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Looking for a new laptop...Suggestions?

Well, the MacBook Pro is on eBay, and I'm in need of a replacement. Not that there is anything wrong with it, I'm just done with Apple.
Anywho, I'm in the market for a reliable, fast, and new computer (PC, no mac )
The minimum specs I'm looking for:
* Intel i5 or i7
* At LEAST 4 gigs of RAM
* Less than 2 inches thick
* At least a 15" screen
I'm also open to suggestions, so let me know.
Do you guys have any personal preferences/experiences? Best place to buy?

Sony Vaio (of some kind) or..
Alienware Laptop?
Or Dell?
Iam a dell fan even though i haven't bought any of their equipment.
Try this: http://laptoplogic.com/laptop-finder/advanced

Any price range?
by the MacBook pro I'm guessing 800 1000 is close?

I bought a Msi a6200 at electronic express for $549 on no tax weekend here. Core i5 430m, 4gb ddr3, 500 gb hdd, Bluetooth, wireless n card, and HDMI out. I'm loving it. Asus laptops are also nice.
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Thanks for the link flyboy.
My family has had some bad experiences with dell in the past. I used to love their commercials though lol. "DUDE, you're gettin' a DELL!"
Alienware is definitely one of my prospects...Haven't really seen any that I would consider "thin"...But I'm used to the mac of course lol.
@Max I was just thinking that I should have posted a price range. Anything from $800- ~$1100 (US)

+1 vote on sony vaio , looks nice also it will get u laid
git on it
http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs...tegoryId=16154&N=4294966502&Name=VAIO+Laptops

souljaboy said:
+1 vote on sony vaio , looks nice also it will get u laid
git on it
http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs...tegoryId=16154&N=4294966502&Name=VAIO+Laptops
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Hahahaha +1
I like that..."Sony Style"...lol

The advanced laptop finder gives me no results, with numerous different inputs lol. Even when I just picked the brands and "not important" on everything else. Odd.

wdfowty said:
@Max I was just thinking that I should have posted a price range. Anything from $800- ~$1100 (US)
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What a guess !!!!!! if your looking for thin all I can thinkmof is an MBA but not what your wanting so yeah I reckon the vaio

Not necessarily "thin", just something thinner than two inches that I can lug around school without breaking my back, or backpack.

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Not necessarily "thin", just something thinner than two inches that I can lug around school without breaking my back, or backpack.
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Ah okay

i always have noticed alienware laptops are very thick

Yep. I don't think an alienware is really worth it unless it's a desktop anyways. Some of em look really sick though.

wdfowty said:
Yep. I don't think an alienware is really worth it unless it's a desktop anyways. Some of em look really sick though.
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I agree, the desktops look amazing!!
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Sony vaio laptop are cheaply made, not good enough if your a student.
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htc fan89 said:
Sony vaio laptop are cheaply made, not good enough if your a student.
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if by student u mean a pussi who gets beaten up every afternoon with the notebook in his backpack ... ur maybe rite , ud need a toughbook ...
but if ur just calling a sony cheaply made ... man either uve never had an asus/compaq/fujitsu/(insert 80% of other brands here) or u work for them

souljaboy said:
if by student u mean a pussi who gets beaten up every afternoon with the notebook in his backpack ... ur maybe rite , ud need a toughbook ...
but if ur just calling a sony cheaply made ... man either uve never had an asus/compaq/fujitsu/(insert 80% of other brands here) or u work for them
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Which viao would you suggest?
htc fan89 said:
I'm still using my first laptop which is an Sony vaio its like a desktop. My newer laptop broke which is also an vaio.
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lol

You cant disagree that this one looks lush (The gold one) but shame it's only got an 11" screen
looking for me too now realised mine is just too slow i just got a much lower price range though

My old Sony laptop was more better built than my new one, so I mean the new vaio seem not as solid as before ones.
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MacaronyMax said:
You cant disagree that this one looks lush (The gold one) but shame it's only got an 11" screen p
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i cant recommend one in particular its up to ur screen size and price preferences

Are you gonna get a white or red battery door?

or stick with the one you have?
White:http://www.droid-life.com/2010/09/04/want-a-white-or-red-incredible-heres-how-to-get-one/
Red:http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/4956154688/in/photostream....the user that posted this pic up said it wasnt that pink in real life

I certainly hope it's not pink, I wouldn't like that a lot
I like my back better:
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Pre-production battery cover. The pic really doesn't do it justice on how sexy it looks.

