Re: Laptop recommendations?

At work I have a new Core i5 ThinkPad, with 15" screen, and I really love
it.

It's a little less powerful than my Core i7, but the simpler, more
conventional industrial design makes it so much more enjoyable.

And the battery lasts *forever*.  Of course I'm not playing games or doing
video editing on it...

-S

On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Shawn A. Van Ness <[email protected]>wrote:

> I have a ~6 mo old Dell XPS 1645...
>
> -- 16" LED display
> -- Core i7-720
> -- ATI Radeon HD 4670
> -- 128GB SSD drive
>
> The performance is fantastic, both CPU and GPU, and the SSD drive is
> amazing.
>
> But I really don't care for the overall physical design of the laptop...
> the keyboard is terrible, the touchpad is finicky and overly sensitive.  The
> curved battery/grip thing makes it awkward to fit into my backback.
>
> Also, it has some weird BIOS bug (?) where my USB memory stick will just
> stop working for a while, until I cold reboot.
>
> They release a new BIOS update every few weeks (they're up to A12 already!)
> and each time it gets a little better...  they must have some weird race
> condition they're fighting.
>
> I just got A12 yesterday, so far so good, fingers crossed they finally
> fixed it.
>
> But wtf, it's not like USB memory sticks are new technology...  how did
> this regress??
>
> On the bright side, it only takes like 10 seconds to reboot this thing.
> :-)
>
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Brad Wilson <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> The M11x, which I have, is refreshed. The older models had C2D in them,
>> the newer ones have i5 or i7. The newer models also have DisplayPort instead
>> of VGA, and the auto-selecting integrated Intel graphics vs. NVidia 335
>> discrete.
>>
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