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Yeah they did a poor job designing the yoga 3 pro for the core m processors so it was slower than the other ULV things, had similar if not worse battery life than haswell notebooks with ULV processors and had some throttling issues. Yoga 2 pro just has that display issue a lot of the qhd laptops had back when it was released since the panels they were sourcing had a yellow tint.
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I'm buying my wife a new laptop, and need some suggestions. She uses her laptop for web browsing, Spotify, and MS Office. I was considering either a Surface Pro 3 (i5/256 GB), this Asus Transformer, or the Zenbook. I'm looking for something that's quick, has a decent-sized screen, and is easy to carry around. Am I on the right track, or should I be looking at something different? melon cat fucked around with this message at 07:32 on Oct 15, 2015 |
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Oct 15, 2015 07:29
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The Microsoft Store sells that Zenbook for $600
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Oct 15, 2015 08:24
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While we're doing the Yoga fest; just rejected an otherwise seemingly ok Yoga 3 11 for having a touchpad that gives you the haptic feedback of having clicked way before actually registering a click (you have to press really hard and deep). Which is really confusing and annoying.
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Oct 15, 2015 08:25
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melon cat posted:I'm buying my wife a new laptop, and need some suggestions. She uses her laptop for web browsing, Spotify, and MS Office. I was considering either a Surface Pro 3 (i5/256 GB), this Asus Transformer, or the Zenbook. For those things she is doing, the Surface Pro 3 is way overkill. Does she desperately need a touchscreen/tablet? You could save yourself $500 if she doesn't.
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Oct 15, 2015 16:28
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melon cat posted:I'm buying my wife a new laptop, and need some suggestions. She uses her laptop for web browsing, Spotify, and MS Office. I was considering either a Surface Pro 3 (i5/256 GB), this Asus Transformer, or the Zenbook. If you want a hybrid solution, just get a Surface 3 instead of the Pro. It will save you a $300 to $400, and it great for basic stuff.
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I assume it's the 256GB he wants. Why else would he get the i5 SP3 for office and web use.
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I'm bouncing back and forth between this thread and the desktop thread because I can't figure out what I want/need. I'm going to be moving around a decent amount in the next year, pretty much all by plane, so a desktop doesn't make sense right now. But I want to be able to play Steam games and such (nothing too new or graphicy, newer indie stuff and older stuff like Civ 5) and do some video editing/streaming, and from what I've been reading a laptop that would adequately do that would be fairly expensive vs. a desktop computer of the same capability. Would the T450 or XPS 13 mentioned in the OP be a decent choice or am I just sort of boned by circumstance at the moment?
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Civ V and low-demand indie stuff could easily be handled by Iris graphics, right? And then there's the XPS 15's discrete graphics.
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I am strongly considering a Surface Pro 4. I have a Lenovo Y40 from a few years back that has an issue where the screen flickers badly when I unplug it from its charger, I figured it's time to upgrade. It would mostly be used for some light development work with Visual Studio, Photoshop, Unity, and maybe Blender if I decide to start learning how to do 3D models, nothing too impressive. I should mention I am considering the Surface above other models largely for the form factor. I would additionally like to play some games on it, ideally I would like to be able to run Dota 2 decently well, but realistically I would probably stick to games like Binding of Isaac, Invisible Inc., Don't Starve, and similar 2D games, I have a desktop for serious gaming that I spend the majority of my time on, so this would just be for the odd occasion where I'm traveling and have some time to kill, or when I'm in bed and cannot sleep. The Iris graphics with the i7 option put it a bit out of my price range, the i5 option with 8GB RAM and the 520 graphics seems to be the most reasonable, even though I would prefer to keep it under $1000. It seems getting a dGPU on a laptop these days is prohibitively expensive, I guess it wouldn't be so if I was shopping for a 17" monster, oh well.
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MikeJF posted:Civ V and low-demand indie stuff could easily be handled by Iris graphics, right? And then there's the XPS 15's discrete graphics. Probably. I played a bunch of Civ V on an 8800GTX at 1200x1600 with most (maybe all? - it's been a few years) of the other graphics settings on low while I was waiting for the new nVidia cards to come out that year and it was fine but ugly, so Iris, which is supposed to be better than that, should be OK, too.
