Ativ Book 9 Plus, 3200x1800, Haswell, "12 hours" battery
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But where Is my 15" 1920x1200 Thinkpad?
The fuck is this guys? Currently I am using Asus Zenbook UX32VD and it is pretty nice (the nicest computer on the market that is), BUT it has no trackpoint.
I really wish that Lenovo would get their shit together and start offering sensible displays.
Besides what is the point of these mega high resoltuion displays on 13" notebooks when either Windows or Linux support is just horrible?
I mean my current machine has 13" with 1920 x 1080 and while it is fine for me. 3/4 of people just cannot use that kind of resolution.
on your other point, i used a sgi 24" crt with all the resolutions mentioned in this thread summed and UNIX/Linux/windows were just fine. And that was the 90s
My eyesight is better and I like it a lot. Thats why I could run a 2560 native resolution on a 15" display.
The screens work fine if you are willing to look at non native resolution screens.
Also CRTS do not look like crap when on a non native resolution. DPI scaling in windows and linux just sucks. That much is a fact.
My desktop has two 1920x1200 displays. I think I got amongst the last monitors sold as 16:10.
... and where is my 27" 270+ DPI desktop display?
.. but so far only announced availability in Japan.
The ubiquity of 1366 panels -- even in 15.6 notebooks! -- is beyond frustrating to me.
They also don't license it, which is why you don't see it anywhere else.
Granted, I am not looking very much, but when I see a new hot system, I do consider it, and I haven't seen anything that caught my eye :/
It doesn't seem to be causing much of an issue with the battery life, size, or resolution in this case but as a Linux user I don't need or want the touchscreen especially if it costs more as a consequence.
Two hard drives is a little misleading - it's a tiny mSATA drive slot plus a regular SATA slot.
They do list the battery as 53.28Wh however. Let's do some back-of-the-envelope.
At 2.0GHz the 4750HQ TDP is 47W. Chipset TDP is 2.7W. SSDs are damn near negligible (typically a few mW idle, less than 1W when active, but they sleep/wake very very fast so they're mostly always idle). I couldn't find a datasheet on their panel, so I'm going to guess the display consumes around 5W at full brightness. RAM maxed out will cost around 3-6W.
Assuming awful power management (or just running the thing full bore), you're looking at a worst case of somewhere around 45m to 1h. Assuming decent power management (5W idle with screen on at less than full brightness) and occasional spikes due to light use you're looking at 8-10h, or 6-8h just to be safe if I was way off about the display. If you're really worried about it, the extra battery is very well priced at $95.
Edit: Nevermind - see a comment above that lists 3-4h of battery life.
I wanted something with good Linux support that could run a VM or two, have a long battery life, and be readable outdoors. I spent an embarrassing number of hours looking. In the end it came down to the Samsung Series 9 or the 13" rMBP. The rMBP despite its glossiness is mostly readable outdoors on full brightness, and I liked its ergonomics better.
Do you by any chance work for system76? If not, do you at least own one of their laptops? Can you speak to build quality, battery life, sunlight readability, or keyboard ergonomics?
Basically, the "catch" with these laptops is an abysmal 3-4 hour battery life. If you're never more than 4 hours away from an outlet, it's perfect for development.
It's not like you require much investment. You can buy pieces from everywhere.
70% of the devices out there are using intel's reference designs. they just route somethings differently. But after you fine one with the routing you want, i bet you can order them from acer or whoever and just add the better components and be done with.
the only thing you'd really have to customize is the power circuitry. but that's easy and cheap. And then the case, of course. but that's also easy.
I mostly look, these days, for the best possible portable pane-of-glass I can get that allows me to do all my work on "real" computers -- in the cloud and in our office lab. I'd much rather have epic battery life for my web browser and terminals than have more cores in the thing I carry around.
I'm sure that the CPU will run unix-like systems, but I have no idea about the graphics & networking, so you probably want to note which adapters work with your preferred OS.
My Atheros WiFi card runs well on everything I've tried, with the exception of OpenBSD 5.3 - it boots but no WiFi - what good is a netbook without WiFi?
There's no such thing as a laptop with a good GPU that isn't ugly and bulky, and that doesn't have a nice hi-res IPS screen, and have a good keyboard and touchpad.
For example this is pretty much what the Vaio Z was. A very thin and light (17mm, 1.15kg) laptop with a high-res screen (1920*1080), a real CPU (up to quad core mobile i7, not a ULV chip), and a 7670M GPU.
There were just two catches: the GPU was housed in the (tiny) external docking station, and the laptop + dock cost something like $3000. Unsurprisingly, it looks like Sony killed the whole external GPU concept in this years refresh.
But the great thing is they have that indie developer discount! I think I can get one for like $1000.
I have been game developing on a 2011 macbook pro (unity3d engine) for some time and ditched it fairly quickly because the constant fan noise was just unbearable for me and my co-workers.
When you do increase the DPI through Windows settings, applications start to have issues rendering text appropriately, and often UI targets don't scale with the text.
I really had high hopes for Vizio breaking into the PC market. I've had one of their thin and lights for about a year now, and have been very, very happy with it, but I'm not sure they've sold well enough to have an actual impact on the market.
It's easily the best-built PC I've ever owned; in fact, in terms of build quality, I'd rank it above the pre-unibody Macbook Pro I used to have. Only knock I have against it is the mediocre touchpad they used in the first run of machines, but it's my understanding that they're using Synaptic now.