Berzerker7 said:
I certainly hope it's not pink, I wouldn't like that a lot
I like my back better:
Pre-production battery cover. The pic really doesn't do it justice on how sexy it looks.
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Yea, I really want to get the pre production one...but for one, I'm not looking to get a new back cover any time soon and they're probably all going to be gone by the time I am...and I'm not willing to shell out $50-$100 for it either...the most I would pay is $25
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Berzerker7 said:
I certainly hope it's not pink, I wouldn't like that a lot
I like my back better:
Pre-production battery cover. The pic really doesn't do it justice on how sexy it looks.
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Where can I get me one of those pre-production covers?
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will survive said:
Where can I get me one of those pre-production covers?
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Good luck trying to find one, I got it from a guy on ebay who had extra ones he hadn't sold. He's sold all of them since.

will survive said:
Where can I get me one of those pre-production covers?
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A lot of people bought them from this place for $20
http://www.repairhppda.com/htc-htc-...Csid=77e6c8b862df41cb4f300e432c01c06b&sort=3a
They are sold out right now but keep checking they may get more in stock (not sure how but its worth a look if you really want one)

I kind of like the look of the red aluminum cover they have there.

I don't think the ones on that website are the pre production covers...
I nabbed one off EBay too:
A couple other shots (and full res versions) are here: http://www.simontuffguy.com/index.php/2010/09/05/htc-incredible-pre-production-battery-cover/

SimonTuffGuy said:
I don't think the ones on that website are the pre production covers...
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The red ones they did have were the same exact ones as in your photos. But they are sold out.

Has anyone been able to successfully order a white one yet? I have called about 4-5 times and gotten the same "i don't know" answer...

Oh wow I like the pre-production cover, I'd never seen one til now. The white one looks pretty nice too, but I feel like with a white back and a black front the phone would look too iPhone 3G like to me. It does look pretty clean though...hmmm.

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SimonTuffGuy said:
I don't think the ones on that website are the pre production covers...
I nabbed one off EBay too:
A couple other shots (and full res versions) are here: http://www.simontuffguy.com/index.php/2010/09/05/htc-incredible-pre-production-battery-cover/
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Oh wow, I really like that cover. The Android is the icing on the cake, did you find those on ebay?

g00s3y said:
Has anyone been able to successfully order a white one yet? I have called about 4-5 times and gotten the same "i don't know" answer...
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I ordered one of each. I just called in and gave them the part number for each.

I hope they fit better because my battery door is starting to get loose and not snap on tight. It squeeks too so hopefully this is more snug.
Edit: just picked up the white one at my local verizon wireless retail store, they only had one. Looks really good, definitely makes my incredible a lot more unique.
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Nah that's a waste of money.. I'm going to put it in my case and never take it out anyway. I'd rather blow that on a car dock. if HTC made one.

My battery doors just arrived. Both look great, but the red is awesome. It's Ferrari Red.

Pics
Could you take some pics. Thanks in advance.

You can get an android like this to get the same look.

mikeymop said:
Oh wow, I really like that cover. The Android is the icing on the cake, did you find those on ebay?
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*shock* His name is Andy thank you very much! =p
Unless I get an extended battery that needs more room (which I might have to get... for some reason when I upgraded from 2.1-update1 to the official 2.2 OTA my phone doesn't last more than a day, when before I could easily get 2 - 3 days of standby/short calls), I think I am going to customize it myself with a yet undecided design + goldleaf. I think the real gold would offset well with the stock black.

White Nexus S skins

Hey so I stumbled upon this site tonight.
http://www.uniqueskins.com/Products/Samsung/Custom+Samsung+Nexus+S+Skin?t=c
They seem to sell really cheap bit high quality skins for the nexus s. I was thinking about buying a full white one and turning my nexus s fully white. Anybody want to give it a whirl and yell us how it goes? Ill do it pretty soon but I gotta wait til I get back from a trip.
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im seriously tempted to give one a whirl, gotta be worth a try right?

slimjimwoods said:
im seriously tempted to give one a whirl, gotta be worth a try right?
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I bought one lets see how it goes....

slimjimwoods said:
I bought one lets see how it goes....
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please post pics ive seen several skins online but i have yet to see someone with it. im looking for custom back doors. i would love that

I may try this later on
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Hmm, I'm pretty sure you won't get a "fully white" Nexus S because there will be some gaps when you apply the skin (due to Nexus S' shape -- something like the pic below.)
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The best coverage you can get is what Best Skins Ever / Ghost Armor can currently achieve.

charlieb620 said:
please post pics ive seen several skins online but i have yet to see someone with it. im looking for custom back doors. i would love that
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Definitely post pics please. I'm very very interested but I'd like to see it on someone's phone first.

I want to know how the front will look with the capacitive buttons on the bottom. When you design the skin, it looks like the front covers the whole bottom...

Anybody get theirs yet?
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Any review?

