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Mu Zeta posted:No. Get a 256gig SSD. You can add it yourself cheaply/easily to most laptops. sarehu posted:The real distinction is dual-core vs. quad-core, low voltage vs. standard voltage, and guess what, quad-core CPUs are twice as fast and that can matter! But you could easily be fine with a low voltage dual-core CPU, some i5. So I'm following you guys' advice, and going for 8gb and a separate bigger SSD. I don't really need extra storage since I can just archive stuff onto an external if I need to. Right now I'm looking at a Lenovo Z51 on sale: - 5th Generation Intel Core i5-5200U Processor (2.20GHz 1600MHz 3MB) - 15.6" FHD LED Anti-Glare (1920x1080) - 8.0GB PC3-12800 DDR3L 1600 MHz - Intel® HD Graphics 5300 - $750 plus $130 for a Samsung 250gb SSD that I will put in totals to around $1000 with taxes. I feel like this is decent for the price especially with a nicer screen. I think the sale is ending soon so I have to make a decision. Thoughts? E: Found a Thinkpad L450 with similar specs and a 256 gb SSD already at $1000 Kritzkrieg Kop fucked around with this message at 06:04 on Sep 23, 2015 |
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Son of a Vondruke! posted:When I was looking at laptops back in May the 900-series Y50 wasn't available in Canada either. I don't know, maybe Lenovo just offloads their older models on non-US customers? The 960 equipped model is definitely available in Canada. When I got my product replacement I got one with a 960, even though I originally had an 860m. (And to think I started with a DDR3 y410p! Bless product replacements)
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Require More Fire posted:So I haven't pulled the trigger yet on the Dell Chromebook 13 but Toshiba just announced a refreshed Chromebook 2, with an i3 processor and a backlit keyboard. It's $100 less than the equivalent Dell model but I suspect the build quality isn't the same. I didn't think I would appreciate the backlit keyboard as much as I do. With a black keyboard it's almost mandatory after sunset. Pretty sure that's the first Chromebook with s backlit keyboard. Pretty sure the Dell Chromebook 13 is a nicer overall laptop than the Toshiba, though.
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I see why people buy thinkpads. I took mine apart, and anything that doesn't have to be soldered to the mainboard isn't. I was able to find the fault quickly, and order a replacement part that will be almost assuredly be here tomorrow ($3 more than standard service) for $50 (camera/power button cable). From start to finish it took five minutes to find what part I needed and about 12 minutes to order it by phone.
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Hadlock posted:I didn't think I would appreciate the backlit keyboard as much as I do. With a black keyboard it's almost mandatory after sunset. Pretty sure that's the first Chromebook with s backlit keyboard. Yeah a backlit keyboard is a big thing for me as I tend to use the laptop a lot at night while I'm watching TV. The 2nd gen Pixel and the Dell Chromebook 13 both have backlit keyboards as well, though.
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~$1000 for a moderately outfitted ThinkPad x250 (i5-5200U, 1080p IPS screen, 8GB memory and a 180GB SSD) is a good deal, right? I'm thiiiiis close to pulling the trigger here, I just need to wait for my paycheck to come in.
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SYSV Fanfic posted:I see why people buy thinkpads. I took mine apart, and anything that doesn't have to be soldered to the mainboard isn't. I was able to find the fault quickly, and order a replacement part that will be almost assuredly be here tomorrow ($3 more than standard service) for $50 (camera/power button cable). From start to finish it took five minutes to find what part I needed and about 12 minutes to order it by phone.
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Hadlock posted:I didn't think I would appreciate the backlit keyboard as much as I do. With a black keyboard it's almost mandatory after sunset. Pretty sure that's the first Chromebook with s backlit keyboard.
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Philip Rivers posted:~$1000 for a moderately outfitted ThinkPad x250 (i5-5200U, 1080p IPS screen, 8GB memory and a 180GB SSD) is a good deal, right? I'm thiiiiis close to pulling the trigger here, I just need to wait for my paycheck to come in. Good but not amazing. Have you looked out the Lenovo outlet? You can find some insane deals, if you are patient.
