Re: Laptop recommendations?

Shawn, Brad et al.  Thanks I wasn't seriously considering an I5. Now
i'm. Next I need to find
With a good keyboard, build and ctrl in the right place. Also one that
I can configure with a crap load of RAM.

Cheers
Mark

On Sunday, November 7, 2010,  Shawn A. Van Ness <[email protected]> wrote:
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>       At work I have a new Core i5 ThinkPad, with 15" screen, and I really love it.
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> It's a little less powerful than my Core i7, but the simpler, more conventional industrial design makes it so much more enjoyable.
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> And the battery lasts *forever*.  Of course I'm not playing games or doing video editing on it...
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> -S
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> On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Shawn A. Van Ness <[email protected]> wrote:
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> I have a ~6 mo old Dell XPS 1645...
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> -- 16" LED display
> -- Core i7-720
> -- ATI Radeon HD 4670
> -- 128GB SSD drive
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> The performance is fantastic, both CPU and GPU, and the SSD drive is amazing.
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> 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.
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> Also, it has some weird BIOS bug (?) where my USB memory stick will just stop working for a while, until I cold reboot.
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> 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.
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> I just got A12 yesterday, so far so good, fingers crossed they finally fixed it.
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> But wtf, it's not like USB memory sticks are new technology...  how did this regress??
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> On the bright side, it only takes like 10 seconds to reboot this thing.  :-)
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> 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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