Your Laptop Picture [H]ere (read first post for rules please)

thecrafter said:
I returned my x220 not too long ago. It's fan is always on, even at idle, and is loud (although supposedly latest BIOS fixed that), and would rev up and down when on every 5 seconds.
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I've had my i7-2620M 8 GB RAM 320 GB HD x220t Convertible Tablet PC for a week now and haven't any problems with the fan, it's so quite that I've fallen asleep with it in bad while reading in tablet mode. The heat and noise factors are superb for a tablet, let alone one this freeking powerful.

thecrafter said:
The display, while having great viewing angles and color, lacks brightness very much. You really need to turn up brightness to max settings to be usable, and anything less than 70% is useless even in a pitch black room. To top it off, it has pretty bad light bleed at the bottom of the screen that many users have. It's only noticeable at dark scenes in films and during bootup, but if you watch a movie, it's quite distracting.
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I agree the backlightling is on the dim side but I've not had any problems with backlight bleed while watching movies on it. The quality of the screen from color and viewing angle perspective are fantastic and I like the matte screen.

thecrafter said:
Lenovo support is freaking the worst I have ever seen. And each time you call, you are guaranteed a dude from India that can do nothing other than read from a script. But the bonus is that they try hard to frustrate you more than usual in the process.
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Yeah, par for the course with OEM PCs these days.

thecrafter said:
The laptop build quality is a mixed bag. Better than your run-of-the-mill Best Buy laptop, but not by a lot despite its price. I don't manhandle gadgets and electronics so haven't had a chance to drop it of course, and I've heard stories of those that did and survived without a scratch, but the material really felt quite delicate. It's just that it's so stiff that instead of bending when dropped, it will crack in half.
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This is where I take the most exception with your post. Don't let the plastics fool you. ThinkPads have been constructed this way going on 20 years and they are just damned solid. The real strength in their construction is how well they wear over time. My last work laptop was a ThinkPad X61 and that sucker has been used and traveled back and fort to work for 5 years and it's held up very well. It did develop a minor crack on the right palm rest near the keys last year, not sure when that happened but it has been drop a few times, nothing major but it's still kicking it, just got old and that first gen Core CPU is just slow these days. ThinkPads will last forever under normal circumstances.


thecrafter said:
Keyboard is pretty good, nothing amazing IMO, but definitely better than any other laptop I've used.
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ThinkPad keyboards are effing awesome, wonderful feel and comfortable as hell. Not sure how you got nothing special out of the best laptop keyboard you've ever used, sounds pretty special.

thecrafter said:
Trackpoint (red nipple) is freaking amazing and it sucks using a touchpad now. It's even better than my sold-off 2010 Macbook Pro touchpad. I miss it really bad. Too bad Lenovo fucking sucks and the older Thinkpads from IBM have batteries that last no more than an hour or two. Before X220 I bought the x120e, and had even worse concerns for the build quality. Returned that and got the X220. Fell for it twice, no more.
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The Trackpoint is very precise though I never use it though a lot of people love them. Sorry to hear that you'd didn't like your x220, I'm loving the x220t, it's overall the not only the best convertible Tablet PC I've owned but it's a great laptop as well, really couldn't be happier overall.
 
Some abstract/artistic shots of my Latitude E6410. It's a beautiful laptop with the cleanest lines out of any laptop I've seen. Also sturdy and has a great keyboard, though the screen leaves a lot to be desired.

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Here is my ThinkPad Family.. 2x T420 (see signature for spec's) and one of my many T60's.

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And here´s one of the T420 in the dock, driving the triple monitor setup.

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Pylon said:
Some abstract/artistic shots of my Latitude E6410. It's a beautiful laptop with the cleanest lines out of any laptop I've seen. Also sturdy and has a great keyboard, though the screen leaves a lot to be desired.
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My current work laptop is am E6400, well built as you say but the screen is definitely not the best.
 
heatlesssun said:
Nice clean setup, wish my office looked like that. How are you driving the triple monitors?
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Thanks :) The T420's we have came with the dual GPU's, so with the Optimus technology (NVS4200M 1GB) and the Series 3 PLUS dock I can drive 3 external monitors.

