coolest laptops!

syamajala · 2005-12-21 02:46:21

who do you think makes the coolest laptops?

I personally think sony does. They have made some amazingly thin laptops like the x505. Then there are things like the PCG-TR3AP1, the picturebook, and the vgn-u750p (which has only been rivaled by oqo). For normal people these things do ok and make for some cool toys o<|;-p

renners1 · 2005-12-21 03:56:52

Sony certainly make some nice kit, but they don't do custom paint jobs....

Dear Santa I've been a good boy, honest!

Cheers, Renners

deficite · 2005-12-21 07:55:06

Yeah, I think Sony makes some awesome laptops. We "acquired" one recently and it's very speedy and the built-in memory stick slot is pretty cool. I only wish it didn't use Intel graphics.

Snarkout · 2005-12-21 08:04:09

Thinkpads.

postlogic · 2005-12-21 08:50:43

Sony Vaio!

Gullible Jones · 2005-12-21 11:10:11

Anything with a Pentium M and a pointing stick. (You know, a la IBM's TrackPoint.)

atze · 2005-12-21 15:12:42

ibook or powerbook

kleptophobiac · 2005-12-21 15:27:46

The IBM T series. They're beyond badass.

I have a (now dated) T41p, and I couldn't be happier. It's held up fabulously and some of my friends with shiny new blingboxen are jealous of my year and a half old Thinkpad. I too love the wigglestick.

kth5 · 2005-12-21 16:58:59

atze wrote:

ibook or powerbook

second that. it always seemed to me as if apple sells the most linux compliant laptops. even the rather new productline of the ibooks is fully supported, now that a free driver for the airport extreme became available. combined with r300 and up to 6h battery lifetime this is the total hammer. not too pricey either.

an ibook is always a nice pick.

jellywerker · 2005-12-21 19:43:04

But nothing comes with nvidia! save for a toshiba I saw on their website.

cactus · 2005-12-21 19:47:14

kth5 wrote:

atze wrote:
ibook or powerbook
second that. it always seemed to me as if apple sells the most linux compliant laptops. even the rather new productline of the ibooks is fully supported, now that a free driver for the airport extreme became available. combined with r300 and up to 6h battery lifetime this is the total hammer. not too pricey either.
an ibook is always a nice pick.

what's this? driver for airport?
/me craps pants
o.O

I might have to recover the powerbook that my girlie hijacked from me..
At least...for a little while.

Now if I could just get a decent keyboard on a mac laptop..

lessthanjake · 2005-12-21 20:06:13

Anything smaller than 11" and less then 1.3 kg, this one in nice http://kemplar.com/panasonic_r4.php

kth5 · 2005-12-21 21:46:35

cactus wrote:

what's this? driver for airport?
/me craps pants
o.O
I might have to recover the powerbook that my girlie hijacked from me..
At least...for a little while.
Now if I could just get a decent keyboard on a mac laptop..

here it is:
http://bcm43xx.berlios.de

[edit]
it is of course still highly experimental and i wasn't able to try it yet. i hear some did but not about any success. still, this might be the project to get the job done.

Dusty · 2005-12-22 00:19:30

My prof has one of these.... its pretty damn cool.

http://www.oqo.com/hardware/basics/

bet it would be a pain to get Linux on it though.

Dusty

syamajala · 2005-12-22 00:23:12

dusty, i got linux on my vaio pcg-u750p. its like the oqo but it doesn't have a built in keyboard. i used damn small linux and usb floppy drive. then i just resized the ntfs partition and installed arch from dsl. pictures here: http://genesis.blogdns.net/other/sony

deficite · 2005-12-22 07:56:02

Dusty wrote:

My prof has one of these.... its pretty damn cool.
http://www.oqo.com/hardware/basics/
bet it would be a pain to get Linux on it though.
Dusty

It'd be funny to show up at a LAN party using that. Even funnier if you still beat everybody.

Gullible Jones · 2005-12-22 11:57:43

Actually, one of our number had E17 on one of those, IIRC.

syamajala · 2005-12-22 19:34:47

i play mafia on the vaio sometimes. it runs ok. i think the oqo has a transmeta cpu, so it might not be as good for games as the vaio is, which has a pentium m.

deficite · 2005-12-22 21:10:52

I'm sure it'd run Starcraft and UT fine, which is the two games I mainly play.

B15HOP · 2005-12-28 18:30:55

Alienware seem to make some good laptops, but they should make a good A64 laptop dammit!

Phillip.

newgargamel · 2005-12-28 19:52:06

My choice: Asus Z71V(or Z71A if you like ATI). Arch works perfect on it

xaos5 · 2006-01-11 16:51:33

newgargamel wrote:

My choice: Asus Z71V(or Z71A if you like ATI). Arch works perfect on it

everything works perfect 100%? Where did you get it at and does it have hardware sound mixing?

newgargamel · 2006-01-11 19:16:44

Works with current/testing
to check hardware go here -> http://resonance.org/~josh/laptop.html
bought here -> www.geared2play.com
sound card works fine with alsa 1.0.10rc3

honzor · 2006-01-11 20:33:27

Call me a fool, but i really like Dell's Price/Quality Ratio.Arch works just like a dream on my Inspiron

Gullible Jones · 2006-01-11 21:30:25

Just never buy anything cheap from Dell. You might find it to be missing something important... Like, for example, an AGP slot. :shock:

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