New laptop advise

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  1. dan.1moore1

    dan.1moore1 Senior Member

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    Ha .. I hear similar stories 9.00 to 5.00 every monday through to saturday lol
     
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    dan.1moore1 Senior Member

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    Open again
     
  3. kpone

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    It's probably going to be a brace of iPhones each in the summer too, but that's definitely it.

    I'm happy to stare Satan in the eye but he won't get my soul.

    Jeanette has that safely in the box she keeps my bollocks in.
     
  4. Si.

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    What about a 27 inch iMac ken? ;)

    Fabulous for photo editing....
     
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    iMacs. Hateful things. Can't get a decent calibration on them and the gloss screen shows to much of the room.

    I've got a university resource suite who shall remain nameless, who replaced all their iMacs with new iMacs before they realised they should have bought G5's, so they're putting Dell monitors infront of the mac ones.

    I shit you not.
     
  6. dan.1moore1

    dan.1moore1 Senior Member

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    Yes pro photographers don't like the gloss screens apple use. Pro's normally buy the Mac Pro tower ( G5's replacement ) and use third party screens that cost more than the machine


    I believe 1 of our members dad's studio is running a few 12 core mac pro's capable of running 32GB of ram to lol.. stupidly powerful monsters
     
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  7. Fletch

    Fletch Active Member

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    I didn't think 32gb was anything special these days, seems to be the norm for ~£80 PC motherboards

    Currently on Dell Outlet @ £448.19+VAT
    XPS L502x
    Processor : Intel Core i7-2630QM processor 2.00 GHz
    6 GB Dual Channel DDR3 1333MHz Memory (2 DIMMs)
    750 GB SATA Hard Drive (7200RPM)
    8X Tray Load CD/DVD Burner (Dual Layer DVD+/-R Drive)
    Display : 15.6" HD WLED True-Life (1366x768) with 2.0 Mega Pixel Integrated Camera
    Graphics : 1GB NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M Graphics card
    English Genuine Windows 7 SP1 Home Premium (64Bit OS)
    Wireless: Intel Centrino Wireless-N 1030 (1x2 b/g/n+ Bluetooth Combo Card)

    Or @ £471.11+VAT
    XPS L502x
    Processor : Intel Core i7-2630QM processor 2.00 GHz
    8 GB Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1333MHz (2 DIMMs)
    750 GB SATA Hard Drive (7200RPM)
    8X DVD +/- RW DRIVE
    15.6 in HD WLED TL (1366x768)
    Graphics : 2GB NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M Graphics card
    TV tuner : Only Internal DVB-T TV Tuner, No External Antenna
    English Genuine Windows 7 SP1 Home Premium (64Bit OS)
    Wireless: Intel Centrino Wireless-N 1030 (1x2 b/g/n+ Bluetooth Combo Card)
     
  8. Andrew

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    I've still not got myself with a new laptop sorted yet, but i've just been looking back on the dell site and was wondering how much better a laptop with a solid state hard drive would be?
     
  9. Fletch

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    You'd need a second drive for storage
     
  10. Andrew

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    Can't a ssd be used for storage then?
     
  11. Fletch

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    There fairly small by today standards ...
     
  12. Andrew

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    That's okay I don't need masses of room and I could always get an external one of I ever needed to.
    Other than being more reliable what are the other benefits as the one I was looking at had a 256gb and was more expensive than the regular one with 750gb
     

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