Laptop advice - small but powerful

[bodhi]

Another vote for the Vaio Z Series, here. They really are gorgeous machines, far better styling than anything Apple have come up with imo. The screens are also to die for, and the one I used was pretty damn nippy for such a light laptop.

[theboss]

MBP 13"

I have a top of the range Lenovo X301 which cost about £1500 + VAT, SSD, integrated HSDPA, the lot...

Got an 'entry level' MBP for about £800 + VAT and it wipes the floor, I hardly ever touch the X301 these days.

The battery life on the MBP is genuinely 6-8 hours whereas the X301 does about 2.5

[Mardybum]

13 inch MBA. Best mix of portability, power and battery life.

[rich1231]

Found the Sony VPCZ13V9E/X for £2250 as opposed to the 2.7k

Anyone got one?

[Efbe]

rich1231 said:

Found the Sony VPCZ13V9E/X for £2250 as opposed to the 2.7k

Anyone got one?

That is unbelievably expensive for a screen that size. you wont see the benefit of such a cpu and graphics on that screen, unless you are wanting to play the very latest games on an external screen.
that being said, it would be good at that.

also the graphics card is quite a good one for NVIDIA

Edited by Efbe on Sunday 2nd January 00:50

[otolith]

He said he doesn't want the power for gaming - I'm guessing virtualisation?

[Marf]

Either way thats a feck of a lot of money for a 13" machine!

[Efbe]

otolith said:

He said he doesn't want the power for gaming - I'm guessing virtualisation?

Anything other than lacing out all the graphics settings on the latest games and this is major overkill

[ewenm]

MacBook Air would be my first recommendation if you can get past your "turtleneck" prejudices and if it runs the software you want.

Sony X-Series perhaps?

[rich1231]

I bought a cheap Adamo last night from http://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/

And went and got a 13" 2.13 4GB 256GB MBA from Bluewater just now.

I feel like I have betrayed Bill.

[otolith]

Efbe said:

otolith said:

He said he doesn't want the power for gaming - I'm guessing virtualisation?

Anything other than lacing out all the graphics settings on the latest games and this is major overkill

Development work demonstrating and debugging distributed systems across multiple instances of server OSs? I know that's why a friend of mine was recently investigating monster spec MacBooks. Can't really think that a small factor business laptop is intended to be a gaming platform.

[Marf]

rich1231 said:

I bought a cheap Adamo last night from http://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/

And went and got a 13" 2.13 4GB 256GB MBA from Bluewater just now.

I feel like I have betrayed Bill.

If you feel you need to make it up to him go buy W7 and run it in bootcamp.

[Efbe]

Marf said:

rich1231 said:

I bought a cheap Adamo last night from http://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/

And went and got a 13" 2.13 4GB 256GB MBA from Bluewater just now.

I feel like I have betrayed Bill.

If you feel you need to make it up to him go buy W7 and run it in bootcamp.

Or run kalyway on your laptop.

On the same spec laptop it runs faster than macosx.

Mind you it won't make bill happy

[ZesPak]

Mardybum said:

13 inch MBA. Best mix of portability, power and battery life.

... but he found a £700 Lenovo with an i3 had a not-powerful-enough processor?

[DuncanM]

rich1231 said:

I bought a cheap Adamo last night from http://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/

And went and got a 13" 2.13 4GB 256GB MBA from Bluewater just now.

I feel like I have betrayed Bill.

Hello, I am quite tempted with the Adamo from saveonlaptops (Dell Onyx Adamo 13).

What do you think of it so far?

Regards

Duncan

[rich1231]

DuncanM said:

rich1231 said:

I bought a cheap Adamo last night from http://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/

And went and got a 13" 2.13 4GB 256GB MBA from Bluewater just now.

I feel like I have betrayed Bill.

Hello, I am quite tempted with the Adamo from saveonlaptops (Dell Onyx Adamo 13).

What do you think of it so far?

Regards

Duncan

I cancelled it and ordered a higher spec one form the US.. should arrive here on the 11th (my biz partner is bringing it over)

The MBA is very impressive though.

Still need to get some advice over must have applications

Edited by rich1231 on Wednesday 5th January 23:19

[DuncanM]

Thanks for the reply, it is a shame the higher spec Adamo isn't available here as the laptop looks lovely for that price.

I was looking at the MBA in the Apple shop Yesterday and they do look great, hope you enjoy yours.

Regards

Duncan