Any good laptop that isn't an Apple?



P.S. mine is silent as fuck, doesn't make a damn sound and never over heats unless it's on my bed or something. I had a Dell shit the bed after 6 months before finally making the switch to a MBP 17"--best decision of my life and I talked shit about Macs for literally 20 years and now I'm eating my hat.
 
EricVonDoobie said:
Get a god damn Macbook Pro you will never look back.
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Yeah, I've decided to get a Macbook Air. There really isn't a comparison out there and all of the better spec laptops are chunky and heavy.

I will most likely install Windows on it though.
 
I wouldn't put Windows on it, not unless you've given Max OS X a few weeks to try out--the feeling of stability is refreshing as hell to say the least. I bought a POS Acer laptop from Best Buy for all my windows programs, I wouldn't even consider running parallels on this computer that's how much I love OS X now, just saying.
 
Apple laptops are nothing to write home about. The design is what you are buying because you definitely aren't buying performance in most cases. What I suggest is looking at the Asus i7 lineup, they have gotten some great reviews and are a power house. You can run VM and run MAC OS on the laptop at half the cost of buying a Mac with similar specs.
 
If you don't want Apple, try Alienware, Asus or Samsung.

From of my point of view those are the only ones that can compete in the same league with a Macbook Pro.
 
emp said:
would like this

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:love-smiley-013: what a beauty ..........
 
The ASUS Thinkpad x220 comes second.

Been reading up on it and a local dealer has a good deal for me.

Decisions, decisions.
 
Soon as a laptop maker comes out with a magnetic power plug like apple I'll say yes.
 
I'm in the process of phasing Laptops out of my life.

I've got a custom rig desktop that I do all my heavy computing on, but all of my laptops are too big and heavy and fragile for the other things I need them to do: Be portable.

So a Tablet and a desktop will be the future for me... no more laptops at all... Tablets and smartphones can do everything you need to do on the go.
 
mgtarheels said:
Wtf is that thing so expensive for?
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There the old IBM thinkpads. They are built like a rock and come are ridiculously customizable for a laptop. There also only about 2-3 pounds.

Not the sexiest looking laptops but its a really well built machine.
 
Seriously...

HP Envy 13 doesn't overheat, is silent and light. Very sturdy build, amazing screen. Picked it up for £499, couldn't be happier. HP Envy 15 is a shit rig made for gaming, I'm a coder and I travel a lot, hence I got the 13 inch version.

Asus u33jc (13 inch) is an amazing machine. Very high quality build, cheap as fuck, great performance, decent screen, great battery life, very portable. Picked it up for £599 I think.

Next laptop on my list is something from Samsung 9 series... going to wait a bit for the price to drop though.

Stop over thinking. If you need osx, get apple. If not -- any of the above will do a stellar job, especially if you're not a hardcore gamer.

P.S. reversed function keys on the envy are annoying.
 
absolute said:
Not true at all. I use visual studio and/or eclipse pretty much everywhere I go -- airports, trains, hotel rooms, etc.
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Agreed ... If i don t have developer tools at hand .. I pretty much consider it useless for anything but killing time with mini games and checking stats :)
 
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