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08-03-2009, 13:08 | #1 |
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wrecked laptop
Well I managed to wreck another laptop. Apparently there's a rule that a every laptop I own breaks down after this period. This time the screen gave up on me which is quite annoying as working without a screen requires leet ninja crystal ball skills I lack.
Next week a guy will repair the thing but as I've had problems with performance on the laptop anyway I'm looking into buying a new one as well. Any recommendations? I very much prefer a HP/Compaq as that's the only brand of computer we use in the office. I value light weigth over huge screens (working on a 15" wide screen 1650*1280 has been fine for me over the last 2 yrs) but I need high performance to run some demanding apps and games.
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09-03-2009, 09:52 | #2 |
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Well i just bough an Acer recently
T7350 Core Duo 4MB Ram 9600M GS Graphics 13xx by 7xx (not sure exact size) 250Gig Hard Disk 16" widescreen (Probably to big for you PP) On Paper Acer seem to offer the best value for money however: Build Qualilty is quite cheap Battery life is poor Screen only opens to a max of about 120 degrees Other wise the specs above provide pretty good performance Also the Intel naming scheme is very confusing here is a basic rule to remember T = 25W power dissipation P=35W power dissipation. Theoretical you would expect something with T to be better on batteries...but nothing to do with Performance..that all comes dow to CPU speed, size of L2 cache, and speed of FSB. |
09-03-2009, 14:07 | #3 |
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That is the CPU cache memory?
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09-03-2009, 20:47 | #4 |
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I've also just got an acer laptop, bought with Tesco shopping vouchers so cost me bugger all.
T7500 Core 2 Duo Only 2GB RAM though Crap intel graphics - but it runs Civ 4 smoothly 1280 by 800 160 Gig Hard Disk 15.4" widescreen Vista home premium I actually been very pleased with it despite only 2GB memory and the intel graphics. Definitely a step up over a very old P4. I can not get used to using a touchpad though... |
09-03-2009, 23:02 | #5 |
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I've just got Toshiba Porgete M750 tablet. Looks pretty cool. I'm not sure about graphics and heavy applications but it is certanily portable and I like tablet features and 12-inch screen.
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10-03-2009, 03:24 | #6 |
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I've been working with colleagues that use some of theese:
http://www.humanware.com/en-usa/prod...owerbt_32.html Cool, but you need some training.
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10-03-2009, 10:28 | #7 |
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10-03-2009, 10:35 | #8 |
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Here is an interesting chart at the following link..pretty much confirmws my thoughts on Acer build quality
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02..._poll_results/ Asus or Lenovo look to be the best pics based on those charts I have a Lenovo at work, and i'd have to say you would have to do well to wreck one of those. Last edited by digger760; 10-03-2009 at 10:39. |
10-03-2009, 15:12 | #9 |
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I was refering to the fact you had writen 2MB instead of 2GB.
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10-03-2009, 16:16 | #10 |
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My first machine had half a MB as RAM. And I was very proud when I bought another 0.5 MB as upgrade.
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