Posted on 03/28/2014 2:03:22 PM PDT by Chickensoup
Time for a new laptop. The Sony Vaio is getting tired. Am looking for a reasonably priced laptop with some power to it. It is a desktop replacement so it cannot be one of those sissy teenyweenies.
Currently have a 4gb ram, 2.20ghrtz 64 bit system running my beloved Windows 7 with word and outlook 2003.
Looking for something as big, perhaps a little lighter and certainly faster, that has a disc drive, and ports for my trackball.
I refuse to consider Dell.
Yes I know, Applehead, they are wonderful but no thanks.
Any recommendations?
Look at Lenovo and Asus. I work at Microsoft. The employees get to pick their laptop from a large range of options, and those two are the top brands that are picked.
If you want, I can see what the current “power user” laptop on our internal site is.
If you are expecting a radical difference....no.
If it is slow, do a malware and virus scan
If you want, I can see what the current “power user” laptop on our internal site is.
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I would love it if you did that.
BTW, MS has been wonderful support over the years for me.
With 32gb it great! Plus importing native Catia files it doesn’t chug at all!
8gb of video ram is always good!
And ram and video card and 4th generation i7 4800
>>And ram and video card and 4th generation i7 4800
Yeah. My Asus RoG laptop has that too. My point was that Alienware used to mean a superbly-built machine using the finest parts and you paid for that. Today, they are the same as Dells and you pay for the bling and the legend.
True, they are the best Dells on the market and the price has come way down from the pre-Dell days, so they’re a pretty good value. But the days of seeing Alienware on the case and knowing that it is the top-of-the-line gaming rig are over.
Runs Catia V, Pro E and Solid works simultaneously with a chug. For 2k that’s good in my book.
If you are gaming I neither know nor care.
I have absolutely no idea what you just said, not sure I care.
LOL.
Toshiba hard drives crash...so if you go this route, be sure you back up everything!
I’ve had remarkably good service from two Toshibas which I use as desktops and also for business trips. They are priced right too.
I got the first one in Oct. 2008. I use it in my bedroom while watching TV every night. The other one is in my home office. They both run nearly constantly because I do day trading of currencies and am watching the market all the time.
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The worst kind, a flat spin headed out to sea......
I could be wrong, but I believe Asus is Gateway made overseas.
Gateway sold out.
I always liked Gateways. But I have a Vaio now.
These are 3-D modeling programs used in Engineering to design everything from the Airbus to plastic toys.
These models can then be exported to CAM/CAD programs where parts can be machined or molded directly.
They are RAM intensive and most computers cannot handle them.
Gateway was acquired by Acer in October 2007.
ASUS is ASUS, of course, of course.
:-)
Thanks for the explanation. Not a a CAM/CAD guy here. I bet not only RAM intensive, has to be disk intensive also for read/write operations. IIRC, CAM/CAD programs store their information in layers?
Thanks for the correction.
I had an ASUS netbook, motherboard died after a year about 2 weeks after the warranty expired.
They wanted about the same price as a new one to fix. I threw it in the trash.
I’ve been running a Dell Inspiron 1525 since 2008 and by all rights this thing should have exploded a long time ago, yet it keeps cranking on.
Been with Mastercam since 1984, I was a beta user for Version 2 back on an old IBM PC if that tells you how long I’ve been with them.
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