lenovo IdeaPad 14" Ultrabook Intel Core i5 6GB DDR3, 500GB HDD + 32GB SSD U410 (43762CU) + FREE 2TB NAS - $649.99
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| 02-15-2013, 09:23 AM | |
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Everyone complaining about the resolution... what gives? If you want to sit down for some hard core gaming, couldn't you connect to a high res monitor to get your nice resolution?
It would be the same as complaining about the "small" screen. "Man, I can't game on on a 14" screen!!" |
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that resolution on a 14" isn't horrible, but the issue isn't about games. It's about browser and document real-estate. 1366x768 is just meh for any kind of browser work.
Also, I have no idea why they'd put a 610m on a device with a HD 4000, since they're just about equivalent performance. |
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Graphics GPU/VPU NVIDIA GeForce GT 610M Video Memory Dedicated 1GB Graphic Type Dedicated Card It is because of the dedicated memory instead of using the HD4000 on the CPU and sharing the RAM from the rest of the computer. It is nice to have 8 or 16GB of RAM and another 1GB of dedicated video memory instead of slowing down other processes or operations. Also, just a heads up. "Communications - LAN 10/100Mbps" (No Gigabit LAN) Wish it had 10/100/1000Mbps... Last edited by Skoogra; 02-15-2013 at 10:10 AM.. Reason: Gigabit LAN |
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I am in the market for a decently priced laptop, but all these laptops are showing up with this crappy 1366x768 resolution. My current i5 L410 Thinkpad has the same screen resolution and its not adequate for productivity, in particular if you happen to be a programmer/developer!
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If you don't care for the NAS (which looks pretty lousy), Amazon is selling a newer model for $550.
http://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-U410...009AEPVFG/ Difference is the Amazon model has a bigger HDD (750GB), smaller SDD (24GB) and Windows 8 instead of 7. |
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Obviously when you order online you can't really tell when it was manufactured. Supposedly they'll repair the ones that have this problem. |
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Cause I like being able to open a webpage and immediately see more than their damn banner. |
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1366x768 is a horrible resolution. The pixels are so large you can see them all. Text is blocky. Have you tried writing code at that resolution? You can see like 10 lines of text. You can't shrink the font down to smaller size because the pixels are so big the text becomes unreadable at smaller sizes.
Someone needs to slap the PC industry upside the head and make them start providing at least 900+ lines of vertical resolution. And lets please get back to 16:10 instead of 16:9 screens. It's not like the only thing I do on a laptop is watch movies in 16:9, and if I do I don't mind some black bars at the top and bottom. I still use an old Dell D830 laptop (Core2Duo 1.8ghz) because it has a 1928x1200 resolution screen, which I can't find anywhere for under $1k. |
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14" screens a lot smaller than 14" screens back then. They are wider and squat. I also lament the laptop industry move in this direction, but.. This resolution suits the size just fine for out and about. It goes as small as my eyes can comfortably read. At home, you should be on external mouse/keyboard/monitor anyway.
http://i.imgur.com/DSuKVDK.jpg taken from 14" e430 with same resolution. this seems like a pretty good build for an ultrabook. You take the performance hit with the cpu downclocked to 1.7ghz tho. |
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