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its well built and is a great size to take around and use... the graphics got a nice bump for being integrated in the macbook... fine for my graphic design and a nice feature is the back lit keyboard... weighs 4.5 pounds and the battery says 5 hours but ill get probably 3 to 3.5 working on anything
2.4 GHz is pretty damn fast with 4Gb of 1066MHZ drr3 (ill be adding the ram from 2Gb and probably a hdd/sdd at some point in it life...) 250gb is fine and i have two external 2.5 inch 160Gb hdd's
idk... its pretty much a macbook pro in a macbook case...
and as for sony's z series $1899.00 for a spec'd machine as close as i could get... and thats before a new copy of vista would have to be installed over the crap ware...
the sr series is a joke in a few ways... $1394.99 and i get something very close to the macbook... but sony was having a special on a few items i checked on for this... you can only get 32bit business and 64 bit vista with downgrade disks... WTF?
i like the sonys but the z is crazy expensive... i would get a pro for that money and the sr isn't that great to begin with... if there was a cross between it would be gold
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have to say, I've never looked at a sony laptop... becasue I'm so happy with my XPS which is a few years old now has had the shit beaten out of it, and still works fine... and only cost me £500ish
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ninjay07
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| bald_gye wrote: | | have to say, I've never looked at a sony laptop... becasue I'm so happy with my XPS which is a few years old now has had the shit beaten out of it, and still works fine... and only cost me £500ish |
what kind of damage are you talking about? i feel like my XPS cant take a hit |
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| ninjay07 wrote: | | bald_gye wrote: | | have to say, I've never looked at a sony laptop... becasue I'm so happy with my XPS which is a few years old now has had the shit beaten out of it, and still works fine... and only cost me £500ish |
what kind of damage are you talking about? i feel like my XPS cant take a hit |
drop it, throw it arround, my dog keeps jumping on the keyboard flicking out the keys...
then where was all the fucking about with trying to install OSx86
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| bald_gye wrote: | | ninjay07 wrote: | | bald_gye wrote: | | have to say, I've never looked at a sony laptop... becasue I'm so happy with my XPS which is a few years old now has had the shit beaten out of it, and still works fine... and only cost me £500ish |
what kind of damage are you talking about? i feel like my XPS cant take a hit |
drop it, throw it arround, my dog keeps jumping on the keyboard flicking out the keys...
then where was all the fucking about with trying to install OSx86 |
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| Posted: Dec Thu 04, 2008 4:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Outragexl10 wrote: | its well built and is a great size to take around and use... the graphics got a nice bump for being integrated in the macbook... fine for my graphic design and a nice feature is the back lit keyboard... weighs 4.5 pounds and the battery says 5 hours but ill get probably 3 to 3.5 working on anything
2.4 GHz is pretty damn fast with 4Gb of 1066MHZ drr3 (ill be adding the ram from 2Gb and probably a hdd/sdd at some point in it life...) 250gb is fine and i have two external 2.5 inch 160Gb hdd's
idk... its pretty much a macbook pro in a macbook case...
and as for sony's z series $1899.00 for a spec'd machine as close as i could get... and thats before a new copy of vista would have to be installed over the crap ware...
the sr series is a joke in a few ways... $1394.99 and i get something very close to the macbook... but sony was having a special on a few items i checked on for this... you can only get 32bit business and 64 bit vista with downgrade disks... WTF?
i like the sonys but the z is crazy expensive... i would get a pro for that money and the sr isn't that great to begin with... if there was a cross between it would be gold |
I would step up to the pro just for the graphics chipset. And the Vaio Z is ridiculously expensive for what you get.
| bald_gye wrote: | | ninjay07 wrote: | | bald_gye wrote: | | have to say, I've never looked at a sony laptop... becasue I'm so happy with my XPS which is a few years old now has had the shit beaten out of it, and still works fine... and only cost me £500ish |
what kind of damage are you talking about? i feel like my XPS cant take a hit |
drop it, throw it arround, my dog keeps jumping on the keyboard flicking out the keys...
then where was all the fucking about with trying to install OSx86 |
Dude, I thought I beat up my laptop. All I did was drop it once. Of course, that one time had to be when I dropped it on the round end of the power cord when it was plugged in.
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| Branhower wrote: | | Outragexl10 wrote: | its well built and is a great size to take around and use... the graphics got a nice bump for being integrated in the macbook... fine for my graphic design and a nice feature is the back lit keyboard... weighs 4.5 pounds and the battery says 5 hours but ill get probably 3 to 3.5 working on anything
2.4 GHz is pretty damn fast with 4Gb of 1066MHZ drr3 (ill be adding the ram from 2Gb and probably a hdd/sdd at some point in it life...) 250gb is fine and i have two external 2.5 inch 160Gb hdd's
idk... its pretty much a macbook pro in a macbook case...
and as for sony's z series $1899.00 for a spec'd machine as close as i could get... and thats before a new copy of vista would have to be installed over the crap ware...
the sr series is a joke in a few ways... $1394.99 and i get something very close to the macbook... but sony was having a special on a few items i checked on for this... you can only get 32bit business and 64 bit vista with downgrade disks... WTF?
i like the sonys but the z is crazy expensive... i would get a pro for that money and the sr isn't that great to begin with... if there was a cross between it would be gold |
I would step up to the pro just for the graphics chipset. And the Vaio Z is ridiculously expensive for what you get.
| bald_gye wrote: | | ninjay07 wrote: | | bald_gye wrote: | | have to say, I've never looked at a sony laptop... becasue I'm so happy with my XPS which is a few years old now has had the shit beaten out of it, and still works fine... and only cost me £500ish |
what kind of damage are you talking about? i feel like my XPS cant take a hit |
drop it, throw it arround, my dog keeps jumping on the keyboard flicking out the keys...
then where was all the fucking about with trying to install OSx86 |
Dude, I thought I beat up my laptop. All I did was drop it once. Of course, that one time had to be when I dropped it on the round end of the power cord when it was plugged in. |
just goes to show that Dells are built to last...and be cheap..
