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Been checking the market for good values and came across this one on woot. 399 for a fhd 1080p ips screen and an i5 cpu. what's wrong with it? e: vizio ct15-a4 15.6 inch http://computers.woot.com/offers/vizio-15-6-full-hd-intel-i5-ultrabook-1?ref=cnt_wp_6_1 Setset fucked around with this message at 01:45 on Apr 8, 2015 |
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Ninkobei posted:Been checking the market for good values and came across this one on woot. 399 for a fhd 1080p ips screen and an i5 cpu. what's wrong with it? Refurb and two gens old. Just look at slickdeals they have better deals every day.
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Bigass Moth posted:Refurb and two gens old. Just look at slickdeals they have better deals every day. Speaking of... 25% off refurb 2015 Dell xps 13's Get your 8 gig i5, full hd screen for 750 with free shipping. http://slickdeals.net/f/7782419-dell-xps-13-9343-refurbished-in-outlet-starting-at-669-coupon-25-or-more-501-tax
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I almost forgot Vizio was going to takeover the ultrabook market
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MikeJF posted:What elements of the XPS13 are upgradable? I think the only thing you can upgrade is the ssd and the ram is soldered on. Got the XPS13 in today with 8GB ram, 256gb ssd, and non touch screen. Screen and keyboard are pretty nice on it. I noticed some menus were fuzzy when I was installing a bunch of programs. Is this from the scaling?
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Optiquest posted:I think the only thing you can upgrade is the ssd and the ram is soldered on. Scaling shouldn't be an issue on a 1080p screen. Mind taking a screenshot and showing us?
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Optiquest posted:I think the only thing you can upgrade is the ssd and the ram is soldered on. Balls. There are basically no customisations on dell Australia; if you want the 8gb version you have to get the touchscreen model.
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Optiquest posted:I think the only thing you can upgrade is the ssd and the ram is soldered on. It might have 125% scaling turned on even with the 1080 screen, so possibly, yea. 1080 on 13" is about as small as I'd use for a 1080 screen with no scaling.
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MikeJF posted:Balls. Dell NZ has the 8GB 1080p 256GB version but to get the high res screen you need to add touch too.
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dissss posted:Dell NZ has the 8GB 1080p 256GB version but to get the high res screen you need to add touch too. The high res screen is tied into touch everywhere as far as I know. The low res (if 1920×1080 in 13.3" can be called so) screen is the far superior choice, as it is matte, and uses way less power. The high res screen seriously affects the battery life.
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HalloKitty posted:The high res screen is tied into touch everywhere as far as I know. The low res (if 1920×1080 in 13.3" can be called so) screen is the far superior choice, as it is matte, and uses way less power. The high res screen seriously affects the battery life. That's why I'm so annoyed you can only get the 1080p screen with the low-end specs in Oz.
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SouthLAnd posted:FullHD Toshiba Chromebook 2 would be my recommendation. I have the first generation model and its been great. I think the 13.3 inch screen size is about perfect.
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Apr 8, 2015 12:30
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XPS 13 Developer Edition starts at $949 if you want Ubuntu out of the box http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd
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Maybe I haven't used enough new laptops yet but are there any PC laptop track pads that are on par with apples? I have an Asus UX32 ultra book and I really don't like the trackpad. It picks up my thumb way too easily and my right palm causing the active cursor to inadvertently move/click while typing and generally slower to move the cursor around due to the feel and 'accidents'. I have a 2007(old) MBP and it's far superior imo and newer MBPs seem about the same. The last PC trackpads I ever really liked were on business class Dells and HPs. Am I stuck with these 'lesser' trackpads in the PC consumer space?
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Shaocaholica posted:The last PC trackpads I ever really liked were on business class Dells and HPs. Am I stuck with these 'lesser' trackpads in the PC consumer space? You still get decent trackpads on expensive, business targeted PCs. Lenovo is still making the pointing stick, which is my preferred laptop pointer input. Really good trackpads are part of the reason that Macs are widely recommended.
