God's laptop

[SYau]

You are selling the x220t already?

 

[alain]

Toshiba is coming with a new Portege

http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/01/toshibas-portege-z830-is-an-ultraslim-ultrasexy-ultrabook/

Same problems though: no high resolution, crappy hard drive and a nightmare from microsoft.

 

[MRoss]

Agreed. Beautiful piece. Awful resolution and no dedicated graphics. I'm staying away. Upgrading to an SSD anyhow and Microsoft rocks

Any ideas anyone? Looking for a laptop in the $1,200 range. i5-i7, HD res, backlit keyboard, 3lbs or less,...

 

[alain]

and Microsoft rocks

Don't come crying when you need to do real work and windows goes bonkers on you.

 

[MRoss]

I was just looking at the MacBook Air. I'm considering getting it just so that I can actually own a Mac before I judge anymore. My one gripe: No dedicated graphics...

P.S. Was going to wipe OS and put on Windows

 

[rishab dhar]

MRoss

If you are not too picky about weight, I think a Macbook Pro might serve you better - Dedicated graphics.

Regarding the Air, I guess the processor (sandybridge) with its own 384 DDR3 dedicated graphics might be useful (it would definitely be faster than the one you plug in separately). Besides, a SSD will make up quite a lot for delays related to hard disk.

The 13-inch one boots up in 15 secs.

 

[alain]

I was just looking at the MacBook Air. I'm considering getting it just so that I can actually own a Mac before I judge anymore. My one gripe: No dedicated graphics...

why do you need dedicated graphics? Just wondering.

 

[alain]

P.S. Was going to wipe OS and put on Windows

again, don't come crying later...

 

[MRoss]

Most of my laptop work will be for work/programming. However I do play one online game a few hours each week. Not sure if the intel 3000 will be enough: Battleforge.

 

[alain]

Most of my laptop work will be for work/programming. However I do play one online game a few hours each week. Not sure if the intel 3000 will be enough: Battleforge.

ah... Ok. That will change in the future.

 

[Yike Lu]

I was just looking at the MacBook Air. I'm considering getting it just so that I can actually own a Mac before I judge anymore. My one gripe: No dedicated graphics...

P.S. Was going to wipe OS and put on Windows

When all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail

 

[Lyosha]

ah... Ok. That will change in the future.

Eh... he's part time. There's a chance it won't.

 

[MRoss]

I said a few hours. About 1/2 a night while eating supper. Forgive me. I study for the other 14 hours.

 

[AMANE]

guys what u think about sony vaio f series
VPCF136FG/BI, compared to mac book air or pro

 

[MRoss]

Strongly recommend... if 6.85lbs is not too much for you. Whoops the Mac for the money.

 

[Lyosha]

guys what u think about sony vaio f series
VPCF136FG/BI, compared to mac book air or pro

I have a Sony F series laptop. I like it. Macbook offers far less as far as performance goes for the money.

 

[Andy Nguyen]

Not looking for God's laptop but I'm going to order the base retina MBP for my design work. Here offers a sweat deal for students (no sale tax, free shipping).
http://www.macmall.com/n/Mac-Back-To-School/macCustomPages-5793

 

[MRoss]

Hmmm. "Sweet deal" use to mean "very good deal". Apparently now it means "less of a rip-off then before"...

 

[Alexei_K]

Not looking for God's laptop but I'm going to order the base retina MBP for my design work. Here offers a sweat deal for students (no sale tax, free shipping).
http://www.macmall.com/n/Mac-Back-To-School/macCustomPages-5793

Hi Andy,

I was checking MBP with retina a week ago and was very disappointed by stability of the system. Namely, open terminal -> type top (aka unix task manager) -> try to view photos or browse not heavy websites-> watch to top in the terminal. You will see what these apps using 40-60% of CPU regardless of the actual application usage. And the screen is not that great in comparing to my lenovo w510 FHD.

 

[Andy Nguyen]

Upgrade to Mountain Lion yet?