Post:
> Model
> What you like about your laptop
> What you hate about it
> Specs
> How much you paid
bonus points for picture
> base 15 inch rMBP (mid 2014)
> display and performance, iris pro impressed me a lot, it runs gta v on 1280x800 + FXAA at 30-60fps, impressive for integrated graphics
> overpriced, I mean, $2000 for 256gb of storage
> i7 4770HQ, 16GB of RAM, 256GB PCIe SSD, Iris Pro Graphics (HD5200)
> 2880x1800 IPS display
> $2000 + tax (cucked by Tim Cook)
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>13" rMBP 2014
>touchpad is desu, screen is top desu
>wish apple would stop using proprietary memory so i could upgrade the flash desu
>i5, 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD, intel iris
>got it used for 500 britbong bux (still had warranty on it)
I had a Dell Latitude XT2, but the memory died a few weeks ago, so I'm back with my 12.1" PowerBook G4 for now
>1.5GHz Motorola G4
>GeForce FX Go5200
>1.25GB RAM
>1024x768 screen (upgrading to a 1400x1050 IPS panel)
>OpenBSD 5.9 and Mac OS X 10.4.11 dual boot
Cool
Dell XPS 13
>Small and light, 1080p resolution, thin bezel, very long battery life so I don't need to carry charger everywhere
>Some apps don't handle scaling too well on the small screen and end up with blurry text. Coil whine is audible if room is silent. Has adaptive contrast that can't be disabled on non-touch version (touch version has optional firmware update).
>i5 6200u, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD, non-touch screen
>$832, got it factory refurbished on ebay with one year warranty. Came with a small scratch on the top lid, but other than that it's like new.
Got it for grad school so I wouldn't have to carry around my bulky 15.6" old Asus laptop + charger everywhere.
Thinkpad X220
Like:
Super cheap (300€ refurbished and that was a bad deal)
Upgraded to 10GB ram and 250GB SSD for another 120€ so no I handles all tasks I do on it fine (office stuff, browsing, data analysis in R) and is performing well at that.
Keyboard is godlike
Track point is nice once you get used to it
Really small and portable
Feels solid and well-made, outside finish really nice
Good connection options (VGA and Ethernet plus 3 USB ports) so I can attach a monitor and a mouse to it and have a cosy setup at work
Cons:
Screen is too dark in light situations and only 720p, plus it's 16:9
So little screen real estate without extra monitor
The fans get really loud even when idling on windows 7, so I only use Linux now, where the fans only get loud under heavy load
Looking for a £200 or less portable shitposting station:
Want 8+ hours of battery
Preferably 4gb ram or upgradeable
Preferably upgradeable HDD/SSD
11-13"
I've come across an Asus eeebook that had a spare 2.5" slot alongside the internall SSD but it was lacking in the RAM department.
Also what's the most comprehensive netbook list out there that lets you sort by specs or battery life?
bump
how's wifi connection? I've read that the chip dell uses is terrible
also, do you have the old or new model?
>16" Asus N61jq
>Keyboard, processor, very versatile, all type of connections on this shit, first laptops with usb 3.0
>Temps, battery life (1 hour or so), glossy screen and it's resolution
>i7 720q, 8gb of ram, ati radeon hd5730m, 120gb ssd, 750gb hdd
>Price, 1000€ when new
Hi guys, I need a cheap laptop and I am actually interested in a Chromebook since they're cheap. Need it for an internship in a 3rd world country and I am not bringing my Dell XPS 15 since I would murder myself if it gets stolen.
What is the best chromebook I can get? Heard all these review sites get paid by companies.
For the same price you can get a lowend windows8/10 netbook m8 I'd prefer one of those
Why do you prefer those? I have encountered several problems when Windows is combined with shitty specs. Android is pretty optimized for shitty specs.
just get used thinkpad
will outperform any lowend netbook/chromebook and you get the durability
Acer C720
>Dell XPS 17 L702X
>Nice Screen and Chicklet keyboard
>not up to date/slowly dying/can't run two external monitors.
>Got it for free for b-day(came in mail with Alien Fleshlight).
I've seen plenty of windows laptops last 7+ hours. Android still has shitty wakelock issues and if you spend that kind of money might as well go for x86.
Some 11" ones even have a real 2.5" slot and upgradeable ram.
