Personally, I think the quality and layout of the board is more important than the style. The only boards I use with my desktops are the small Apple wireless bluetooth boards (chiclet), but my Lenovo laptop (X200s) has the best laptop board I've ever used. I'm very attached to both.
I use adapters on a number of desktops, and the one dawp links works fine in one of them. Although, they're more expensive, I primarily use these:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16833242001
as they are even more unobtrusive.
I notice both the X200 and the X200s have been mentioned. I like the "s" much better, and 1440x900 is not available on the non-s. And even some of the s's might not be 1440x900.
I suggest you think about a Lenovo X200s with a 1440x900 screen. It has great build quality, an outstanding keyboard, the same generation CPU as the Air, and weighs about 2 1/2 pounds with a four-cell, and still easily under 3 with a six-cell. I have one with an Intel X25-M SSD, so for basic...
I have three MoDT systems and the mobos are never cheap. At this time, I think they're only worth it with the Penryns, and then only if you're willing to pay for your somewhat eccentric tastes. If you are, I've had good luck with these: http://www.logicsupply.com/products/nf93r_lf which are...
I have an x200s with the 1440x900 LCD. It's a superb machine, and I've had no reason to upgrade. And the 1440x900 is a big improvement over 1280x800.
If you decide to go with the x200 series, I would think seriously about the x201s, because the x220 seems to be only 1366x768.
I use an 80GB Intel X25-M in my Lenovo x200s, and it's great: boots in about 40 seconds, very snappy and no vibration or noise. If you don't need more space, get one!
I'm running Win7-32 bit on a Latitude X1 which has the same 915 chipset. It works great with an SSD, and is snappier than XP--boots in about 50 seconds. Like others have suggested, I did have to work a bit with the video driver; I used sp34749.exe in compatibility mode. (I needed to fiddle...
You might look for a like-new X200s on ebay. I bought one in that condition and have been very happy with it. And, if you're patient, some really good deals come up. The x201s', though, are a lot pricier.
I'm thinking about upgrading my son's system from an E5200 (not overclocked) to an E8400. Its main 3-D use is to play train simulator games. The video card is a Radeon 4670 with 512MB:
http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82E16814102816
The upgrade isn't that expensive, but will he see...
Thanks, but 1199 has to be first updated to 1275 before updating to newer firmware. They have lots of info on doing the upgrade, but they appear to be blocking links to it.
I'd like to update my drive from 1199 to 1275, but OCZ is providing it only via email, and I'd like to do it this weekend. If anybody has the firmware files and guide, I'd appreciate your emailing it to the addy in my profile. Thanks.
It was definitely reduced. In fact, I got a message saying that I was over my limit. I deleted everything, and then had a limit of 50. It's now back to 1,200.
Sold out!
I got the email and was deciding whether it was worth the trouble to get it and ship the one I bought for $150 back to Amazon, but I was too slow and it was decided for me.
I wonder how many they had at this price.
Here's a really cheapie netbook with HDMI.
EDIT: The link just keeps going to the main Compusa site, but it's a Dell Mini 10 refurb for 269.99. And it has HDMI
I'm thinking about buying this, but I'm ignorant in this area. If I'm buying a monitor (not a TV) to be used with an HTPC only for TV (using a Slingbox HD) and for DVD's, do I want 16:10 or 16:9? Thanks (and not trying to hijack this).
Not my experience at all. If anything, I've seen more of a quickness improvement with XP than VISTA (which, at least in my systems, tends to be snappier than XP pre-SSD).
Thanks for the nice deal. I'm eager to try the Vertex with Windows 7b, and this is a cheap way to do it. And it'll be a nice upgrade for the wife's PC when I'm finished.
I have a couple of the 32GB OCZ drives which are supposed to be identical to these, except for the label. Of course, I paid a lot more, but they are snappy. When I get a chance, I plan to try them in RAID 0 which, at least per benchmarks, looks even quicker. So you might consider two of these.
I have the stock 8GB and it boots very quickly and is generally snappy with XP Home. In everyday use are you finding the Runcore quicker, or is it just in benchmarks of read/write?
I disabled the swap file and have had no performance issues, either with 1GB or 2GB of RAM. Of course, it might depend on what you do, but I assume no one is using this for heavyweight work.
Agreed and ebay ones should be very cheap. It's likely that after you determine the form factor of the card (very likely mini-pci), for that vintage of laptop, you can get one that's faster than what's in there now.
Mine showed up at around 9:30 p.m. last night--Fedex was working late. Anand's review is really spot on. It's a nice, solid machine for a limited set of tasks. I was surprised how quick it booted and generally how smoothly it worked. At worse, a really nice toy for $250.
In my experience also, they almost always ship the next day. I think that because you have to pull the trigger fast at the outlet, they're trying to reduce the odds of people pulling out based on finding something better or buyer's remorse prior to shipment. That way if you do change your...
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