[GLLUG] Laptop recommendations?

[Nathan Hartley]

Until recently, I had been in the market for a ultra-portable computer, a
long time. Besides the Lenovos, I had my eye on Zareason's (
http://zareason.com/shop/UltraLap-430.html). Eventually, I decided that I
could get away with an Android Tablet (Asus Transformer TF300). It was a
third cheaper than the ultrabooks I was looking at. There are apps that
will do most of what I need, when I'm out and about. But since I've bought
it, I have been disappointed at almost every turn. It is a giant phone,
without the usefulness of being able to call someone. Oddly enough, one of
my biggest complaints is the awkward copy-n-paste interface. Besides it
taking 10+ seconds to copy anything, if you try to copy more than a
sentence the selector starts jumping around on you.

Anyway... I just wanted to chime in to say, know what you are getting into
if you start getting tempted by the sexiness of the tablets.


On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 8:32 PM, Taylor Burke <jburke at liquidweb.com> wrote:

>  For a "power" machine I have my custom desktop and current laptop (Asus
> G74SX)- the laptop has an i7-2670QM and the desktop has an i7-3770k, so
> right now I'm not looking so much for "power" as I am portability since the
> laptop damn near weighs ten pounds, and one of the reasons I've been
> looking at Ultrabooks is because of how thin and lightweight they are. It's
> something I'd like to be able to cart around without feeling like I'm back
> in high school.
>
> - Taylor
>
> On 13-02-06 05:52 PM, Richard Houser wrote:
>
> I personally stick with the professional class laptops based on msi, asus,
> sager, etc.  It's a price premium, but money well spent if you spend a
> large amount of time on the machine or need a lot of horsepower.  Check out
> sites like powernotebooks.com, but read up on Optimus first.  The next
> closest tier is probably something like the Lenovo lines.  I need a real
> notebook, so can't speak much about the ultralights.
> On Feb 6, 2013 1:59 PM, "Clay Dowling" <clay at lazarusid.com> wrote:
>
>> On 02/06/2013 01:56 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote:
>>
>>> My work laptop is an ultrabook, a Dell XPS-13, running Fedora 18
>>> (x86_64).  There's finally a kernel in testing that'll support the
>>> multitouch trackpad, otherwise the system runs fine.  It's quite
>>> light, has a 256G SSD in it, integrated wireless and bluetooth.  The
>>> CPU is a Core i7-2637M, dual-core.  Display is 1366x768 (blah) but
>>> looks good.
>>>
>>> Ubuntu had support for it earlier, since they worked directly with
>>> Dell and the parts vendors to get drivers working.  The XPS-13 is the
>>> Linux "Developer Edition"
>>> (http://content.dell.com/us/en/gen/d/campaigns/xps-linux-laptop).
>>>
>>> I like it.  A lot of people just assume it's a MacBook Air, due to the
>>> way it looks.  It's nice to be able to buy a laptop and not pay the
>>> "Microsoft tax", although I suspect that you're not paying any less
>>> than the people buying it with MS preinstalled.
>>>
>>>  You're paying slightly more, or were when it first came out.  I
>> seriously considered it, because it was announced just slightly before I
>> purchased the Latitude.  And it wasn't my money, so I didn't care about the
>> extra $50, which still put it well below my budget.
>>
>> One thing to consider is how much memory the motherboard can handle.  I
>> bought my laptop because it could take 16GB of RAM.  That might seem
>> obscenely huge, but at times I will need to run several rather greedy
>> virtual machines on it.
>>
>> Clay
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