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Picking a laptop.
Saras:
--- Quote from: Roven on December 08, 2011, 05:47:43 AM ---
--- Quote ---That battery lifespan and the 3 kilo weight is unacceptable for a laptop.
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Which one you're talking about?
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Dell.
kitamesume:
OMG, i just saw lenovo's specs, it supports up to a GT540M and supports Up to a 2nd generation Intel® Core™ i7 processors
with Intel® Turbo Boost 2.0 Technology. gogogo!
http://www.lenovo.com/products/us/laptop/ideapad/z-series/z470/Z470_Datasheet_US.pdf
well doubt you could afford the real stuff.
edit: @fohfoh
Dell makes laptops that falls apart and hates the fact that its easy to disassemble? are they crack in the head? if the laptop wasn't easy to disassemble then it wouldn't easily fall apart as well... i mean, pouring resin over the dead useless space would permanently seal them, forever... there are thermally good conducting resins~ just leave a path for the heatsink/fans to suck in and blow out air.
@Riven
you wouldn't want a too slim of a laptop, it'll warp like hell >,> experienced it from a super slim monitor. and its scary to open up as it could just break out of nowhere.
oh and i wouldn't want to carry it around outside the house without a good case for it, getting bumps from some accidents and seeing your screen was split to two "oh, now i got a multi-screen laptop"...
kureshii:
--- Quote from: fohfoh on December 08, 2011, 07:12:37 AM ---If price is pretty much the same with same specs, I'd always go with Lenovo over Dell. Ironically, Lenovo is a China built that isn't as shitty as the Dell laptops. LG I've had no experience with, so I can't comment there. Lenovo is actually built in a way that generally is quite sturdy. The only errors I've ever seen on them are HDD failures, which truth be told, is an issue with the HDD, not the laptop.
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Be careful about confusing the Ideapads with the Thinkpads. What you say is true of the Thinkpad line, which carries its enterprise engineering blood from IBM. The Ideapads are Lenovo's compromise, their equivalent of the Dell Latitudes and HP Pavilions, stuff aimed at consumers, not held to the same Thinkpad standards you're familiar with.
In general, confusing business/enterprise-level product lines with consumer-level product lines is a Bad Idea (TM), and leads to buyers making dumb decisions or assumptions. Dell Inspiron != Latitude, HP/Compaq Pavilion != Probook/Elitebook, Lenovo Ideapad != Thinkpad, and so on. Also be careful about low-end Latitudes/Probooks/Thinkpads that some OEMs may market as "entry-level" business-class laptops, to pull in the cheapo wannabe crowd. In general if you compare these to the regular business-class stuff you should be able to tell the difference.
@OP: If you're lucky enough to find a good deal on what you're sure is a regular business-class laptop, jump for it. Otherwise you generally get what you pay for. Get something with a good warranty plan, sane hardware configuration and sensible design, but don't plonk down too much on it — laptops can't be salvaged the same way as desktops and you should be prepared to let them go when their time comes.
The above applies if you have a budget that can accommodate such options. If you don't, well... find out which OEM has the best post-sales service in your area and get something from their product line, provided it's not too shitty.
Roven:
OK how about finding few more candidates? (Needs a new topic?)
-Uses: Watching HD stuff, Playing relatively mid graphics games (Dota, HoN), programming and Photoshop.
-Specs needed: As long I can do all of the above, I'm good. Screen size (preferably 15" or above though), battery life and storage doesn't matter.
-Budget: 800$ could go up to 900 if it's really worth it.
Of the three suggested however I'm thinking of getting the Dell.
Do note that I'm shopping locally, I'll prolly find anything if it's Asus, Acer, Toshiba, Sony, Samsung, Dell and some Lenovo's and Fujitsu's. Gaming laptops are hard to find. Not that I'm looking for one though.
metro.:
--- Quote from: Roven on December 08, 2011, 12:16:42 PM ---OK how about finding few more candidates? (Needs a new topic?)
-Uses: Watching HD stuff, Playing relatively mid graphics games (Dota, HoN), programming and Photoshop.
-Specs needed: As long I can do all of the above, I'm good. Screen size (preferably 15" or above though), battery life and storage doesn't matter.
-Budget: 800$ could go up to 900 if it's really worth it.
Of the three suggested however I'm thinking of getting the Dell.
Do note that I'm shopping locally, I'll prolly find anything if it's Asus, Acer, Toshiba, Sony, Samsung, Dell and some Lenovo's and Fujitsu's. Gaming laptops are hard to find. Not that I'm looking for one though.
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I was gunna suggest mine here, but when I bought mine it was only $800
I'm not sure what happened.
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