13, 2013 20:50
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Is taking the i5->i7 4gb->8gb upgrade on the XPS12 worth it for the $200? (If no, what about the $100 it costs right now?)
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Aug 14, 2013 19:10
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Optiquest posted:Does Lenovo always take 2 weeks to ship out a laptop? 2 weeks is the standard initial estimate for laptops, but it may ship sooner.
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Aug 16, 2013 13:26
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Protocol7 posted:Like what? Like how $640 is a good price point for a quality machine? I don't know what point you are making. (Most) of the advice given in this thread is with the intent of making sure a person doesn't buy something so awful that they will come back in a month and complain that the hard drive in their lovely $200 laptop went dead. Pretty sure he was mocking sports' troll post directly, not the thread in general.
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Aug 16, 2013 17:47
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Hadlock posted:No quote:The XPS 12 i7/8gb upgrade was kind of a weird bargain at dell.ca when I bought mine last month since with all the deals flying around it was maybe a hundred bucks over the basic model. Yeah, that's exactly what it was. It's normally $200 more, but they had $100 off. I ended up ordering that one. It came up just under $1500 which was the budget I had anyway. The SSD I can upgrade myself later on for about $100 less than the upgrade cost if I need to.
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Aug 18, 2013 00:56
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Krakkles posted:Are there any relatively small laptops (15" would be absolute max, and even then, I'd rather not...) that have decent screen resolution? Well the Samsung Ativ Book 9 is 3200x1800 on a 13 inch screen.
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Aug 24, 2013 02:01
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Amazon only has the base model of the Haswell Ativ 9. Samsung said it will have upgrade options.
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Aug 25, 2013 04:58
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I've always wondered about that... Why specifically $640, and not an even $650? Was there a specific laptop at $640 or something?
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Aug 26, 2013 18:05
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signalnoise posted:Thanks for that, it definitely makes the decision to pay for their RAM upgrade easier. Impressively they only charge 100 additional bucks to go from 128->256gb on the ssd though so that also solves that. Whee are you seeing that? The site says $300.
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Aug 27, 2013 04:16
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drat. If they had that offer a few weeks ago I would have taken it. A 240/256 mSATA SSD costs about $200. Edit: Though I did get $100 off the i7/8gb upgrade, so it actually works out the same. Aphrodite fucked around with this message at 05:05 on Aug 27, 2013 |
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Aug 27, 2013 04:54
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signalnoise posted:Is there any significant downside to getting the i7 other than price? I'm getting conflicting reports here. If she got the i7, money aside, is there going to be a situation she finds herself going "ugh shoulda got the i5" The important question is are you trying to fit a budget? If you are, if you can you get a larger SSD or more RAM or something for that $150 I'd do that first.
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Aug 29, 2013 20:56
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QuarkJets posted:Laptop speakers all tend to suck But some of them have Beats!
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Aug 30, 2013 14:17
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I got the XPS12 with a 128gb SSD, because the price to upgrade was ridiculous. It's split into about 5 partitions. If I buy my own larger SSD, how will cloning this over go? Should the partitions be scaled up or are their sizes absolute?
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Aug 30, 2013 19:00
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Bob Morales posted:Recovery partitions and such can be left just fine. You'll just want to re-size the C: drive. You may have to do it twice, once really small to get it fit on the SSD and then after the clone, re-size it to the max size of free space. Why the (potential) need for the first re-size? Also since there's only the one slot so I'm going to have to save it as an image onto an external drive and then clone it onto the new drive, if that impacts anything.
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Aug 30, 2013 19:14
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DrDork posted:Terrible. A last-gen CPU, 1336x768 screen, no dGPU, and it's a refurb so you get a crap warranty. Yet it's still almost $600. For about $70 more, you can use the B&N link in the OP to get a baseline T430 w/1600x900 screen that will perform about the same, yet be of much better build quality and carry a full warranty. If he's linking Tigerdirect.ca, he can't use the B&N link and you need to adjust all of your reasonable price ranges a good 25% up. TomWaitsForNoMan posted:Hmm, are there alternative Haswell ultrabooks I should consider that have a >768 screen? I think the XPS 12 would be a bit too small at 12.5 inches but I'm open to other suggestions I don't find the XPS12's screen small at all, and that's with my work computer having 3 ridiculous 29 inch screens (I have no idea, I didn't buy them.) The issue I have with non-convertible touchscreen laptops is there just isn't a reason to reach over that screen and touch anything. Aphrodite fucked around with this message at 02:39 on Sep 1, 2013 |
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Sep 1, 2013 02:34
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QuarkJets posted:I still laugh when I see that it has a VGA port. I know that this is desirable in a business environment where most projectors still use VGA connections, but it still feels bizarre. We're the opposite: all of our projectors have HDMI, and all of the laptops to connect only have VGA. So each one has its own converter.
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Sep 1, 2013 23:19
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signalnoise posted:So with more information available, how does the X240 compare to the XPS12? This question is possibly to torment myself for my purchase, I already bought the XPS12, the new X-series Thinkpad is the other one I would've been waiting for. Base price of $1100 for the 240 with a non-touch screen and sub-1080p resolution. Sounds like it would be pricy to match even the entry level XPS12's specs.
