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iindigo:

--- Quote from: fohfoh on February 03, 2010, 03:45:21 AM ---
--- Quote from: iindigo on February 03, 2010, 02:48:52 AM ---Don't bother with HP or any of its daughter companies. For whatever reason, their engineers can't figure out something as elementary as airflow. Dell and most other big names fail at it as well. The only exceptions that I personally know of are Toshiba, Lenovo, Sony, and Apple. Sony can be hit or miss.

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Technically Apple sits on that shelf for having poor flow. But only for last gen. When there were issues with the NVidia 8200/8400, HP and Dell had the most issues, but Apple was in "3rd place". It probably was only like 10-15% in comparison to HP and Dells 60%+ but still it was the highest margin in comparison to the others based on the reports.

It was something like OTHERS 3 reports < Apple 4-5 reports < HP/Dell 20 reports each

Supposedly the new gen of macbooks (I hate that black and silver design) aren't bad. But the older model had some issues with airflow. (Technically in the same time frame as when people began to figure out the issues with airflow for laptop cases from different companies)

I will add though... Apple wasn't as big of a douche as HP and Dell to initially address the issue.

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I think maybe the difference between the old and new macbooks isn't necessarily airflow, but has more to do with the solid aluminum case. It throws off heat exceptionally well rather than keeping it pent up.

NaRu:
My Toshiba has perfect heat flow. It never over heats

mgz:

--- Quote from: Micharus on February 03, 2010, 01:29:57 AM ---
--- Quote from: NaRu on February 03, 2010, 12:36:52 AM ---Lenovo is awesome.

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Lenovo = IBM. Seriously.

Work uses Lenovo desktops and towers, good machines.

I can't see that a Lenovo laptop would be any worse.

As far as buying a laptop goes, virtually any big name brand one will do the job, just keep in mind the specs you want and remember that no matter which one you end up with, that you need to keep the airflow happening or it will overheat and go *poof* (more likely it will auto shut down to save itself.)

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no lenovo =/= ibm

but ibm laptop divison was purchased by lenovo and doesnt seem to have fucked up much

Tatsujin:

--- Quote from: Mag-X on February 02, 2010, 06:48:39 PM ---
--- Quote from: HiddenJumper on February 02, 2010, 06:30:36 PM ---Why does everyone think having more RAM means better?

Look at it this way even if you installed 3 or 4 gigs ram on a 32 bit OS you're only going to get about 2.5 gigs of it for use. Take my custom built for example, I only have a 32 bit OS with 4 gig ram (original purpose was for a 64 bit OS but I hate 64 bit now after using it for a while) but my 32 bit OS only allows me about 2.7 gigs of the 4 gig possible. Now more RAM for me is good (aside from 64 bit OS) because I do video editting and photoshopping at the same time so having that extra temp storage is good. However for a video watcher/gamer you don't need the extra ram. You can save yourself some money by only having 2 gigs.

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What problems are you having with a 64-bit OS? I've using 64-bit since XP x64, and I've never had any major issues. In fact, I've never had any issues what-so-ever with Vista or 7 that were caused by them being 64-bit.

Windows 32-bit can see 4GB or RAM. It's just that your video memory counts too.

Anyway, as far as gaming goes, I found the difference between 2GB and 4GB to be quite noticeable. I'd never go back to gaming with only 2GB.

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+1

fohfoh:

--- Quote from: mgz on February 03, 2010, 04:52:24 AM ---
--- Quote from: Micharus on February 03, 2010, 01:29:57 AM ---
--- Quote from: NaRu on February 03, 2010, 12:36:52 AM ---Lenovo is awesome.

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Lenovo = IBM. Seriously.

Work uses Lenovo desktops and towers, good machines.

I can't see that a Lenovo laptop would be any worse.

As far as buying a laptop goes, virtually any big name brand one will do the job, just keep in mind the specs you want and remember that no matter which one you end up with, that you need to keep the airflow happening or it will overheat and go *poof* (more likely it will auto shut down to save itself.)

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no lenovo =/= ibm

but ibm laptop divison was purchased by lenovo and doesnt seem to have fucked up much

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Agreed. Lenovo even took time to create their own designs.

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