Re: Durable Laptops with little or no junk added by their manufacturer?
Re: Durable Laptops with little or no junk added by their manufacturer? HiSo finding a laptop with exactly the things you want for under 1100 was pretty damn hard and so far I only have 1 laptop, but I think youll like it!It has a 256GB SSD, which was the absolute best I could do at this price, 8GB of fast flash based RAM, 4 USB 3 ports, 1 that supports sleep and charge for external devices, a VGA port for older displays, a display port for newer ones, a 720P webcam and dual microphones, a quad core 2.5ghz AMD CPU with a good graphics card that will take some of the load off the slightly underpowered but perfectly adiquit processor, which can also clock up and down as needed, along with the GPU, a DVD reader and writer, a finger print reader that can be turned off and on as needed for security, an aluminum housing thats 13.4 inches wide, 9.3 inches front to back and 1 inch tall when the laptop is closed, with a weight of 4.4 pounds, a 14 inch screen that can go into wide screen mode, a dual band wireless card with the latest version of Bluetooth, a battery that gets 5 to 6 hours while running with wireless on, and 9 to 10 doing nothing or close to nothing with wireless off, a running volume of abetween 34 and 36 DBA when idle, 37.5 to 38.5 when under a medium work load, and 40 to 41.5 when under a heavy work load, 30 DBA is considered to be silent, 40 DBA is considered to be audible, and 50 DBA is considered to be loud. It also has a docking connector encase you want to buy a dock to add more connectivity later on in a desktop type setup.Specs were hard to track down for this laptop, so I dont know for sure if it has an SD Card reader unfortunately, but I think not, that kinda sucks, but at least you have plenty of ports for an external reader if you wanted one, also not sure if it has a number pad, its sorta a half and half thing, 13.4 inches makes me think not, yet its also a business laptop, so no telling.Its got a 3 year limited parts and labor warranty, and because its one thousand 19 dollars, you have a bit extra to buy a warranty, some of which are offered on the page, from good companies.Its an HP ProBook that doesnt have too much software preloaded, and whats there actually does seem quite useful, its running windows 7 professional 64 bit, and comes with a windows 8 professional license, so that if you werent getting the performance you wanted, which I doubt will happen since it seems pretty solid, then you could back up your stuff, go to win 8, upgrade to win 8.1 and run it in desktop mode, which basically acts just like win 7, which will give you a bit of a performance boost if you need it. I think you will like it.Heres the link to the page.http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … -_-Product URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=182249#p182249 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Durable Laptops with little or no junk added by their manufacturer?
Re: Durable Laptops with little or no junk added by their manufacturer? HiSo finding a laptop with exactly the things you want for under 1100 was pretty damn hard and so far I only have 1 laptop, but I think youll like it!It has a 256GB SSD, which was the absolute best I could do at this price, 8GB of fast flash based RAM, 4 USB 3 ports, 1 that supports sleep and charge for external devices, a VGA port for older displays, a display port for newer ones, a 720P webcam and dual microphones, a quad core 2.5ghz AMD CPU with a good graphics card that will take some of the load off the slightly underpowered but perfectly adiquit processor, which can also clock up and down as needed, along with the GPU, a DVD reader and writer, a finger print reader that can be turned off and on as needed for security, an aluminum housing thats 13.4 inches wide, 9.3 inches front to back and 1 inch tall when the laptop is closed, with a weight of 4.4 pounds, a 14 inch screen that can go into wide screen mode, a dual band wireless card with the latest version of Bluetooth, a battery that gets 5 to 6 hours while running with wireless on, and 9 to 10 doing nothing or close to nothing with wireless off, a running volume of abetween 34 and 36 DBA when idle, 37.5 to 38.5 when under a medium work load, and 40 to 41.5 when under a heavy work load, 30 DBA is considered to be silent, 40 DBA is considered to be audible, and 50 DBA is considered to be loud. It also has a docking connector encase you want to buy a dock to add more connectivity later on in a desktop type setup.Specs were hard to track down for this laptop, so I dont know for sure if it has an SD Card reader unfortunately, but I think not, that kinda sucks, but at least you have plenty of ports for an external reader if you wanted one, also not sure if it has a number pad, its sorta a half and half thing, 13.4 inches makes me think not, yet its also a business laptop, so no telling.Its got a 3 year limited parts and labor warranty, and because its one thousand 19 dollars, you have a bit extra to buy a more inclusive warranty if you want one, some of which are offered on the page, from good companies.Its an HP ProBook that doesnt have too much software preloaded, and whats there actually does seem quite useful, its running windows 7 professional 64 bit, and comes with a windows 8 professional license, so that if you werent getting the performance you wanted, which I doubt will happen since it seems pretty solid, then you could back up your stuff, go to win 8, upgrade to win 8.1 and run it in desktop mode, which basically acts just like win 7, which will give you a bit of a performance boost if you need it. I think you will like it.Heres the link to the page on New Egg, the laptop ships free and has a 30 day refund or replace policy.http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … -_-Product URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=182249#p182249 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Durable Laptops with little or no junk added by their manufacturer?
