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I did a fresh install of Windows when I got it. I'm sure it's on the manufacturer drivers page; I'll go back and take a look around.
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Flipperwaldt posted:In that case he'd save even more not getting the cache drive in the first place. I had a hybrid drive and I think that's way better than a rotational, but I don't know about a caching drive.
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republic posted:I did a fresh install of Windows when I got it. I'm sure it's on the manufacturer drivers page; I'll go back and take a look around. Looks like it's called Lenovo Energy Management.
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butt dickus posted:You can already get the adapters but they're janky and require a PCIe connector on the laptop which is probably going to have 4 or fewer lanes. What about USB C? Is it fast enough to run an external video card?
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I liked the quote from a couple pages back, something to the effect of, "Nuclear Fusion and External GPUs: technologies that will be life changing and have been just 2-3 years away now for decades" I though lightning bolt (external connector for the PCIe bus) would bring in a new era of external GPUs but it never really materialized. edit: in that video, does that guy have a wooden box as a docking station for his laptop? Hadlock fucked around with this message at 05:22 on Mar 17, 2015 |
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Hadlock posted:I liked the quote from a couple pages back, something to the effect of, "Nuclear Fusion and External GPUs: technologies that will be life changing and have been just 2-3 years away now for decades" Shouldn't USB C work as a PCI-E port? USB-C is going to be in a lot more devices than lightning bolt ever would.
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Just accepted a grad school offer and they're getting me a laptop. I'll be using it for computational modelling and analysis. I'll also likely be installing Ubuntu on it. I'm not certain what the budget is but it's either not going to be a factor or it'll be ~$1000. Any suggestions?
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Probably a T530 or T440 with the upgraded graphics card for physx etcNitrousoxide posted:Shouldn't USB C work as a PCI-E port? USB-C is going to be in a lot more devices than lightning bolt ever would. Thunder/lightning bolt is a literal external pinout for the PCIe bus, to the point that it's an actual security risk for the computer to directly access system memory, etc. there is no intermediate chip. USB-C has dedicated high speed bus lines but I think it's all routed through a USB controller chip. I might be wrong, it may be a PCIe extender as well. Hadlock fucked around with this message at 05:31 on Mar 17, 2015 |
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I've never seen the Lenovo outlet this depleted. Is this a natural part of their inventory cycle or did they make some fundamental change to it?
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USB-C is as much of a security risk because of you pretend to be a keyboard you can do anything.
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Hadlock posted:Oh right, I had to go by the mall, Apple store said they won't have the new Macbook on display until April 10th. Microsoft Store did, however, have the new XPS 13 on display, two of the 1080p IPS non-touch and one of the quad-HD+ touch screens. I was a little suprised to see that the non-touch screen had a traditional looking screen (tiny bezel still, though), I was expecting a glass screen on both. The glass screen is definitely flashier, and that matte screen looks kind of dull in comparison, but really they're equal brightness and I think the 1080p IPS has better color reproduction than the quad-HD. So I was in the market for a new laptop that was portable but still had enough muscle to run some high end programs. I bike to work so it had to be something that was light and fit in my small commuter backpack. I saw the XPS 13 online and wanted to look at it in person so I drove to the mall and looked at it at the Microsoft store. Walked out of the store with one since I had a discount due to working in a research institution. I LOVE IT! I had some reservations about the touch screen since I never thought I'd use it, but they didn't sell the 8GB RAM/256GB SSD with a non-touch screen. I'm already using the touch screen to surf the web and only using the physical keyboard to type if I need to type something long out. I tested a few renders and they go up pretty fast. The resolution is amazing. The default zoom on the XPS 13 is set to as high as Windows allows so the screen is easy to navigate. The resolution is a ridiculous 3200x1800 which means everything is tiny at 100% zoom, but thankfully the scaling corrects everything. You still get great detail on graphics while everything else looks 1080p or so. I dunno I can't tell normally. And the shell is sweet. Its solid as can be and looks real purty sitting on the table. Overall I'm happy with my purchase so far. I'll start raging if things go bad but Dell seems to have made a solid piece of equipment.
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I'm kinda surprised that AMD/Nvidia haven't partnered up with someone to manufacture a line of gaming ultrabooks with external cards on a proprietary 8 or 16x PCIe port. I mean all they'd need is one really good laptop and a good marketing campaign.
