| civic13 |
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| 10/15/17 03:35 PM |
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Need to look for a new laptop.
My current one which is a MacBook Pro was from the early 2011 year that had issues with the video chip. It finally crapped out after many repairs.
I want to grab another MBP but the price is holding me back so I'm thinking of grabbing a windows laptop.
Haven't been keeping up with the latest tech so what should I look for to use with mainly video/picture editing and the usual surfing/email? Also I have an external monitor and I liked how with a Mac I could have it closed and use it like a desktop. Can this be done with a windows laptop?
tia
| TheRealCSnapper |
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| 10/16/17 07:09 AM |
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that's a simple power/display setting change. you may have to use a docking station to power it on, or you'll have to power it on with the laptop opened and then close it....
| Risky Business |
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| 10/16/17 07:18 AM |
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Pretty happy with my Dell latitude E series for work.
| LNXGUY |
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| 10/16/17 08:27 AM |
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Dell XPS
| 4age |
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| 10/16/17 09:18 AM |
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If you are ok with 16:9, then windows computers will be great.
I really appreciated the 16:10 ratio of macs...but since you have an external monitor, perhaps that is a non issue.
workflow wise, a pc is going to be very different - so it's not as simple as "this or that". I'd say if you've had a mac since 2011, you likely are tied to a number of purchased software...and you are accustomed to working in that machine and have gotten very efficient with it. I'd stay the course and stay with mac. But if you are open to PC, then you have a lot of options out there. I will say that MS is releasing another iteration of windows...so there's that. I will say I've played this game...and i've gone from a number of high end windows ultrabooks to a mac, and the mac has been the most stable platform for work. i always ran into a driver issue or this or that with pc - with new out of box computers. I actually had like 6 computers over the course of 3 months. Tried a ton of them and returned/exchanged until i settled on an mbp.
FWIW i have tried the surface pro 4, xps13, an i7 yoga, x1 carbon, mb and mbp.
| Big Tasty |
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| 10/16/17 10:42 AM |
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Got an X1 Yoga for work recently and don't like it at all. Sizewise it is great and weighs nothing but performance suffers for it, SSD is small and it is buggy as fuck.
| SuPeR-MaRiO |
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| 10/16/17 10:56 AM |
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I've always liked Lenovo ThinkPads
| Hatorade |
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| 10/16/17 11:27 AM |
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Been using a surface pro book i7 for the past year and love it. Love that it's not 16:9 and it's been trouble free. Yeah as any windows product there's bugs but that's the O's lol
| civic13 |
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| 10/16/17 12:15 PM |
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Thanks for all the feedback/suggestions everyone.
I have been looking at the Dell xps15 as the specs have my attention.
Good call on the software 4age but most of the programs I have are "free" on my Mac and is easily transferable
Would you buy a Mac from eBay? Saw this one and it's a bit cheaper than retail and located in Vaughan. They're offering similar warranty as Apple too.
https://m.ebay.ca/itm/Apple-MacBook-Pro-...e235714cbc3183e
| 4age |
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| 10/16/17 12:56 PM |
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Yes and u can verify warranty online too. So if it checks out you're good
| porschetr |
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| 10/16/17 01:31 PM |
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Originally Posted By: civic13
Thanks for all the feedback/suggestions everyone.
I have been looking at the Dell xps15 as the specs have my attention.
Good call on the software 4age but most of the programs I have are "free" on my Mac and is easily transferable
Would you buy a Mac from eBay? Saw this one and it's a bit cheaper than retail and located in Vaughan. They're offering similar warranty as Apple too.
https://m.ebay.ca/itm/Apple-MacBook-Pro-...e235714cbc3183e
I have been looking at the Dell xps15 as the specs have my attention.
Good call on the software 4age but most of the programs I have are "free" on my Mac and is easily transferable
Would you buy a Mac from eBay? Saw this one and it's a bit cheaper than retail and located in Vaughan. They're offering similar warranty as Apple too.
https://m.ebay.ca/itm/Apple-MacBook-Pro-...e235714cbc3183e
Just 8 mths warranty... how much cheaper do you save getting from them?
| civic13 |
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| 10/16/17 08:14 PM |
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Originally Posted By: porschetr
Originally Posted By: civic13
Thanks for all the feedback/suggestions everyone.
I have been looking at the Dell xps15 as the specs have my attention.
Good call on the software 4age but most of the programs I have are "free" on my Mac and is easily transferable
Would you buy a Mac from eBay? Saw this one and it's a bit cheaper than retail and located in Vaughan. They're offering similar warranty as Apple too.
https://m.ebay.ca/itm/Apple-MacBook-Pro-...e235714cbc3183e
I have been looking at the Dell xps15 as the specs have my attention.
