Posts by dr/owned

With Lenovo having a pretty massive 30% off deal on their T520 (Sandy Bridge 2.7 ghz, Optimus, 4 GB ram, 500 GB hdd, 1920x1080 screen), I've been very tempted to pull the trigger and buy one. But I don't really need a new laptop right...

Erm, while it would be good engineering practice to make electrically incompatible elements physically incompatible, they might not. Not to mention they might have been told to design the thing to support one battery and that's it. You...

Just to throw a general tip at you, what cpu you get isn't as important as it once was. Unless you regularly are re-encoding video files (and it's not GPU accelerated), you'll hardly ever need full cpu power. Regarding the whole...

I was in Fry's a while back and they had a keyboard that was scissor (laptop) keys just bigger and with a num pad. I think it might have been ioGear brand. I'm not a fan of scissor keys even though I can type faster on them, because...

Well remember that the battery voltage drops progressively the closer it gets to being depleted and required a recharge. It's actually quite a narrow range from full to empty if I'm remembering right, maybe on the order of 3-5V for a 14...

Quote: Originally Posted by qhn M6500 maybe? That would be nice if you can share us some benchmarks. cheers ... Close, M6400. Had to open the lid up to get the model but was lazy about doing it sooner cause...

I really should bench my lappie at work. Dell Precision (don't know model off top) Core2 2.66, FX2700M (overclocked 20% gpu/memory/shaders), 17" 1920x1200. Probably costed the company a pretty penny and it weighs a bloody ton but...

@Knot3D Do you honestly ever plan on using 8 gb of ram Anyways, it's pretty clear that this is meant to be a workstation lappie and not a gaming beast. I wonder how well the FX1800M performs on tasks like autocad and the like since it...

My biggest beef with AMD right now is just on their technology. I was skimming some ready-made laptops with AMD cpus and was pretty surprised to see that they still are usually (essentially) the same processor I have...3 years after I...

RAM I agree is probably the culprit...going from 666 mhz to nearly 800 would put a strain on even desktop kits...let alone the cheapo samsung set in there right now. Whole-screen graphics freeze-n-distort would be explained by the...