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I want a 14-15" laptop for design and development. Willing to drop at most $2500. Right now I'm keying in on the 15" Macbook Pro (2.2 Ghz, 4GB but 8GB with $80-100 aftermarket RAM, 1680x1050 antiglare).
I want to know what the best 14"-15" high end Windows laptops are right now. I think the build of the Macbook is second to none but a 1080p display and better specs may just make me skip the Macbook if the build and batterylife are decent enough.
Are you getting the 1gb video card?
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Yeah. Looked into the dell XPS 15z... looked so perfect but no quad core... Had a HP Envy 15 before but they seemed to have dropped it for the Sub par 14... where are the beast Windows laptops?
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Hmm there are always the alienware m14x And m15x, don't know if you like those but they can be a real beast is you spec them out right. And with your budget I don't that's too big of a deal
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i would go for a toshiba satellite. they do ship out with quad cores and decent graphics cards, and the top notch harman/kardon speakers never fail to impress
The macs are well built but didnt ifixit find too much thermal paste
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For that amount of dosh get any Intel core i7
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OK so I'm building my first rig and I've heard of the cpu almost 'restricting' my gpu. Also post any ideas or thoughts on my build as I would love to know. (I'm a beginner when it comes to hardware)
Asus GTS 450 1GB Silent Direct CU $154.70
AMD Athlon II X2 260 @ 3.2
Asrock 880GMH AM3
Western Digital 500Gb SATA
Adata 4GB XPG Gaming DDR3 4GB @ 1600MHZ
Huntkey GreenPower 550w
It is a budget build and I couldn't find the appropriate section for PC's.
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Lol, I think that's because xda it's a forum for phones. But I dabble in computers.
At first glance I would say you were combining old tech (amd athalon 2) with newer tech (mobo and ram) so I would definitely say your rig is being limited by your CPU. I'm not 100% familiar with amd since I'm more of an Intel guy, but I'll do some research for you.
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Lol, I think that's because xda it's a forum for phones. But I dabble in computers.
At first glance I would say you were combining old tech (amd athalon 2) with newer tech (mobo and ram) so I would definitely say your rig is being limited by your CPU. I'm not 100% familiar with amd since I'm more of an Intel guy, but I'll do some research for you.
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Thanks yeah the athlon is getting quite old yet overclocking to 3.7ghz would help but I don't think it would help enough. I might have to look more at the Phenom lineup
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OK so I'm building my first rig and I've heard of the cpu almost 'restricting' my gpu. Also post any ideas or thoughts on my build as I would love to know. (I'm a beginner when it comes to hardware)
Asus GTS 450 1GB Silent Direct CU $154.70
AMD Athlon II X2 260 @ 3.2
Asrock 880GMH AM3
Western Digital 500Gb SATA
Adata 4GB XPG Gaming DDR3 4GB @ 1600MHZ
Huntkey GreenPower 550w
It is a budget build and I couldn't find the appropriate section for PC's.
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I did a conversion for you us people and I'm looking a a build for around $470 USD
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Some other thoughts:
You motherboard has 4 memory slots for DDR3 ram that operate only in dual channel mode. DDR3 ram is meant to be operated in triple channel mode. Meaning shots gave to be in multiples of 3. So your MOBO is restricting your ram.
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Some other thoughts:
You motherboard has 4 memory slots for DDR3 ram that operate only in dual channel mode. DDR3 ram is meant to be operated in triple channel mode. Meaning shots gave to be in multiples of 3. So your MOBO is restricting your ram.
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Right OK I will have a look at that
I don't really think I need triple-channel either though.
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Hi guys I know this doesn't have anything to do with this website but I kinda need help and I don't know any other site so yeah
I have a 2GB RAM Intel Core Duo 2.93GHz and 2.86GHz Im running Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Mac OS X Lion inside Virtual machine on VMware workstation 8 anywho Im planning on buying extra 4GB of RAM for better proformance and I was wondering can I add extra processor too like Intel Core i5 (dual Core) or another Intel Core Duo.
So guys what do you think I need help and I'm sorry if that was of topic but I need help
And do you have another suggestions for better hardware.
THANK YOU.
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You can have only one processor at a time (usually, I've seen freak motherboards that support 2 CPUs), also, you have a C2D which is a different socket than an i5, so even if you buy a new CPU, you would need a new motherboard. Also for the ram, make sure you have enough slots for it, and make sure you get the correct one. If you have no idea what I'm talking about go to a computer repair shop, they'll do everything you want to do.
Thanks, I can add up to 6GB of RAM so yeah I'm covered on that part but do you think I need a newer processor or will the core duo and the 6GB of RAM would be enough to run both OS' smoothly?
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yuseiatlas said:
Thanks, I can add up to 6GB of RAM so yeah I'm covered on that part but do you think I need a newer processor or will the core duo and the 6GB of RAM would be enough to run both OS' smoothly?
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Since you arent running them at the same time it should be good. I have 8gb RAM, and C2D CPU and windows & runs good, and W8 uses less resources.
