[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).
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Len Sorensen
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