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Twerk from Home posted:You still get decent trackpads on expensive, business targeted PCs. Lenovo is still making the pointing stick, which is my preferred laptop pointer input. Really good trackpads are part of the reason that Macs are widely recommended. My work HP has a perfectly usable trackpad with proper separate buttons and a passable trackpoint too  I think it has been superseded now, but the newer models appear to have the same setup
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Maybe this is old news, but I just found the greatest invention of all time. My T440s and the horrible single slab mouse are going into surgery when this thing arrives. It's like Christmas all over again...I loathe the single giant button.... http://www.aliexpress.com/store/pro...2286821621.html Lenovo forums report it works flawlessly. http://camerongray.me/2015/02/fitting-physical-trackpoint-buttons-to-a-lenovo-thinkpad-t440s/  Edit: corrected link for T440s hotsauce fucked around with this message at 21:25 on Apr 8, 2015 |
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The Iron Rose posted:I'd say get a Y50 instead and get it with a standard HDD, then buy a 850 EVO aftermarket and install it yourself. Should be way cheaper. Why a y50 instead? I've kind of got my heart set on a 17" since that's what I've been using for ages now. Hmm, if I choose the Y70 with a 1TB hard drive rather than a ssd it brings the cost down significantly: $1239 (with 3 year warrantee) 80DU00B2US • 7.48 ( 3.4 kgs) • Windows 8.1 64 • EXTERNAL DVD-RW • ClickPad • ( 25.9 mm) • 4 Cell 54 Watt Hour Li-Polymer • NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M GDDR5 4GB • Depot or Carry-in • 4th Generation Intel Core i7-4720HQ Processor (2.60GHz 1600MHz 6MB) • SODIMM • ( 422.9 mm) • ( 290.6 mm) • 16.0GB PC3-12800 DDR3L 1600 MHz • Bluetooth Version 4.0 • Lenovo AC Wireless (2x2) • One year • EN:English • 1TB 5400 RPM+8GB SSHD --- Only problem is now I'd need to get an SSD separately to get all those sweet, sweet speed benefits. I looked at the 970m but laptops with that card seem significantly costlier than this machine. E: Is the most reasonable $1500-ish alternative is this ROG:? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834232202&cm_re=970m-_-34-232-202-_-Product With a $100 additional 2 year extended warranty I'm looking at $1600 for that. Delthalaz fucked around with this message at 22:38 on Apr 8, 2015 |
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What does that little 8gb SSD do for you?
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bunnielab posted:What does that little 8gb SSD do for you? It's supposed to be used as a cache and slightly improve the HDD's lovely speed. However, I used mine as the location for an Ubuntu install.
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bunnielab posted:What does that little 8gb SSD do for you? That's a hybrid drive, not a separate actual SSD. Also to Delthalaz, this thread in particular never recommends 17" laptops for anything other than "It's literally going to sit on a desk 98% of the time" use cases. If that's you, then great. If you move it around you probably want to look at 15" options. Something like this guy http://www.xoticpc.com/sager-np8651-clevo-p650se-p-7690.html?wconfigure=yes is a good bit of PC for the $, giving an IPS screen and 970m video card (A very very large step up from anything below it). There's similar options in 17" size.
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I'm not really sure where to post but I'm having trouble with my Lenovo Thinkpad x120e. I can't really replace it yet, so I bought a Samsung Evo 850 250gb to help it run better. I wanted to do a fresh install of Windows 7, but the Microsoft website wouldn't let me download the isos because my windows key is for a preinstalled system. Ok... Sounds a bit unfair. I used the Lenovo recovery tool to set up a usb stick to boot from. Unfortunately, it's not working. When i press f12 to change the boot drive to my usb drive (which it recognized), it says "Operating system not found". I redid the recovery usb drive to the same effect. Each time i make that recovery drive, it says everything is ok. I've fiddled with the bios according to a youtube video. Changed it to boot by uefi (whatever that is) and changed the boot order. It's still not working. Does anyone have any advice? I can't get the isos from microsoft for some stupid reason. I'm not sure what to do other than going into some grey areas, and it's really frustrating. Thanks.
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Any thoughts on this 15 inch Asus for $1099? Screen Size 15.6 inches Max Screen Resolution 1920*1080 pixels Processor 2.6 GHz Core i7-4720HQ RAM 16 GB DDR3 Hard Drive 1024 GB 7200rpm Graphics Coprocessor NVIDIA GTX960M 2G GDDR5 Wireless Type 802.11 a/g/n http://www.amazon.com/GL551JW-DS71-...csubtag=WC38536 Other than the non-IPS screen, it looks pretty good to me, and I have read that it runs very cool for a low end gaming laptop.
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predicto posted:Any thoughts on this 15 inch Asus for $1099? This is what I was looking at before I found that IPS mattered. Check Barnes and Noble Gold for Lenovo, check the Y50's.
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Shnicker posted:I'm not really sure where to post but I'm having trouble with my Lenovo Thinkpad x120e. I can't really replace it yet, so I bought a Samsung Evo 850 250gb to help it run better. http://windows-7-home-premium.en.softonic.com/download
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Just got an 2015 ASUS UX305 like last week and it's been great so far with one exception: the screen has pretty bad backlight leakage. It's only noticeable when displaying pure black or when watching a dark movie or something but it seems pretty drat bad to me. Here's a crappy picture where you may be able to see what I'm talking about : http://imgur.com/FJTMrnp I read some reviews that mentioned it, but mine seems worse than they make it out to be (they did not provide pictures). Is there anyone else with an ASUS ux305 here that has had a similar issue? Is it worth getting the unit exchanged?
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predicto posted:Any thoughts on this 15 inch Asus for $1099? Looks good to me so long as you add in an SSD aftermarket. 250 gb for $110, $500 for ~$175. I'd be tempted honestly, especially with that nice 16 gb of RAM.
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signalnoise posted:This is what I was looking at before I found that IPS mattered. Check Barnes and Noble Gold for Lenovo, check the Y50's. I did. The Lenovo at roughly the same price point has a 5400 hard drive, and I keep reading that the Lenovos run hot and ASUS has better overall build quality. I'm not sure I have the skill to install a new SSD without screwing things up, so a slow hard drive matters. But the Lenovo does have an IPS screen. Hmmm...
