which laptop to buy?
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Originally Posted By: djb
A ThinkBrick? I didn't know that people bought them. I thought it was only IT departments.
They weigh as much as a tank, but they aren't indestructible.
You obviously haven't been anywhere near an X series Thinkpad. Price no object, I'll take one over anything else right now. Plenty sleek and chic enough for me.
I guess if you plan on running over it with a semi, Thinkpads really aren't indestructible. But I've seen them dropped, sat on, poured on, and thrown into walls, and keep on working.
Sleek and sophisticated doesn't mean spit when it's shattered all over the floor.
A ThinkBrick? I didn't know that people bought them. I thought it was only IT departments.
They weigh as much as a tank, but they aren't indestructible.
You obviously haven't been anywhere near an X series Thinkpad. Price no object, I'll take one over anything else right now. Plenty sleek and chic enough for me.
I guess if you plan on running over it with a semi, Thinkpads really aren't indestructible. But I've seen them dropped, sat on, poured on, and thrown into walls, and keep on working.
Sleek and sophisticated doesn't mean spit when it's shattered all over the floor.
We love my ThinkPad T520(i7) and wife's ThinkPad Edge E520(i5)
Very solid laptops. Our OLD Thinkpads (R60 and R52) are also still in good operating conditions.
Very solid laptops. Our OLD Thinkpads (R60 and R52) are also still in good operating conditions.
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Originally Posted By: Nick R
Well I actually had to cancel the order for that lenovo, because I realized it didn't have USB 3.0 or Gigabit ethernet, so I cancelled it and got this one instead. Which is better anyway, since it has the new Trinity cores,. better graphics cores, and has those. The only real downside is the casing is glossy plastic, but I can deal with that. I'm more about function than form anyway, I'll just have to learn to deal with my OC and the fingerprints lol
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834215419
I'm actually just about to buy this one too.
Only thing turning me off is the gloss surfaces.
Well I actually had to cancel the order for that lenovo, because I realized it didn't have USB 3.0 or Gigabit ethernet, so I cancelled it and got this one instead. Which is better anyway, since it has the new Trinity cores,. better graphics cores, and has those. The only real downside is the casing is glossy plastic, but I can deal with that. I'm more about function than form anyway, I'll just have to learn to deal with my OC and the fingerprints lol
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834215419
I'm actually just about to buy this one too.
Only thing turning me off is the gloss surfaces.
Originally Posted By: DemoFly
Originally Posted By: Nick R
Well I actually had to cancel the order for that lenovo, because I realized it didn't have USB 3.0 or Gigabit ethernet, so I cancelled it and got this one instead. Which is better anyway, since it has the new Trinity cores,. better graphics cores, and has those. The only real downside is the casing is glossy plastic, but I can deal with that. I'm more about function than form anyway, I'll just have to learn to deal with my OC and the fingerprints lol
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834215419
I'm actually just about to buy this one too.
Only thing turning me off is the gloss surfaces.
Not a big fan of the glossy finish either, but for the value nothing even comes close. I'm going to upgrade it to a Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid HDD too. I'll deal with the gloss, if it gets me good performance for the buck.
Originally Posted By: Nick R
Well I actually had to cancel the order for that lenovo, because I realized it didn't have USB 3.0 or Gigabit ethernet, so I cancelled it and got this one instead. Which is better anyway, since it has the new Trinity cores,. better graphics cores, and has those. The only real downside is the casing is glossy plastic, but I can deal with that. I'm more about function than form anyway, I'll just have to learn to deal with my OC and the fingerprints lol
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834215419
I'm actually just about to buy this one too.
Only thing turning me off is the gloss surfaces.
Not a big fan of the glossy finish either, but for the value nothing even comes close. I'm going to upgrade it to a Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid HDD too. I'll deal with the gloss, if it gets me good performance for the buck.
Since APUs scale incredibly with ram speed (shared Vram) i'm surprised trinity laptops don't ship with ddr3-1600.
Trinity's max IMC speed is 1600.
Trinity's max IMC speed is 1600.
well somewhere a week or 2 ago I made comments about warranties, which can vary significantly in cost and coverage between different units. Still something to think about.
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Have you ever noticed all these "Which laptop to buy", "I need a new laptop" and "My laptop broke" threads are started by folks WITHOUT Thinkpads?
haha. But there CAN'T be any quality difference since Thinkpads, like Apple products, are all made from the same components..... 8)
Have you ever noticed all these "Which laptop to buy", "I need a new laptop" and "My laptop broke" threads are started by folks WITHOUT Thinkpads?
haha. But there CAN'T be any quality difference since Thinkpads, like Apple products, are all made from the same components..... 8)
Originally Posted By: Familyguy
The sandy bridge cpus have horrid graphics performance.
because you need graphics performance for surfing the net and watching youtube?
I wasnt saying it was the best laptop ever but its certainly 3-4x as fast as a dual-core netbook and the graphics are fine for non-gaming.
I bought their deal a few months ago for a similar model acer 260$ with facebook coupon.. its a heck of a laptop faster than some I bought a few(2-3) years ago for 500$
The sandy bridge cpus have horrid graphics performance.
because you need graphics performance for surfing the net and watching youtube?
I wasnt saying it was the best laptop ever but its certainly 3-4x as fast as a dual-core netbook and the graphics are fine for non-gaming.
I bought their deal a few months ago for a similar model acer 260$ with facebook coupon.. its a heck of a laptop faster than some I bought a few(2-3) years ago for 500$
Originally Posted By: Rand
Originally Posted By: Familyguy
The sandy bridge cpus have horrid graphics performance.
because you need graphics performance for surfing the net and watching youtube?
I wasnt saying it was the best laptop ever but its certainly 3-4x as fast as a dual-core netbook and the graphics are fine for non-gaming.
I bought their deal a few months ago for a similar model acer 260$ with facebook coupon.. its a heck of a laptop faster than some I bought a few(2-3) years ago for 500$
It's not just graphics processing, but abridged processing and hardware acceleration.
Easiest way I can explain it:
Originally Posted By: Familyguy
The sandy bridge cpus have horrid graphics performance.
because you need graphics performance for surfing the net and watching youtube?
I wasnt saying it was the best laptop ever but its certainly 3-4x as fast as a dual-core netbook and the graphics are fine for non-gaming.
I bought their deal a few months ago for a similar model acer 260$ with facebook coupon.. its a heck of a laptop faster than some I bought a few(2-3) years ago for 500$
It's not just graphics processing, but abridged processing and hardware acceleration.
Easiest way I can explain it:
That demo shows the very wide divergence in performance for real life tasks. If I wanted something that ran very cpu-intensive compute tasks (such as encoding 1080p video), the Intel system would perform better. (Though if that was my use case, one would think you'd be spending more than a couple hundred on a cheap laptop, but I digress....) For almost every other conceivable load, the AMD llano/trinity APU walks away from sandy bridge in terms of actual performance in the field and does so at the same or lower price points.
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