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Re: Show HN: LaptopHits.com – see what laptops people are talking about online

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+1 for the minimal styling. Although I am starting to wonder if we could do a better job with the choice of colors and typography alone still living with the minimal CSS/JS trickery. One website that caught my attention made me bookmark for inspiration was http://recipes.177milkstreet.com/recipes/sticky-toffee-puddi... For their use of typography, usage of lines, hexagonal contrasting title bits. I am not a web desig…

Very nice page! Thanks for sharing!

Re: Show HN: LaptopHits.com – see what laptops people are talking about online

#62
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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.

Why having Windows pre-installed when you are sure you won't use it? More, it is very rarely an option available to not get it: I would find interesting that it could be opted-out so people with low budget could skip it and pay less.

Re: Show HN: LaptopHits.com – see what laptops people are talking about online

#63
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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.

With all respect: I completely disagree.

Re: Show HN: LaptopHits.com – see what laptops people are talking about online

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Hi 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…

Great site. Did you finally crap out at poker or are you just bored with it? I have a theory that most poker "pros" aren't actually beating the game, but rather are making money from sponsorships and selling pieces of themselves at a premium. There are also probably a few that just happen to run lucky for a statistically unlikely period of time - enough to make them think they are "good".

Re: Show HN: LaptopHits.com – see what laptops people are talking about online

#67
post #25

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.

Cost, and it'd be nice to know if there is linux compatibility for hardware.

Re: Show HN: LaptopHits.com – see what laptops people are talking about online

#68

Hi 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…

I think it's a decent site but you should have separate categories for Lenovo ThinkPad and non-ThinkPads because they are very different in terms of quality, the ThinkPads (up to a certain semi-recent point, at least) being very good and the non-ThinkPads not being on the same level.

Re: Show HN: LaptopHits.com – see what laptops people are talking about online

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Congratulations on shipping. That's the hardest part. Very clever on Amazon links in reddit being the source of truth. That will obviously leave a lot on the table, but gives you really reliable parsing. Honestly, this is a great site. I'd keep it simple, but you could definitely expand on the styling a little bit. Great work!

I like the styling. Clean, readable, works on hi-res screens and small screens like mobile. What would you want more? 3MB of CSS?

Good styling is not necessarily equal to a huge stylesheet
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