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just goes to show that Dells are built to last...and be cheap.. |
i only knew Dell business class are pretty tough. i even dropped one myself last summer. |
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idk... the 9400 M is pretty good on its own... im not going to play any games on it besides starcraft 2 when that launches... but you tihnk i would be fine with the 9400 M or the 9600
to be honest i would run th 9400 all the time in the pro... adobe illustrator is the only thing i would consider to use it with... but thats barely an improvement... i need cs5 to use the GPU... starcraft 2 is the only tihng i would use it for... but is it worth the money? idk of any other games to really play because im not a pc gamer
btw... i can game on OS X but i would probably install windows under boot camp... i really don't need Linux (though i really love it) if i have OS X
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| Outragexl10 wrote: | idk... the 9400 M is pretty good on its own... im not going to play any games on it besides starcraft 2 when that launches... but you tihnk i would be fine with the 9400 M or the 9600
to be honest i would run th 9400 all the time in the pro... adobe illustrator is the only thing i would consider to use it with... but thats barely an improvement... i need cs5 to use the GPU... starcraft 2 is the only tihng i would use it for... but is it worth the money? idk of any other games to really play because im not a pc gamer
btw... i can game on OS X but i would probably install windows under boot camp... i really don't need Linux (though i really love it) if i have OS X |
yeah coz a locked down OS is comparable to a locked down one.
and my m1330 has no dedicated gfx and can run spore alright...
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| bald_gye wrote: | | Outragexl10 wrote: | idk... the 9400 M is pretty good on its own... im not going to play any games on it besides starcraft 2 when that launches... but you tihnk i would be fine with the 9400 M or the 9600
to be honest i would run th 9400 all the time in the pro... adobe illustrator is the only thing i would consider to use it with... but thats barely an improvement... i need cs5 to use the GPU... starcraft 2 is the only tihng i would use it for... but is it worth the money? idk of any other games to really play because im not a pc gamer
btw... i can game on OS X but i would probably install windows under boot camp... i really don't need Linux (though i really love it) if i have OS X |
yeah coz a locked down OS is comparable to a locked down one.
and my m1330 has no dedicated gfx and can run spore alright... |
you didnt get the 8400M ?
and anyone how intel 4500M HD compare to other gfx? |
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| bald_gye wrote: | | Outragexl10 wrote: | idk... the 9400 M is pretty good on its own... im not going to play any games on it besides starcraft 2 when that launches... but you tihnk i would be fine with the 9400 M or the 9600
to be honest i would run th 9400 all the time in the pro... adobe illustrator is the only thing i would consider to use it with... but thats barely an improvement... i need cs5 to use the GPU... starcraft 2 is the only tihng i would use it for... but is it worth the money? idk of any other games to really play because im not a pc gamer
btw... i can game on OS X but i would probably install windows under boot camp... i really don't need Linux (though i really love it) if i have OS X |
yeah coz a locked down OS is comparable to a locked down one.
and my m1330 has no dedicated gfx and can run spore alright... |
no os is locked down? at least not on a computer... what cant you do on Windows? OS X? and Linux especially?
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| Outragexl10 wrote: | | bald_gye wrote: | | Outragexl10 wrote: | idk... the 9400 M is pretty good on its own... im not going to play any games on it besides starcraft 2 when that launches... but you tihnk i would be fine with the 9400 M or the 9600
to be honest i would run th 9400 all the time in the pro... adobe illustrator is the only thing i would consider to use it with... but thats barely an improvement... i need cs5 to use the GPU... starcraft 2 is the only tihng i would use it for... but is it worth the money? idk of any other games to really play because im not a pc gamer
btw... i can game on OS X but i would probably install windows under boot camp... i really don't need Linux (though i really love it) if i have OS X |
yeah coz a locked down OS is comparable to a locked down one.
and my m1330 has no dedicated gfx and can run spore alright... |
no os is locked down? at least not on a computer... what cant you do on Windows? OS X? and Linux especially? |
i typed it wrong, what i meant was;
OSX is more locked up then Windows, which is alot... and Linux is 100% open, if you want you can even recode and fuck up the kernal...
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very true... but for OS X i don't know what i cant do that i couldn't do under windows?
in fact half the things i do on windows will be easier in OS X
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| Outragexl10 wrote: | very true... but for OS X i don't know what i cant do that i couldn't do under windows?
in fact half the things i do on windows will be easier in OS X |
that depends what you do 
and one thing i know you cant do (maybe at all) is customise the look of it with 3rd party apps like you can with XP/Vista
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