[elky] Re: OT: A little storm, part 2
- From: Chris Lindh <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 23:18:05 -0500
I think you made a fine choice. You can speed up boot times with a
solid state drive... they are unbelievably fast compared to mechanical
drives.
The only benefit to the new releases is with integrated GPUs, which
are never as good as a dedicated GPU, but they're supposed to be
improved. Thin & light laptops (3 pounds or less) usually have
integrated graphics unless you're willing to spend ~$1500, which is
too much for a laptop the size of a netbook (11" to 13" screens)... in
my opinion.
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Ray Buck <rbuck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yes, there's an I5 in it. So far I like it, but I'm having trouble getting
> used to the keyboard. The keys are very slick and not at all in the
> positions I'm used to, particularly the directional keys.
>
> But it's fast and the video is very good...although I haven't tried playing
> and DVDs on it. Well, I just did. I got a coupla instructional DVDs on lap
> steel guitar and I just watched part of one. First: The DVD drive is in
> the absolute worst place it could be for me. I'm left-moused (but
> right-handed...goes back to a bad case of tendonitis years ago) and the
> drive is at the very front left corner, opening to the left...right where my
> mouse pad is. And it takes forever to start up, but then the mainframe
> wasn't a hell of a lot faster, so I'll let it go on that. It makes real
> funny system sounds (even though I have system sounds turned off) when the
> DVD loads, but...well..whatever. The video quality is fine. Very nice.
> The sound quality is much better than one would expect in a laptop, but then
> that's one of the selling points.
>
> It has Windoze 7 Home on it, and I'm considering upgrading it to Pro if I
> can't get around some of the nanny things.
>
> For my use (mainly editing photos while on the road, although now I can use
> it to play DVDs if I ever get so bored that reading isn't an option) it
> should work extremely well. I haven't installed Paint Shop Pro/Photoshop or
> ACDSee nor Dreamweaver or Ace HTML (my preference) on it, but I'll get
> there. I may just have some time on my hands with this here storm
> a-stormin. Anyway, when I'm on the salt, I put the laptop on the armrest to
> my right and use the mouse on the seat in front of it. This will work very
> well, although the width may make use of the ten-key pad a little
> interesting, but I knew that going in.
>
> I would have held out for one of the newer devices, but timing was of the
> essence. I'm glad I found this one instead of some of the others I looked
> at.
>
> r
>
>
> On 11/20/2010 8:21 PM, Chris Lindh wrote:
>
> I spy an i5 processor in that laptop... how are you liking it so far? It
> should be a beast given the specs. Will you remote in to your main PC?
>
> I've been looking for a thin & light laptop so I can be more mobile. I'm
> holding out for the new CPU/GPUs coming in the new year, the new "Sandy
> Bridge" architecture is supposed to be a big step forward for integrated GPU
> laptops.
>
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