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Weinertron posted:OP says $600 is the minimum price range to get a laptop that's not poo poo, and given that LoL runs on my 2 year old $400 netbook well enough to play I'd say that any computer on the planet in 2013 will work for what you need. Pretty much everything about it looks great (it's apparently really sturdy as well?) but lenovo loving hates non-corporate customers in sweden.
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Jun 3, 2013 20:59
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Pretty much, yeah. Lenovo is also absurdly expensive unless you happen to know a company that has a deal with them, then it's pretty much US prices.
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Someone tell me why buying a HP Envy 15 j007eo is a horrible mistake. The specs look decent for the price in  .
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Jul 28, 2013 01:30
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Inspector_71 posted:Wow, to prove that you won the conversation, you quote yourself. That's pretty impressive. Hah, I thought he was being douchy but that just takes it to the next level. fe: Dear god the design on his site. He's probably ullillia's evil twin.
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BabyRyoga posted:Work will have me sitting for 9-10 hours a day somewhere with nothing to do, so I need something to keep me from being bored out of my mind. The extra cost is negligible too I suppose, because i'm getting the SLI GPU to swap in should I need it. Most likely not, but it leaves an extra option on hand. I was in the same situation as you a couple of months ago and the thread told me to wait for better haswell deals. So I got a lovely cheap Samsung. Turns out that watching movies and playing through my indie game backlog instead of paying out the rear end for one of the first haswell "gaming laptops" was a better choice. E: It actually plays dota2 fine on mid settings but playing dota on hotell Internet/anything other than perfect 3g/4g blows. Klaus Kinski fucked around with this message at 19:16 on Aug 26, 2013 |
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Xillah posted:How big a deal is a SSD? Having never used a system with on I can't be objective, I understand it's faster but I don't really have any idea of how much of a factor it would be. It's by far the biggest difference per buck and once you've used one, it's horrible to go back.
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Sep 2, 2013 20:53
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I do just fine with 128gb even when gaming. Sure, 256gb would be nice but the price and effort is not worth the hassle of deleting/backuping stuff I haven't used in forever every 2 months.
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Sep 18, 2013 22:24
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Fallom posted:Great post! I've got a Y410p on its way, and this answers all the questions I had about putting an SSD into it. Great post indeed. I've probably built over a hundred desktops but I've never opened a laptop but this doesn't sound too hard. All I need is a 2.5" ssd and a y4XX/5XX series ultrabay caddy, right?
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Sep 23, 2013 00:55
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My only complaint about the 510p screen is that the vertical viewing angle is pretty narrow, it's surprisingly good for the pricerange.
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No, win 8 is not that bad and it's going to be even less bad in less than a month when 8.1 is released.
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Anyone know if you can do a fresh install from the 8.1 preview iso microsoft provides, or is it upgrade only? e: gently caress finding non-sketchy win8 images 
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Klaus Kinski posted:Anyone know if you can do a fresh install from the 8.1 preview iso microsoft provides, or is it upgrade only? If anyone was wondering, the answer is yes, but it doesn't detect my key. Any idea if I need a certain version for win8 core swedish? e: No you don't, just a single language one. Klaus Kinski fucked around with this message at 18:07 on Oct 4, 2013 |
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Socrates16 posted:My y510P is out for delivery right now. I'll give a review of it based on my criteria(speaker volume, screen quality) Friday when I have a bit of time. Any yX10P owners have recommendations upon bootup? Things to tweak, software to download? I think I'm going to put an SSD in there at some point, but I need some more free time first. Here's my short review: The screen is pretty good, the speakers are ok. The build quality feels solid, I could probably break someone's skull with it and it would still boot. The touchpad and battery life (~4h power saving mode while watching movies/surfing, no tweaks) are poo poo, but I expected that. One huge annoyance is that you can't enable the intel gpu when you run sli to squeeze a little more battery life out of it. I ran into the adaptive brightness bug when I did a fresh install of windows but it went away randomly when I rebooted. In short: If you can you live with the short battery life and the fact that it's a pretty massive 15", it's really good value.
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Oct 9, 2013 22:48
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Weird, my 510p doesn't get that hot but I pretty much never run it in SLI, does the slightly larger case make that much of a difference? Wipe it down a few times with wet wipes or random cleaning alcohol and you stop leaving disgusting marks.
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Oct 10, 2013 00:05
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I guess it depends exactly on what you get preinstalled and if you actually use it. My y510p came with a ton of garbage freeware and trial AV/firewall software, none of which I actually use so I just wiped it clean.
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Magic Underwear posted:Are you serious? What year is it? It does look like a fun toy for playing emulated games and stuff like that, if it was $650 or so cheaper.
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Oct 11, 2013 17:09
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The screen is bad and the build quality is questionable on most envy 15 models.
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dissss posted:Looks like that model comes with a 1080p IPS display so its probably as good as anything else in that price range. The j007eo specs list the display as 1080p IPS but it's still really bad.
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Oct 15, 2013 10:02
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The key is embedded in the bios, just use any random single launguage windows 8 disc.
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JustJeff88 posted:Just a question for those of you who have a Lenovo 500Y series, as I have been thinking about getting one of those... what kind of gaming performance do you get? I had a look at the benchmarks on the 750 today, and I was rather disappointed. I realise that mobile video cards don't hold a candle to those designed for desktops, but this made me hesitate. So, if anyone has any real-life experience with these, let me know. I'm able to run dota2/lol/kf/l4d/poe on maxed settings (no fsaa etc though) with the laptop not getting super noisy or turning into a furnace.
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Spatule posted:Is there anything wrong with a Sony VAIO Pro 13 ? I was really impressed by it when my friend got one. It's pretty much a non-apple MBA.
