Laptop General Thread

why do they do this? every time a company releases a decent looking gaming laptop it sells like fucking hotcakes, like the razer blade mercury has been backordered for months, the dell g7 is insanely popular

but every other company has to strap racing stripes and leds everywhere just because

I found a refurbished laptop of that model for much cheaper:
amazon.com/dp/B07JGF4W5S/ref=psdc_13896615011_t1_B07FHZ8XHY
What is Jow Forums's thoughts on refurbished laptops?

Also I forgot to say thank you. I'm still unsure of whether I'll get this one or my original choice, but thanks regardless.

>Nitro 5 AN515-42
I'll hold my wallet until they release a non gaymur look laptop

What's the longest I should expect my laptop to last? I bought the cheapest laptop I could with a decent screen for 200 new and it's hasn't let me down at all. Plays back 1080p video, runs CAD (poorly mind you), plays games pre '10, etc. Fans and still blowing, hinge is still good and it's 5 months past warranty. (hpan013nr)

XPS series are the only acceptable laptops

few years, if you treat it good.

Any 6+ core laptop that won't throttle as soon as the GPU kicks in? Don't need a super powerful GPU, just want to stop being a corelet.

I recently bought the surface pro 6, but kind of regret my decision. Having to use windows bothers me much more than i thought it would.

Are there any good alternatives (with a GOOD pen/touch screen for taking notes) that has good linux support?

I bought my x1 carbon second hand from a pawnshop and it’s been running strong for just about 1 year now. I dunno if refurbished laptops replace the battery but that would be my primary concern desu

Depends on how you use it but i would expect anywhere between 3-5 years before the battery becomes worthless

Thinkpads

I'm a hardcore gamer. What laptop would fit my gaming needs the best? Gaming laptops preferred.

Why is my Lenovo Y50-70 handling Windows 10 so bad?

Should I just install another version of Windows instead?

Older ones are outdated trash, newer ones are generic thinshit garbage with the added bonus of even worse panels than the competition.

What do you need Windows for?

Ableton Live

Trust me Windows is the last thing I want to use

Budget?

If hardcore means competitive csgo you can get by with a msi 1060 build. The sticky actually has recommendations for this purpose

Good thing it has a replaceable battery

Help me fren, Need recomendation i7 + GTX 1060 laptop >$1700

I'm looking for a laptop that's very low spec except for the CPU. Is Acer Aspire a good choice? I plan to upgrade components as time goes on. HDD, RAM, maybe screen as well.

For anyone seriously considering a gaymen laptop you should know they are huge oxymorons. An i7-8700K alone consumes about 150W under load and a GTX 1070 about 150W under load. A 300W load on 99% of laptops is simply not possible not only because the 45-65W of effective cooling power can't keep up but because the power delivery on the motherboards is limited as well.

You're better off on an ITX desktop since you HAVE to be plugged into the AC outlet on a gaymen laptop anyway unless you want its already abysmal performance to tank to 80% more. Hades canyon NUCs are good prebuilt ITX desktops if you don't know how to build them.

I don't know if Acer Aspire is good for that choice specifically, but I know Acer Aspire laptops aren't as bad as some sell them to be. Mine's been running very solid for about 2.5 years now. Maybe some people don't know how to take care of their laptops. My only complaints are that Acer Aspire screens are glossy, not matte. IMO, if you make a laptop screen glossy, you're a retard. Laptops are probably what the Matte screen is best for. (Matte screens are more dull, but fair much better in sunlight)

basically this, you might as well build a proper desktop and have an ultra portal like SP6 or xps 13 as an edc

Did you really need to namefag to make that post?

Maybe use your laptop like a regular laptop when it's not plugged in . . . ?
The appeal of gaming laptops over desktop + shitty laptop, for me, is that I don't have to manage two different computers.

My only regret is that I didn't buy a keyboard cover.

You don't have to. That shitty laptop can remote into your itx desktop on the go if you need the extra processing juice.

Could someone help me out with this if they have the info.

