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Marcus420
Canada1923 Posts
Ill take this instead. | ||
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Sufficiency
Canada23833 Posts
On January 19 2011 08:43 Cel.erity wrote: lol, I can tell you from personal experience that no Vaio (or Sony product at all, for that matter, besides the PS3) is worth paying any amount of money for. Everything made by Sony is poor quality and breaks easily, and you need to pay enormous fees to get it fixed even if it's under warranty. Can't even imagine paying $4.7k for one. These $5k Toughbooks are pretty cool though. Supposedly they can withstand drops from 100 feet, and survive a full cycle through a residential dishwasher. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834150169 Seriously? The reason I am paying attention to VAIO is that my girlfriend has one. I've used it before - it seems really good. Very quite, very fast, and very cool. | ||
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Enervate
United States1769 Posts
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Ben...
Canada3485 Posts
On January 19 2011 07:00 Jago wrote: WTF? I have a desktop with a single Intel SSD (and not 2 faster ones in RAID) and my boot time is under 20 seconds. No kidding. I bought an SSD for the MacBook Pro I got for school (Not for games. I have a desktop for that) and it boots in 17 seconds. It may be a bit slower for Windows but not that much slower. Unless they just threw them in and didn't optimize boot time at all. | ||
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Sufficiency
Canada23833 Posts
On January 19 2011 10:37 Enervate wrote: If you're not getting the laptop for gaming but just want portability and an SSD, you should look at the Macbook Air. It's not as powerful as the Vaio Z but it's more portable and has instant-on capability. Most likely will not play SC2, though. That's actually a fantastic idea. Although I am somewhat skeptical of Apple's build quality. | ||
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Froadac
United States6733 Posts
On January 19 2011 05:32 Logo wrote: 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. Yeah. ALso would be great for LANS if you wanted to lug a monitor... So Weird. | ||
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hamy710
Australia160 Posts
http://www.originpc.com/ DROOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLL | ||
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kiendudu
Netherlands273 Posts
my parent is RICH plusssss it is a Vaio after all | ||
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Subversion
South Africa3627 Posts
My pretty standard laptop has a GT335M, which has double the shader count ^^ | ||
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imBLIND
United States2626 Posts
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Terrakin
United States1440 Posts
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hideo
Canada1641 Posts
On January 19 2011 09:40 Marcus420 wrote: Ill take this instead. hahaha... well done. edit: oh... just noticed that you forgot to include a processor. i7 2600k would bump it over $5000. | ||
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mizU
United States12125 Posts
You could get a similar Dell for maybe half the price. I'm confused. I was expecting like 12 GB of RAM, and like a octo core processor. | ||
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Pyrrhuloxia
United States6700 Posts
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catamorphist
United States297 Posts
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TypeFake
United States121 Posts
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mizU
United States12125 Posts
On January 19 2011 15:21 TypeFake wrote: Am I the only one that noticed IT HAS A FUCKING BIOMETRIC SYSTEM AS SECURITY?! And my laptop comes just a tad short for specs compared to the laptop the OP was talking about, and I got mine for about $800... -_- Lot's of laptops have fingerprint scanners. My brother's has one, he bought his Toshiba in... 2007. They're pretty easy too fool too, which would make me weary with my 4700 dollar laptop. | ||
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OpticalShot
Canada6330 Posts
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Sufficiency
Canada23833 Posts
On January 19 2011 15:21 TypeFake wrote: Am I the only one that noticed IT HAS A FUCKING BIOMETRIC SYSTEM AS SECURITY?! And my laptop comes just a tad short for specs compared to the laptop the OP was talking about, and I got mine for about $800... I am pretty sure that thing only allows you to scan your fingerprint as an alternative way to logging into your Windows 7 account. This may fool some of the general public, but I think everyone on the TL Tech Support knows that HDDs are easily replaced. | ||
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Deleted User 101379
4849 Posts
On January 19 2011 16:02 Sufficiency wrote: I am pretty sure that thing only allows you to scan your fingerprint as an alternative way to logging into your Windows 7 account. This may fool some of the general public, but I think everyone on the TL Tech Support knows that HDDs are easily replaced. My 2 year old notebook has a fingerprint sensor, too. It allows to secure the BIOS as well as Windows (and i guess Linux) with it, but i never use it. Makes it really problematic if i lend it to the boyfriend of my ex when he visits her or when someone visits me for a 2-person lan and doesn't want to bring his PC. My notebook is actually quite usable for gaming, though after 2 years it's getting a little old. For 1300 Euro i got a GeForce 9600, dual-core, 640GB HDD (no SSD), 4 GB RAM and 17" widescreen display, it even has a useable keyboard as opposed to most notebooks (especially the 13" type). Only disadvantage is that it weights a ton and gets quite hot. I would never buy a notebook - no matter how much power it has - with a small display, it's neither fun for work nor playing games. I especially hate most notebook keyboards of those small notebooks and i don't want to carry an external keyboard around all the time. | ||
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