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Foolie posted:So, are gaming laptops a lost cause entirely? I haven't been in one place long enough the past ~6 years to justify a desktop and started buying gaming laptops. They tended to be great... for a year. Afterwards, given ~20 hours a day of use, they have committed ritual computer seppuku via fan/overheating/video card problems. The most recent victim has discovered all kinds of interesting BSODs inside of Windows 8. Expected behavior, or I am terrible at quality control and compute care? I'm at a year and a half on a Sager NP9160 including a Year In Review post made in this thread and I still have no complaints. For reference it gets used atleast 6 hours a day and goes literally everywhere I do.
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Im not much of a high res nerd like the people in this thread demanding 1440p on 13" screens but goddamn if 1366x768 isn't pretty suboptimal on 15" screens, nevermind 17". Lets not forget that the screen quality itself is going to be complete poo poo.
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Either one sucks but atleast 1280x800 is headed in the right direction wrt aspect ratio
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KingKapalone posted:Everything about the Y510p seems better than the T440p and it's cheaper. I'm missing something here. The Y510p is not a ThinkPad
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tyler is a joke posted:My office is looking to buy a couple laptops for work-use. Here's what we're looking for: Cut the number of laptops you need in half.
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Namlemez posted:I'm back to stir up controversy after asking why not get the 1366x768 screen on a Y510P! I went to Microcenter (which actually has great selection now) to check it out in person and the FHD screen looked nice but then I realized they'd set the text scaling up to make it visible. Lets not revisit it since you're bound and determined to spite yourself
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ColoradoCleric posted:Since it seems like all the laptop manufacturers are moving on to ultra books and for a lot of them its their first time making them it seems really hard for them to make one for around $700 that doesn't break in some way according to newegg reviews Probably because $700 is a lovely price point to attempt with an Ultrabook
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Tom Guycot posted:metro needed to be done and the interface for its intended purpose is fantastic, the best tablet os I've used. They made several boneheaded moves in its interaction with classic desktop mode though, but they're growing pains they needed to get out of the way, and couldn't really wait any longer. That its a tablet OS is why it should have been kept so far away from desktop usage. and its a poo poo tablet interface
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Imaduck posted:Is there any way to figure this out, other than opening the machine up? Even if you did, would you be able to tell? GPU-Z should tell you the die size and the architecture
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Imaduck posted:This is what I get Yeah thats the Kepler version. The Maxwell 860M will indeed offer much improved power consumption. I'm kinda perturbed that it is the only Maxwell 800 series mobile chip that will be available.
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Mar 30, 2014 19:31
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Here is my one year review of my Sager NP9150 from Xoticpc.com if it helps anyone
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Mar 31, 2014 03:53
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A Lenovo Y410p is probably the best alternative for ~1k gaming laptops
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Rahu X posted:So with Microsoft reverting Windows 8 back to more and more of how Windows used to be, how long do you think it will take them to drop Modern UI all together (or at least make it completely optional), and how much longer do you guys think touchscreen laptops will still be a thing? Microsoft isn't going to give up this fight by any means. They've bet the farm on this One UI to Rule Them All crap
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tech.t.rex posted:I just found the Asus N550JK, which just came out. FYI that 850M is a 28nm chip, not the new Maxwell 20nm process
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tech.t.rex posted:It might be a 28nm chip, however it is Maxwell, confirmed by several sources online. They could be lying, however I'm taking their word for it at the moment. In a few days, I'll be able to confirm it. I didn't say it wasn't Maxwell, just that it is not 20nm process. It will have equal performance to the 20nm variety but at an increased power consumption. Blame nVidia for making two 850M
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Intel's drive for power and thermal efficiency has a huge impact on servers running all the of the web crap we hold so dear
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Christoff posted:I love Asus but the equivalent Sager is $300-400 less. Plus sager has a 15" option There's quite a few of us here with XoticPC built Sager laptops. They're just as good(or as bad) as Asus/MSI. Don't worry about it.