Situation:
>Old laptop screen on my desk
>Need to know what the wires marked in the picture do
>Wish to modify it so I can connect it to a raspberry via HDMI

Question:
>How to make it so the screen has HDMI input?
>How to give it power?
>What are the wires marked with green? I assume one of them is for the camera.

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Hell you can use a fucking tablet + bluetooth mouse (maybe keyboard too). You essentially only need a stable 2-8Mbps internet connection and be able to decode 1080p H264 video to remote into your desktop.

>instead if carrying around an all in one device with mobility in mind you should really carry around a monitor, keyboard and mini desktop

how goddamn retarded are you people to say this every thread? the laptops aio form factor greatly outweighs its power drawbacks compared to a mini desktop build

people don't buy gaming laptops with the primary purpose of playing games, they buy them to be portable and have the option to play games

If you're buying a shitty laptop ($300 minimum) plus a mini ITX (no idea the actual price, let's just say $600), you might as well just buy a gaming laptop for all the money you're spending

Well it's going to fucking suck unless you bought a 20KG 27" """"laptop""""". You lose all portability when you are required to be plugged into AC because running a gaymen laptop on battery reduces performamce by at least 80% thus defeating the entire concept of portable gaymen altogether.

Also again, you can remote into your desktop. Hell if you have a really good internet connection on both sides you can even play vidya remotely.

And you'll get worse performance and even more inconvenience. Find me a gaymen laptop that can match a 2600X + 1660ti ITX performance.

have fun with your "portability" kek

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>Gaming
Acer nitro 5
>Portable everyday
Thinkpad x230, t430
>Desktop replace
Thinkpad t530, w530

>I suck dick
Macbook

There you go end thread.

Office work laptop. windows

With an apple quality retina display

suggestions please? Thank you. 1080 is just not good enough

Will an i5-5300U with 8GB RAM and an SSD be enough to run Windows 10 without lags for the next years?

>Find me a gaymen laptop that can match a 2600X + 1660ti ITX performance.
Acer Helios 500 perhaps? 2700 + Vega 56

It looks edgy, but it's not as bad when you see it IRL

You're not going to get full performance of that hardware, EVER. See vega 56 uses over 200 fucking watts on a desktop.

any workstation laptops
Buy used if you want savings
Dell precision series. m4800 has 3k screen for only 400 used.
HP dreamcolor are good too
Thinkpad p50

Does the Lenovo c930 have an expandable ssd??

Just wanted to add my two cents on laptops I've been using:

Asus q551ln :i7 5500u or whatever the lowest i7 of that gen was, gt840m, DVD drive, 15 in 2in1.

Had only one terrible fan for both cpu and GPU, one 4gb ram module soldered, DVD drive was barely used but eventually broke and when I went to take the fascia off to put it on a drive caddy, all the clips broke off, cpu was underpowered and I got suckered by thinking it was an i7, and even with this low power cpu the battery life was god awful

The 2in1 touchscreen feature is useless, it makes a terrible tablet or tent or whatever dumb configuration they say it can do, glossy screens are terrible and add extra weight but are easier to wipe off, the drivers to turn the keyboard off and flip the screen were terrible, the Asus touchpad drivers are awful and the scrolling stopped working every so often and only a reboot could fix it, the corner of the touchpad itself popped out, a key broke off within a month and the keys are terrible and plasticky and wobble. Two days before the warranty expired the charging circuitry stopped working and the laptop died quickly due to it's shit battery, Asus said I needed to send my hard drive in with the computer even though they were just changing the motherboard, and then about 3 years later the LCD screen died and took the controller with it, which would mean a whole new motherboard

At the same time I got that, I got pretty much the same laptop but with an i5, and no dvd drive for my parents. The keys and touchpad are better quality for whatever reason and don't wobble and seem to have better travel, the battery life is much better, but I don't use it that much and it pretty much moves between the dining room table and coffee table