>chromebook
plsno
>Post:
>> Model
Alienware M18x R2
>> What you like about your laptop
Does most gaming superbly even at high graphics levels; VirtualBox machines run well; it's not Win 8/10
>> What you hate about it
Cannot seem to run PS2 emulation (PCSX2) without quite a bit of slowdown/lag no matter what I try; boot-up is a bit slow at times; explorer.exe sometimes leaves icons off the notification tray, so I have to restart it
>> Specs
Speccy pic related
>> How much you paid
Too goddamn much (but I still like it)
I'm looking for a new laptop.
i7, 8gb since I need to run the Adobe Suite and some Autodesk stuff.
Anyone have a good recommendation or some experience with a laptop that's not too expensive ~1000$?
>proprietary memory
What
>Macbook Air 2013
>It's reliable, fast, and I can take it anywhere
>Not enough storage (only 128GB)
>pic related
>€999
I really like it, I mainly use mine for MATLAB simulations and to play some GTA.
I also bought a 1TB external hard drive for it.
stop making so many fucking generals
> Model
Retina MBP13 (Late 2013)
> What you like about your laptop
Comfy bed web browser, battery is still in very good (90%) condition after 600 cycles
> What you hate about it
Fragile, the palmrest corrodes and it gets stupid hot doing anything other than web browsing and documents, battery life indicator massively overestimates remaining battery life
> Specs
i5-4258U, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD, Iris 5100
> How much you paid
$1750 AUD, the price of the rMBP13 is so fucking high atm thanks to our shitty dollar, compared to $2499 now for a mid range model.
Would love the new Alienware 15 if it weren't for the shitty design. Stupid good battery life for goofing around the internet and has top-tier performance when you need it.
Here's to hoping that Dell makes the same laptop with a different design and call it the XPS Pro or something.
HP m6 1045dx
Like
>Great touchpad
>Mouse buttons separate from touchpad
>Backlit keyboard
>Decent laptop keyboard
>Good specs for when it came out (2012 I think)
>Nice shell finish
Dislike
>Weak sound (speakers and headphones)
>The screen (granted it's probably no worse than other laptops from then too)
Paid $700 from best buy when it was brand new, probably overpaid but it was my first happy and I new nothing about nothing back then so I'll forgive my ignorance
Funny, 3 years later and the rMBP15 is still on Haswell. The fuck is Apple doing?
> Model
HP Elitebook 2570p
> What you like about your laptop
+ Battery life, has the option for a 9 cell battery which will give me 15 hours of web browsing
+ Has ODD and all the ports of a regular business laptop except it's the size of an A4 piece of paper
+ Not plastic, sturdy as fuck and with great hinges
+ Easy access, one magnesium door at the bottom
+ Can do RAID 0 if you replace the ODD with a 2.5" cradle, supports 9mm HDDs
+ Trackpint is good, but the touchpad is amazing
> What you hate about it
- Dim, washed out blueish TN panel, better than the X220 TN, but far inferior to the IPS
- Pathetic LED light that's supposed to illuminate the keyboard
- No dedicated volume buttons, just mute
- Keyboard is nothing special
- On the thick side
- Would have preferred the 2560p-s screen locking mechanism to the magnetic locking
> Specs
i5 3360M 2.8GHz
4GB 1600MHz DDR3L
320GB 7200RPM HDD upgraded to 250GB 850 Evo SSD
Bluetooth 4.0, 5GHz wifi, 3G modem, smartcard reader, dual mics and 720p webcam etc. etc.
> How much you paid
175 euro for a unit from 2013
Abandoning PCs.
>the palmrest corrodes
I mean, it's anodized, so it comes corroded.
I'm waiting for it, it should arrive in a couple of weeks.
The choice was an X220 or X230 and this, and the ThinkPads just aren't better in this particular case.
It's a common issue with Macs if you actually use them.
60% of Macbooks at refurbishing stores have varying degrees of corrosion pitting on the palmrest like pic related.
>Dell Inspiron N5110
>Almost everything, desu
>Booting into BIOS or selecting a different boot device requires me to spam F2 or F12 for about 30 seconds (somewhat annoying)
>i-2410, 6GB RAM, 600GB HD
>Nothing, my best mate gave it to me for free
lmao
Can one of you /flg/ friends help me out?
I only know desktops and not laptops how are the i7-6700HQ and GTX960M?
It seems like all the Asus, MSI or whatever laptops have these. Are they alright?
Do you live in a humid climate or something? I haven't ever seen that.
That's not corrosion, that's been chipped.
Eww
Not very humid, I'm in Melbourne, Australia.
