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Osayidan wrote on 2011-12-12 14:58
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For those who don't know what Ultrabooks are, it's a project started by intel to encourage laptop manufacturers to compete with the macbook air. Ultrabooks should be very thin, light weight, and have good quality parts and performance to go along with it, and good battery life. In short it is a macbook air, but not by apple, which is what a lot of people want.
Initial Ultrabook prices crossed the $1,000 line Intel tried to draw in the sand, and it's only recently that we've begun to see some lower priced models. But easily the least expensive Ultrabook on the market right now is Toshiba's Portégé Z835-P330, a Best Buy exclusive currently on sale for a penny shy of $700. Compare that to Apple's least expensive 13-inch MacBook Air ($1,299) and you have to like the direction Ultrabooks are going.
The Toshiba Portégé Z835-P330 is a 13.3-inch laptop weighing just 2.47 pounds. Presumably the reason why it's so affordable is because it's toting an Intel Core i3 2367M processor instead of an i5 or i7 chip. And while it's supplemented with a 128GB solid state drive, it's not a performance SSD.
Otherwise, the low(er) cost Portégé is comparatively well equipped with 4GB of DDR3 memory, a pair of USB 2.0 ports, a USB 3.0 port, Sleep and Charge capability, a GbE LAN port, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, media card reader, backlit keyboard, 8-cell battery, and Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
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Fabian wrote on 2011-12-12 16:29
I don't know anything about computers/laptops, but would that be able to run games like Vindictus and Skyrim?
It looks pretty awesome though. Paying $700 for it seems much better than paying $1,200 for a MacBook air.
Question: Is it equal, worse, or better than the $1,200 MacBook air?
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Osayidan wrote on 2011-12-12 17:20
The difference between "ultrabook" and "macbook air" is that macbook air is one product line from one company, while ultrabook is a concept, or group of products from different manufacturers. This one is a low end ultrabook from Toshiba.
This particular one isn't going to run skyrim and probably not vindictus unless you put the settings very low. Something like mabi will run fine on this, HD video and stuff like that, even some basic 3D modeling can be done with it. There's no graphics cards on any ultrabook model that I know of, it makes use of the latest generation of intel CPUs graphics. Ultrabooks are not for gaming though.
Compared to a macbook air the specs on this model are worse, and there's other models in the same price range as the air (and even a couple hundred $ lower) where the specs are quite a bit better.
To play skyrim on a laptop you'll need some crazy high end laptop that has an actual graphics card in it with about 1 hour battery life, I don't personally see laptops as the solution for any type of gaming. It's to get work done and being on the web, while being as portable and convenient as possible.
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Fabian wrote on 2011-12-12 17:30
I see....Q_Q
I know this is off-topic, but I still gotta ask:
how much would a computer that can run Skyrim at max graphics cost? or building a computer that could?
Thanks in advance. ^^
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Osayidan wrote on 2011-12-12 17:48
I'm not looking at any price lists for parts but I'll guess for the "high" setting, determined by the sliders/options you can use without using mods or advanced tweaks, might cost between the high 800's - 1200$ if you build it yourself, not counting any monitors or other accessories.
For "Ultra" which is available too, might go for a bit more, but most people just call "high" the max.
No idea what a pre-built would go for.
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Fabian wrote on 2011-12-12 17:55
Thank you again. Good thing it doesn't seem as expensive as I thought it'd be.
:bow:
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RebeccaBlack wrote on 2011-12-12 18:12
I like these thin little laptops. They're cute.
I'd never buy one, though. The small screen would drive me crazy. Anything less than like 17 inches is just painful to look at for me.
Also, I don't like laptops. I feel awkward using a computer in public and that's pretty much the only point of one, besides going to hotels and stuff. Yeah, you can bring it to bed, to the couch and to the bathroom... lol... but that just doesn't justify getting one to me.
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Osayidan wrote on 2011-12-12 18:44
I'm going to get myself an ultrabook once they start putting the new ivybridge CPU models in them, they supposedly use a lot less power and generate less heat, big plus for a laptop.
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Mentosftw wrote on 2011-12-12 19:50
Quote from Fabian;689512:
Thank you again. Good thing it doesn't seem as expensive as I thought it'd be.
:bow:
The price of computers in comparison to their performance has gone down quadratically since their invention.
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Osayidan wrote on 2011-12-12 19:52
The only thing to be careful of right now is the floods in thailand or somewhere around there, they raped a lot of manufacturers production, especially hard drives, so prices right now for some components are 100 - 200% higher than they should be.
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BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2011-12-13 01:53
Ivy Bridge CPUs are more for the Intel HD 4000 than the additional processing power
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Cucurbita wrote on 2011-12-13 02:05
In b4 apple sues Toshiba in Germany and wins like they did against Samsung for no reason at all.
Then like Samsung, who even proved they were in the right and still suffers, Toshiba will have to pay a little bit of money to Apple every time they sell one of these things in Germany.
Gosh, that pisses me off. If anything Apple should start paying Samsung for each ipad sold, given they forged false evidence in court.
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Hiccup wrote on 2011-12-13 09:09
http://www.razerzone.com/blade
But not the best light-weight laptop and nowhere near affordable :x
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Chockeh wrote on 2011-12-13 09:14
I should get one for school/work. I don't do any gaming on my laptop anyways...
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Adelynn wrote on 2011-12-13 17:48
I think if I were to get something that small I'd end up just getting a tablet I can directly draw on, instead.