Best laptop manufacturer

Benm · May 30, 2011

Lotus_Darkrose said:
Remember they are counting easily replaceable tings like Battery, keyboard, wireless card, etc. (things that you can replace in 2 minutes in less than 30 bucks after 2 years). I'd be more interested in a chart concerning motherboard/screen malfunctions specifically.

It would indeed be much better know what actually failed, and if it was a total loss situation or could be repaired by the user or a repair shop at realistic prices. A broken CFL inverter could possibly be worth replacing, a dead mainboard becomes a different story if you have to pay for it.

I bought a Dell XPS M1330 a few years ago, and i had the mainboard on that replaced twice under warantee - next day onsite service too. The problem was with a defective nvidia video chip that plagued virtually all laptops that had it at the time.

As for the solid state aided harddisks: I would wait a bit on those - 4 GB is a nice amount, but its just a bit short of what you would need to store a hibernate or swap file if you have 6 GB of memory installed.

Lotus_Darkrose · May 30, 2011

Also, I will wait til a company besides Seagate makes hybrid drives. I f***ing hate Seagate, lol. Maybe Western Digital will get into the game and improve even further on the hybrid technology.

A 32GB SSD drive is 60-100 bucks. A 500GB laptop 7200 rpm hard drive is 60-70 bucks. There is NO reason they can't make a hybrid 32GB SSD/500GB HDD for under 200 dollars. Just have to wait.

Benm · May 30, 2011

Perhaps its a problem with the size of the flash memory - it still has to fit into the 2.5" hdd enclosure.

Lotus_Darkrose · May 30, 2011

A good solution would be a 16-32GB mini pci-e SSD, along with a good 7200rpm HDD. That way you could run your own partitions and dedicate windows to the SSD. Not sure on the total cost of that though, didn't really look up what the best mini pci-e ssds were or anything.

Bionic-Badger · May 30, 2011

The SSD on my laptop was the single purchase that made it feel like I could use it without being held down. I bet it makes my laptop feel faster and more responsive than machines with 4x my RAM, cores, or architectures. As such, I will probably never need to upgrade from my trust T60 (the Lenovos that still have IBM's mark), especially since I upgraded the screen to a high quality 1600x1200 FFS Boe Hydis screen. I love it.

So for me? I'd buy an older reliable IBM Thinkpad and spend the money you saved on an SSD, and maybe a better screen.

iskor12 · May 31, 2011

I'm happy with the 720p screen and I totally agree with you guys on waiting until they have at least a 16GB SSD version of the hybrid HD. Plus I too hate Seagate as well. WD is my favorite HD manufacturer.

A mini PCIe SSD....now that's something that I haven't seen out on the market...but then again, I haven't looked for one either.

I have come across a couple of strange issues with my lenovo. Whenever I use the HDMI out and watch a video on my 1080p TV...I don't have any issues what so ever until I shut my laptops screen lid. After I do that, the video and audio starts lagging. This really doesn't make any since to me. If I run it in a dual monitor mode....it doesn't struggle at all, even when playing games. Just when I shut the lid. Any ideas???

EDIT: I found one pretty much right away. I might look into this since I have a couple of slots available. I'm not sure if my motherboard supports mSATA though.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...39&cm_re=mini_pcie_ssd-_-20-167-039-_-Product

Lotus_Darkrose · May 31, 2011

Check in your power settings what it's set to do when you close the laptop. Should be set to do nothing when it's plugged into mains power.

170MB/S read speed would definitely give a boost to startup. Plus you could install office and photoshop or whatever onto it and still have room for a backup image.

iskor12 · May 31, 2011

Lotus_Darkrose said:
Check in your power settings what it's set to do when you close the laptop. Should be set to do nothing when it's plugged into mains power.

It is set to that. Only thing it does is it shuts off the screen and it keeps the HDMI going....but like I said. After about 5 seconds the video and audio starts lagging behind. It really doesn't make any since.

As for the PCI-E SSD....the Y560P does support mSATA !!!!

Installing mSATA SSD In Y560p - Lenovo Community

Lotus_Darkrose · May 31, 2011

Try hooking it up VGA to a monitor and set the monitor to be the only display. This will help rule out HDMI as being the issue.

iskor12 · May 31, 2011

Shoot...I don't think I own a VGA cable.

I really don't think the HDMI is to blame.

I noticed that the Write speeds rather suck on that mSATA card.

Lotus_Darkrose · May 31, 2011

Yeah that's the downside to those min pci-e cards. Decent read speeds for what they are, but horrible write speeds.

I just checked and the ExpressCard SSDs aren't really that much better.

Just gotta hold out for a full SSD laptop drive it seems

But if you find a vga cable, try it. Also try a different HDMI cable. Does not hurt to rule possible causes out, even if they don't seem like they could be causes.

iskor12 · May 31, 2011

Renice mSATA seems to have great speeds.
Read speed up to 260MB/sec
Write speed up to 200MB/sec

Lotus_Darkrose · May 31, 2011

Renice 30GB K3VLAR 50mm SandForce mSATA SSD | My Digital Discount

$120 for a 30GB one. That's not a bad deal. Those are very new too. January 2011 I think those came out.

iskor12 · May 31, 2011

What are the average read and write speeds for an 5400RPM drive?

Lotus_Darkrose · May 31, 2011

I remember reading a review of a good samsung 7200 rpm laptop hard drive. Speeds were 90-100 on read and write both...

iskor12 · May 31, 2011

So the Renice mSATA would be a big improvement...Hmm
I might have to save up for one.

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