Re: Durable Laptops with little or no junk added by their manufacturer? HiSo finding a laptop with exactly the things you want for under 1100 was pretty damn hard and so far I only have 1 laptop, but I think youll like it!It has a 256GB SSD, which was the absolute best I could do at this price, 8GB of fast flash based RAM, 4 USB 3 ports, 1 that supports sleep and charge for external devices, a VGA port for older displays, a display port for newer ones, a 720P webcam and dual microphones, a quad core 2.5ghz AMD CPU with a good graphics card that will take some of the load off the slightly underpowered but perfectly adiquit processor, which can also clock up and down as needed, along with the GPU, a DVD reader and writer, a finger print reader that can be turned off and on as needed for security, an aluminum housing thats 13.4 inches wide, 9.3 inches front to back and 1 inch tall when the laptop is closed, with a 14 inch screen that can go into wide screen mode, a dual band wireless card with the latest version of Bluetooth, a battery that gets 5 to 6 hours while running with wireless on, and 9 to 10 while idle, and a docking connector.Specs were hard to track down for this laptop, so I dont know for sure if it has an SD Card reader unfortunately, but I think not, that kinda sucks, but at least you have plenty of ports for an external reader if you wanted one.Its got a 3 year limited parts and labor warranty, and because its one thousand 19 dollars, you have a bit extra to buy a warranty, some of which are offered on the page, from good companies.Its an HP ProBook that doesnt have too much software preloaded, and whats there actually does seem quite useful, its running windows 7 professional 64 bit, and comes with a windows 8 professional license, so that if you werent getting the performance you wanted, which I doubt will happen since it seems pretty solid, then you could back up your stuff, go to win 8, upgrade to win 8.1 and run it in desktop mode, which basically acts just like win 7, which will give you a bit of a performance boost if you need it. I think you will like it.Heres the link to the page.http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a … -_-Product URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=182249#p182249 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Durable Laptops with little or no junk added by their manufacturer? [[wow]], I wish I had a talent looking for computers, I only have a talent in crashing them... Ive never gotten malwair before (Just ran Microsoft security today for the first time this year and nothing...)I just manage to ebliterate my windows OS and whatnot...But an expected computer life for me is between 3-4 years of hard use and this computer is going on 3.I think we will be going with the dell, but I really wanted a larger SD. Here are what my requirements:1. It must have an ssd and be quiet and fast. I would like it if the whole thing was an ssd.2. min 300 gb hard drive3. min 4 gb ram4. min 3 usb ports5. most importantly, it must be very durable, either with a super good warranty (the dell that Im looking at has a 3 year total coverage, dropping, shattering the whole thing, it is all covered), or it is built like a beast.what I would like:1. long battery2. not very heavy3. sd card slot buil t in4. has a built in mic and webcam5. has a numpad built inIf you can find me something, it would be worth returning the computer if what you find is significantly better.Im not willing to go over $1100 unless there is a really really good reason to. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=181858#p181858 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Durable Laptops with little or no junk added by their manufacturer? HiThe most I can probably do is a 256GB SSD, everything else doesnt look too hard, 1100 is tight, but not impossible, Ill start looking, though I dont want you to have to return your computer if you dont have too, you still got a pretty damn good deal, Id probably list Dell as 4th on my list of the top tear manufacturers, maybe 5th though, on all around specs, customer service internal quality, etc, but externally they are quite strong, and they do have nice warranties.If I can find something better though, then its up to you weather you think its worth it to trade it in. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=181973#p181973 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Durable Laptops with little or no junk added by their manufacturer? Does anyone know what the advantage of having something like a 32 gig ssd and a 500 gb disk drive together is? Isnt it like having an sd card in there? Why couldnt you just put an sd card in there?Im looking at:Dell XPS 15 15.6-inch Laptop (Intel Core i5-3230M Processor, 6GB DDR3 Memory, 500GB Hard Drive + 32GB mSATA SSD, 1GB NVIDIA GT 630M, Bluetooth, Genuine Windows 7 Home 64-bit)The lenovos didnt have a very good warranty and only had 2 usb ports which I cant use, I frequently have 3 usb ports at once connected to my computer... I think the dell also has a built-in sd card reader. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=181768#p181768 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Durable Laptops with little or no junk added by their manufacturer? HiSorry I didnt post before, but, the computer has a 32GB SSD and a 500GB HDD because if you remember hard drives have a cash, where instructions, file locations, etc are stored the larger the cash the more info the drive can store, which means it can access all those things faster because it knows more, which is especially useful with larger drives with allot of stuff, but really for any drive.The SSD part is because, even though that tiny 32GB drive is used as cash, which is way bigger than the average of 64MB, that also means its slower to look through it all, its like having a library, and a database that gives you allot of info on each book, description, ISBN numbers, author, other books by the same author, where exactly the file is, etc, rather than just a tag system where its just the book, author, and where it is, so its way harder to look through it all even though it really helps in the long run because more info is stored and updated, and more of it for each file.Thats why its using an SSD because SSDs are so much faster, it also loads windows from the SSD since its not one of the small 8 or 16gb drives that most hybrid hard drives use, so its got room for that, as well as what ever programs and files you were working on when you put the computer to sleep or hybernate.This type of drive as I said is called a hybrid hard drive, and it exists because of the cost of SSDs which is still very high compared to standard spinning hard drives, so they store all the stuff you dont use as much on the big slower drive, and windows and the programs and files that you work on most on the smaller super fast drive.Its the best your gonna get out of getting an SSD only, which isnt easy to do for under 1000 dollars, plus this way you get a much bigger hard drive than you would for even that price, and they are still pr obably even using a 7200RPM drive if its 500GBfor the bigger part of the drive, so even that is a performance boost over most laptops.If you want me to find you a new laptop for the best price it can be thats got all the things you want as well, Id be happy to do it, Ive done it for several friends and its one of my favorite pass times as weird as it sounds. I just finished my twenty first successful electronics related deal, which also happened to be my ninth computer related deal, I love finding other stuff too but computers are my favorite and based on how everyone has been very happy with what they got so far, Im not bad at it, and I may even think about getting into a career that has to do with that kind of thing.The computer you found looks nice but I dont know how expensive it is, and dell isnt bad, but its not great either, so if you want me to help, than just post or PM me and tell me the price you can pay at most, the price you actually want to pay, above nothing of course, all the stuff you will be using it for, what specs you want if you have any requests, and what country you live in so I can pick the right shipping, as well as the city if you want me to find something local, which I dont mind doing.You could also email me at superfr...@gmail.com Skype me under the name Jondalar Sekhon the one from Canada, or follow @superfreq2 on twitter.After that you can just sit back and let me do the rest, Ill probably narrow the list down and then send you the final 2 or 3 with explainations of each ones strengths and weaknesses so that you can pick between them. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=181833#p181833 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Durable Laptops with little or no junk added by their manufacturer?