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predicto posted:I did. The Lenovo at roughly the same price point has a 5400 hard drive, and I keep reading that the Lenovos run hot and ASUS has better overall build quality. I'm not sure I have the skill to install a new SSD without screwing things up, so a slow hard drive matters. code:Someone let me know if I made the wrong decision here signalnoise fucked around with this message at 01:14 on Apr 9, 2015 |
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So my X220 I ordered on eBay finally arrived, and so far so good, but I really want to swap out the TN display it arrived with with an IPS. While the installation part looks fairly simple, I'm concerned about where to buy it from. Is screencountry.com good? There's a few listings on eBay but I'm just leery about them. Also if you have a recommendation on a certain one, I'm all ears. shyduck fucked around with this message at 01:37 on Apr 9, 2015 |
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shyduck posted:So my X220 I ordered on eBay finally arrived, and so far so good, but I really want to swap out the TN display it arrived with with an IPS. I ordered a screen for my thinkpad from these guys: https://www.laptopscreen.com/ and while the website looks like someone vomited everything that is bad and terrible about websites the screen I got shipped quickly, was fine, and looked great.
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Shaocaholica posted:Maybe I haven't used enough new laptops yet but are there any PC laptop track pads that are on par with apples? Panasonic laptop trackpads are divine, but the cheapest one is like $1800 though and comes with a weeaboo keyboard. Nowadays they even have big square ones, still with discrete buttons, instead of tiny but wonderful circular ones. I think a big problem with trackpads on PC's is Synaptic drivers being poo poo. The behavior on Linux is, in my experience, much better. For example on the Thinkpad Helix the machine would, on Windows, hit 5% CPU usage whenever you put your finger on the trackpad.
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Guh. A good trackpad shouldn't be a luxury item. MS should just take some control. Make the trackpad makers stick to some standard hardware fundamentals and let MS handle the driver and settings for all the new multi finger stuff. Then at lease there would be some consistency across windows laptops. Don't they kind of do this already for touch input?
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Shaocaholica posted:Guh. A good trackpad shouldn't be a luxury item. MS should just take some control. Make the trackpad makers stick to some standard hardware fundamentals and let MS handle the driver and settings for all the new multi finger stuff. Then at lease there would be some consistency across windows laptops. Microsoft did do that for the Surface Pro 3 and the Dell XPS 13. They both use Windows 8.1's built in stuff for touchpad gestures. Unfortunately this also means there's like a half a second delay before gestures are recognized built in on purpose or something if you take this route. Also it's kinda finicky/not as smooth on not IE for web browsers. e: Dell put out a firmware update late last month to take care of most of the weird issues (cursor being jumpy) but there's still a short delay on touchpad gestures starting up. MagusDraco fucked around with this message at 04:15 on Apr 9, 2015 |
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signalnoise posted:
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Did you try this or did you just google this? Because I've filtered softonic out of my google search results a couple of years ago for some reason and I don't remember why exactly. Maybe it was because it was shady as gently caress and gives you a fake result for any googling effort containing 'download', maybe it was because they insisted on going through an adware/malware infested downloader program, I'm really not sure anymore. It was something like that anyway. And the name sets off so many alarm bells that I'm not even willing to try at this point. Would be great to have a working link again, so if anyone can confirm without getting their machine infected, that'd be awesome.
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Shaocaholica posted:Guh. A good trackpad shouldn't be a luxury item. MS should just take some control. Make the trackpad makers stick to some standard hardware fundamentals and let MS handle the driver and settings for all the new multi finger stuff. Then at lease there would be some consistency across windows laptops. This is what they do already, which is why nothing works. The Dell forum is chock full of people begging for a manufacturer driver for the XPS 13 because despite having an amazing trackpad hardware-wise, it only works properly in Metro and Internet Explorer to the point where I actually tried to switch back to Internet Explorer for a while. Microsoft has zero motivation to get things working outside of their little bubble.
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sarehu posted:I think a big problem with trackpads on PC's is Synaptic drivers being poo poo. The behavior on Linux is, in my experience, much better. For example on the Thinkpad Helix the machine would, on Windows, hit 5% CPU usage whenever you put your finger on the trackpad. This is true. I've been using mostly Linux for about 10 years on my work laptops now and touchpads are really snappy and smooth. Exact same laptop on windows and it feels odd and sluggish, no matter how much you dick about with the sensitivity settings/synaptics options. Maybe it is just a matter of finding the exactly right parameters, but I haven't been able to figure it out yet.
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Gwaihir posted:That's a hybrid drive, not a separate actual SSD. I understand the dislike for 17" laptops, but that is basically what I need a laptop for: desktop replacement. I want something to act as a desktop that I can move around no more than once/twice a week and usually only once every few months. I use my tablet and smartphone for more mobile computing. I'll look at the xoticpc site, but I think those come out to quite a bit more when I include a 3-year warranty and a Windows install.
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