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    Image of Gary_7vn Gary_7vn
    12/11/09

    In reply to Onkyo DX Laptop Gives You Two Screens for Under $1000
    Or you could just plug in a usb monitor into a regular laptop. 6 of them even.
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    Image of SpriteMV SpriteMV
    12/11/09

    In reply to The Best Windows Laptops, From $400 to $1500
    I'm in the market for a cheap and portable laptop/netbook in the $400-500 range. I'm looking for 10-14" screen, dual core CPU, and 2+ GB memory. The Aspire listed above looks pretty nice! However, I'm not sure how the celeron performs. Does anyone have advice on other alternatives?
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    Image of madog madog
    12/10/09

    In reply to Onkyo DX Laptop Gives You Two Screens for Under $1000
    First thing I thought of, "Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?"
    ...
    "But this has 2 screens."
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    Image of twiner twiner
    12/10/09

    @madog: there are advantages specific to two monitors.
    the ease of being able to have multiple applications full screened. Desktop management, being able to view more data easier. it also gives you tons of geek cred!
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    madog promoted this comment twiner was starred twiner was unstarred
    Image of madog madog
    12/10/09

    @twiner: You could accomplish the same with a larger screen and a few extra clicks. "why not just make 10 louder?"

    The only advantage is the smaller footprint. Instead I think it would be better advertised as a "foldable" or expandable screen, as opposed to two.
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    Edited by madog at 12/10/09 7:46 PM madog was starred madog was unstarred
    Image of KBlack KBlack
    12/10/09

    @madog: "For 2000 bucks I'll make you one with three screens"
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    Image of Mikestan Mikestan
    12/10/09

    In reply to Onkyo DX Laptop Gives You Two Screens for Under $1000
    and a hernia...
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    Image of RoboBagins RoboBagins
    12/10/09

    In reply to Onkyo DX Laptop Gives You Two Screens for Under $1000
    I expect to see this in the next big blockbuster movie with a attractive indie actor playing a likable nerd/techie/hacker
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    Image of bitgod bitgod
    12/09/09

    In reply to The Best Windows Laptops, From $400 to $1500
    I'd skip the Gateway, see the laptop reliability listing that came out a month or so ago, Gateway and HP were pretty much the worst.
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    Image of blash blash
    12/09/09

    In reply to The Best Windows Laptops, From $400 to $1500
    For $1500 the Asus G51J-A1 is a better deal than that Toshiba:
    [www.newegg.com]
    which includes a GTX 260m (not a 250), that 1920x1080 screen you don't get until the $1900 Toshiba model, and two 320 GB hard drives. It's also a smaller 15.6" screen, which means that 1920x1080 screen became that much sharper, yet still includes a num pad. True, no Blu-Ray or good speakers, but I got a good headset and Blu-Ray can go to hell IMO in the face of digital downloads.

    Just wishing it would go on sale for a couple hundred dollars less... it's really cheap for the price but stuff can never be too cheap =D
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    12/09/09

    In reply to The Best Windows Laptops, From $400 to $1500
    im seeing that first one with a 250gb HDD for $410 + free shipping here:

    [www.ecomelectronics.com]

    ALSO, i'd have mentioned the HDMI on that guy - im totally buying it now.

    wait - hmmm. this one has a 1.4 core 2 solo. that doesn't sound like dual core to me.

    so what do y'all think? 250gb hdd and a single core SU3500 or 160gb and a dual core SU2300??

    am i really going to miss that extra core? right now im on an old inspiron 1.6ghz celeron w/ 512mb ram. im selling it to my buddy and i don't want to step down in performance. will miss that 1920x 1200 matte screen, though.
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    Edited by nutbastard at 12/09/09 4:15 PM nutbastard was starred nutbastard was unstarred
    Image of Keepin It Hamsta Keepin It Hamsta
    12/09/09

    @nutbastard: Tiger/CompUSA has an MSI A5000-040US on sale for $420 free 3-7 day shipping no tax in most states. 15.6", 1.9 C2D, 3GB RAM, HDMI, DVD-+RW, Wireless N, 250GB HDD with 7 Home Premium. 36 month warranty.

    [www.tigerdirect.com]
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    FigNinja promoted this comment Edited by Keepin It Hamsta at 12/09/09 4:12 PM Keepin It Hamsta was starred Keepin It Hamsta was unstarred
    Image of 64bitLover 64bitLover
    12/09/09

    @nutbastard: definitely not dual core...and the laptop link you have is for a laptop with Vista? Wtf
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    12/09/09

    @Keepin It Hamsta:

    dude. thank you. seriously. bottom of my heart here.
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    12/09/09

    @Keepin It Hamsta:

    just ordered. you're the man, man.
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    Image of Kirkaiya Kirkaiya
    12/10/09

    @nutbastard: If you do anything more than light web-browsing and email, then yes, you'll definitely miss the extra core. With Windows 7's much improved ability to spread things over multiple logical cores, and more and more software being multi-threaded (or just the trend to have three or five applications going at once), having two cores is sort of the new "minimum" for anything other than netbooks, imho.

    I have a Thinkpad T60 (Core 2 Duo, 2.0 GHz, 3GB RAM, Radeon X1400) right now, and planning on getting the Thinkpad T410 (or T410s) which should be out in January or February (at which point my trusty T60 will be 3 years old).