Good call on the software 4age but most of the programs I have are "free" on my Mac and is easily transferable
Would you buy a Mac from eBay? Saw this one and it's a bit cheaper than retail and located in Vaughan. They're offering similar warranty as Apple too.
https://m.ebay.ca/itm/Apple-MacBook-Pro-...e235714cbc3183e
Just 8 mths warranty... how much cheaper do you save getting from them?
Ah, didn't notice the bold...lol yah that sux.
I thought it was cheaper but I must've been looking at a different spec'd machine.
Re: pc laptops, do newer ones slow down as it "ages"? That has been my experience in the past before I jumped to a Mac where the longer you use it in terms of months/years it tends to get sluggish and slow down. Even if I defrag the HD or clean the system.
| c2k |
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| 10/16/17 08:32 PM |
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if costs are an issue, try the refurbs macs? they come w/ a full one year warranty.
https://www.apple.com/ca/shop/browse/home/specialdeals/mac
| furball |
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| 10/17/17 08:18 AM |
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I picked up a refurb'd a Lenovo IdeaPad few years ago from Canada Computers... The price was right, and had some options I wanted: touch-screen, backlit kb. The HD is terribly slow (it's a 'hybrid HD/4GB SSD) ... Upgraded the memory to 8GB (max'd out) ... Other than the fan making some noise, it's still running like a charm, though a bit heavy...
Currently running a Lenovo ThinkPad T460s, and other than no touch-screen, it's fucking awesome. Lightning speed, good size, crazy power, 13" LCD.
| furball |
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| 10/17/17 08:26 AM |
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If you're really, really dead set on the Mac OS interface, and don't care too much about the hardware itself, look into a Hackintosh ...
Though I think the latest MacOS doesn't work that well on Wintel??
| c2k |
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| 10/17/17 10:28 AM |
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Originally Posted By: furball
If you're really, really dead set on the Mac OS interface, and don't care too much about the hardware itself, look into a Hackintosh ...
Though I think the latest MacOS doesn't work that well on Wintel??
Though I think the latest MacOS doesn't work that well on Wintel??
Easy to do on a desktop, but on a laptop?
no. Just a bit of a hassle.
| OracerO |
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| 10/17/17 09:09 PM |
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Have had the Surface pro 3 for the past 2.5 years. Trouble free.
| Lafora |
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| 10/18/17 01:46 PM |
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using a toughbook cf-53. super happy with it.
| civic13 |
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| 11/27/17 06:53 PM |
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Bringing this back up as I'm contemplating the new surface book 2. But something did not impress me about it and I'm not sure if it's because of hardware or something else.
I went to the store at Yorkdale to play around with it. I launched a YouTube video of an nhl game in full screen @720p 60fps. The video wasn't very sharp and noticed ghosting/blurriness as the players skated around. I asked one of the helpers there and he said video cards or dedicated video cards have nothing to do with the quality of streaming video. Then I asked what the refresh rate of the display was and he said 60hz. On my cell phone these games are super sharp so I was expecting the same thing.
Anyone have any insight to this?
| Hatorade |
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| 11/27/17 10:24 PM |
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I have a surface book with I7, 16gb and dedicated gfx and don't experience any problems with videos. Must have been a shit feed or something.
| civic13 |
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| 11/27/17 11:26 PM |
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This is one of the videos I was using.
https://youtu.be/-2ZCDkQjvV4
| Hatorade |
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| 11/28/17 01:29 AM |
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That's a shitty video. First problem its 720p and looks to be highly compressed. Will obviously look good on a phone as the screen is small.
| civic13 |
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| 11/28/17 05:02 AM |
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Interesting. Thought since it was 720p it would suffice.
So what would a good example be to test on the SB2?
| c2k |
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| 11/28/17 06:02 AM |
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Any HQ porn from pornhub
| civic13 |
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| 11/29/17 09:10 PM |
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Anyone running a Dell xps15? Can get one through perkopolis with some discount for $2185+tax.
Specs are
Processor
7th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-7700HQ Quad Core Processor (6M cache, up to 3.8 GHz)
Operating System
Windows 10 Home 64-bit English
Memory
16GB, 2400MHz, DDR4; up to 32GB (additional memory sold separately)
Hard Drive
512GB PCIe Solid State Drive
Video Card
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1050 with 4GB GDDR5
LCD
15.6" 4K Ultra HD (3840 x 2160) InfinityEdge touch display
Wireless
Killer 1535 802.11ac 2x2 WiFi and Bluetooth 4.1
Primary Battery
97WHr