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Under my suggestion my roommate just bought a Thinkpad T420 refurb from woot a few weeks ago for $199. That thing has a Sandy Bridge i5, 4gb RAM, and a 500gb 7200RPM HD. I had him buy a $50 120gb SSD, a $20 4gb stick of RAM, and an HDD caddy for $15 to replace the DVD drive. I installed all the upgrades for him. I am seriously impressed at the way Thinkpads are designed. Upgrading it was probably the easiest time I've ever had with any laptop. Replacing the HDD with an SSD in my Ideapad was way more of a pain in the rear end. Basically speaking, he has one of the best sub $300 laptops I've ever seen. Core i5, 8gb RAM, 120gb SSD, and 500gb HDD. It's crazy fast and I can tell it's going to be durable and reliable for a long time. If it wasn't for the lack of a dedicated graphics card I'd be jealous.
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arisu posted:Under my suggestion my roommate just bought a Thinkpad T420 refurb from woot a few weeks ago for $199. That thing has a Sandy Bridge i5, 4gb RAM, and a 500gb 7200RPM HD. I had him buy a $50 120gb SSD, a $20 4gb stick of RAM, and an HDD caddy for $15 to replace the DVD drive. Yeah I think refurb business laptops have a serious chance of hurting the laptop market. Especially in a year or two when refurb laptops start coming with SSDs more often than not. The GPU on a Skylake laptop is going to be better, but the performance gap between Sandy Bridge and Skylake is going to be less than 20% once you add the neccessary SSD and 4GB RAM. Assuming you even do anything remotely capable of taxing an i5. It's pretty rare to see my CPU creep above 15% for more than 30 seconds at a time. What does the additional $400 get you for a new laptop? Well.. a slimmer chassis and, probably an extra couple hours of battery life. But a replacement 9 cell battery is cheeeeap these days, if you really need it.
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So I want a thin and light and I'm willing to wait. I'm excited about the 28W Skylake-U chips coming out in 2016Q1, as they're going to have the integrated Iris graphics with eDRAM. While I know a discrete card is always going to better, I'm looking forward to having something portable and cool that is as gaming capable (for the older games I mostly play) as possible. Are we likely to see those chips on a more budget friendly Windows ultrabook? As far as I've been able to see, the top of the line iGPUs are the realm of macbook pros, which I'd rather not buy.
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I fear you will wait a while. The only 28W cpu laptops from broadwell I can think off are MacBook pros.
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ThinkPads hold up so well over time that even one a couple of years old is gonna be real solid. I really want to find a good deal on an X200 soon because I love love love the form factor, but part of me also just wants to splurge on a new X250 because I haven't had a nice computer in a long time and I know I could kit it out to be wonderful for years to come.
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Hadlock posted:Yeah I think refurb business laptops have a serious chance of hurting the laptop market. Especially in a year or two when refurb laptops start coming with SSDs more often than not. What segment of the market would they actually hurt, though? The large enterprises who lease these or replace them on a 3 year cycle won't ever stop buying new business laptops, and people buying new plastic grandma specials at Best Buy aren't going to switch to buying refurb laptops for the same $300-400 price point. Consumers buying business laptops is a pretty small segment overall I'd imagine, I don't think they'd be missed if they entirely switch over to buying 2 or 3 year old refurb models.
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The Iron Rose posted:The 960 equipped model is definitely available in Canada. When I got my product replacement I got one with a 960, even though I originally had an 860m. They're on the Lenovo Canadian website now, but they weren't there back in May when I was shopping for laptops.
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Twerk from Home posted:What segment of the market would they actually hurt, though? The large enterprises who lease these or replace them on a 3 year cycle won't ever stop buying new business laptops, and people buying new plastic grandma specials at Best Buy aren't going to switch to buying refurb laptops for the same $300-400 price point. I think it would hurt, if only because they do design laptops for consumers, and most of those lines will suffer at the hands of the refurbed business line. Might see those go away (which is no big loss, they look ugly and are crap).
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The segment of their market aware enough to look into that is probably tiny.
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Philip Rivers posted:ThinkPads hold up so well over time that even one a couple of years old is gonna be real solid. I really want to find a good deal on an X200 soon because I love love love the form factor, but part of me also just wants to splurge on a new X250 because I haven't had a nice computer in a long time and I know I could kit it out to be wonderful for years to come. I'll make you a deal on the X240 I have in sa-mart
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Son of a Vondruke! posted:They're on the Lenovo Canadian website now, but they weren't there back in May when I was shopping for laptops. Must have been unlucky then! I got my laptop replaced in early June/Julyish iirc so it was only a month or two difference.
