[GTALUG] Notebook Computer Recommendations

Lennart Sorensen lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Wed Jul 6 12:22:10 EDT 2016


On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 12:02:01PM -0400, Alvin Starr wrote:
> That kind of poses an interesting question.
> If you're looking for a high performance system that you can take on the
> road that is one thing.
> If you're looking for a portable system you can use as a workstation now and
> then that is another thing.
> If the thing is FAST and LOTS of ram then your into gamer systems or
> something not much lighter than an Osborne.
> 
> 1920x1080 ends up with 129.58 pixels/inch which is not that bad until you
> run the video out to your 20+" external screen.
> 
> I have used most of the major brands over the years and found in the last
> few years that ASUS seems to be doing a good job of building nice laptops.
> I have been using an ASUS zenbook prime for something like 5 years now and
> it still is performing well where most others have started to pack it in
> after a couple of years.

Asus is generally good, although they have a tendancy to NOT put US
keyboards on their laptops in canada anymore.  That is awful.

They are also not nearly as durrable as a thinkpad.  They used to make
durable ones (like th R1F for example.  That thing was a tank).

-- 
Len Sorensen


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