I'm still waiting on somebody to post back with their results
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http://cgi.ebay.com/WHITE-DECAL-SKI...&otn=5&po=LVI&ps=63&clkid=7565966975175726154
Thought this is interesting. Are these removable? Will it leave residues?

richrach said:
Any review?
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mine has arrived, i didnt design the front, so it was just white. I did however apply it just out of interest. It looked ok, perfect fit, but did cover the capacitive buttons (which still worked)
The back is really just a very well placed sticker, with a second part to attach to the 'chin', which i didnt bother with.
All in all, as you can see, it looks pretty good, and i will be ordering another darker one, this was just a quick test really
http://imgur.com/5AGgQ

slimjimwoods said:
http://imgur.com/5AGgQ
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Nice!!
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slimjimwoods said:
mine has arrived, i didnt design the front, so it was just white. I did however apply it just out of interest. It looked ok, perfect fit, but did cover the capacitive buttons (which still worked)
The back is really just a very well placed sticker, with a second part to attach to the 'chin', which i didnt bother with.
All in all, as you can see, it looks pretty good, and i will be ordering another darker one, this was just a quick test really
http://imgur.com/5AGgQ
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can you take a picture of the front? I'm curious to see how it looks.

I'm afraid I took the front off already, I'm ordering another soon and this time I shall design the front and show that as well.
It fit perfectly but was white and didn't show the screen at its best, and the screen is one of the most important things to me!
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johnkim0011 said:
http://cgi.ebay.com/WHITE-DECAL-SKI...&otn=5&po=LVI&ps=63&clkid=7565966975175726154
Thought this is interesting. Are these removable? Will it leave residues?
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Like this one.
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I might take the plunge and check it out. Either that or i'll get the white carbon fiber chromatics.

anyone else given these a try? Id be keen to see any other designs....

Your halloween custume

I know we are all nerds/geeks/losers here but some of us go to parties, and Halloween is no exception. I will be photographing a party, but that doesn't mean I wont be partying myself. What I have just ordered is a coverall suit (the white suits you use in asbestos, or when handling hazardous materials) some stage blood and a mask. Will spray some fake blood on it, do hand prints and stuff, and wear that with the mask on, making it look like I just killed someone. I got the idea from that gif where the guy is cleaning off the blood off his car dressed like that lol. I will try to hide my face and see how long it'll take for people to realize it's me. Also many people know I shoot canon, so I will tape up all the canon logos, and maybe if one of you has one to donate, but a Nikon sticker over the canon logo so people don't see it's me. lol. You bet there will be pics up here once I get everything home. What are your ideas?
tl;dr
What are you wearing for halloween?

i'm trying to put together the LMFAO robot costume...it's gonna be a PITA.

I need some suggestions. It will be me and my girlfriend going as a couple. I'm thinking. Tron. I'll be Sam and my gf will be Quorra. I think it would be sweet. I would like to make the costumes from scratch with the leds. Would be sick and possibly best costume.
Any suggestions for couple costumes that would blow people away?
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shugga101 said:
I need some suggestions. It will be me and my girlfriend going as a couple. I'm thinking. Tron. I'll be Sam and my gf will be Quorra. I think it would be sweet. I would like to make the costumes from scratch with the leds. Would be sick and possibly best costume.
Any suggestions for couple costumes that would blow people away?
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shugga101 said:
I need some suggestions. It will be me and my girlfriend going as a couple. I'm thinking. Tron. I'll be Sam and my gf will be Quorra. I think it would be sweet. I would like to make the costumes from scratch with the leds. Would be sick and possibly best costume.
Any suggestions for couple costumes that would blow people away?
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Bleach and ammonia.
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What I love about Malaysia is that nobody knows about Halloween. It's my favourite day for scaring the $#[email protected]+ out of people. My collaborators are ready and willing.

Lurch - Addams Family.
I don't even need a costume for that.
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I plan on doing something like this:
-Hercules grabbed my post, and threw it at your face to be read-

I_am_Error said:
I plan on doing something like this:
*pic*
-Hercules grabbed my post, and threw it at your face to be read-
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Oh I see! You're putting on a human mask!

m1l4droid said:
Well, we don't celebrate halloween here but if we did, I'd love to have something like this:
Also, check THIS out, some pretty awesome stuff in there!
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Want that lol
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I'd go as the Emporer, no not Palpatine, the one who got new clothes, that'd be scarier

I'm going to a costume party tomorrow as Achmed The Dead Terrorist.

NightHawk877 said:
I'm going to a costume party tomorrow as Achmed The Dead Terrorist.
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I kill you!

Bumpiddy bump, i go to sleep drunk u post.
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Colombiano80 said:
i'm trying to put together the LMFAO robot costume...it's gonna be a PITA.
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F#ck Yeah, now i wanna go as the shuffle bot

Either a cardboard box

We do celebrate Halloween in Norway, but i'm not doing anything this year. But what i really want is this:
An authentic darth vader costume with the sound box thingy. But it's $800, so it'll have to wait a little.
http://www.buystarwarscostumes.com/darth_vader_authentic.html

that's me.
.....what? the matrix was epic

Im gonna be a kitty

TheRomMistress said:
Im gonna be a kitty
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I thought you already have a p.... I mean kitty?

