Great deal on tuning laptops for my nogs.
 

www.lenovo.com

Look at the Ideapad S10, $349. It's about as fast as a P4, comes equipped with XP, is smaller falling into the Netbook range, and has a warranty.

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+10000000000 on the lenovos

------- love mine and i beat the piss outta it on a regular basis.

still runs great. just wish i had more ram.

and an upgradedable vid card instead of this built in hunk-a-nvidia ----.

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very nice i was looking for a half way decent 10 inch notebook.....im tired of my 12 inch vista full of fail

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The kidunit's been beating on an 866 Mhz P3 for a couple years now. It just died, so I decided fuckit and got her one of these.

http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/h...sc/netbook.png

I'll load something-something on it at some point and offer an opinion on it as tuning gear.


FYI, UPS ground is currently free, I chucked $10 into the bit bucket to have it 2nd day'd by the 18th, and avoid holiday shipping stupidity.

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Two day means two day to Lenovo. I thought it was their advertised two day processing plus a guaranteed two day shipping, placing delivery on Thursday, but goddamn if tracking info doesn't say it's out for delivery today.

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for almost 400$ id rather a full size full featured faptop
these things suck

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For almost $400 I'd rather you didn't speak before taking the cock out of your mouth, Yuriy.

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Well considering I've bought and flipped 5+ laptops this year for that price, I'd rather you put my cock in yours. :y

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everybody needs to cool out. Nobody's sticking anybodys cock anywhere. got it?

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Damn.

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Then tell your wife to stop texting me.

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Oh snap it's on señior.

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cold blooded nog fo sho

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Not bad, I just recently purchased the ACER aspire one netbook strictly for crome tuning. I will say it's fast and tunes my honda great no problem. I only paid 350 forr mine at staples and its got a gig of ram.

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I'm rockin an acer that i picked up in the fall from newegg for 450 shipped. 2gb ram, 1.9ghz processor, 120 gb harddrive. Dunno how good that is, but its more than enough for my needs, and its been sweet so far-- no problems at all

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I got a refurbished Inspiron 1525 for like $400 on Dell's site. Looked online for a coupon and got 25% off or some ----. Pretty decent computer for dirt cheap. Came with Vista and a 1 year warranty.

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what ya think
http://www.dell.com/content/products...=19&l=en&s=dhs

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My first criticism is a 9" screen, vs the 10". As things get smaller an inch really means a lot in terms of viewable area, as well as chassis size which dictates how big the keyboard is. The kid's 10" Ideapad is easy for my to type on, but when I stop to think about it it's just barely. If you are a big dude, or a fat ass like Spiker, you might have a little difficulty with the Ideapad... no clue exactly how big that Dell's keyboard is, but I wouldn't want to go any smaller on screen size. /
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* having just compared, the Dell is an 8.9" vs the Lenovo's 10.2" screen. Both are 1024X600 resolution.
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Now, dollar for dollar you are at a disadvantage with that Dell in terms of performance. The processor is the same (Atom 1.6 Ghz, it's pretty snappy vs the sub-1Ghz Celeron Asus units I played with at Best buy that were about as shitty as a Vista Brick laptop with a mere gig of RAM that grinds forever before doing anything) - but the OS and HDD are not. At $350 with Dell you get a linux computer that has to be wiped if you want to tune (it can be done but is a hassle and requires a little setup so you can install XP via thumb drive) and it comes with a 4Gb flash hard drive (very small, but you will never hurt it by tossing it around or vibrating it, flash HDD are one of the things that purists like about netbooks) whereas the Lenovo Ideapad comes with XP home and an 80 Gb traditional hard drive. /
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To get that same Dell with XP for $399 you can get the Ideapad with a full 1 gig RAM and a 160 Gb HDD. Really no comparison.//
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The only thing the Dell does better (aside from indestructable if tiny flash HDD) is battery life. 4 hours out of their 4 cell vs the Lenovo's 2.5 hours/3 cell.
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Also, there has been some complaint of it being VERY difficult to get at a netbook's HDD and RAM in order to upgrade... this might be in re older 7" Asus offerings and the like, then again it might also be in re the 9-10" units so buyer beware... but I speak from experience that the Ideapad has an easy access panel on the bottom where you can get to HDD and RAM if needed./
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Other thoughts:/
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I'm not entirely happy with the netbook's screen size if I had to use it for tuning. I spent a number of years with a 800X600, then 1024X768 resolution 15" screen before I became spoiled by the new Thinkpad's 1680X1050 15" widescreen, so I might come off as a whiny mcsissypants in that respect to anyone who is tuning on a regular machine. I don't think I'd have a problem with the screen size if I hadn't spent the last year on my T61./
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Also, I'd strongly consider grabbing a unit with 1 gig RAM (or upgrading one of the 512Mb units). As they come shipped the OS takes up 180 Mb of memory upon startup, and one good instance of IE with a big page or a couple tabs open and you are pushing 480-500Mb and the unit starts to slow a hair as it's pushing stuff that should be easily and quickly accessed via RAM through it's slower HDD based pagefile. Realistically, reformating one of these units with a lightened version of XP Pro that only occupies ~48 Mb of RAM upon startup is probably mandatory for best performance.