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MikeJF posted:I'm kinda surprised that AMD/Nvidia haven't partnered up with someone to manufacture a line of gaming ultrabooks with external cards on a proprietary 8 or 16x PCIe port. What would be the point of that - if you're going to go to all the trouble and expense why not just have a whole separate desktop?
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dissss posted:What would be the point of that - if you're going to go to all the trouble and expense why not just have a whole separate desktop? And yet people buy gaming laptops.
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Gaming laptops have their place, like if you travel a lot for work but still want to make raid night or whatever. I would totally buy a laptop with an external graphics card for gaming out-of-town.
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vulturesrow posted:Looking for a laptop recommendation. I do game quite a bit; stuff like Civ, Hearthstone, Heroes of the Storm. My current laptop is an Asus G60VX which was really good for what I do. I do user my laptop for stuff other than gaming. I am in the military so it's used a lot as a desktop replacement essentially. Looking for something around 800 dollars. I found this which looks pretty good: Sorry to be "that guy" but if anyone could weigh in on this I'd appreciate. I'm moving in a couple weeks and would like to take care of this before I do.
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sarehu posted:I had a hybrid drive and I think that's way better than a rotational, but I don't know about a caching drive.  aka around 10% of the read speed of the hard drive it's supposed to support. Don't know if it's poo poo firmware on the cache drive or garbage NAND or if 16GB just isn't enough to get decent enough wear leveling for the massive amount of writes it sees or if the caching software is to blame or whatever. All I know is the gains were underwhelming when it was new and that at the end it took about a minute to wake the laptop from sleep. The benefit of it being a separate cache drive was that I could remove it when it finally broke. If it all comes at no extra cost, yeah, why the gently caress not. But $40 is better put towards something that makes a real difference. A screen upgrade, RAM or savings towards a real SSD. It's possible hybrid drives do better, I have no idea.
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Hadlock posted:USB-C has dedicated high speed bus lines but I think it's all routed through a USB controller chip. I might be wrong, it may be a PCIe extender as well.
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vulturesrow posted:; You can find that one for $700 if you shop around http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IQ4G8U8...ASIN=B00IQ4G8U8 http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produ...bf-d778686281ad http://www.compsource.com/pn/GP70Leopard010/-/?src=14 I looked around at Civ and people said it should work for it.
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chemosh6969 posted:You can find that one for $700 if you shop around http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IQ4G8U8...ASIN=B00IQ4G8U8 Any alternative recommendations for around the same price?
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vulturesrow posted:Any alternative recommendations for around the same price? Maybe the lenovo y50 with the B&N gold link? Otherwise i don't know.
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Apok posted:Overall I'm happy with my purchase so far. I'll start raging if things go bad but Dell seems to have made a solid piece of equipment. Thanks for the writeup, I just ordered the exact same config as you have a few days ago but I have to wait over 2 weeks for it to arrive  .
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Just pulled the trigger on a T450s for $650. Thanks to everyone in this thread for all the valuable info. I hadn't originally planned on upgrading to the 1080p IPS screen, but since I was already spending a little more than I meant to I figured I'd bite the bullet and shell out the extra $70. Hopefully it's worth the extra cash.
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vulturesrow posted:Any alternative recommendations for around the same price? I'd say go for it at 700.
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butt dickus posted:USB-C is just the connector. USB 3.1 is the new spec. And even then not really. All current devices with USB-C ports are USB 3.1 Gen 1. Which is actually USB 3.0 that was renamed because the USB-IF is retarded. So they're really only plain old USB 3.0 5Gbps ports on a USB 3.0 controller but with a fancy new connector. Is the power negotiated separate from the data controller? I think the current "blue" box style connector is only rated for 4.5W while the type-C connector is technically rated for 100W. The actual power consumption of a Macbook lies somewhere between those two numbers so I am thinking a new controller chip is being used here, last time I checked people still didn't know the mfg or model of the chip
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Since the OP hasn't been updated since forever I am just going to ask for a recommendation. $700 price point. Quad CPU, intel. 15 inch. On board GPU is fine. mSATA would be nice. HP preferred. I will put a fresh Win7 on it and don't want to pay extra for a useless touchscreen. Setting this up for a family member who just had a terrible experience with a Win8 computer that was inundated with bloatware. I convinced her to return it and just follow my advice.