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So I finally got my Dell Chromebook 13 and it's super swell so far. Very light, fast, and battery has been amazing (to this point). Is there a way with ChromeOS to make all apps/windows auto open into the full screen mode?
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Skandranon posted:For those things she is doing, the Surface Pro 3 is way overkill. Does she desperately need a touchscreen/tablet? You could save yourself $500 if she doesn't. Calidus posted:If you want a hybrid solution, just get a Surface 3 instead of the Pro. It will save you a $300 to $400, and it great for basic stuff.
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Is the Dell E6540 any good? I need a laptop with a 15+ inch screen (for some work with senior citizens), and our university has a deal on the E6540 right now, but reviews online seem mixed.
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It's easy to repair but that's about all it has going for it. It's designed as a business class laptop that is durable, but designed for people that you don't care about very much, like a low level employee.
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I need a laptop for exactly two things. 1) Word Processing/Powerpoint/Web browsing 2)Hooking up to my TV through HDMI to watch downloaded content at 1080p. My last laptop was prone to overheating after I'd been streaming for 2 or 3 hours at 1080p. I don't have cable, so I need something that will basically function as a media center, but I can disconnect it from the TV and type up some documents when I need. Anyone have a suggestion? I'm not sure if it's worth getting an i3 + processor and more than 4GB of RAM if this is all I want to do with it, but I have no idea.
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melon cat posted:I might just do that. Is there any significant (or at least noticeable) difference in performance if you 'downgrade' to the non-pro version? There is big performance difference in CPU power between an i5 and the quad core atom but the atom is enough for basic tasks like web browsing, office and Netflix.
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Hadlock posted:It's easy to repair but that's about all it has going for it. It's designed as a business class laptop that is durable, but designed for people that you don't care about very much, like a low level employee. They do all the same tests as Thinkpads on Latitudes.
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Hadlock posted:It's easy to repair but that's about all it has going for it. It's designed as a business class laptop that is durable, but designed for people that you don't care about very much, like a low level employee. Bugger, I'd rather have something better then. Is the Lenovo T550/W550 mentioned in the OP still a good choice? It's the only 15-inch laptop recommended in the OP, and the $900 at the Lenovo shop is a good price point for me.
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Hadlock posted:It's easy to repair but that's about all it has going for it. It's designed as a business class laptop that is durable, but designed for people that you don't care about very much, like a low level employee. Sure you're not thinking of the E3XXX? The E6XXX are pretty good...
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dissss posted:Sure you're not thinking of the E3XXX? The E6XXX are pretty good... Whoops yeah I was thinking of the E5XXX which is standard issue at my office. Blargh. Yeah the E6XXX and up are fine devices.
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Hadlock posted:Whoops yeah I was thinking of the E5XXX which is standard issue at my office. Blargh. 5000 series are merely OK, but 7000 series are great.
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Yeah, 5 is plastic and 6 is "Tri-Metal" (The 3 are aluminum, magnesium and steel depending on the part.) Big difference there. 7000 series (except the 2 in 1 probably) are also Tri-Metal.
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A couple senior managers have E7XXX laptops and from what little I've played around with them they are really nice yeah. Dell's high end stuff has gotten really good post-2012.
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I see this deal: Link and it seems like a pretty good combination of features. The only concerns that come to mind is it doesn't say if it's a TN or IPS screen and also I know it's two gen's back on the processor but I'm not certain how much that matters in the overall picture. Is 8GB (the SSD portion) enough to store the requite OS files for Win10?
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ChiliMac posted:I see this deal: Link and it seems like a pretty good combination of features. The only concerns that come to mind is it doesn't say if it's a TN or IPS screen and also I know it's two gen's back on the processor but I'm not certain how much that matters in the overall picture. If it doesn't say, the screen's TN and also it's crap until proven otherwise. Lenovo occasionally uses some terrible panels; check reviews for the model. The 8GB cache doesn't show up as a separate drive. Depending on the implementation there's software or firmware running that tries to store a copy of files it thinks you're likely to access next in the cache. In more ways than one, you'll almost never know it's actually there.