To replace that I got a Lenovo y530 with just a hard drive and not an SSD, 8gb ram, 1050ti and i7 8350H or whatever it is
Got it for $750 dollars, first one had a cluster of dead pixels on the screen so I returned it, and instead of taking the time to research a better laptop I just got another. The hard drive or maybe the controller is dogshit and slow, the computer freezed when transferring files, one of the three USB 3.1 ports only operates at 10mb/s, the fans spin for no reason, battery life alternates between dogshit and respectable so I always carry the charger that's the size of a house brick, the plastic in front of the touchpad buttons creaks and bends and sometimes gets stuck under the buttons, the touchpad finish has already worn off in the middle, the palmrest of the laptop has a soft touch finish which is already disintegrating and I can't wait until it turns into a sticky mess, when the hard drive or USB is under a lot of load the wifi cuts out, the wifi cuts out sometimes for no reason and the network card disappears from device manager, once when this happened even an Ethernet connection never connected to the internet and stayed at limited, the hard drive is always spinning and seeking and is loud as fuck, the m.2 slot only supports pci-e drives and doesn't recognize sata ssds, sometimes the RAM usage gets stuck at 50%, there's no SD card reader which isn't a big deal

I have no idea if I should RMA this piece of shit or just take time and money to try different hard drives and network cards and install an SSD and reinstall Windows to make it tolerable

I don't even game anymore and my school just gave us access to online virtual machines to run any software that's in the labs so I'm really wishing I got some thin and light long battery life laptop

looking for something that will be used for programming and possible note taking. Will run some version of linux on it.

-quality keyboard
-good battery life

Need a cheap laptop (under $200) with a smart card reader for my wife to use for her military shit. Is a used latitude or thinkpad the way to go?