I walk past a few refurbishers everyday on Elizabeth St and there's always a couple Macs with ugly black marks on the right palmrest.
Yeah, could be just skin rubbing on it over and over, that would get past the anodized layer after a while.
This isn't corrosion, either, this is actually worn past the anodizing. I've seen this, but only in very high use situations with people who don't care about the machine, like libraries or schools. Not just on MacBooks, either.
>Yeah, could be just skin rubbing on it over and over,
I would guess things like jewelry, watches, rings, maybe, if they are stored in a large bag, other items hitting the laptop. This is just a thing that happens, anything anodized that is rubbed against will show wear eventually.
Posting picture
What are those white strips on the palmrest?
I'm not usually bothered about looks but holy shit that looks dirt fucking cheap
Rubber pads, I suppose they are there to protect the LCD if you squish the screen when the lid it's closed.
It's actually not irl, the chassis is metal, the door is magnesium and the palm rest and lid are aluminium.
It's as sturdy as a thinkpad.
Do you boys dick around on Ebay to try to find a good deal on a laptop or do you guys buy new?
15in rMBP
>Like
stable, looks nice, runs macOS, doesn't get in the way of my work. also have a mac mini server so things work beautifully together, time machine backups, etc
>Dislike
storage - bought a little "expansion" drive which is really just an SD card that sits in the drive and is flush with the case. wish there was an official method of expanding
>Price
approx 2k USD
I've never had issues like these... I keep mine in a case and everything is pristine. I'm careful with it though... treat the fucker like a baby considering how much I paid
Hmm, those rubber pads look like they're in stupid positions because they would be where the screen is when closed. But since the lid on Elitebooks are tested to withstand up to 1000lbs (435kg) weight, I guess HP knows what they're doing.
I buy from companies that refurbish business class laptops from corporations - Thinkpads, Elitebooks, Latitudes etc.
I treat mine like a baby as well, still got marks on the palmrest, everywhere else is absolutely pristine.
At least your hands don't touch them when you type, I think it's a worst case scenario measure, in case you step on it or something like that.
Otherwise there's a rubber seal around the edge of the screen instead of individual pads.
>I think it's a worst case scenario measure, in case you step on it or something like that.
You should see this.
youtu.be
13" Macbook Pro Retina 256GB SSD/8GB RAM/Core i5 Haswell with Iris Graphics
>things I like about it
-16:10 IPS display
-Large multitouch trackpad
-fast SSD (tested around 700MB/s last time I checked)
-OSX is really nice to use
-thin and Relatively light
>things I don't like about it
-soldered ram, proprietary storage
-less ports and expansion than non-Retina MBP for muh thinness
-along the 'muh thinness' train, the display and top clamshell is one piece. If you fuck up your display be ready to spend $500+ for a replacement that would be less than $100 on any business laptop
-aluminum shell shows up imperfections easily
-vents heat onto the bottom of the glued together display assembly
-by default CPU will heat up and throttle before increasing the fan RPM
-if you're sitting facing a bright light source (like the sun), light will shine through the apple logo on the back of the display putting an apple-shaped brightspot right in the middle of the screen.
My list of dislikes is longer than the list of likes, but I really do love my rMBP for my use case. I may upgrade to a 15 if I like the new Macbooks when Apple finally releases them.
>asus x502c
>i got it for free after fixing it for a friend
>keyboard, monitor, build quality, but hey free = good right
>i3 3217u, 4gb soldered ram, 720p screen
>$0
wow it's in such a nice condition. where did you get it?
Neat, Sup Forums really needs to open their minds for laptops other than thinkpads.
>Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13
>Runs pretty much every game on my Steam library, also screen turns 360 degrees and can be used as a tablet.
>Touchpad sucks. Sometimes it just flat out stops working, but it's rare.
>i7 3537U, 8GB RAM, 360GB SSD, HD 4000 graphics, 1600x900 resolution
>$370 give or take
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Used Business laptop.
If you want new, the Asus EA200 is the best for under £200, there's no upgradable RAM or SSD but the battery life is insane.
13 hours battery life
microSD card slot for extra storage
11" 1366x768 display
Intel Atom x5-Z8300 with 2GB RAM
Decent graphics with hardware decode for almost every video codec under the sun.
Can anyone recommend a good laptop for mainly internet browsing in bed?