I'm gonna run Mac OS X Lion in virtual machine on VMware Workstation 8 does 2GB or 3GB and a single 2.93GHz core on the virtual machine enough to run it inside VMware smoothly?
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yuseiatlas said:
I'm gonna run Mac OS X Lion in virtual machine on VMware Workstation 8 does 2GB or 3GB and a single 2.93GHz core on the virtual machine enough to run it inside VMware smoothly?
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Yes, you should be fine, but don't think you wil use it for heavy video processing or something.
No, I'll just be using Mac OS X Lion for some apps and internet browsing. Maybe a movie rarely.
Thank you so much sir you really helped me.
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yuseiatlas said:
No, I'll just be using Mac OS X Lion for some apps and internet browsing. Maybe a movie rarely.
Thank you so much sir you really helped me.
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And you can't do that on windows?
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Is the Tegra3 processor a 2core, 3core or 4core and what is the GHZ speed of this Tegra3? I love this new Nexus7 it is totally awesome.
Quad hut actually has 5...I believe it is 1.2ghz stock (could be wrong).
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Just watched a neat nVidia video on the Tegra 3. It has 4-cores and a "companion core". The companion core does all the mundane background stuff and sucks the least juice. The other cores only kick in when needed, like for loading an app quickly, playing a game, etc.
The video was linked in another thread on XDA...just can't remember where.
It's a 5 core chip with a 12 core GPU, clocked at 1.3 ghz.
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It's a 5 core chip with a 12 core GPU, clocked at 1.3 ghz.
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1.5Ghz still recognized as quad core
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XxLostSoulxX said:
1.5Ghz still recognized as quad core
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It's 1.3 ghz with 4 cores + power saving core.
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I second the above^^
I know leaks are silly most of the time, but has anyone seen the N5 leaks?
The specs are kinda sweet. 2.3GHz quadcore, 1080p, 5.2 in, 3GB RAM and such.
Probably still no microSD. They would sell a lot more N4 with microSD.
Most of them I don't want or need. But as the N4 is not that expensive, I might trade up. How about you guys?
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I still think its not coming until fall.
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Just a rumour, may not be true
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Maybe WiFi will be fixed by then
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Lol, it mentioned 4k video recording at 30fps.
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i think these rumours are just partially true. i dont think google will release a phone with 5.2" for now, im not even sure it will be 5". just look at the htc one, 4.7" and full hd, i think that would be perfect.
3gb ram... sounds weird. i think theyre gonna stick with 2 gigs. never seen my n4 run above 1.2 in usage.
2.3ghz cpu = snapdragon 800. might be true, although they might go with tegra4. either way, its gonna pack a lot of power.
no microsd slot is reasonable, just give me the opportunity to have at least 32 gigs of storage, and im gonna be fine.
the biggest hit with the n5 will be key lime pie imo. the hardware is waay ahead of the software if we're talking about android.
we need sw optimizations, and for the love of god, do something with the battery! the most annoying thing of any smartphone is that it must be charged every day if used normally.
im really interested in motos x phone, it should - like moto usually does - deliver decent battery life with good hardware and if the rumours are true, it will have vanilla android = its a win for me.
These are all rumors, wait for more reliable info, closed.
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Lol 3GB Ram.
These threads are getting out of hand here. Use some common sense people.
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These are all rumors, wait for more reliable info, closed.
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Is there no fun in these articles?, we don`t cure cancer here. Just people who are intersted in improving and tweaking their phones and intersted in what`s to come
I don't care about these specs. But have you seen this design ??/ Totaly sick !
Nope it's not the next nexus. 3gb ram? There wasn't even 2gb ram on high end phones until last month.
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Nope it's not the next nexus. 3gb ram? There wasn't even 2gb ram on high end phones until last month.
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U.S. versions of the SGS3 have 2GB RAM. They were released in what, June or July of 2012?
2.5Gb or 4Gb RAM is more likely than 3 and hopefully DDR3.
I thought the rumor for KLP and allegedly up the newer Linux kernels use way less RAM then ICS/JB...why the need for more than 2gb then?
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I'm not buying a 5 inch phone too big, 4.9 maybe
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I thought the rumor for KLP and allegedly up the newer Linux kernels use way less RAM then ICS/JB...why the need for more than 2gb then?
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I was thinking the same thing. A mobile device using even 2GB RAM is a bit ridiculous. Jit compiling and Java in general are such resource hogs. Oh well.
Who says nexus five will be built by LG? (thread title)
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Yeah just seems like overkill, or perhaps KLP and up will gobble up more RAM than we thought?
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Yeah just seems like overkill, or perhaps KLP and up will gobble up more RAM than we thought?
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The main issue I see is that you have a ton of basement coders with no real training or experience releasing apps onto the Play Store loaded with inefficient and just poor code. That, I think, will be the main issue causing the "need" for more resources.
Shall we get into why quad and octa core CPU's in a phone are ridiculous with multi threading being in the state it's in or leave it alone?