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Recently I really want to get a new laptop. Not because my old one broke, however, the old one is just slow, noisy and heavy. So I was doing some research on it, then I saw this:
http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10551&storeId=10151&langId=-1&productId=8198552921666248867
$4699.99....... WWWWWHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTT????!!!!
Why is it so expensive, you may ask. Well, it's partially due to the fact that it has not one, but *two* 256gb SSDs likely in RAID configuration (I wonder how they manage to pack two of these inside of a 13" laptop). And it's awesome dedicated graphic card. And it's processor. And it's long battery life. And... everything that is in it. And the whooping 4.7k dollars cost.
I wonder if anyone is actually willing to buy it, and what happens when this thing is turned on (does it instantly turn into an oven considering it's small size and the power of its hardware?). But on another thought, it's probably still an awesome laptop to have.
Time to start looking for another job, I guess.
+ Show Spoiler +Since we are on laptops, does anyone know any other laptops that are equipped with an SSD (64 gb is more than sufficient for me) and does not cost an army and a leg (say below 1000 dollars)? Or should I just consider getting a laptop and an SSD separately? There are two reasons I don't want to buy them separately:
1. If I do that, then I will end up with an original HDD from the laptop which I have absolutely no use for;
2. The laptop's pre-packaged software (such as Windows 7) will not be on my separately-bought SSD.
The Sony VAIO z-series does have SSDs (which is how I discovered this 4.7k laptop... although there are cheaper variants), but it starts at 1800 dollars, which seems a bit too much for me for a laptop.
EDIT: there seems to be some sort of misunderstanding here (because it was originally intended as a blog). I don't want to buy a 4.7k laptop, nor do I intend to buy a gaming laptop. I got a gaming desktop which can run sc2 on 1080p ultra. What I am looking for is a work laptop with that is reasonably fast (this can be achieved by getting a reasonably OK processor and an SSD), *very low* fan noise, 13" screen (no netbooks; I don't trust those) and good mobility. I don't even care about the OS or sucky integrated graphic cards since I will be mostly using R, LaTeX, read pdf and email on ubuntu. I don't use photoshop, illustrator or anything like that sort, either.
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Omg that laptop is so sexy. That thing must be hotter than the sun unless they have some crazy cooling system. I am taking donations so that I can purchase this laptop in order to further my gaming career.
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On January 19 2011 05:10 darmousseh wrote:
Omg that laptop is so sexy. That thing must be hotter than the sun unless they have some crazy cooling system. I am taking donations so that I can purchase this laptop in order to further my gaming career.
With a 13" screen I don't think it's suitable for gaming. This ultra-portable laptop is for work, man.
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On January 19 2011 05:11 Sufficiency wrote:
This ultra-portable laptop is for work, man.
$3:
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On January 19 2011 05:11 Sufficiency wrote:Show nested quote +On January 19 2011 05:10 darmousseh wrote:
Omg that laptop is so sexy. That thing must be hotter than the sun unless they have some crazy cooling system. I am taking donations so that I can purchase this laptop in order to further my gaming career. With a 13" screen I don't think it's suitable for gaming. This ultra-portable laptop is for work, man.
4700 for a work computer? o.O
Just get like a $600 one and spend the rest on 3 high end gaming desktops!
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Why the hell would they put those components into a laptop with a 13" screen...
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Braavos36362 Posts
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Yeah, and once you put all those high performance in a tiny laptop you'll get 20 minutes of power and 6 months of life. (I've never seen a laptop live much over a year anyway)
Seems like the best deal ever.
Take 4000 off and you'll get a desktop that lives a few more years with a bigger screen and probably still more performance.
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He only wants to spend 1000 bucks, which is perfectly reasonable for a low end work laptop with a SSD. Honestly the SSD is going to eat up a large portion of your budget here though.
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The 2 SSD's are worth ~$1200 themselves and the screen is 1920x1080 which is nuts for a 13.1" screen (the macbook pro by comparison is 1280x800). Combine that with a 1GB dedicated graphics card and every bell and whistle possible for a laptop and $4.7k makes sense.