As I am all about multitasking and desktop space, this works out perfect for me. For the heavy duty stuff my servers take care of it.
 
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HP dv6 3143us
i3 370m
8GB DDR3
ATI 5650
500GB HD
eSATA, no USB 3
Bought it March, plays games nicely. Thinking on getting a larger battery.
Logitech Revolution VX mouse.

Replaced my Compaq Presario F572us which had the bum grfx chips.
 
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I picked up an HP DV6-6135DX about two weeks ago and so far love it.
Specs
AMD A8-3500M
6GB DDR3 1333
640GB Hard drive
6750M 1GB GDDR5
15.6" LED Screen
Logitech G700

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Gotta HP Envy 14...Fast as crap nd I freakin LOVE it, but I have to sell it. =/ (PM if you're interested)

Specs:
i7-720QM 1.6GHz TB to 2.8 GHz
4GB DDR3
Momentus 500GB 7200RPM
1GB ATI HD 5650
HD Webcam and mic
Windows 7 Home Premium

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austinwachukwu said:
Gotta HP Envy 14...Fast as crap nd I freakin LOVE it, but I have to sell it. =/ (PM if you're interested)

Specs:
i7-720QM 1.6GHz TB to 2.8 GHz
4GB DDR3
Momentus 500GB 7200RPM
1GB ATI HD 5650
HD Webcam and mic
Windows 7 Home Premium

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wow this guy got banned after 5 days on the forum
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You guy's gotta be envious of this beast:

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Compaq LTE 5300, 133MHz Pentium, 32MB, 2x 2GB hard drives in pretty much mint condition. Also got a LTE 5400 which has 150MHz and 48MB and 1 hard drive.
 
Hahaha, for some weird reason I want that beastie. Not sure why, tho. Not much to do on that thing. What's it run, Win 3.11? or Win95?
 
D-EJ915 said:
You guy's gotta be envious of this beast:

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Compaq LTE 5300, 133MHz Pentium, 32MB, 2x 2GB hard drives in pretty much mint condition. Also got a LTE 5400 which has 150MHz and 48MB and 1 hard drive.
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but will it run crysis? :D
 

Sad thing, is I think the CR 48's display is slightly better :( Both at max brightness :(

Oh, well. It's redeeming factor is I may want to mod in it's optional 1600x900 panel later on :D Sony stupidly only offers the HD6630m version with it.... and that's one hot cookie to put in this chasis.
 
starhawk said:
Hahaha, for some weird reason I want that beastie. Not sure why, tho. Not much to do on that thing. What's it run, Win 3.11? or Win95?
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98 is on this one and NT4 on the other, I have 2 6GB blank disks I am trying to figure out what i want to load on them. I have 3.1 on my IBM 720 in the vintage gear thread.
 
D-EJ915 said:
98 is on this one and NT4 on the other, I have 2 6GB blank disks I am trying to figure out what i want to load on them. I have 3.1 on my IBM 720 in the vintage gear thread.
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Well... you could send me one of the two laptops and one of the HDDs... and I could do some fun things with it... :p ;)
 
Lol I hate it when people leave plastic film on electronics.

It's the generational habit passed down from the parents who leave plastic coverings on couches and other furniture.
 
I love how the Trivia/Games "shortcut" uses the old Program Manager icon.

Could you imagine if your parents gave you this for Christmas?
 
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Yes it's messy.

Alienware M17X R3
i7 2620
16gb RAM
240gb SSD/750gb HDD
R6970m 2gb
HDMI IN :D

Still waiting on my Toughbooks, IBMs and the HP clunkers to be shipped over. Will post a clean family pic of all my laptops when they come in :p
 
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