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Hadlock posted:Is the power negotiated separate from the data controller? I think the current "blue" box style connector is only rated for 4.5W while the type-C connector is technically rated for 100W. The actual power consumption of a Macbook lies somewhere between those two numbers so I am thinking a new controller chip is being used here, last time I checked people still didn't know the mfg or model of the chip So yeah, I should have specified that charging through the port is new but for all other purposes it's USB 3.0 with a new hole.
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Waltzing Along posted:Since the OP hasn't been updated since forever I made an update, here is the bulk of the changes. Looking for input/critisims as apparently this gets read a lot. Hadlock's OP posted:Ivy Bridge vs Haswell vs Broadwell and where is Sky Lake? Hadlock fucked around with this message at 23:19 on Mar 17, 2015 |
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Lenovo Y50 - this is NOT a Thinkpad, but it is a very reliable "Gaming Laptop" which has gotten a number of upgrades over the last 2 years and is frequently recommended
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Hadlock posted:I made an update, here is the bulk of the changes. Looking for input/critisims as apparently this gets read a lot. The Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga now has 12" (actually 12,5") 14" and 15" flavors, but everything else looks drat good!
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I will add that, thanks. Is the Yoga 3 any good five months later? It got lukewarm reviews at launch last fall. Now we need a new thread title. I was thinking something like 'Laptop Megathread: Better Buy Broadwell' but I think we can do better
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"Broadwell? Might as well Skylake"
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More like Skywait, Skylate, Skynever, etc. might as well Broadnow
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It's not a laptop but you might as well mention that the Surface Pro 3 is something that should at least be considered if you're looking at ultrabooks and how it fits in to what you've listed.
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Need a new laptop asap. Like, tonight/right now. Can I just walk into any best buy and point to a macbook pro and know I'm getting the latest (2015) one? Thanks! E: actually, I can go to an apple store tomorrow. Guess I'll do that instead. EB Nulshit fucked around with this message at 01:16 on Mar 18, 2015 |
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The XPS13 comes pretty drat lean. They don't even have some of Dell's apps preinstalled on there. I don't see a need to wipe this after purchase. I'd remove Dell Backup and Recovery because it's annoying but otherwise it's all good to go.
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Does anyone here do iOS development on a 13-inch macbook (or air or pro)? Is it a complete pain in the rear end at anything less than 15 inches, or can I adjust the retina display to make the effective resolution high enough to not feel horrible?
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Got the Lenovo Y50-70 with the IPS screen the other day. First impression; it's dim but pretty. View angle is pretty decent from what I've seen of other non-lenovo laptops, I'm not seeing much in the way of color drift like I've seen reported with the other screens, but I'm definitely noticing the dimness. It's not TERRIBLE, it's still perfectly usable/enjoyable, but it's definitely something you'll notice if you work in a brightly lit room. As for game performance, it's run pretty much everything I own at high/ultra settings (except for Atilla:TW) and I haven't notice any crazy heat issue for what it is. Once I got it I immediately went to swap out the hybrid HDD with a SSD EVO I had lying around and ran into what turned out to be a serious problem. The screws on the back are coated in some pretty serious locktite, which made it seriously difficult to unscrew them. Apparently it made it difficult to get them IN as well since 2 of them were mis-aligned, resulting in a side screw that I got out (but completely stripped) and a center screw thats just straight hosed. I tried using an extractor but no joy, and was just about to drill it out when I figured I'd give customer support a try. 20 minutes on the phone and I have a brand new laptop headed my way and they're taking the old one back for free. Seriously AWESOME customer support!
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JacksLibido posted:Got the Lenovo Y50-70 with the IPS screen the other day. First impression; it's dim but pretty. View angle is pretty decent from what I've seen of other non-lenovo laptops, I'm not seeing much in the way of color drift like I've seen reported with the other screens, but I'm definitely noticing the dimness. It's not TERRIBLE, it's still perfectly usable/enjoyable, but it's definitely something you'll notice if you work in a brightly lit room. Sounds similar to the panel in my Asus N550 - it looks okay but isn't nearly as bright as I was expecting it to be.
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EB Nulshit posted:Does anyone here do iOS development on a 13-inch macbook (or air or pro)? Is it a complete pain in the rear end at anything less than 15 inches, or can I adjust the retina display to make the effective resolution high enough to not feel horrible? Yes, the 13" is a very popular developer laptop.
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Cool, thanks! Is there any way that I can hook up a pc's DVI or HDMI out to a macbook pro? I want to setup a linux box at home that I can ssh into, but I don't have a monitor.
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