It seems like a laptop designed particularly well for programming 3d applications (or graphic intensive 2d applications), though some of the bells and whistles are excessive for that.
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On January 19 2011 05:32 VonLego wrote:
He only wants to spend 1000 bucks, which is perfectly reasonable for a low end work laptop with a SSD. Honestly the SSD is going to eat up a large portion of your budget here though.
The SSD's will be from 200-400$ for good ones. So work off that.
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On January 19 2011 05:38 GreEny K wrote:Show nested quote +On January 19 2011 05:32 VonLego wrote:
He only wants to spend 1000 bucks, which is perfectly reasonable for a low end work laptop with a SSD. Honestly the SSD is going to eat up a large portion of your budget here though. The SSD's will be from 200-400$ for good ones. So work off that.
I am pretty sure OCZ Vortex 2 is about $150 for 64gb. It's not that expensive.
On January 19 2011 05:32 VonLego wrote:
He only wants to spend 1000 bucks, which is perfectly reasonable for a low end work laptop with a SSD. Honestly the SSD is going to eat up a large portion of your budget here though.
I know I kind of have a fetish for SSDs. I think it's the best way to reduce noise (which I loathe) and make the computer faster without consuming more voltage. The concerns are, as I said, what to do with the laptop's original HDD once I replaced with SSD, and how to get the original HDD's prepackaged software (including the OS) onto the SSD.
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On January 19 2011 05:42 Sufficiency wrote:
I am pretty sure OCZ Vortex 2 is about $150 for 64gb. It's not that expensive.
The miniaturization needed to pack 2 of them in a tiny laptop makes the cost skyrocket.
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On January 19 2011 05:49 clone_ wrote:Show nested quote +On January 19 2011 05:42 Sufficiency wrote:
I am pretty sure OCZ Vortex 2 is about $150 for 64gb. It's not that expensive.
The miniaturization needed to pack 2 of them in a tiny laptop makes the cost skyrocket.
Oh? Are you saying a "typical" 13" laptop does not use 2.5" HDD?
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i'm pretty sure they were like
"lets get some decent comp parts and put them into one pretty nice case laptop"
"then we multiply the price by 2, sell it in america, and see how many fools we can get with this"
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On January 19 2011 05:31 HwangjaeTerran wrote:
Yeah, and once you put all those high performance in a tiny laptop you'll get 20 minutes of power and 6 months of life. (I've never seen a laptop live much over a year anyway)
Seems like the best deal ever.
Take 4000 off and you'll get a desktop that lives a few more years with a bigger screen and probably still more performance.
Looking at the specs, it says 6 hours of battery life on maximum brightness, or 9 hours on a special battery. Which is a lot.
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Austin10831 Posts
wtf, the 330M isn't even a top-level card, it's worse than a mobile 4650 and that processor isn't even a quadcore, it's more like an i5 than an i7 lol.
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aside from finding one of them big company having a low price model with an SSD (which i highly doubt, they'll put a good old sata drive on most 600$ laptops) you can look at custom laptop makers which you can configure to add an SSD and whatever else you see fit, taking their lowest model there, i was able to get a laptop with an i3 and a SSD for 850$... http://www.pro-star.com
I dont actually know this company just did a google search, im sure there are others as well.
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Like somebody said, 600 for work, 1 gaming PC, 1 Server, Way to go!
Definitely has some nice stuff in it until you start trying to play decent looking games on that 330M LOL!
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On January 19 2011 05:31 HwangjaeTerran wrote:
Yeah, and once you put all those high performance in a tiny laptop you'll get 20 minutes of power and 6 months of life. (I've never seen a laptop live much over a year anyway)
Seems like the best deal ever.
Take 4000 off and you'll get a desktop that lives a few more years with a bigger screen and probably still more performance.
If you even take a glance at the specs it's got more battery than most laptops on the market.
And for $700 you won't get 2 SSDs, 8GB RAM and an i7.
And if all your laptops don't make it to a year of life, you're doing something wrong.
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