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A 1050???? What a huge disappointment. I was gonna buy this as I was expecting a 1060.
Get a stealth. The faster GPUs have a significant power, battery life, and noise compromise. Thus they are popular on gaming laptops.
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Most important flaw for me: Seems to have no ethernet port.
Yes, I would be using a dongle all the time, which is unbearable. So long for the XPS.
Gbit ethernet isn't that much faster than 802.11ac, so I'm really having a hard time thinking of a realistic use case here.
EDIT: wrote this before I realised that the wifi card this laptop ships with is particularly bad.
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Get a stealth. The faster GPUs have a significant power, battery life, and noise compromise. Thus they are popular on gaming laptops.
"Get a stealth"? What's "a stealth"?
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Because my Surface Pro 4 can run 3 1920x1200 monitors just fine (I'm partial to a -|- setup (dontjudgeme)). The dock really makes it, no question. My monitors stands stay bolted to the desk and everything's cabled together, but I'm personally not tethered. Best of both worlds, to me at least. (Except for when I need to do something irresponsibly inefficient like run three VMs and full screen video at once... which wi…
Because my Surface Pro 4 can run 3 1920x1200 monitors just fine ... /saunters off to rethink his position on the Surface Pro //wallet begins weeping in his back pocket
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Get a stealth. The faster GPUs have a significant power, battery life, and noise compromise. Thus they are popular on gaming laptops.
"Get a stealth"? What's "a stealth"?
But there's some confusion here, Razer Blade Stealth is actually the model with integrated GPU (Intel HD 620)
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Rumours have it that next year's line-up will return to having slim bezels like the current XPS series has (and Thinkpads had a decade ago…).
A cautious promise included a Thinkpad Retro hopefully with the old keyboard next year. If it happens, I am buying it and I am not going to look at the price tag.
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Because my Surface Pro 4 can run 3 1920x1200 monitors just fine ... /saunters off to rethink his position on the Surface Pro //wallet begins weeping in his back pocket
Have you seen the new MacBook prob? It's even more impressive in this area
Depending on how well the SP4 can run Arch (well technically Antegros-and I'm sure it may still be a while for drivers to catch up), there's a very good chance I'll probably move to that platform and never look back.
Thought I may still get a new Macbook for work. Too much of the workflow I've developed and grown attached to include Mac productivity apps
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The problem with the Alienware 13R3 is that it's a great professional machine with the most incredibly stupid looking adornments. I absolutely hate how the best machines are Gaming machines, which means you're stuck with all sorts of LED bling-crap. The 13R3 looks like an absolutely killer machine for everyday work. OLED touch, quad core CPU (HQ series), fast GPU, physical touchpad buttons, ports out the wazoo, user…
Try the Razer Blade or the Razer Blade Pro. Except for the green logo on the top nothing makes it look like a gaming machine. And the Pro even has mechanical switches.
Did they fix the coil whine?
They did not fix that either. You might be lucky to receive a device that doesn't exhibit it, or you may not notice it, or you may not even bother about it. Dell doesn't really care - they still sell loads, and as long as the online reviewers don't complain loudly enough so that their sales are affected it is just not worth the cost.
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I think you'd like the upgraded Razer Pro (announced just a few months ago) if cost is not a very big issue.
I like Razer's product line, but I also like the safety of an extended warranty backed by a very large company like Dell, Lenovo or HP. I had one of those dodgy early 2011 15" MBPs, and if I didn't have AppleCare, I would have been stuck with a costly motherboard replacement when my GPU croaked the first time. Granted, my MBP did eventually die after my AppleCare lapsed, but knowing you can get decent support in a ma…