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Cray0ns United States. Apr 03 2010 14:15. Posts 993 | | |
The hardrive on my old laptop just died so I'm looking to pick up a new one. It really only needs to do basic stuff including:
1) play the pokers (I usually go hud-less on my lappy to mix it up, but ability to run hem or pt3 would be nice)
2) internets
3) export to tv - preferably with hdmi out so I can export to a hd tv at decent quality .
4) excel
I expect I should be able to get one reasonably priced with such low requirements. Budget isn't an issue, but it seems I shouldn't have to go much higher than 600 and 1k+ seems like overkill unless someone gives me a good reason. Then again I'm not sure why I shouldn't even get something for around 300. I'm likley going to just look for something on fatwallet or slickdeals, or do bingcashback on tigerdirect, and or even just grab a refurb off delloutlet. I'm not sure how low I should go with specs though before I get into issues.
Any tips? Also wtf is a netbook - is that what I want here?
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicatio...etails.asp?EdpNo=5250525&csid=_21
This is bigger than I want but meh - I don't want to sweat this process very much.
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woot.com
its one of those 1 deal a day sites. Todays deal is a nice laptop that seems to match what youre looking for |
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Cray0ns United States. Apr 03 2010 15:12. Posts 993 | | | |
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thumbz555 United States. Apr 03 2010 15:41. Posts 3281 | | |
yeah that has Win Vista.... I have a 15.6" laptop and it's a tiny bit small for 4 tables imho. |
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Cray0ns United States. Apr 03 2010 16:04. Posts 993 | | |
Ive been on 11" viewable lol. I'm wondering if I should just get a netbook. I dont need a dvd drive. Would a netbook be missing anything else I might need to play poker, surf web, and occasionally watch vids locally without exporting? |
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Cray0ns United States. Apr 03 2010 17:00. Posts 993 | | | |
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FoolsPlay Canada. Apr 03 2010 18:59. Posts 1335 | | |
ya the asus ul80vt is really really nice (i have the same, got it at the end of december) |
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Cray0ns United States. Apr 03 2010 20:40. Posts 993 | | |
awesome. I stepped away for a bit but pretty much decided to jsut do the ul30vt-a1. good to have someone confirm a solid review. I really appreciate it.
edit: correction Im getting the ul80vt and not the ul30vt - I believe the major difference is the optical drive. |
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thumbz555 United States. Apr 03 2010 22:04. Posts 3281 | | |
meh I got a Sony Vaio in iridescent blue with a core i3, 4GB DDR3, 512 Radeon Graphics, 15.6", 320GB 7200 RPM HDD for $729, shipped. |
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bigbb33 Canada. Apr 03 2010 22:07. Posts 3679 | | |
If you don't want to game then the only thing that matters is:
1) Battery life
2) Screen size and resolution
3) Storage
That's it. Any laptop built since 2005 can handle HEM + 16 tables. 2gb vs 4gb, graphics card vs graphics card, cpu vs cpu is entirely irrelevant. Unless you get a netbook which may have problems but likely won't. |
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FoolsPlay Canada. Apr 04 2010 00:48. Posts 1335 | | |
ul80vt has like 10+~ hours of battery life if you're just browsing the internet (on battery saving mode - using onboard video card)
(the resolution is like 1366x768)
the discrete graphics card (geforce210m) is good compared to most other laptops (obv not alienware) but it definitely wont replace a desktop for gaming
overall its a really nice laptop though; super light and has really really long battery life, and the price is damn good (i got mine for like $849 cad+tax)
*the ul30vt has 500gb hd (the 80vt has 320gbs) but ya it has no dvdrw drive so it kinda sucks |
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