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hayden. posted:My close friend has the Envy 17, the one before the most current I think, and I am not impressed with the build quality. The casing is cracking apart slightly. The one I was poking at had a pretty bad screen even though it's listed as ips and the keyboard had huuuge flex, you can find youtube videos of it and it's really bad.
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Nov 10, 2013 22:36
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QuarkJets posted:The nice thing is that you won't have to enter the license/serial number at all, Windows 8 will pull it directly from the BIOS settings, so all you need to do is start the installer. The not so nice thing is that it's easy to get the wrong ISO, in which case your key won't work. I'm not sure whether talking about which file is the right ISO is Basically, you need a manufacturer/OEM/RTM version for it to work with your bios key. If you yell enough at lenovo support they will apparently mail you a thumbdrive or a disc.
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dissss posted:I don't think they make 7200rpm laptop drives anymore. You definitely shouldn't be considering any Mac that comes with a spinning disk anyway - the ssd is just too big if a jump. Yeah, even 256gb is quite cheap nowadays and I just keep a 1tb external around for swapping in new movies and other storage intensive stuff.
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evol262 posted:Honest question: Because he might be carrying it around alot? I'm in the same position, I have a shitton of books, papers, assorted poo poo and a computer to carry around and I only use in in hotels - Anything to reduce that is good.
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Aren't the ASUS gaming laptops pretty well regarded and like half the price? fe: Jesus, dragging around a 18" laptop must get loving annoying even if it lives in a bag or backpag most of the time.
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Nov 22, 2013 13:25
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Either one will probably be fine as long as you're ok with medium or lower settings and not interested in AAA cutting edge tech fps games etc. The y510p does have better performance but the battery life is terrible.
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Fathis Munk posted:I realize that but we're both students and have a limited budget and she's not that big on computers except browsing, watching videos and Microsoft Office, so I guess that should be doable on a 500€ machine ? Yes, poo poo is more expensive in EU land compared to the US. Look into chromebooks, you should be able to grab a good one for way below 500€.
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What is wrong with the thinkpad E540? e: It's not for me. I know it feels more like a ideapad with a clitmouse, but it was stupidly discounted (like -40% compared to a dell with similar specs). Klaus Kinski fucked around with this message at 00:05 on Dec 27, 2013 |
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Sire Oblivion posted:Thanks for the quick response, what's it like installing a new hard drive on one of these things? The one that it came with is painfully slow and I just want to toss an SSD in there. Really easy, the hardest part is removing the back cover. A friend that has pretty much never held a screwdriver managed to do it with only youtube to guide him.
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QuarkJets posted:The SLI upgrade is not good bang for your buck. You'd be better off gathering $200 in a big pile of singles and burning it. Coincidentally, that burning pile of money would have a lower temperature than your SLI laptop The performance is actually pretty good on SLI and the heat isn't that bad. I'd also rather turn down some settings than use my laptop to simulate getting seated next to the engines on a plane. gently caress that noise, literally.
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dissss posted:I don't think the Macbook keyboards are great let alone better than all Windows options - I actually slightly prefer the feel of my work Elitebook to the Macs and when compared to my own T430s its no contest. Sorta OT but you should try the y510/y410, it's loving amazing for a laptop keyboard.
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shrughes posted:No. dgpu is huge difference unless you plan on sticking to 2d indie games.
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Uranium 235 posted:My dad keeps breaking his laptops, probably because he's a conductor on freight trains and he carries his laptop in a backpack, and it's not so easy to be gentle with his stuff. He really just uses his laptop to browse the web while he's in his hotel room. He also doesn't want to spend more than $500-600. Should I just point him to Best Buy to get another flimsy laptop? I don't know what else he can buy with that kind of money--I don't think that price point buys durability. I'm in the exact line of work and I prefer a tablet and a beefy case. It's also much more convenient for when you get those short stops while waiting for another train, gently caress pulling out a laptop when a tablet takes like 5 seconds to set up.
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Gwaihir posted:It's another cheap laptop that's just going to break again. Exactly this. $400 gets you a lovely laptop or a good tablet+case.
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I mean, literally anything is going to be enough performance for parent machines, most folks here just spend the extra money for durability/warranties. It sucks that he doesn't want a tablet, because web browsing in a hotel room is basically the ideal use case for one, and you can get a lot better otterbox style protection for them compared to laptops.
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Go for the cheapest one, I doubt you'll be bottlenecked by the CPU and the cash you save can be put into a SSD.
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^^^ Don't blow that much on a single purchase. Get something in the $1k range and upgrade again in a year or two. They'll both get outdated at roughly the same time.Yawgmoft posted:How well regarded is the Y510p? The OP seems to be down on any lenovo that isn't T X or W, but my girlfriend's laptop is pretty much ready for the junkyard (one of the hinges even snapped). She does some graphics stuff but I know she wants to do more gaming things. The laptop wouldn't really move much, it's mostly on or coffee table except for her trimonthly trip to Virginia. I'd love to get her something good rather than another laptop that slowly loses its functionality like the scroll bar. Also ASUS sound sucks how is Lenovo? I've been very happy with mine but I pretty much use it as a portable stationary. It's either plugged in or living in my backpack. It's ok for watching movies on the train, but I had to buy a nexus 7 because the y510p wouldn't fit on the airplane tables 
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mr crow posted:I just got my y510p in, with the 755M SLI. Excited! Trackpad really sucks though, I'm zooming in and out all over the place in Chrome for no reason. Anyone have any app/program/driver recommendations (especially with an eye towards maintenance and performance)? You can make the trackpad slightly better by updating the software and maxing out the "palm detection" something option. fe: I like the steelseries kinzu. It's cheap, tiny and works really well. EC series is pretty much the same as a kinzu but has this awesome rubber grip surface.
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