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Yeah being able to use 5ghz is great if you're in an area where 2.4 is congested to gently caress
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fwiw I had to use a Surface Pro the other day and if I had to spend more than 5 minutes typing on it I'd murder someone
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I'd look at a Sager NP8278 through xoticpc.com
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MechaFrogzilla posted:Very intriguing idea. I'm looking at the NP8268 (with a SSD added) for the smaller screen/lower weight. Anybody have personal experience with these? I'm curious about the quality, I see fewer reviews on Sager/Clevo stuff than with other brands. Here's my review of a Sager NP9150 I purchased in August 2012.
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WAMPA_STOMPA posted:Can someone give me the lowdown on the G series of thinkpads? It seems like the L series is the cheaper grade of the T series. Is the G series like the third and lowest step? Are they good enough to not break really fast? Is it worth saving the 150-200 by getting a G instead of an L for similar specs (like i5 and whatever else? There's less good stuff like screen/wifi upgrades. The G series are not ThinkPads at all. They are Lenovo's bottom of the barrel, price-competitive at all costs, entry laptops.
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Trebuchet King posted:There are a couple of things that might be downsides, depending on your needs: Don't bet the farm on that. Just get StartIsBack and never worry about it.
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The Lenovo Y510/410p is the go-to gaming laptop for $1000 so congrats on your purchase
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Imaduck posted:A lot of schools have deals with Dell and are obsessed with using them. I've found on the lower end, Dells are fairly competitively priced, but on the upper end, the margin is absurd. I don't see why you'd want a touchscreen with a laptop like that, and there are machines out there with the same specs and a better video card for $500 less. Schools are there to gently caress you out of every goddamn cent you have and that includes laptop 'deals'. That poo poo is there for people with more money than ability to operate Dell's website.
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I have a T440s I'm demoing to people to clients to drag them out of the stone age and it is indeed A Nice Laptop
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Aphrodite posted:Looks like it's from the Stone Age though. I have no idea what this means
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Aphrodite posted:The only thing that's changed in their look since 1992 is the size of the bezel. I wish this was true.
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ceaselessfuture posted:http://shop.lenovo.com/ca/en/laptops/lenovo/g-series/g510/ Be warned that all of the praise heaped on Lenovo in this thread is for the Thinkpad branded laptops. The G-series is consumer grade trash.
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DrDork posted:Seeing ThinkPads survive water tests that Elitebooks, let alone Latitudes, fail miserably at. Seeing ThinkBooks survive the dust and grit of Afghanistan that slaughtered almost everything else we took out there (the Elitebooks actually did pretty well--not as great, but not bad at all). Basically, I've had a lot of personal experience with them that still leads me to believe that they're top-of-the-pile. So that is 'no'
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Im at almost two years on my Sager NP9150 and it really was worth every considerable penny.
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Alan_Shore posted:I've been reading this thread a lot recently as I'll be going to the USA in October and will be looking to buy a super laptop. I own a Sager 9150 that I'm at almost 2 years on. I'll track down my 1 year review of it and link it. If you're comfortable with installing your own SSD and OS install, buying your own is the far better deal. The cooling paste upgrade is not worth it in my opinion. Unless you are using this laptop in a clean room you're going to be cleaning dirt/fur/whatever out of the cooling fans and heat sinks maybe every 6 months. Buy some Noctua NT-H1 and do it yourself. You can only overclock the MX processors and IMO it'll be a waste since you're going to run out of thermal headroom fast. Edit: My 9150 review
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Better displays(and resolutions) aren't such an important thing when like half the people in the world have poo poo eyesight and refuse to do anything about it.
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Physics pretty much says you're not getting thin, light and awesome CPU/GPU. That heat has to be dealt with somehow and if not it'll throttle down to nothing.
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Etrips posted:Heya goons, xoticpc.com I recommend Sager/Clevo
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staticman posted:I haven't seen this brought up in this thread yet. If these benchmarks are legit at all, then this is a pretty big loving deal: Gonna be doing a new laptop next year to replace my current Sager and oh man oh man do these numbers have me excited
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laptop because of this. Speaking of, are there any light-weight, good battery life laptops of that variety worth buying? I'm going to be a full-time student come January.
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Quite a few of us here have Sager laptops from xoticpc.com. I've had mine for 2 years and 2 months with no problems and it goes literally everywhere I go. If I had to buy another today I would get a Sager NP8268
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