Posts by jason 7

Re: Ugh AMD laptops?

Indeed, I was looking on Ebuyer a few months ago for AMD laptops. The best one I could find then was a HP with 4GB of ram, a 5400RPM HDD and a 1366x768 screen.

Yours for nearly £1000.

Laugh? I nearly shat!

The best A10 one on there now is a 4GB/500GB HDD/1366x768 13" model for £815.00.

There seems to be no middle ground/ultrabook quality level with AMD. Cheap junk or overpriced junk is all you get.

I wish it were different. I doubt we'll be seeing much change with the new AMD mobile chips either.

Re: Ermm summat wrong with UK pricing

I put a layer of clear sticky back plastic on any laptop trackpad I buy. Also on the palm rest.

Works a treat. Keeps the wear down and doesn't reduce sensitivity on the trackpad.

Re: Affordable?

Reasonable spec?

Have you tried using one out of the box...like a normal user?

Painful! I get them brought to me fresh out of the box by people that bought them saying "Its really slow!" wanting me to make them usable.

Well there is a cost to that...

£199 + 4GB more ram + 120 GB SSD - cost for someone to fit/transfer all that = cost of a decent laptop in the first place. Plus it will still have the same crappy E1 CPU in it...

New Laptop - Don't spend less than £400.00.

Re: Is it me or is it 2008?

Retina is just upscaled 1440x900x2 when you actually look deeper.

Nothing revolutionary there.

Re: Affordable?

"You have failed to read the spec correctly."

No I haven't.

I can tell sh*t from Shinola that's all.

Re: Why also 15" models?

"Accountants..."

But then they have to use Excel on a 1366x768 screen...

Robbing Peter...

Re: Affordable?

As much as I'm an AMD fan I wouldn't touch an AMD laptop. Not the range and the specs are usually awful for the price. Sure the APUs are fine (avoid the E series CPUs at all costs) but the rest of the kit is poor usually.

You get the feeling that the OEMs begrudgingly push out AMD equipped laptops.

As for AMD desktops...well you have to roll your own on those.

Re: Try this:-

Been looking at them for a while now. They will probably get my business next year when I replace my 6 year old Dell. That exact model.

Nice that you can order kit without parts to keep the cost down. I don't need an OS/RAM or SSD (got them already) so I can bump up the spec elsewhere.

Re: Mid year resolution?

Totally agree with you 110%.

How hard would it have been to throw in a few 1600x900 panels even? That should have been the minimum standard 5 years ago.

Re: Homekit

Well take security and usability, current if someone wants to 'interact' with my home they have to have physical contact with it.

With these systems it means folks in China/Russia etc. will likely have the ability to 'interact' with it too.

I'll pass.

Re: Your wish is granted.

or -

6) Oh look someone else saying "I installed linux on mine!" for the 75th time.

Yawn...yes we know!

Re: Your wish is granted.

But from the sound of your initial post you are trying to make a saw work like a chisel.

Re: Small

I say to folks they are to replace a tablet when you find that stabbing a screen with your finger to type doesn't cut it. I know a few folks that have dumped tablets for Chromebooks.

So the smaller size works, plus they don't have as much hardware in them as a standard laptop so you can reduce the size again.

My fave Chromebook size is 11".

I think the smaller screen thing has been BS/laziness all along. Might have taken Google to push OEMs to deliver smaller screens at a lower price.

Re: That keyboard layout ...

And amazingly they can do it for a tenth of the price.

Fancy that.

Re: NI

I remember watching 9/11 on the TV and saying to myself "Welcome to the real world USA!"

I was under the impression they would handle it like everyone else (as mentioned above) and just soldier on regardless.

I was wrong.

Yes but can you slap a Windows 7/8/10 DVD in a current Macbook Pro and install it as the only OS on the machine?

I'm surprised MS with its "Let's get our software on as many devices as possible" mantra hasn't planned to bring out a version of Windows 10 that will install straight on a Mac with no need for OSX to be installed.

Re: Where's capitalism when you need it?

Why would you?

A clean install of Windows is as good as a clean 'out of the box' install of OSX and also works with a lot more software. Its the OEMs and their junkware that screw Windows up.

Hackintoshes are mostly novelty hobby machines but for a lot of users, Windows on a Mac is essential.

Re: Free*

Well going by recent developments with 8 Upgrades etc. it seems you can at least install 'fresh' but the new install gathers up all the 'old OS/software' into one big archive which you can delete later.

Works well and not like the old day when I would cringe at hearing from my Boss -

"Oh I upgraded that Win3.1 laptop with the Win95 upgrade floppies...seems a bit flakey but it might work..."

Uggghhhh.

Re: Windows 10?

I also remember all the hassle of 60Hz issues in gaming in the early days of XP. Can't remember what it was exactly but it caused a lot of confusion in the early days.

As mentioned Vista just got burnt through cheapskate OEM suppliers (it'll run just the same as XP with 512MB of ram won't it?) and lazy third party driver development.

Re: @Steve Davies 3 - Correct for me.

When anyone posts up an anonymous "MS Conspiracy against Linux with Secureboot" post I wish it would unhide their real ID so we can laugh them off the forum and never hear from them again.