Re: Durable Laptops with little or no junk added by their manufacturer? HiSorry I didnt post before, but, the computer has a 32GB SSD and a 500GB HDD because if you remember hard drives have a cash, where instructions, file locations, etc are stored the larger the cash the more info the drive can store, which means it can access all those things faster because it knows more, which is especially useful with larger drives with allot of stuff, but really for any drive.The SSD part is because, even though that tiny 32GB drive is used as cash, which is way bigger than the average of 64MB, that also means its slower to look through it all, its like having a library, and a database that gives you allot of info on each book, description, ISBN numbers, author, other books by the same author, where exactly the file is, etc, rather than just a tag system where its just the book, author, and where it is, so its way harder to look through it all even though it really helps in the long run because more info is stored and updated, and more of it for each file.Thats why its using an SSD because SSDs are so much faster, it also loads windows from the SSD since its not one of the small 8 or 16gb drives that most hybrid hard drives use, so its got room for that, as well as what ever programs and files you were working on when you put the computer to sleep or hybernate.This type of drive as I said is called a hybrid hard drive, and it exists because of the cost of SSDs which is still very high compared to standard spinning hard drives, so they store all the stuff you dont use as much on the big slower drive, and windows and the programs and files that you work on most on the smaller super fast drive.Its the best your gonna get other than by getting an SSD only, which isnt easy to do for under 1000 dollars, plus this way you get a much bigger hard drive than you would for even that price, and they are s till probably even using a 7200RPM drive if its 500GB for the bigger part of the drive, so even that is a performance boost over most laptops.If you want me to find you a new laptop for the best price it can be thats got all the things you want as well, Id be happy to do it, Ive done it for several friends and its one of my favorite pass times as weird as it sounds. I just finished my twenty first successful electronics related deal, which also happened to be my ninth computer related deal, I love finding other stuff too but computers are my favorite and based on how everyone has been very happy with what they got so far, Im not bad at it, and I may even think about getting into a career that has to do with that kind of thing.The computer you found looks nice but I dont know how expensive it is, and dell isnt bad, but its not great either, so if you want me to help, than just post or PM me and tell me th e price you can pay at most, the price you actually want to pay, above nothing of course, all the stuff you will be using it for, what specs you want if you have any requests, and what country you live in so I can pick the right shipping, as well as the city if you want me to find something local, which I dont mind doing.You could also email me at superfr...@gmail.com Skype me under the name Jondalar Sekhon the one from Canada, or follow @superfreq2 on twitter.After that you can just sit back and let me do the rest, Ill probably narrow the list down and then send you the final 2 or 3 with explainations of each ones strengths and weaknesses so that you can pick between them. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=181833#p181833 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Durable Laptops with little or no junk added by their manufacturer? No, not necessarily. The talking windows preinstallation environment is loaded into memory, like a regular version of windows, hence why it can take about 4 or so minutes to load. Its basically loading a cut-down version of windows off a cd. This is so that once the thing loads, and you hear speech, you can remove the disk and insert another windows installation disk like vista, 8, xp, longhorn etc, but only 32 bit. So, for example, if you wanted to try windows 8, and you had a 64 bit machine, you couldnt because the thing only lets you install 32 bit versions of it. Youd need to create a 32 bit vm. As for winstaller, I requested a trial version of that thing from levtec, and havent gotten an email back. Plus, its kind of expensive for what you get, a program that helps you make custom windows installation disks that talk, but why shouldnt it be free? I mean, free for the consumer, and a pro version for businesses that would unlock the functiona lity of being able to make a disk that installs over a network. But the program itself doesnt contain any product keys, so wondering why it has to be around 50 bucks? I know, it makes slip-streaming audio drivers and such accessible, but for the experimental people like me it wouldnt work on windows longhorn and whistler to slip-stream my logitech g930 bluetooth headset drivers. Is there a free accessible way to slip-stream audio drivers into any image? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=179627#p179627 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Durable Laptops with little or no junk added by their manufacturer? The reason why the talking WinPE only installs Windows 7 64bit is that its the only file on the disk.However, it should be possible to replace the images, but I havent had time to go there.BTW, have any of you any experience with Levtecs Core Recovery and Winstaller? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=179569#p179569 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Durable Laptops with little or no junk added by their manufacturer? hi,doesnt the talking pe have a 32 bit limitation? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=179348#p179348 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Durable Laptops with little or no junk added by their manufacturer? It does. It can install windows 7 64 bit, but not any other 64 bit edition. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=179362#p179362 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Durable Laptops with little or no junk added by their manufacturer? hi,im getting a windows 8.1 laptop from toshibais there a talking installer for windows 8.1 or am I better off using refresh and reset URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=179221#p179221 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Durable Laptops with little or no junk added by their manufacturer? 8.1 can be installed using the windows 7 PE. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=179237#p179237 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Durable Laptops with little or no junk added by their manufacturer? Lach doesnt matter, as long as it doesnt break!talking windows preinstallation megadisk, where do I get that?thanks,URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=178828#p178828 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Durable Laptops with little or no junk added by their manufacturer? Yeah, dont go with Del. Theyre even worse with the bloatware than HP is, and thats saying something. Plus, Ive had really bad luck with their computers breaking, having serious video card issues, etc. Having said that, my friend had a Del laptop for about 3 years, and it was a good computer. But, like you, he was really hard on it, and it pretty much literally ended up falling apart in places. I dont mean to come down on you, but you really should try to be more careful with your computers. It cant be fun to pay a whole bunch of money for repairs every few months. Plus, once one thing breaks in a laptop, usually other things do too, in short order.If you want nothing else preinstalled, your best bet would be to get a custom build, but A. youll probably end up paying an arm and a leg for it, and B. its hard to find that with laptops anyway. Custom builds are usually only for desktops.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=178834#p178834 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Durable Laptops with little or no junk added by their manufacturer? hi. I have a dell inspiron n5010 and I am so happy about it. Ive got the laptop for about 4 years now and I never took it for repair. I even dropped the laptop on a solid surface. the only thing that happened is that the plastic that surrounds the screen broke, but I was able to buy a new one and it was about 30 euro. Ive bought the laptop without windows so I had no bloat on it. Im not exactly the kind of person that takes care of their laptop, I keep it on my bed all the time and usually bump it into things. the bad thing about this laptop is that the battery life is very low, but you can buy an improved battery that will hold for about 6 hours. the system configuration is fairly good, 4 gb of ram, hd 500 gb and the processor is an i5 of 2.6 ghz.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=178844#p178844 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Durable Laptops with little or no junk added by their manufacturer? I just think it says a lot that Doze users still, as a matter of course, expect their computers to be delivered packed with crap nobody actually wants to use. I mean, why? You can of course buy computers made by various vendors with clean installs, usually with a choice of components, or buy what Microsoft calls Signature PCs, but by and large the vendors expect to subsidise your purchase with bloatware, presumably figuring that it is easier to ask forgiveness than not to commit sin.Solution: buy a Mac. Other, less cool solution: buy from a builder. PC Specialist is in the UK.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=178847#p178847 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Durable Laptops with little or no junk added by their manufacturer? Ha. sebby beat me to it. I was going to recommend PC specialist also. Ive performed upgrades and repairs on 4 of these machines so far and they have all been built extremely well. and.. I see they are doing custom laptops! Ive got no idea what they are using for the laptops inclosure though.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=178853#p178853 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: Durable Laptops with little or no junk added by their manufacturer? My experience of most White-label laptops has sadly been mostly negative. I like to think the situation has got better, but it always seems to come down to industry perks keeping the form factor of these things non-generic and proprietary, presumably to keep with the latest trends, or to copy Apple. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=178854#p178854 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Durable Laptops with little or no junk added by their manufacturer?
Re: Durable Laptops with little or no junk added by their manufacturer? Lenovo IdeaPads are good, a friend of mine had one (cant remember the exact model) and theyre very well built, if a bit pricy. It came with vista home premium 64-bit and had a bit of bloatware but was manageable; I eventually clean installed Windows 7. I currently have a Dell Inspiron 1545 as my primary laptop, and in the year and a half or so Ive had it its been through so much its not even funny. Long story short, the lid is gone with just the hinges where it used to be, the hard drive failed and was replaced, its missing several keys, and its been dropped so many times that the CD drive pops in and out. All that aside though the thing still works great, and I use it all the time. The only real issue I have with it is that the function keys act like multimedia keys unless you hold down FN. Theres a utility to change the setting, but I dont feel like hunting it down any time soon, assuming its still on the Dell website. The model is a bit older (2.0 dual-core intel pentium, 4GB ram, 250GB hdd) but if you cant afford anything too expensive and happen to find a used one for cheap, you should be fine for quite a while. It had quite a bit of company bloatware, and I now reinstall Windows on any new computer, because its not worth trying to uninstall all of it only to have bits and pieces that the uninstallers miss all over. Ive had some bad experiences with Dell in the past as well, but this ones obviously an exception. I also have a Toshiba Satellite m105 as a backup that I got secondhand, that particular model is very old but Ive heard that most toshiba Satellite models are nearly indestructable; indeed before I got this one itd been dropped several times, Ive had it since 2010 and its still running fine with both Windows 8.1 and archlinux. The thing originally came with XP though, and there was so much junk on there that it took upwards of 5 minutes to be fully loaded, compared with Windows 8.1s minute or so. The stupid Macafee scanner trial constantly got in your face, and there were some inaccessible programs like power saver which overrode the default Windows control panel applets. Im not sure if the same is true for later models, but its something to be aware of if youre looking at Toshibas. All the HPs Ive dealt with have actually been pretty tough, one desktop lasting almost 8 years under pretty heavy use and not too favorable conditions, but as said previously theyre very heavy on the bloatware.HTHURL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=178855#p178855 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: Durable Laptops with little or no junk added by their manufacturer?
Re: Durable Laptops with little or no junk added by their manufacturer? what I would do is get any laptop and then as soon as you get it, reinstall windows using the windows 7 megga ISO and then you should do good from there.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=178871#p178871 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
