all i did was spray the dust off the fans and no more overheating! use canned air or what ever it is.Ack wrote:Hey, what was that overheating problem? I've been having heat issues lately, wondering if you might have had a similar problem.
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Preach it brother!lordofduct wrote:This thread covers so many reasons why I refuse to own a laptop.
The only lap tops I get are very underpowered machines I use for very basic needs. Nothing impressive. And I buy them when they are considered old so they can be affordable.
Using a lappy for anything intensive is stupid in my book merely because what use is a laptop that can't be carried around because it dies in an hour or so. Put up with a small monitor, crappy mouse, horrible air flow, AND a dieing battery? No thank you.
JT wrote:Yeah, like vampire aliens invade and hit us all with a ray beam that paralyzes all of our arms. The only way to deactivate the ray beam and fight back the vampire alien threat is with a complicated series of foot patterns on the device's control board that looks remarkably like a DDR pad. We will all praise this man for saving our lives and buy him a mountain of stuffed animals.
I don't know. The above is definately right as regards 'windows/linux' laptops. Everyone i've seen has been a piece of crap with terrible battery life.
My Macbook Pro is great though. I have to take it to uni anyway so I need a computer that can fit in a small place and be able to be taken anywhere. My MBP lasts about 3.5 hours if all I'm doing is web browsing or taking notes in lectures. If I'm doing some heavy audio processing or DAW work then I get about 2 hours out of it max before needing to charge.
If you're going to get a windows laptop, don't bother unless it's an EEE PC. Get a macbook or a macbook pro. Sure they're expensive but far and away superior to anything in that sort of performance and efficiency range.
When I finish uni I'm definately going to get a Mac Pro though.
My Macbook Pro is great though. I have to take it to uni anyway so I need a computer that can fit in a small place and be able to be taken anywhere. My MBP lasts about 3.5 hours if all I'm doing is web browsing or taking notes in lectures. If I'm doing some heavy audio processing or DAW work then I get about 2 hours out of it max before needing to charge.
If you're going to get a windows laptop, don't bother unless it's an EEE PC. Get a macbook or a macbook pro. Sure they're expensive but far and away superior to anything in that sort of performance and efficiency range.
When I finish uni I'm definately going to get a Mac Pro though.
Marurun wrote:Don’t mind-shart your pants, guys
I bought a cheap Dell Vostro 1500 (I couldn't afford a nice MacBook). Sure, it's not a powerhouse, but it's great and easily fast enough for everything I need it to do when I'm on the go. It's heavy and bulky, but it does have discreet graphics and a larger battery that I usually get about 5 hours out of even when I'm pushing the lappy.
All that for, after taxes, $650. For a bit more it could be made quite a bit more beastly.
So it ain't all that portable, so what? I can do homework on it, it's suitable for in-the-field usability testing, and with a mouse the screen is definitely large enough to do wireframing and basic design work.
All that for, after taxes, $650. For a bit more it could be made quite a bit more beastly.
So it ain't all that portable, so what? I can do homework on it, it's suitable for in-the-field usability testing, and with a mouse the screen is definitely large enough to do wireframing and basic design work.
These are tablet pcs?vbt wrote:T61 hereracketboy wrote:Lenovo, yeah.
Still pretty good though.
I just recently bought the last ultraportable IBM designed themselves, the X41
I'm loving it
Sorry to derail the thread -- best of luck with XP! (love that too)
I've always thought someone should make a missile command clone to play on tablets (or on the DS).
Ivo.