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General Discussion => General Discussion Boards => Technology and Gaming => Topic started by: Mao on December 11, 2010, 05:23:47 pm
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This bastard has served me well. 3 years old, I can't think of one achievement I got without it.
So anyways. That's that. Feel free to suggest how I should spend the next $2000.
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I'm looking at the ASUS EeePad EP121 closely.
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M1530?
I'm contemplating replacing mine (also the M1530) and I've seen a couple of really nice laptops for sub $2000.
The ASUS N61JQ-ZBD-JX025V is a pretty decent deal as is the LENOVO Y560. Only thing that irks me is the resolution but it's almost impossible to get above that without going up in price substantially. Don't buy the new XPS series from Dell unless you want to wait until mid January at the earliest, they've had some hilariously terrible stuff ups
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Get a desktop for real hc gaming power.
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Get a desktop for real hc gaming power.
I have an AMD X6 tower already :P Now I need something portable. :)
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M1530?
I'm contemplating replacing mine (also the M1530) and I've seen a couple of really nice laptops for sub $2000.
The ASUS N61JQ-ZBD-JX025V is a pretty decent deal as is the LENOVO Y560. Only thing that irks me is the resolution but it's almost impossible to get above that without going up in price substantially. Don't buy the new XPS series from Dell unless you want to wait until mid January at the earliest, they've had some hilariously terrible stuff ups
I'm a bit apprehensive about buying another windows laptop. The battery life has been crap, I had a ~2hr life for my 1530 for the first half a year, then down to 1 hr in the second half, then ~half hr for the next two years, it's essentially a computer that can hop between power points. In my experience the portability of most windows laptop eventually end up being 'easily shifted from one end of the desk to the other'.
I like the idea of tablets, that is, full OS installed on a device that lasts the day like the iPad. I am seriously considering the MacBook Air (~$2k) to service me for 2 years, or an iPad (~$700) to service me for 1 year until good tablets (ChromeOS tablets?) come out. Are there any other super-battery-life devices around?
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Netbook? HP Slate? Blackberry Tablet? Galaxy Tab?
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If you're worried about the battery dying out, couldn't you just buy a cheap replacement from MSI or over the net or something?
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I don't care about portability much but if you need something with a long battery life, then a MBP is a pretty good deal. I really dislike the macbook air.
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I got me an Acer Aspire 1, about ~$500 from JB Hifi
I get about 7 hours out of it and it's about 4 months old
But my sister's got a MBP, and she gets about 5hrs and it's 1 year old...
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Maybe a Macbook Pro?
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If you can fish out heaps of money, consider buying Alienware ;D
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I don't care about portability much but if you need something with a long battery life, then a MBP is a pretty good deal. I really dislike the macbook air.
How come? the air is really light and slick. The pro has a pretty decent weight to it.
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If you aren't a gamer, are alienware good for graphics/media or not necessary?
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If you aren't a gamer, are alienware good for graphics/media or not necessary?
battery life?
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I was thinking because of display and processing power?
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http://event.asus.com/2009/nb/ul_series/
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I don't care about portability much but if you need something with a long battery life, then a MBP is a pretty good deal. I really dislike the macbook air.
How come? the air is really light and slick. The pro has a pretty decent weight to it.
Yeah size and weight are its two major selling points but unfortunately they're really its only selling points. I'd trade that for the MBP having more space and power, battery life and proper I/O ports.
The air is really marketed towards an extremely narrow band of consumers, which is one I don't fit in so that's why I think it's not worth it
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I'd go for the MacBook Pro.
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I think I'm buying the Air. It has a higher pixel density, lighter, smaller, comparable battery life, and powerful enough for everything I need it to do. For everything else I have my desktop tower. =]
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I think I'm buying the Air. It has a higher pixel density, lighter, smaller, comparable battery life, and powerful enough for everything I need it to do. For everything else I have my desktop tower. =]
And it has a SSD. Most importantly, it looks epic :)
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I think I'm buying the Air. It has a higher pixel density, lighter, smaller, comparable battery life, and powerful enough for everything I need it to do. For everything else I have my desktop tower. =]
And it has a SSD. Most importantly, it looks epic :)
Flash isn't quite SSD, but yeah, something along those lines.
Update: nope. Got to use a MBP and MBA side to side today. The MBA's screen is so much worse... I bought a 13" MBP with crazy myers discount.
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don't go alienware, overpriced, the only good alienware is the m11x, but you don't need something that can do crysis.
go for something slim and small, netbook or maybe an ASUS or Acer timeline (apparantly the timeline series is quite good which goes against Acer common opinion ;))
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Ah ok ty