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 Posted: Wed, 5th Feb 2014 15:35 Post subject: Gaming Ultrabook? |
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So I was looking for a nice ultrabook for my wife and from the design only the new Sony Vaio and some Lenovo are viable.
The Sony Vaio Flip 15 is available with the following config
i3-4005U (1.7GHz dual core haswell) or i5-4200U (1.6GHz dual core haswell with turbo boost up to 2.6GHz)
4GB RAM (this should be enough)
HD 4400 or GT-735M
128GB SSD or 512GB HDD with 8GB SSD
Now the prices vary a lot but I'd go with the i5, GT- 735M and the 512GB HDD with 8GB SSD.
As far as I can see the HDD + SSD combination should be quite fast, right? OK not as fast as the SSD but tbh the prices they want for bigger SSD is ridiculous and 128GB might not be enough for her :/
BTW will it make a big difference if I take the i3? Or are 1.7GHz just too slow?
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Przepraszam
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| Posted: Wed, 5th Feb 2014 15:42 Post subject: |
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Don't expect a lot of gaming, but for daily usage should be OK.
I have Lenovo with i7-720(clocked at 1.6 and has turbo boost to 2.6) with AMD 5730 and all my games run on lowest settings imo 
I just ordered 8gigs of ram@1333Mhz and will order Seagate Hybrid Drive 1TB(its regular hdd with 8gb of ssd) in a near future to help with performance.
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Invasor
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| Posted: Wed, 5th Feb 2014 16:34 Post subject: |
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8Gb SSD seems worthless, you can't even boot the system from it. I'd get the 128Gb ssd and add another drive later (if there's room for it, but in a 15" laptop that weights over 2kg there must be).
And from what I've seen the i3 is really slow.
Now the obvious question: Does the system have to be mobile? And if so, isn't 15" too big?
Edit: If the keyboard is important, I would avoid samsung, LG, Acer and HP. All the keyboards I tested from these brands suck. Dell and lenovo have some very decent ones, but mostly on corporate/pro models (lenovo T and X series are awesome, dell latitude is pretty good, XPS is ok). Not sure about sony Fit, I do know that the current pro model sucks though (the tiny light 13" one).
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| Posted: Wed, 5th Feb 2014 17:24 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Wed, 5th Feb 2014 17:32 Post subject: |
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It has a 512GB HDD with internal 8GB SSD for performance, it's just nand memory, so no, it's not a seperate HD or partition with just 8GB 
And the i3 in the ULV (ultra low voltage) segment is from a feature point of view almost the same as i5s and i7s. Actually after reading a bit I saw that the i5 and i7s turbos almost never kick in because of thermal throttling (or maybe it's because of power consumption limits?). http://bit.ly/LyHoUk
And because of the thermal throttling I'm actually thinking of ditching the GT 735M also. I mean on paper it is a much better graphics chip than the HD 4400 but if it is throttled down when it gets to hot, which benefit do I have over the 4400?!
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| Posted: Thu, 6th Feb 2014 12:05 Post subject: |
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Operation cancelled, wifey says she doesn't need one now, as we already have two notebooks at home
Got her an LG G2 instead, now at least she has a proper phone again
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| Posted: Thu, 6th Feb 2014 12:47 Post subject: |
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Actually I am glad, because after some more looking I found the Lenovo U430 Touch, which is not a convertible, but better in any aspect (except for screen brightness) than the Sony. And it is actually silent, fast and cheaper 
@Inter: Well fuck, that thing is faster than my desktop pc xD
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| Posted: Fri, 7th Feb 2014 11:17 Post subject: |
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I'd never aim for highest graphic settings, so when I say gaming ultrabook I was not referring to those beasts you are posting
@G2 order: Wow they were fast, it already arrived o_O
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| Posted: Fri, 7th Feb 2014 19:41 Post subject: |
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| Breezer_ wrote: | | custom 13" Clevo W230ST laptop, it has full HD screen, you can put i7 to it and it has GTx 765M (XMG and many others sells these with their own logo) |
This is literally the laptop I got.
Got the schenker/xmg branded version from mysn.
http://www.mysn.eu/xmg-p303
I did my oculus rift global gamejam game with it and it performed fine.
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| Posted: Fri, 7th Feb 2014 22:58 Post subject: |
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Buying a "gaming" ultrabook with high end GPU and CPU is a waste of the ultrabook, because these two kill the battery life. Not only does the hardware tax the battery a lot, but also because it runs a lot higher, ventilation also takes more power, and it is noisier.
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| Posted: Fri, 7th Feb 2014 23:31 Post subject: |
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nope
nvidia gpu essentially shuts down when no 3d is used. (unless you set it for 'prefer high performance' in nvidia contrl panel, as you should when you game)
and the intel cpu stretches pretty far when power saving profile is used.
i get a bit over four hours from mine.
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| Posted: Sat, 8th Feb 2014 01:17 Post subject: |
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i heard drivers are a bitch and it never works properly this shut down 3d thing
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well if you don't mind playing games on low settings and 30fps...
Apparently it has some throttling issues, but still very nice small laptop (thinking to get one myself).
