What laptop do you use and how does it fair day to day

[P8baller07]

Sony Viao VGN-S460
2gb of ram

Ubuntu 8.04 with VMware Server running VMs of XP.

I use it all day at work and at school -it works great.

[WaterFlex]

I don`t have laptop

[MarlboroMan]

Asus A8M

CPU: Turion X2 TL-56 1.8Ghz
HD: 120Gb hitashi
Chipset: Nvidia NF4
GPU: 6150 GO 192MB dedicated and 64MB shared

Its a nice lappy and cheap... You can play UT2k4 at 1280x800 smooth...

now i changed my lappie

Asus F9Sg
CPU: Core 2 Duo T9300 2.5Ghz
RAM: 2Gb nanya (667 at 5-5-5-12)
HD: 160Gb
Chipset: 965M
GPU: 9300M G 256MB

Running Slackware 12.1, just a bit hacked by now. VMWare installed to run WinXP. And some occasional gaming.

[Bobsama]

Asus EeePC 900 12G XP

CPU: Celeron M-ULV 353 @ 630-900Mhz
RAM: 1GB A-Data? (200 at 3-3-3-9)
HDs: 4GB SSD for OS + 8GB SSD for storage
Chipset: i910GML
GPU: GMA900

Running WinXP. It works well--I've been trying some... creative... partitioning, so that Windows doesn't expand beyond about 75% of the C: drive. Current setup is 6GB storage partition (I've been considering weening it down to 4GB) plus 1.5GB (the rest of the drive) mapped to C:\Windows\Installer. Battery life is extraordinary--and screen brightness is good. I've used it a few times in airports. Most often, the chargers close to seats (at gates) are along the walls, so you almost always have a window behind you. For afternoon browsing (and picking up airport Wi-Fi), I just use eeectl to bring screen brightness up to 100%. The screen's a bit small and so is the keyboard, but it ends up being fine.

[Moneyless]

Dell Inspiron 1525

T2330 Merom 1.66GHz 1MB L2
2.5GB DDR2-667 (2GB Corsair Value + 512MB Quimoda)
Intel GMA X3100
Seagate Momentus 120GB 7200RPM
15.4" 1280x800 LCD
TSSTCorp 8X DVD±RW
"Street" Pattern
Ubuntu 8.04.1 Hardy

[Savuti]

Another one for a Dell XPS M1210 with T5600 and 7400 GO, with 6 cell for now.

It strikes a balance between portability, power and provides good mobility with its battery life. The more I use it with its 12" display the more I've grown to like it. While not approaching the portability of true ultra portables or netbooks weight wise, its relatively small foot print makes it easy to use in cramped spaces. More importantly it provides adequate processing and graphics acceleration power for a range of tasks, making it a decent desktop replacement should my main desktop goes out for extended periods of time or should I decide to forgo with it. This notebook handles modern games in the span of two or so years before the 7400 was introduced with ease.

The ironic thing is, before, I had thought of doing away with this notebook and replacing it with one of those newer netbooks. I'm glad that I didn't because if I ended up being without a main desktop I would not have been able to do with ULV ultraportables much less with netbooks the stuff that I could foresee doing with this notebook.

[Roliath]

In Sig?

It does very well for me, great keyboard response, gorgeous screen (lg wuxga), gaming performance isn't really that great i mean its good. but not crysis good.

For work use, its way more powerful than i'll ever need. But the screen real-estate makes working much easier.



Overall, its great for its age.

[jaredpace]

dell vostro 1400
t7100 @ 200 x 10 2Ghz
2gb ddrII 667mhz 5 5 4 10
8400mGS 600/800/1200
14.1" 1280 x 800 XGA
120gb 7200RPM

[KennyC]

Dell XPS M1730 - Smoke Grey
Intel Core 2 Duo T9500 (2.6GHz/800Mhz FSB, 6MB Cache)
4GB DDR2 667 Memory
2x200GB Seagate HDDs / 7200RPM / 16MB Cache / RAID 0
Dual 512mb NVIDIA SLi GeForce 8800GTX
Ageia PhysX 100M Processor
Blu-ray Disc Combo

I pulled an 11759 3DMark06 under XP SP3 and a 11529 under Vista Ultimate SP1 both 32bit with it with no O/Cing or tweaking what so ever. Loaded drivers and ran it. I got the laptop with a 3 year complete care warranty, spare AC Adapter and backpack bag for 3k delivered. I got it off of the dell outlet site. The only difference is it came with a 200GB single drive and I added the 2 seagates for RAID 0. For the money it is absolutely unbeatable. I considered Sager and Alienware but where are you going to get a laptop like this with that warranty for under 3k? I was worried about buying a refurb but after tons of research and of course the security of the 3 year warranty I grabbed it and man am I glad I did.


I suggest the www.delloutlet.com to anyone looking for a laptop.

[Th3MadScientist]

HP DV2120US
Slipstreamed Windows strictly for BitTorrent, does a great job.

[Jake_1]

Dell Inspiron 9400

Intel C2D T7200
2GB DDR2 Memory (Not sure of speed)
160Gb 5,400RPM 2.5"
ATi Radeon X1400, havent oc'd it yet

Runs brilliantly, nice 17" Screen.

Great for school work, Pshopping, and rendering in revit architecture.

Woop my first post

[slim142]

ASUS G1S-B1

2.4Ghz Core 2
2Gbs 667 5-5-5-15
8600M GT
Intel PM965
Bluetooth, Wireless N blah blah blah

Got 4010 in 3dmark06 last time I ran it on Vista 32bit with 169.09 I think. It now has Windows XP SP3 with 177.73 so the score should be decently higher

Really good laptop btw

[EneergE]

Currently, Dell Inspiron 5100:
- Desktop Pentium 4 CPU @ 2.66ghz
- 512MB RAM
- 32MB ATI Mobile 700 Video
- 15" 1024x768 Res
- Windows XP

Runs OKAY, but definitely out of date. It's been a very good laptop. The battery even still works up to an hour and a half! Only moderately used it on the battery, though. It remains hooked to the AC most of the time. The touchpad stopped responding once after I "banged" it a little bit, but was able to find a replacement palmrest with touchpad and now it looks like brand new laptop. However, it gets a little warm and my hands are sweating atm while I type on it.

I just ordered an ASUS G50V-A1:
- Intel Montevina T9400 @ 2.53ghz
- nVidia Geforce 9700
- 4Gb RAM
- Dual 250GB SATA hard drives w/ Hardware Raid Support
- Small OLED Display built-in that can run custom Linux applications (AFAIK)
- 15.4" 1680x1050 Display
- ASUS custom 8-second boot-up application to give access to webbrowsing and other small tasks.

I was either going to order this one or the ASUS M50VM-B2 which basically has the same specs, except a slightly weaker video card, no OLED display, and different aesthetics.