It would be nice to see which ones are linux friendly and don't come with Windows preinstalled.
Why does having Windows preinstalled matter? You can always install Linux over it.
Free-DOS laptop maybe? No extra cost for Windows OS.
Show HN: LaptopHits.com – see what laptops people are talking about online
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Styling the links, giving it a proper header, dividing it more properly into sections, and that will look infinitely better and still work equally well on all screens. The site is a good idea, making it looks like a real project by giving it at least craigslist level of design will take half a day and increase the appeal a lot. And visitors like won't have to check whether the css just did not load before writing a c…
With all respect: I completely disagree. I think this looks great as is. Dividing it up, adding a bunch of extra CSS would make it less usable and readable for me. Of course, that tends to be subjective.
All it would really take IMO is picking a nice colour for the links to give the site some kind of recognisable brand/theme/personality. Perhaps move the other text away from pure black to decrease the contrast slightly.
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#54please add option to filter by max ram capacity, and whether the hdd is upgradeable. I just started to look for a ram and HDD upgrade for my 3 yr old ASUS zenbook prime, only to find out neither were upgradeable. I wish I knew that before I paid $1100.
You can use Crucial Advisor tool for that: https://crucial.com/usa/en/advisor
(& you can visit the home page and download the system scanner too.)
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Styling the links, giving it a proper header, dividing it more properly into sections, and that will look infinitely better and still work equally well on all screens. The site is a good idea, making it looks like a real project by giving it at least craigslist level of design will take half a day and increase the appeal a lot. And visitors like won't have to check whether the css just did not load before writing a c…
With all respect: I completely disagree. I think this looks great as is. Dividing it up, adding a bunch of extra CSS would make it less usable and readable for me. Of course, that tends to be subjective.
How would you know that?
The site is already divided into three sections: header, controls to the left, laptop list to the right. To style that accordingly won't make it in any way less useable or readable. Making the header look like a header would not affect you negatively in any way, or properly styling the pagination, or giving it a color scheme (even one based on white as background).
Really, this is a Show HN. Let's at least try to give OP proper feedback without resorting to head-in-the-sand subjectivity like that. "I'd prefer to have it look like my site I created for geocities with Frontpage" is not what will help OP presenting this to a potential employer, or making it a viable source of income.
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#56Laptops with an ethernet port filter would be great. They are going to be extinct.
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#57Hi all, I want to find a job as a RoR developer, but as I have ~10 years coding gap in my CV (I played poker, ran poker forum and did other poker related things) I decided to start some real life projects to build my GitHub portfolio. LaptopHits.com is the first one. Idea came to me when two of my friends wanted to buy new laptops and asked me,'the computer guy', for some recommendations. I'm not laptop expert, so I…
Good idea, but needs more Apple. I can't imagine they haven't come up at all.
It looks a bit weird that there is not more Apple products. These devices seems to be very popular, why is there so few talks about them?
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Styling the links, giving it a proper header, dividing it more properly into sections, and that will look infinitely better and still work equally well on all screens. The site is a good idea, making it looks like a real project by giving it at least craigslist level of design will take half a day and increase the appeal a lot. And visitors like won't have to check whether the css just did not load before writing a c…
With all respect: I completely disagree. I think this looks great as is. Dividing it up, adding a bunch of extra CSS would make it less usable and readable for me. Of course, that tends to be subjective.
It doesn't look great on an android phone, though. And (possibly because of the missing viewport setting) I get crazy "let me zoom that for you" behaviour when I try to click on things.
It could do with some responsive styling.
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#59Is there any semantic analysis? Is there any trend of people talking about these laptops to say "stay away from ..." ?
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#60Visiting the first link (Dell 15.6-Inch Gaming Laptop) on amazon the price i see is $799.99. Visiting in private browsing https://www.amazon.com/Dell-15-6-Inch-Quad-Core-i5-6300HQ-Pr... the price changes to 699$. Is this standard practice for amazon?
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