>I don't give a shit about battery life since I'll always be plugged in
>I don't give a shit about performance since all I ever do is browse the web
>I need a backlit keyboard for late night posting
>Needs a decent 15'' or larger screen (at least FHD)
>Lightweight is preferred, but cool running is a must as it's normally sitting on me or on covers which block fans and trap heat
Basically I want a cool and quiet laptop with a backlit keyboard, and a good screen and speakers that sacrifices performance and battery life to get that in as inexpensive a format possible.
My current laptop is a HP envy dv6-7214nr and it's really hot and it's got so much flex that I've broken the screen just by picking the laptop up by the corner with one hand while it was closed, and I've jammed the fan by picking it up with one hand while open. It has the zero battery life thing down, but it's heavy as shit so I think I need something else.
Ideally I would just get a super light screen + keyboard that's in laptop form but has no guts and just connect it to my desktop computer with an HDMI cable but that product doesn't exist from what I can see.
I think lot of the new and relatively cheap laptops fill your criteria.
It's in the last couple of years that FHD displays and backlit keyboards became standard on cheaper laptops.
Look up notebookcheck for reviews.
Do you know if that thing will play Civ V?
Never played it, but I'm sure it can.
>Asus EA200
Thanks I'll look into that Asus.
I had another Asus as a main choice because it had 2.5" slot and upgradeable ram with 8h+ battery.
A 15" Chromebook with 1080p display?
Oops, it's actually called the Asus E200HA.
>tfw you spend hours of frustration researching some shit so you can get something functioning properly.. then it turns out you've been looking in the wrong direction the entire time and then you solve the problem in 5 seconds with a tiny modifcation
is this how you lern Lunux
> Model
Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga 11e
>What you like about your laptop
Touchscreen, Keyboard, battery life, the 2Amp USB port, it's durability, the Ethernet port.
> What you hate about it
HDD is slow, CPU is constantly at 50% when doing nothing, the shitty 1366*768 screen, the massive bezels, the home button, power button location, the god awful track pad, the annoying as fuck wifi connectivity LED, too few USB ports.
> Specs
Intel Celeron (1core, hyperthreaded) @2.5GHz
4gb RAM (expandable)
500gb HDD
1366*768 11.6" display
HID touchscreen
Dual boot: Netrunner Ubuntu / Windows 10
> How much you paid
350 USD
>bonus points for picture
What's the best way to use laptop batteries?
E.g. should I charge to full and take out the charger and let it go to 10% or so every time and repeat?
> Model
Thinkpad x200
> What you like about your laptop
It is free as in freedom after I flashed Libreboot
It does everything I need a laptop for
I can replace the battery without taking it apart, unlike many modern laptops. I keep a fully charged battery in my backpack just in case.
> What you hate about it
If I could upgrade the screen resolution I would
> Specs
user@thinkpad
OS: Trisquel 7.0 belenos
Kernel: x86_64 Linux 3.13.0-39-lowlatency
Packages: 1999
Shell: bash 4.3.11
CPU: Intel Core2 Duo CPU P8600 @ 2.4GHz
RAM: 356MiB / 7948MiB
Resolution: 1280x800
> How much you paid
I got it for $35 at my university's surplus store, I added a 128GB SSD, and used an 8GB ram kit I already had.
>wish there was an official method of expanding
You can swap the disk.
>-by default CPU will heat up and throttle before increasing the fan RPM
That's not normal. It will get hot, but it won't throttle.
insert them up your ass once depleted
It will throttle if the fan doesn't speed up in time.
Loading up a game will make the CPU hit 100ºC in less than 10 seconds.
I got an Acer 720 it's fantastic. Less than £200 new
8hr battery, ssd, light, currently running GalliomOS with 0 problems
Clean out your computer.
Cleaning doesn't do shit because the heatsink is paper thin and tiny. About 0.3mm thick.
The only way for it to not throttle is to turn the fan up to max speed before running a game.
Dell D630
$100 refurbished
>likes
Easy to disassemble and replacement parts are cheap.
I replaced the HDD with an ssd and its really fast.
>dislikes
Its kinda heavy which
resting it on your lap uncomfortable for anymore than 5 minutes.
The screen is not very bright and the colors dont look great.
>touchpad is desu
????
Touch pad is what desu?
>Lenovo ThinkPad T520
>If I have to pick up one thing, it never gets hot. It barely even gets warm to the touch under full load.
>I don't know. There's nothing about it that stands out to me as something I hate.