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The Iron Rose posted:Must have been unlucky then! I got my laptop replaced in early June/Julyish iirc so it was only a month or two difference. It worked out pretty good for me. I got a great deal on a more powerful laptop anyways. 
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Bob Morales posted:I'll make you a deal on the X240 I have in sa-mart That's super tempting. Is it just the base TN screen or is it the IPS one?
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Philip Rivers posted:That's super tempting. Is it just the base TN screen or is it the IPS one? base 1366x768
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bull3964 posted:Nvidia is bringing the crazy. Isn't a 980 pretty hardcore overkill for 1080p?
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Like the other poster I am pretty tempted by an x250. I'm going to be mainly using this for general browsing, watching things, some minor photo editing and minor gaming. Will this work for me? Anything else to consider? The XPS 13 is temping but here in New Zealand it's another $500 more. Asus Zenbooks seem to be cheaper for better specs on paper but I'm guessing I'm losing build quality and access to hardware etc.
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Deuce posted:Isn't a 980 pretty hardcore overkill for 1080p? Clearly you haven't visited the Skyrim modding thread.
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Ynglaur posted:Clearly you haven't visited the Skyrim modding thread. 4K catgirl titties e'ry day With accurate physics fur rendering and jigglebone technology 
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Ynglaur posted:Clearly you haven't visited the Skyrim modding thread. No, I'm not familiar wi- Hadlock posted:4K catgirl titties e'ry day  edit: 
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What's the verdict on external graphic cards for laptops via expresscard readers or mini-pcie?
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Tsyni posted:What's the verdict on external graphic cards for laptops via expresscard readers or mini-pcie? Stupid/a waste of money/just get a desktop already
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External gpu via expresscard is the least good way of doing this thing, on top of it already being silly. You'll only get 3-ish gbit/s from it which in graphics card world is not a lot. Compared to thunderbolt 2 it's positively slow as molasses (for reference tb2 run 20 gbit/s).
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You should feel bad for asking that Realistically your best option is to buy one of those 12 hour battery life chromebooks for $149 and then spend the other $850 on upgrading your desktop Someday someone will release a usb type-c/thunderbolt PCI-e GPU adapter for under $100. Today is not that day. Keep dreaming.
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slidebite posted:Sorry, should have been more clear. The 960 does, but the 965M+ is a GM204 and major leap over the 960 if you can find one of those. Thanks, for the feedback. It seems that Lenovo don't have much customisability, at least on the Y series. Are other recommendations for the UK market?
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Red_Fred posted:Like the other poster I am pretty tempted by an x250. I'm going to be mainly using this for general browsing, watching things, some minor photo editing and minor gaming. Will this work for me? Anything else to consider? The XPS 13 is temping but here in New Zealand it's another $500 more. I'm still able to do some light gaming on my old X220 (HL2, Civ 5) which is the most taxing usage of those you listed, so the X250 should be mighty fine for what you want to do with it. You should get the full 1080 display however, if you don't want a cramped screen.
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The jump from the GPU in the x220 to the GPU in the x230 was 50%, what's in the Broadwell chips now is another 25% on top of that. Mobile gaming on low end hardware isn't an issue like it has been in the past
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My brother had asked what laptop he should be looking at with a budget of $600. He's going to be using it to edit video and photos on site (typically at an outdoor firing range, he and my cousin have gotten into competitive shooting). Would the T-series still be recommended? Been scouring Lenovo outlet but haven't found anything yet.
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Hadlock posted:The jump from the GPU in the x220 to the GPU in the x230 was 50%, what's in the Broadwell chips now is another 25% on top of that. Mobile gaming on low end hardware isn't an issue like it has been in the past Well it depends what people mean by 'light/minor/a little/etc. gaming'. Not everyone uses it the same. Some mean old games, some mean newer low end games, some might even mean in terms of hours per week. Like occasionally people will post they'd like to do some light gaming and give the Witcher or Batman or something as examples.
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