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Getting my mother a laptop for basic stuff like facebook and picture organization and such. Is an HP Stream still the go-to for low-end stuff? She said she wants something small but not a tablet.
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AbDomen posted:Is the Dell E6540 any good? I need a laptop with a 15+ inch screen (for some work with senior citizens), and our university has a deal on the E6540 right now, but reviews online seem mixed. I bought the i5 version with the Radeon 8790M graphics, and I really like it. It has a great keyboard and more than enough ports that are laid out well. It's also plenty fast for browsing and office work, and the discrete graphics card means I can play a couple of games as well. Far Cry 3 runs really well on medium settings. Don't expect too much though, the Battlefront beta wasn't really playable. It also built like a tank, i think it's almost all metal. The build quality is also its major downside: it's a tank, with the weight that goes with it. I think it weighs 7 pounds or something. I wouldn't recommend it as a note taking laptop,, but as a desktop replacement that's also relatively easy to move around, it's great.
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About a year and a half ago I picked up a Gigabyte P34G-v2 and my initial reviews were glowing. Still are, technically, but now I'm having trouble getting past the bios screen and I was wondering if any of y'all had dealt with Gigabyte's repair/warranty/etc stuff before. They're across the country and best buy is like, 10 minutes away, and that's my conundrum in a nutshell. edit: wait, scrolled around xotic's site a bit more and found the RMA section, so I guess the decision is *that* or best buy. Trebuchet King fucked around with this message at 22:37 on Oct 16, 2015 |
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You get 24/7 lifetime technical support with XoticPC. I think maybe they will help with RMA services as well.
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Dell, Lenovo, HP, and Intel came together to make this $70 million advertising campaign https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwT6h914df0
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"Up to 30x faster graphics (than 5 year old laptop which we won't detail specs on)"
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Mu Zeta posted:Dell, Lenovo, HP, and Intel came together to make this $70 million advertising campaign And a loving horrible tagline.
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I'm tired of straining my eyes by internetting on my phone, so I'm in the market for a laptop. I'm planning on using it for internet use, video watching, some gaming (Indie/old stuff, I have a big desktop PC for current releases) and taking it to work. I have around $700-1000 to spend. I've been eyeing the Lenovo Ts and Ys mentioned in the OP--they seem to be about what I'm looking for, and I've seen them come on the Lenovo outlet for deeeeep discounts. Is there anything I should be looking for, hardware wise? I'm very out of date on computer hardware.
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What's the most modern indie game you want to play on your laptop? The HD4XXX, HD5XXX, HD6XXX and now HD5XX are pretty capable. Generally the bigger the number the better the GPU, wikipedia has a decent enough guide to raw numbers. HD4600 and up will run most anything that's not a bleeding edge first person shooter like Battlefield 4 or Battlefront, etc. The go-to recommendation on CPU is the i5 unless you have specific needs (engineering: i7, budget: i3). And get an SSD unless you find a screaming deal with a rotational drive and getting a T series, as it'll likely be cheaper/faster to swap in the SSD yourself later. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_HD_and_Iris_Graphics
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ilkhan posted:Those are some seriously bad commercials. Agreed. Companies waste money on the most worthless things.
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Hadlock posted:What's the most modern indie game you want to play on your laptop? The HD4XXX, HD5XXX, HD6XXX and now HD5XX are pretty capable. I'm not planning on playing anything super graphics intensive (I mean, that's why I built the desktop  ), so I'll keep an eye out on the outlet for a T-series with an i5 and HD4600 and up graphics. Gaming's honestly pretty secondary--I want this laptop to take care of the things I thought I was going to use my phone for when I sprung for the 6+. Thanks for the help, I honestly don't know much about computer hardware in general. 
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How would this laptop be for moderate gaming / development? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834232376 I've looked at the X555LB, the Lenovo y510p, and an Asus n56jn. The X555LB is a little better on the price, though I'm curious what you guys think?
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Cialis Railman posted:I'm not planning on playing anything super graphics intensive (I mean, that's why I built the desktop You can also use steam in home streaming while at home to run games. It works super well for right now.
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