./+o+- bash@bash-Lenovo-ideapad-320-15IKB
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://+//////-yyyyyyo Kernel: x86_64 Linux 4.15.0-45-generic
.++ .:/++++++/-.+sss/` Uptime: 28m
.:++o: /++++++++/:--:/- Packages: 2293
o:+o+:++.`..```.-/oo+++++/ Shell: bash 4.3.48
.:+o:+o/. `+sssoo+/ Resolution: 1920x1080
.++/+:+oo+o:` /sssooo. DE: Unity 7.4.5
/+++//+:`oo+o /::--:. WM: Compiz
\+/+o+++`o++o ++////. WM Theme: Ambiance
.++.o+++oo+:` /dddhhh. GTK Theme: Ambiance [GTK2/3]
.+.o+oo:. `oddhhhh+ Icon Theme: ubuntu-mono-dark
\+.++o+o``-````.:ohdhhhhh+ Font: Ubuntu 11
`:o+++ `ohhhhhhhhyo++os: CPU: Intel Core i7-8550U CPU @ 4GHz
.o:`.syhhhhhhh/.oo++o` GPU: GeForce MX150
/osyyyyyyo++ooo+++/ RAM: 2102MiB / 15823MiB
````` +oo+++o\:
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why this kit dosent boot ubuntu 18 fast like its supposed..
its taking something like a minute to run the system..
ubuntu 16 taking 20 sec to boot..

Is ryzen 5 2500u with vega 8 enough for photo editing and some gaymen like cs:go and world of warcraft?

>he hinges look like shit, i'd stay away
Don't worry it wont last to the time they break

apparently you're too fucking autistic to grasp the concept of convenient portability

and there are literally dozens of laptops that match that performance

It ain't 2015 anymore, retard

Anyone has an opinion on Asus Zenbook Pro 14 inch ? Not the one with the gimmick touchscreen, the "lower end" version without that fucking touchscreen which seems like the most useless thing ever.

Depends on your settings and what you consider "enough". I mean it's possible to edit video with a dual core if you wanted. However both those games will run better on an Intel chip.i speak from experience in WoW. Even my overclocked 1700X was struggling to maintain 40fps on bottom of the barrel settings in raids.

I'm thinking about getting this game laptop for programming and lightweight video games.
It seems worth $700, especially given that it has a FreeSync display.
The only thing I don't like about it is that it has a numpad, but that's not a big deal.

Does any think it has any concerns or does it look like a solid $700 laptop?

Looking to replace my T440p. Budget around 500-600 quid.
Will be running Ubuntu, and using for development.
Found the T440p to have poor build quality and terrible trackpad. CPU could have been more powerful too.

I'm actually quite partial to my Studio 1555.

>Bought new for college in 2009 for $1,200
>Core2Duo P8400
>Mobility Radeon HD 4570 512MB
>1080p display (keep in mind, in 2009)
>4 GB of RAM (upgraded to 8 gigs)
>250 GB HDD (upgraded to 500GB SSD)
>Blu-Ray Drive
>6-cell battery that still holds a charge for ~1 hour

But the best part is that I've managed to upgrade the operating system for free, twice. I bought it after June 29, 2009 so I got Windows 7 for free, and then got Windows 10 for free in 2015. The latter runs surprisingly well after about 3 years' worth of updates.

Honestly, it's pretty damn good. I know the Thinkpad crew loves to talk about how durable their computers are, and that may be true (this one feels really flimsy compared to my brother's T520), but I don't treat my computer like a retard and it hasn't skipped a beat. It'll be 10 years old this August, still perfectly serviceable for most things. Not sure where Dell gets their crap reputation from.

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For me its the Huawei matebook X pro

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Thoughts on Razer Blade Stealth? Or on Razer as a whole?

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>xps
>coil whine, shit thermals, high dpc lantency, etc.

Why isn't the Jow Forums approved laptop ruggedized? I mean why is it always ChinkPads instead of Panasonic ruggedized machines?

Hello, I want to buy a good laptop for my computer science course, and I am seeing that a lot of you recommend the Acer nitro 5, is the Ryzen 5 2500U / RX 560X / 12GB DDR4 / 2TB HDD + 128GB SSD agood one to use ?
And how does it handle a Linux dual boot?
That model is cheaper in my country than the i5 8300H model.

Is there something pleasantly light and thin that's linux friendly?
Most of my team uses macbooks and three of them so far have had them completely get destroyed from running computations, so I sure as fuck ain't buying one of those (aside from the exorbitant cost). Windows is absolutely not an option. Chromebooks can "run linux" as a shit hack at best so they're also out the window, and I don't want to get in a bidding war over a 10 year old thinkpad on ebay.

Does fucking anything exist like that? I know Dell has their Developer XPS model but its like $900 for an ultrabook.

i bought a gaming laptop for work. i do computational modeling, need a good cpu, gpu, heat dissipation for long computations (hours to days), and a good bit of ram. no regrets.

pirate windows 10 enterprise and install (very easy) and do all the gpedit stuff you find on reddit threads (easiest best source)

>hours to days
>on a laptop
Wherever you """work""" should have dedicated workstations for that kind of thing. Which tells me you're probably a student who thinks they're gunna need a lot more horsepower than they actually will.

>Wherever you """work""" should have dedicated workstations for that kind of thing.
I'm a Ph.D student. We have 1 dedicated workstation that's pretty good, but people use it a lot. The simulations that take days I'll do there but I can't wait around so I'll be running a few overnight on my laptop, so I misspoke. I have to do a lot of modeling and code work which can take ~10 minutes to run and debug on my laptop. Either way, I do need the horsepower, I already max this thing out at times. Like visualizing and modifying volume meshes with upwards of 250k nodes.

350k nodes*

Does anybody have any experience with PCSpecialist custom laptops? It seems they do custom spec laptops for much less than the cost of buying an equivalent Dell or HP or whatever name brand computer, plus you can save even more money by not buying Windows and just installing the OS yourself. Is it too good to be true?

Also, all I want is for my laptop to be able to run recent games at 1080p at low-medium settings and get 60fps, basically just enough to give me a tolerable experience when playing whatever bullsit game with my mates. I'm not looking for 4K 120fps ultra settings, just a tolerable experience, and I'm also looking to run music production software. I was thinking a Core i5 Quad Core processor and 8GB of RAM should be sufficient, but should I bump this up to 12GB, and potentially a Core i7? Again I'm not looking to be blown away stunning visuals, I just want to be able to keep up.

The site: pcspecialist.co.uk/computers/cosmosVII-17/