Willy waving thread: show us your laptops!

POB · 3 Jun 2011 at 22:40

Dell Vostro 3350

i7 (Sandy Bridge)
8GB Ram
Dual Hard Disks (Going to add SSD)

In background old Latitude E6500 in its dock.

skanky · 5 Jun 2011 at 21:44

quite happy with my laptop, had it for about 6 months or so. 2ghz i7 lenovo x201s, 4gb ram with the 1400x900 screen and extended battery, i like having 7 hours with wireless on and love the fact its an ultraportable.

started with the standard 320gb 7200rpm drive, replaced that with a 120gb ocz vertex 2e, wasnt happy with the lack of space so i bit the bullet and went with a 300gb intel 320 ssd.

it doesnt do games but its now my day to day machine with the desktop being relegated to gaming only.

El Jimben · 6 Jun 2011 at 17:38

My dad's laptop packed up so I've just got him an Acer 5552 which turned up today, specs are:

Phenom II x3 2.1GHz
4GB DDR3
500GB HDD
Mobility Radeon 4250
15.6" HD LCD

Quite impressed with it so far and definitely glad that I went for 3 cores as it's much nippier than the T7200 lappy that it replaced

Behemoth · 6 Jun 2011 at 19:46

Got fed up of having a laptop with a 17 inch screen and having it always run so damn hot, so went shopping on Friday and came home with an Asus A52F Core I3, 4 Gig ram and 500 gig hard drive, have to say I'm really pleased with it not quite as solid as the HP but much much quicker

brendy · 8 Jun 2011 at 11:03

Dell Vostro 1720 17"
Core 2 Duo P8700
4Gb ram
300gb Sata2 hdd
Nvidia 512m 9600m GS
W7 pro 64bit.
Runs pretty well, had an elitebook 8730w before this in my previous job which was a little funkier. Thinking about an SSD drive.

Guru · 8 Jun 2011 at 16:02

Mercutio said:
Well mines the GX660R

i5 2.53ghz (2.7ish turbo)
6GB Ram
2x500GB HDD
Ati HD5870 1GB
Good speakers (for a lappy at least)
1920x1080 res on a 15.6" (bit small but looks pretty)

It's a well awesome little lappy
Recently found out its got upgradable graphics slot too. Takes a HD6970 so seriously considering downsizing a bit on the desktop, beef this up with SSD+Graphics upgrade and start using as primary machine. Will see how much it fails at keeping up with my desktop and I think i'd miss the big raid.

Do you have a link for more info about that upgrade please? The GPU in this is what is putting me off.

Thanks,

G

Phil2008 · 10 Nov 2011 at 01:18

Heres my 1st half decent laptop Ived owned. Specs are not anything great but its snappy and looks tidy.

Acer Aspire 5715z
Intel [email protected]
2GB Mem
x1300 gpu
120gb sata hdd (might buy a ssd tho)

garyfl · 10 Nov 2011 at 02:28

m17x r3 master race

2760qm
8gb ram
6990m

Dead_Assassin · 10 Nov 2011 at 06:50

i7-2630QM processor 2.00 GHz with Turbo Boost 2.0 up to 2.90 GHz
Windows 7 SP1 Home Premium(64 BIT)
Internal Backlit UK/Irish Qwerty Keyboard
17.3 FHD WLED AG (1920x1080) with 2.0 Mega Pixel Integrated
8192MB (2x4096) 1333MHz DDR3 Dual Channel
1TB (2x500GB) Serial ATA (7200RPM) Dual HDD
8X DVD+/-RW Drive
3GB NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M Graphics Card
Internal Backlit UK/Irish Qwerty Keyboard
Wireless : Europe Intel Centrino Wireless-N 1030 (1x2 b/g/n+ Bluetooth Combo Card)

kg648 · 10 Nov 2011 at 07:27

kg648 said:
all these acers make me shrug

nods

kg648 · 10 Nov 2011 at 07:28

garyfl said:
m17x r3 master race

2760qm
8gb ram
6990m

Would love, but far too expensive for what they are.

JimboJet · 10 Nov 2011 at 12:59

Not necessarily if you know how, plenty of threads on various forums.

stu.artd · 10 Nov 2011 at 18:25

Here are mine. An old Dell M1710 sat beside it's replacement an Alienware M18x.

Little lightshow.

The M18x has a 2760qm, 8GB, 2x6990M, BDROM/DVDRW, 256GB Crucial M4, 750GB WD Scorpio Black and of course an 18.4 inch screen.

garyfl · 10 Nov 2011 at 18:34

kg648 said:
Would love, but far too expensive for what they are.

it was technically free

Disco Boy · 10 Nov 2011 at 18:37

DELL Latitude E6520
Intel Core i5-2540M (2.60GHz, 3MB cache, Dual Core)
15.6in UltraSharp FHD(1920x1080)
512MB NVIDIA NVS 4200M Discrete Graphics
8 GB DDR3 SDRAM 1333MHz (2 DIMMs)
500 GB HDD 7200 RPM
Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205
Dell 375 Bluetooth Card
Windows 7 Professional 64 BIT

picked up from the outlet for £573 + £22 delivery + £23 for additional 4gb of RAM (came with 1x4gb)

My only criticism is that the screen res is slightly too high.

FredFlint · 18 Nov 2011 at 19:10

Here are mine:

dell studio and m18x

leoncc · 18 Nov 2011 at 20:55

FredFlint said:
dell studio and m18x

stu.artd said:
Here are mine. An old Dell M1710 sat beside it's replacement an Alienware M18x.

FredFlint/stu.artd,

How long have you had the M18X? Have you noticed any signs of the paint peeling off ever so slightly around the hot-keys above the chiclet keyboard? (Mainly around volume keys.)

Mine has happened again about 3 weeks after have that part of the laptop replaced, just wondering if I have a defective laptop and if that warrants a replacement as I haven't had this long as after paying nearly 2 grand for it, I'm rather ****ed.

stu.artd · 19 Nov 2011 at 00:17

It's little wonder you're unhappy about it.
I've had mine for a month and haven't noticed the paint peeling so far. It's not something I've read much about regarding the Alienware laptops, so hopefully it's not a widespread problem. You going to call back and complain again ?
I'd try and keep hold of the old panel that sits above the keyboard if you can as I've read the clips on it are quite easilly broken if you choose to open the laptop up to access the 2 memory slots behind the keyboard.

leoncc · 19 Nov 2011 at 00:27

Yes, I will be ringing back daily, til I get a replacement or til my warranty ends.

Its not acceptable imo.

FredFlint · 19 Nov 2011 at 04:19

I have had it since the 26th of last mouth. I did not know it was paint, thought is was just solid plastic. I have a spare surround as they sent the m18 with the wrong keyboard so I called them and they sent me a UK keyboard and surround. When I changed the keyboard I almost snapped the surround as I left a screw in but got it done in the end.