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Joseph you ---- now my wife wants a new laptop because of your Lenovo >:(

Ill have you know this is coming from the money for my 951. Thanks. :3

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How about these? Asus EEE PC $369 10" screen, 266mm(W) x 191.2mm(D) x 38mm(H)

http://eeepc.asus.com/global/product1000ha.html

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produc...A_Netbook.html

Only thing I see kinda fucked up is no CD/DVD drive

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i bought one still waiting on it to show up

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damn JD you make a good argument about the key board, I still think the 9 inch is baller but i think im gettin the lenovo with more ram

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None of them have a CD/DVD drive./
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That, sir, is not a bad deal. Looks to be everything the Lenovo is with an extra USB port. $409 - $40 mail in rebate vs $399 makes that Asus the winner. :y

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the eee's go for 250 sometimes on ebay,

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Which?

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BTW, for a laugh scroll down and read who this guy refuses to ship to: http://cgi.ebay.com/Free-Ship-New-ASUS-EEE-BOX-BLACK-250G-1G-RAM-Mini-PC_W0QQitemZ270319879907QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLaptops _Nov05?hash=item270319879907&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14& _trkparms=72%3A1240|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A13 18|301%3A0|293%3A1|294%3A50

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Seems the Atom processor is an easy 2.3Ghz overclock: http://www.xtremesystems.org/Forums/...d.php?t=208851

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Lack of cache = ----. But they're good enough for tuning or word processing.

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how about a t43? for school and ----?

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512kb isn't that bad, it wasn't until the latest generation units that a big L2 was common. For a forum that subsists on P3s and P4s at discount rates this definitely gets the job done.

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yes, because word processing, surfing the net, and other ---- like listening to mp3's is soo damn cache intensive.

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Use one of the Atom laptops and you'll see what I mean. Slow startup times make it seem like you're running a 700mhz Celeron.

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It loads as fast as my T8300 T61, faster than my 3.2Ghz P4 desktop clocked to 3.9 Ghz which, although dated, is running top of the line ---- from that era like the motherboard that set more P4 OC records than any other motherboard or IIRC all the others combined.

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If you don't need one now look at buying them before school starts in the summer. Most states / communities wave all sales tax on them along with being on sale. Newegg had the god damned mother ------- bomb dropped on the $400-450 laptops on black friday. Missed some real good ----.
Werd on adam sucking. Core2 duo rocks in laptops. Especially the cheap ones with BS video. Traded my single 550 for the same model (Dell 1525) with a core duo on black friday. The P4 would decode 720p video okay. Skip afew frames maybe once every 10min if I wasn't adjusting the picture, but the core2 duo isn't struggling at alll with 1080p.
Anyway IDC what it is, if there isn't multiple processors it's blah.

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i had the acer with the atom, that processor is a piece of bullshit only barely good for internet, i think its ment to be in smartphones not minature full feature laptops.

i wanted to like my netbook, but it kinda sucked. also i belive that processor benchmarks more like a pentium 3, my aspire1 had a 3 cell battery too and it was good for about an hour. not sure what those lenova come with but dont bother if its a 3 cell. after i used it for wideband readings i sold the thing.

pretty sure those acer aspire was the 1st one out in the us with the atom but the dell mini and all the other ones are all the same ----, mine was the xp/120gb/1gb model too which seemed like a steal for 350 till i used it for a while

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I wish they had the trackpoint on the keyboard.

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That is a pretty smokin deal. Dunno about the idealpad series though.

:-\

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I was playing WOW on it earlier.

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:3