TheRomMistress said:
Im gonna be a kitty
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Pics, or it definitely didn't happen
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dock/nightstand for my dinc

I made this dock/nightstand for my droid incredible. I would show you how good it looks with the phone in it, but I used my phone to take the picture.
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LOL it kinda looks like monument on Droid cemetery. RIP DInc
Great job regardless, a lot of attention to details. But picture is epic fail - get another phone/camera and take a picture with phone in.

Really?
I shared what I had built as it was at the moment. Isn't that what this developer's forum is all about? Perhaps you can help us all out and run over to every thread where someone has posted a beta, alpha, or nightly and let them know that they have an epic fail for not making sure it was not needing any more development before they posted it.

dltccf said:
I shared what I had built as it was at the moment. Isn't that what this developer's forum is all about? Perhaps you can help us all out and run over to every thread where someone has posted a beta, alpha, or nightly and let them know that they have an epic fail for not making sure it was not needing any more development before they posted it.
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they do not represent xda in any way.
i like how it looks but what about heat? does it get hot in there? looks sick. reminds me of my wood shop days.

dltccf said:
I shared what I had built as it was at the moment. Isn't that what this developer's forum is all about? Perhaps you can help us all out and run over to every thread where someone has posted a beta, alpha, or nightly and let them know that they have an epic fail for not making sure it was not needing any more development before they posted it.
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ouch...... lol

synisterwolf said:
they do not represent xda in any way.
i like how it looks but what about heat? does it get hot in there? looks sick. reminds me of my wood shop days.
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So far heat is OK. although I haven't tried watching a movie on it in the dock yet.

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So far heat is OK. although I haven't tried watching a movie on it in the dock yet.
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It would be interesting to hear how hot it gets. even in my old otter box case the thing use to cook. i can imagine wood. but never the less it looks awesome. great work.

Nice job man! Love the black carved out Androids!

That's pretty awesome. I'd be too afraid of the heat though. Still great build nonetheless.

Good job on the dock. It's pretty cool...you even got a little notch for the camera on the droid inc.

I wish I was half as creative and handy as you. Very nice job!

That's pretty cool! I actually cruised over here to see if anyone made their own dock recently.

finally
Finally got around to taking a picture of the dock with the phone in it. The display is the "night display" from Gentle Alarm. In the background, you can even see part of the landline and the alarm clock made not necessary by the phone in the dock.

wow over 1600 views
I just looked at this thread and realized over 1,600 people have looked at my dock. Wow. I have been using it for several months as an alarm clock in the dock every night and so far no heat issues. It has been working out very well. After seeing how many people were interested in a dock I think I should have offered to make and sell them. I still could, but I imagine the market for a new dock for this old phone is dwindling.

I would buy one. Red androids please.

Comicazy said:
I would buy one. Red androids please.
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Ok, if you want one I can make one. I wouldn't expect to be making very many of these so each one could be customized. That one was made in pine which I stained with a pecan stain. I have since come across some walnut boards. I could make one in walnut which would look much better than pine. If you want some other type of wood I can see about getting some. I used a micro to standard USB cable which allows me to either plug it into the computer or into the standard dinc AC adapter. I can also change the design with more or less androids, your name or some completely different design, even a square or sculpted top rather than a round one.
If something in the neighborhood of 50 bucks is in your price range let me know along with any specifics of the design you want.
And, of course, for everyone elses' enjoyment I can post a picture here when it is done.

How do you have your usb plug secured in there? I've been trying to come up with a design for one of my own since I always use my phone as my alarm clock, but I've not come up with a good way to get the plug to stay in place so that the phone can be plugged in easily.

"Haus" said:
How do you have your usb plug secured in there? I've been trying to come up with a design for one of my own since I always use my phone as my alarm clock, but I've not come up with a good way to get the plug to stay in place so that the phone can be plugged in easily.
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I placed the phone in the holder then I plugged the usb connector into it through the other hole I had cut for it. Then I put some gorilla glue around the plastic part of the plug being careful to keep it away from the end. Gorilla glue expands and fills the space around the plug. I lightly clamped the phone in place overnight, but a couple hours should be enough, and then when I removed the clamp, the plug is secured in place exactly where it needs to be.

Cool idea, looks great!

JoeSchmoe007 said:
LOL it kinda looks like monument on Droid cemetery. RIP DInc
Great job regardless, a lot of attention to details. But picture is epic fail - get another phone/camera and take a picture with phone in.
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Aha, I had that same thought as well!