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Sep 3, 2013 15:40
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evilweasel posted:Lenovo's "base price" is always fiction. I don't know if it's even possible to pay that amount, it seemingly exists only to tell you you're getting a discount. So like the MSRP of DVDs on Amazon, I guess. I can get Super Buddies for 67% off? I'd be a fool not to buy it!
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Sep 3, 2013 19:55
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Hadlock posted:Silver is the new black It looks like it used to be black, but was left out in the sun too long.
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Sep 4, 2013 01:52
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Bob Morales posted:Everyone hated the black color scheme of the old ThinkPads. Now everyone is bitching about the gray ones! Just because they changed it doesn't mean it's better.
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Sep 4, 2013 13:35
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So Sony has what now? 4 kinds of convertibles?
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Sep 4, 2013 19:33
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The X-man cometh posted:Asus just announced a buttload of new products, including 2 nice looking Zenbooks. The Trio is a really cool way of doing the dual OS thing. It's probably not very practical though.
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Sep 5, 2013 20:58
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sports posted:The battery life on the 2012 Air still blows most 2013 and 2014 laptops out of the water. Apple buys their screens from Samsung, so the Ativ Book 9 must be "true retina".
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Sep 6, 2013 04:51
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Yeah, you either get the 3200x1800 or the recessing keyboard.
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Sep 11, 2013 15:07
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Hadlock posted:Lolwut Yep! The Thinkpad Yoga with the recessing keyboard is 1080p, can have up to a 1TB HDD, has NFC, 2 USB 3.0 slots and mini-HDMI. The Yoga 2 is 3200x1800, up to 512gb SSD, 1 USB 3 and 1 USB 2 (...why?), micro HDMI, and ~4 hours more claimed battery life.
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Sep 11, 2013 16:22
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Naffer posted:It'd be nice if they offered the Thinkpad Yoga in a 13.3" model. They could call it the Thinkpad Yoga Pro (not to be confused with the Ideapad Yoga 2 Pro or the Ideapad Yoga or the Thinkpad Yoga). I can't wait for their 10 inch tablet collaboration with Amazon, the Yoga Fire.
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Sep 11, 2013 17:26
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Frankly Lenovo might have a Yoga Catastrophe on their hands.
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Sep 11, 2013 18:50
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Windows 8 is a fun gauge to see how inefficiently people used Windows. Opening the Control Panel with a mouse, crazy.
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Sep 14, 2013 00:23
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You press the Start button and type what you want. Depending on what you have installed, it's as few as 5 keystrokes to open the Control Panel. Start, "con", Enter. (Same as Windows 7.)
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Sep 14, 2013 00:32
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NtotheTC posted:My current laptop is dying and I'm struggling to identify what to replace it with. I'm definitely leaning towards "small and cheap" at this point. All I really need to do is browse internet, watch dvds, maybe netflix etc. Ideally I'd like to throw linux on it and use that day to day. I'm on the fence between netbook and laptop but it seems like a netbook might struggle with HD video, and a laptop might be too unwieldy. You can buy external disc drives, for the record. They're like the price of a DVD. So don't worry about having to find that.
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Sep 16, 2013 14:00
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Protocol7 posted:Might be cramming an acceptable amount of battery life, then. Oh it has no battery. That wouldn't leave room for the GPUs. That thing runs on diesel.
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Sep 16, 2013 23:17
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I have a bit of a weird issue with the XPS12 (2013 Haswell model.) When it goes into sleep mode, it takes 2 power switches to bring it back. The first one will light up the key backlights and the screen backlight but the OS doesn't wake up. Switching it back into sleep mode with the power switch and waking it up again behaves as normal though. Anyone have an idea what option could be causing that?
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Sep 20, 2013 17:41
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$1299 got me a 128GB SSD, 8gb ram and an i7 in an XPS12. I would trade the i7 upgrade for the storage though. I only got it because it was half off and tied into the ram upgrade.
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Sep 23, 2013 18:49
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TheDemon posted:What's currently out there in terms of convertible ultrabooks (or similar), other than waiting for the new lenovo yoga? With Haswell I think it's just the Sony Vaio Duo 13 (11 is still last gen), and Dell XPS12 right now.
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Oct 2, 2013 20:47
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Seamonster posted:XPS 12 owners tell us about that carbon fiber base. I imagine the larger models will have identical feel and build? I don't have much to compare it to, but mine feels sturdy and I have no complaints about. Even with the flippy screen, it doesn't feel flimsy. I guess XPS is Dell's "Give a poo poo" line?
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Oct 2, 2013 22:42
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Seamonster posted:A MPBr challenger appears. Strange you can only get the big battery with the SSD though. Yeah, Dell seems to like to bundle feature upgrades you want with ones you probably don't need.
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Oct 3, 2013 14:25
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DrDork posted:Err...not really. Win7 is seen as an advantage for a lot of people, and the battery life is roughly the same. He's talking about the battery life. 8 is better than 7.
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Sony also has a sliding Vaio Pro. Duo 13, or something. They will not settle until they have every kind of convertible.
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