    So for anyone eying the T400 up there - wait another month or so, and you can get a bump in CPU architecture (Calpella platform, based on the same Nehalem architecture as Core i7).
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    Image of CommentingpointlesslyisMeh CommentingpointlesslyisMeh
    12/09/09

    In reply to The Best Windows Laptops, From $400 to $1500
    Missing Asus Gv51 ( I think) and the 3D version of it. Also the Gateway 7805fx (Or omething like this).

    I'm sorry if I'm off on model numbers...being lazy.
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    Image of 32ndnote 32ndnote
    12/09/09

    In reply to The Best Windows Laptops, From $400 to $1500
    This picture is an excellent lesson in graphic design. To make it a really swell day, here's another.
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    Image of Yerzriknot Yerzriknot
    12/09/09

    In reply to The Best Windows Laptops, From $400 to $1500
    Thinkpads are the sexiest damn laptops on the planet.
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    12/09/09

    @Yerzriknot: Meet bassplayershane: [gizmodo.com]

    Ready? Fight!
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    Image of bassplayershane bassplayershane
    12/09/09

    @Nathan Obbards: there is nothing interesting or new about their design. it looks like it was made in the 90's. the spec's are alright and they always have the newest configuration options. they are awesome computers but i wouldnt be caught dead with one
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    Image of Aetius Aetius
    12/09/09

    @bassplayershane: I agree. So what if it works. So does a 1960s wagon but we don't use those anymore.
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    Image of bassplayershane bassplayershane
    12/09/09

    i dont even understand what you are saying i cant seem to find the analogy.
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    Image of Aetius Aetius
    12/09/09

    @bassplayershane: What I meant was, they could make great cars in the 1960s too but we kept moving forward with design and other features.
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    Image of bassplayershane bassplayershane
    12/09/09

    @Aetius: maybe if they changed up their design a bit. does anyone use that middle button anymore anyways?
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    Image of Yerzriknot Yerzriknot
    12/09/09

    @Aetius: Thinkpads are sexy BECAUSE they look retro. Thinkpads scream "this is not a toy!".
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    Image of Kirkaiya Kirkaiya
    12/10/09

    @bassplayershane: If you mean the trackpoint pointing stick - yes, I'm using *right now*, since I'm typing this on my Thinkpad T60. For a lot of people who either write documents, or who code for a living, the trackpoint kicks the frak out of a touchpad, because you can use it without ever lifting your fingers from their touch-typing positions (which means you can code or create business docs faster).

    As for whether people think they're stylish: *laugh*
    Most of the people I know that are using Thinkpads probably don't give a rat's ass what people think about their laptop's "style", they care that it's top of the line performance, reliability, wrapped in a magnesium alloy and carbon composite case, and free-fall sensor to pull the read/write head off the hard-drive (which is why Thinkpads win the "drop test" that CNet or somebody does every year).

    I guess it's like people who drive a Benz sedan probably don't care that it doesn't have rear-spoilers, or as much stylistic design as Camero - it's still a better, more reliable car for people trying to get someplace, rather than be seen getting someplace...
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    Image of NorwoodIsMyHero NorwoodIsMyHero
    12/09/09

    In reply to The Best Windows Laptops, From $400 to $1500
    I like getting reviews of best value across a wide price range. Good pickup Gizmodo editors!
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    Image of sharkync sharkync
    12/09/09

    @NorwoodIsMyHero:

    Speaking of editors,who are these people and where did they come from?
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    Image of NorwoodIsMyHero NorwoodIsMyHero
    12/09/09

    @sharkync: This is from LaptopMag.com.

    Gizmodo does seem to be having several of these hosted type articles today, but they've all been great finds. I'd be just fine if Gizmodo included more of this aggregating of good articles alongside their own content.
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    Image of NorwoodIsMyHero NorwoodIsMyHero
    12/09/09

    In reply to Dell Vostro V13 Hands On: Bruce Wayne's Laptop
    I buy laptops for my mother who is the consumate business traveler. I'm sold on this. I'll probably have her shell out to get Windows. Probably have her upgrade the RAM too, but for many business travelers it's primarily Office, a browser, and email, all of which can easily be run with 2GB RAM.
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    Image of jinushaun jinushaun
    12/08/09

    In reply to Dell Vostro V13 Hands On: Bruce Wayne's Laptop
    Is it Hackintoshable?
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    Image of Nathan Obbards Nathan Obbards
    12/08/09

    @jinushaun: I get the feeling this is the new "Can it run Crysis?".
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    12/08/09

    In reply to Dell Vostro V13 Hands On: Bruce Wayne's Laptop
    OT (well, sort of relative), but what's up with memory (laptop or desktop) being so freakishly expensive lately?
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    Image of Nitesh Singh Nitesh Singh
    12/08/09

    @ripfire: Huh? DDR3 memory has hit new lows for price, although DDR2 is going up in price now (as did DDR when DDR2 was released) since less companies are producing it.
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    Image of HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H. HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H.
    12/08/09

    @ripfire: It's not that it's freakishly expensive now, it's that it was freakishly cheap for a while there. The market is finally, sadly, correcting.
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    12/08/09

    @Nitesh Singh: What? I got 4gb (2x2) of DDR3 (1333) for $70 bucks back in June and most of them floated around that price. Now they're around $90-$120 bucks.

    As for the market correcting, that's BS. I find it hard to believe that memory was freakishly cheap for 3 straight years for DDR2 (and those are up now too).
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