Posts by jmanjohns

Hey Guys, I'm looking to upgrade to a new computer, and I'd like to sell my HP Portable Workstation 8510w. It's a lightly used machine with great specs, even two years later. Except for a scratch on the lid, it's in great shape. You get...

I keep saying this, but I love the A8Js, so powerful and yet not too heavy. Not super light, but quite portable IMHO.

Unfortunately Laptop CPU upgrades are rather limited because intel tends to switch the underlying tech every generation of processor (and the laptop manufacturers don't or can't release firmware fixes) you are kind of limited s to what...

I'd second an M90. It would be good for what you plan to be doing. You want to do multimedia content creation correct? The M90 has a very powerful professional GPU (Quadro, just buy the most expensive GPU option, I forgot the name,...

Laptop speakers s*ck (EDIT just in case) dude, don't buy a laptop for speakers (Get new ones after you buy). More memory will not make up for a graphics card (although the difference is only like 20%, so its not extreme). I would...

You rarely game, but you plan to play games. A little vague to give you a lot of help but I'll try. If you enjoy gaming to any degree (as in you want to at least try out some new games once a month) then please go with the G1. The G1 is...

Unfortuntaley most companies forgot that Laptops are supposed to be mobile and you'll have trouble finding custom notebooks (gaming or not) in the sub 15 inch range.

What kind of resellers told you not to buy Asus? Thats kind of a load of crap considering they make some laptops for other companies like Dell, HP, etc. The big well known brands are all made by like 4 companies in Taiwan and China...

Well you can't swithc off from one to the other, but many have power saving features. Both ATI and Nvidia chips scale their power down when on batteries. That option is available in the driver. You can get to your driver by right...

Put in a smaller blank HD ;-).