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Old 06-17-2012, 12:36 AM   #1
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Lightbulb What laptops do Amigan's use in general?
First of all sorry about starting yet another non Amiga thread. But...

I was wondering what type of laptops people on Amiga.org use and if there are any favourites that Amigan's tend to use. I ask this as i intend to buy this little number this Friday coming up unless if i find something better

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Sony-Vaio...#ht_5988wt_980

Being a poor student it took me almost a year to save up for this so i'm really excited. I'm pretty brand loyal to Sony but i'm open to other ideas and opinions if anyone wants to give any.
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Old 06-17-2012, 12:55 AM   #2
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Never a Vaio, seen the state of gfx driver support. Want the best performance for money - meaning MSI, Asus for instance.
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Old 06-17-2012, 01:00 AM   #3
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Mac Air running Windows 7, Toshiba A100 with a SSD running Ubuntu. Old PPC PB, functioning as a paperweight now due to lack of wifi drivers.

Looking at a MacBook Pro with Retina display, might buy one of them when there's full support for the Retina display when running Windows on it.
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Old 06-17-2012, 01:07 AM   #4
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I just buy whatever is cheapest that has enough CPU and memory, and ideally as large a screen as possible. This is usually no more than $50 above the bottom of the barrel (last one was $320 Canadian I think). It's worked out well so far, always had good luck with laptops not giving me much grief over the last 15 years. For some reason my last few computers seem to be from Gateway, I guess they give the best bang for the buck around here. The loyalty was not intentional though.
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Old 06-17-2012, 01:25 AM   #5
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After two week and as a present to myself for quitting smoking for a year so far This is due for delivery monday

1ALIENWARE M17X : STANDARD BASE
1PROCESSOR : INTEL CORE I7 3720QM (6MB CA
1DISPLAY : 17.3" WIDEFHD (1920 X 1080) WL
1CAMERA : INTEGRATED SKYPE HD CERTIFIED F
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1PLACEMATS : PLACEMATS (ENG, GRE, POL, AR
1RESOURCE DVD : ALIENWARE M17X
1SHIP ACCESSORY : SOUTHERN EUROPE DOCS (E
1MEMORY : 8192MB (2X4096) 1600MHZ DDR3 DU
1HARD DRIVE : 64GB MSATA BOOT DRIVE + 500
1OPTICAL DRIVE : BLURAY COMBO (BLU-RAY RE
1POWER CORD : UK 250V
1POWER SUPPLY : ALIENWARE 240W AC ADAPTER
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Old 06-17-2012, 01:32 AM   #6
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This what been using for last 5 years. Have upgraded memory and HDD.

1LIST N03152- BSD 1501 (2)
1INSPIRON 1501 SEMPRON 3500+ (1.8GHZ 512K
115.4" WIDE SCREEN XGA TFT DISPLAY: 1280X
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Old 06-17-2012, 01:50 AM   #7
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Its kind of old now, and I can't afford to get a new laptop...

I upgraded my two year old Toshiba 18.4 notebook with 8gb of ram and a plextor 256mb SSD and Windows 7...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834214051

I would totally buy Toshiba again...

I did have P4 Sony Vaio. I gave it to my mom... She used it for a long time and it is her backup now, but still works except for the battery. Which is a amazing, most P4 notebooks have burned out a long time ago.
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Old 06-17-2012, 01:50 AM   #8
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Alienware make a real nice laptop, JJ - should be very happy with it!
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Old 06-17-2012, 01:55 AM   #9
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Never a Vaio, seen the state of gfx driver support. Want the best performance for money - meaning MSI, Asus for instance.
I own a Sony Vaio, and for the last two years Linux Drivers where not stable. But it has changed. Still the Drivers are proprietary, but that`s only a concern for purists.

Drivers on Windows work very (!) well, except for the webcam on Windows 8.

I like the Sony better than my 1st gen MacBook Air: there is a huge performance benefit, bigger harddrive and built in optical drive. So if you don`t rely on Mac OS and don`t need something very light, there is really no reason to prefer the Air.
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Old 06-17-2012, 01:59 AM   #10
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What ever you do don't buy any Lenovo crap.
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Old 06-17-2012, 03:51 AM   #11
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I've used a succession of MacBook Pros... Currently thinking about a MacBook Air... As portability is becomin more imptortant to me than performance.
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Old 06-17-2012, 04:08 AM   #12
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MacBook Pros (3 x 17", 1 x 13") for work and leisure, PowerBook G4 for MorphOS. Though I must confess that one of the 17" MBPs is a backup device and not used often.
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Old 06-17-2012, 04:22 AM   #13
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My work Laptop is an old Dell Lattitude D620 1GB with Nvidia Video and core 2 duo. ~2007 Vintage but still runs fine on XP SP3. If you don't open more than a taskbar full of apps.
At home, when I'm not at my PC, I use an eMachines eM250 Netbook upgraded with 2GB Ram, 750GB HD and a HiDef Video Decoder and a wireless mouse. It's 2 years old and cost next to nothing. Again XP SP3 but with a Windows7 skin. It runs WinUAE fine.

Have you looked at the Asus i7 Zenbook ? A bit more expensive than what you're looking at but a nice looking machine.

BTW: JJ that sounds like a mean machine.
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Old 06-17-2012, 04:24 AM   #14
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Discarded HP Compaq nc6000 from work; Pentium M 1.4, 768 MB - pretty sufficient for my mobile needs...
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Old 06-17-2012, 05:08 AM   #15
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I have a Thinkpad T510 that replaced a 4 year old T60 last year. I sold the T60 for $200 to one of my friends and it's still running.

I will never buy an HP and a Sony again. I had a Sony several years ago that had a buggy BIOS that automatically loaded failsafe values every few days, which would disable USB 2 and drop the RAM speed to 266MHz. It affected several VAIO desktops based on the same motherboard and Sony never fixed it.

I had an HP that had the hard drive controller crap out after about 15 months. It was fine when I left the house, came back a few hours later and it was frozen solid and wouldn't boot again. He also use HP's at work and we consistently get laptop models that are just plain junk. They will either have motherboard faults or will be built with the thinnest, junkiest plastic HP can get their hands on.

I have no idea why the person above said to never buy Lenovo "crap", but they consistently beat out every other PC manufacturer in customer satisfaction and support ratings and I've never had a problem with any of my Thinkpads, IBM or Lenovo.
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