>i5 2430M 3GHz, 6 GB RAM, 500 GB 7200rpm HGST HDD, Intel HD 3000 graphics, 1600x900 display, 9-cell battery around 70% capacity - gets about 6 hours of shitposting on Chinese sweatshop forums and writing poocode
>300 USD, sadly not as cheap here in Denmark as the American market is
Something is wrong with your shit, then, mine doesn't do that.
this is my old ass Lenovo y570, definitely not a macbook but it's the worst case of pitting I've ever personally seen.
>Lenovo
There's your problem.
Yeah, no complaints really, had it for 5 years, it's definitely taken a beating and it's replacement think pad is in the mail.
No, the problem would be the material used in both his case and the post he replied to.
>Razer Blade 14 (2016)
>>Macbook Pro 15
>>>Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro
>gaymes and 4k porn playing capabilities at 60fps.
>>work laptop, good for webdev bullshit that I need to do.
>>>my linux laptop good for learning l33t skillz.
>gets hot af
>>too much apple login bullshit
>k screen, gpu/cpu not powerful enough to play 4k video fml.
>core i7 quad core with 970m(6gb) and 16gb ram, 4k screen
>>core i7quad core, 16gb ram, retina
>>>core i7 dual core, 8gb ram, 4k screen
>$2100
$
>$ got it free from school for my research, I kept it.
I still have mine with upgraded SSD to 512GB and RAM to 8gb. I used rocked it all the time and it was amazing. I put it in storage and took out the SSD for my desktop. The keyboard IS AMAZING. When I lent my laptop in class to a qt3.14 she complimented the keyboard ;)
>the problem would be the material
You mean aluminum?
Suggest a better material, then.
Plastic.
Anyone else get an order acceptance email for their £1 ZBooks today? Still don't know if they'll actually ship
proprietary SSD's desu
desune~
> Asus ROG G73JW
> Even though it's aged, it's fairly powerful
> Touchpad is currently broken, and webcam is shit tier
> i7 2630QM, GTX 460M, 8GB DDR3 RAM, 120GB SSD, 500GB 7200RPM HDD
> $250 (bought it used for my grillfriend, but she never uses it kek)
MSI Ge62 Apache
15.6" Ips 1920x1080p Display, i7-5700hq, GTX 970m with 3gb Vram, 16gb DDR3 ram, 128gb ssd, 1 TB hdd at 7200.
What I love most is probably the keyboard, very good spacing and travel. Really pleasing to type on.
Paid 1200$ for it.
Only thing I probably don't like about it is its loaded with more things that I don't need. Some MSI bloatware thay was ok to get rid of what I didn't want and the stupid Norton crap, cd drive but I suppose it's nice to have I guess. While it has nice speakers the placement on the front basically shunts it down to the desk when used on a raised stand.
I actually just went down in size from 17.3 to 15.6 so I could have something portable for school.
Not him but he probably has the old model because the new ones do not have that coil whine problem or TouchPad two finger scroll problem (was a software problem with chrome I think)
> Model
Lemote Yeeloong 8089B
> What you like about your laptop
It is cute.
> What you hate about it
No dedicated middle-click button.
> Specs
800 MHz single core little-endian 64-bit MIPS Lemote Loongson 2F CPU
1 GB RAM
SiliconMotion graphics
320 GB hard drive
1024x600 display
Runs OpenBSD and gNewSense
> How much you paid
£60
Model:
Asus UX305FA
Like:
Fanless
8GB ram
Aluminum unibody chassis
Don't like:
Nothing, really
Specs:
Core m broadwell
FHD display
Price:
$700 I think? Don't remember. $600-$800
>Memepad X250
>size, ports, serviceability
>build quality is shit, the screen is meh, battery life is sub-par with the regular battery and Linux
>full HD screen, whatever i5 they put in it, 180 GB SSD, 8 GB RAM
>can't remember, it was extremely overpriced for the specs though
Not going with Lenovo next time, that's for sure.
>tfw no high quality, powerful MIPS laptop
I have the newest one - the 9350 (see the processor I listed in my original post).
Go on r/dell and you will see that the coil whine and touchpad are still issues. Just a roll of the dice if you have them or not, some don't. I bought mine a few weeks ago so it's still happening obviously.
As for the wifi, it comes with broadcom wifi that many choose to replace with an intel one for $20 or so. Personally I haven't had an issue with it as of now, so I probably won't replace it if I don't have to.
I want one.
Is there a name for these sorts of tiny laptops?
en.wikipedia.org
After some research, it looks like the only way to get a Lemote Yeeloong currently is from AliExpress: m.aliexpress.com