I GOTTA NEW LAPTOP!

[AlmightyPyro] · Post by **[AlmightyPyro]** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 8:02 pm

HOORAY!! My parents gave me a new lap top for graduation and this is my first time to use it. I love it! It's a Compaq nx 7400, 1.8 ghz Intel Centrino Duo, 1 gig of RAM, 100 gig hard drive, with windows XP. It's pretty sweet. I just thought y'all should know.

Vorticus · Post by **Vorticus** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 8:13 pm

Congratulations on a sweet new rig!

RemusShepherd · Post by **RemusShepherd** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 8:13 pm

Congrats!

I want a new laptop. I really want a tablet, but I'm not sure I need it. Been looking at options. Best I've found so far are:

Gateway C-120x Tablet notebook -- convertible pressure sensitive tablet (good+), Windows Vista (bad-), >$1600 (-), rumored to be a seven-week waiting period on orders (-).

Ubuntu Notebook -- Ubuntu operating system (+), $700 (+), no tablet support (-).

Tablet MacBook -- Mac OS X (+), have lots of friends for evangelical Mac support and advice (+), non-convertible tablet (no keyboard) (-), >$2300 (-).

Some cheap non-tablet Windows notebook -- <$600 (+), non-tablet (-), almost certainly will have Windows Vista (-).

Yours sounds pretty cool. I'd like to know what distributor sold it with Windows XP. Nobody but Dell does that anymore, as far as I can tell.

EvilChihuahua · Post by **EvilChihuahua** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 8:17 pm

Yeah I was looking into a tablet laptop too, but researching it is getting a little annoying. I can never find out if the tablet has pressure sensitivity or not.

Sincerely · Post by **Sincerely** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 8:27 pm

I have a tablet laptop. It is a Toshiba and I find it obnoxious and slow.

It can't actually handle its own tablet functions. It tends to skip when I try writing with the stylus. So mostly I just treat it like a regular laptop that has a convenient swivelly-screen.

[AlmightyPyro] · Post by **[AlmightyPyro]** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 10:06 pm

sincerely wrote:I have a tablet laptop. It is a Toshiba and I find it obnoxious and slow.

It can't actually handle its own tablet functions. It tends to skip when I try writing with the stylus. So mostly I just treat it like a regular laptop that has a convenient swivelly-screen.

Thats why I didn't buy a tablet PC, I figured that at the price I was going for, the tablet function cost so much, that the rest of the hardware would be less than satisfactory.

Joel Fagin · Post by **Joel Fagin** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 11:21 pm

I always kinda wondered how responsive tablets PCs were. Sounds like Apple's the one to go for if and when they ever bring one out. The iPhone is purportedly really smooth and accurate so they've got some good tech to put behind it.

- Joel Fagin

The Neko · Post by **The Neko** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 11:29 pm

Looking at the title, I just cant help but wonder if "new laptop" is a verb.

Nyke · Post by **Nyke** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 12:40 am

The Neko wrote:Looking at the title, I just cant help but wonder if "new laptop" is a verb.

Oh, go new laptop yourself.

Carparama · Post by **Carparama** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 2:15 am

I never got a laptop when *I* graduated ...

Maybe I should go back to school. Maybe I didn't graduate right the first time.

Derenge · Post by **Derenge** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 1:06 am

Joel Fagin wrote:I always kinda wondered how responsive tablets PCs were. Sounds like Apple's the one to go for if and when they ever bring one out. The iPhone is purportedly really smooth and accurate so they've got some good tech to put behind it.

- Joel Fagin

So you're picking a hypothetical product over one that exists... It is pointing out that wacom is responsible for a least some of the tablet pcs out there and they are the name in tablets.

http://www.wacom.com/tabletpc/index.cfm

So they can have good tech behind them, I suppose one just needs to be careful about which type they get.

Having said that, on the mac side of things there is an option.

http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/ModBook

looks interesting, they take a mac laptop and sandwich it into their tablet setup. It also uses wacom tech and like tablet pcs it is also rather costly.