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  1. Guest-16

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    As title - what laptops would you like to see reviewed here?

    I can get my hands on Asus or MSI easily. Acer have said they won't support me out here - it's EU support only for an EU website :( so you'll have to pester the UK guys for a Timeline review. I can try other Taiwanese brands easily, but not Dell or HP. Maybeee HP, if they have a local PR.

    Anyway, let me know if you've seen anything you'd like to know about! :thumb:

    Currently I'm looking at Asus VX6, G73 w/GTX 480 and its new Bamboo U33, and MSI's new gaming laptops.
     
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  2. xMathiasD

    xMathiasD What's a Dremel?

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    + 1 for that one!
     
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  3. adam_bagpuss

    adam_bagpuss Have you tried turning it off/on ?

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    what about samsungs or toshiba ones ?

    what about a laptop roundup ?
     
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  4. Zinfandel

    Zinfandel Modder

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    I'd like to see the MSI ones. Shame you can't put an XPS up against them.

    Don't they put them up for review because they'll get hammered? Could you review it if you got hold of one (IE if someone was willing to lend you one)?
     
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  5. Parge

    Parge the worst Super Moderator

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    Best Buy have just launched in the UK, so the Gateway P-7811 FX - the P6831FX was the original value gaming laptop and a massive success in the US. I don't know if Best Buy stock this laptop or not, but I'd hope they would.

    I'd like to see more reviews of gaming laptops that I may one day be able to afford instead of £3000 DELL XPS with SLI 480GTXm's etc!
     
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  6. Tyrmot

    Tyrmot Minimodder

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    The Asus VX6 would be interesting.

    Also the Asus 1215N is out soon - as the first Optimus/ION2 netbook (excluding the 1201N which didn't have optimus) it would be good to see what kind of performance this has in multimedia/gaming and effects on battery life as I'm pondering buying one myself...
     
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  7. fingerbob69

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    Best gaming laptop under £500 inc vat is?

    No idea but would like to know.
     
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  8. Siberdine

    Siberdine Safety Not Guaranteed.

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    Maybe a laptop buyer's guide, somewhat like the desktop buyer guide? ^^
    (All rounder, enthusiast, gamer, etc.)
     
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  9. Syn

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    how about the thinkpad edge?
     
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  10. sandys

    sandys Multimodder

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    Any Android laptop, would like to know what companies are doing with this and how it compares in usability/mobility stakes with conventional laptop, I can probably guess but rather have the facts.

    Any gaming laptop, that has the power to play the latest stuff when you want to but is also portable with decent battery life rather than a DTR, does such a thing exist?
     
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  11. roosauce

    roosauce Looking for xmas projects??

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    Anything with nvidia Optimus tech - it looks pretty interesting.

    [​IMG]
     
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  12. Flibblebot

    Flibblebot Smile with me

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    Personally, laptop reviews that would interest me fall into one of two categories: workhorse laptops, where processing power isn't necessarily as important as comfort, battery life etc; and extreme laptops, where the overriding factor is horsepower and graphical oomph (and whether or not it can play Crysis).

    I'd probably never get a laptop in the latter category, but I like to read about them as they push the boundaries of what's possible in such constrained form factor ;)
     
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  13. bigkingfun

    bigkingfun Tinkering addict

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    HP Elitebook (8440p series)
    Sony VAIO
    Lenovo Thinkpads (T4xx series)

    I think a labtop review with multiple systems should focus on the new architechtures, I.E. not featuring C2D lappy's.
    Also I would like to see systems with screens under 15". I hated dragging my 15.6 incher to school everyday.
     
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  14. pimonserry

    pimonserry sounds like a party.

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    What about some ultraportables, to be the partner to people's power-desktops?

    I.e., 12/13/14 inch laptops with some decent power and battery life.
    E.g., MSI X360 or Vaio S

    And of course, any laptop that blows everything else out of the water - even if it's just a short article (e.g., news piece type length) it'd be cool to hear about the laptop with, say, 2 GTX480M GPUs inside ;)
     
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  15. Tyrmot

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    This is a good point - I think it's fair to say that most people with a decent gaming desktop don't want to splash out another £2-4,000 on a gaming laptop, but something with enough power to keep your hands busy while on the road - and at a reasonable kind of price - maybe ~£500? Would be the sort of thing I'd like to hear about at least. Am looking for something along those lines now, and am discovering it's really not that easy to find what's out there at the moment.
     
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  16. Guest-16

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    OK so the list so far is ultra portables - VX6 and X360
    workstation/DTRs/serious gaming machines - 15-17" - MSI gaming, Asus 15" gaming, GTX 480 vs Radeon 5870
    Asus U33 w/ Bamboo for "new things"
    NV Optimus tech
    Get a contact at Lenovo.

    Sony+Samsung+Alienware+Dell is for the UK guys I'm afraid - they have specific UK PR/samples.

    Righto! :)
     
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  17. stuartpb

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    A Macbook Pro?:D

    Some business class lappies would be good too, I'm on the lookout for one for work and uni purposes.
     
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  18. bigkingfun

    bigkingfun Tinkering addict

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  19. Yslen

    Yslen Lord of the Twenty-Seventh Circle

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    How about some of the pcspecialist models? They're UK based and great value compared to the bigger brands.
     
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  20. ripmax

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    The newer Rock laptops
     
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