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Re: Why Asus trackpad driver sets the CPU speed at maximum during scroll

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Post by zhte415 »

MereInterest wrote: post #160
Pxtl wrote: post #87

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I'm constantly frustrated by this. I mean, HP and Lenovo have become the cheap Chinese knock-off companies of themselves, and there's an unwritten rule that every Asus product must be an absolute dream except for one critical deal-breaker frustration per-product that makes you hate it.

Lenovo business laptops. The consumer laptops are shoddy and thin, but the business laptops tend to be rather durable.

T420 - OK. Pretty durable and robust. Never took to the screen much; the keyboard seemed like heaven or hell depending on my mood; the trackpad was utterly terrible.

S400 - I like it a lot. Took a while to get used to the chicklet keyboard but like it now. Trackpad is good. Screen is fine. Very thin and not robust (screen can bend), and terrible battery life.

Yoga 11e - I quite like. Very robust, nice keyboard and trackpad. Crisp if small screen. Good battery. Screen can bend back but far too heavy to be a tablet replacement.

Re: Why Asus trackpad driver sets the CPU speed at maximum during scroll

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Post by archagon »

lucisferre wrote: post #190
ajcarpy2005 wrote: post #177

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This is the kind of insight that sets HN comments apart. Simple but possibly Useful.

Really? This part of the thread looks like Reddit trolling, but you're right, it is hard to tell, could be serious. That probably scares me more.

And don't forget to give it a lick afterwards for that clean screen feeling!

Re: Why Asus trackpad driver sets the CPU speed at maximum during scroll

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Post by tripzilch »

cowabunga wrote: post #103
quinndupont wrote: post #52

In no way am I trying to incite Mac vs. PC, but after years of Apple laptops I grew bored with their aluminum fascism and decided (last year) to buy a top-of-the-line Thinkpad. A couple of months later, taking a huge economic hit, I sold the Thinkpad and returned to Apple. I simply could not handle the trackpad (and I gave up on the weird Thinkpad nubbin back in the early 2000s). I quite literally felt like I had a d…

Ex Mac user and now ThinkPad user here. The MBP pad makes my fingers sore after a couple of hours as the surface is slightly abrasive. The Apple wireless mouse thing nips my fingers when I press it giving me sore fingers plus it weighs and ton and the gestures make my wrist hurt. The ThinkPad nipple mouse works pretty well as it's in the home row but my hands ache after a couple of hours. The trackpad on the ThinkPad…

> Logitech M185 wireless mouse for £8

Anyone got any tips for a great non-wireless USB mouse in this price-range?

I dislike when wireless mice (or keyboards) tend to run out of battery when it's really inconvenient, as I hardly ever have spare batteries lying around (not much other devices use them).

Re: Why Asus trackpad driver sets the CPU speed at maximum during scroll

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Post by archagon »

sz4kerto wrote: post #61
Swizec wrote: post #42

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For $3500 why not just buy a Mac?

There's no Macbook that's good for gaming, because of the OS and the cooling. There are more and more games on Steam that run on OSX but the performance is usually abysmal (e.g. Dota2 runs around 20% fps on OSX compared to Windows). And they're just too thin to have a cooling that'd be suitable for gaming -- Asus ROG laptops are incredibly well cooled, really.

I disagree. I think the high-end Macbook Pro is one of the best gaming laptops out there. The Nvidia chip is almost half as powerful as the AMD 6850 I used to have in my desktop, which has a giant turbine fan and takes up two PCI slots! Sure, performance in OSX is often poor, but BootCamp and often Parallels solve this problem quite elegantly. It's not too different from booting up a console, I think. Thanks to my Mac, I can travel the world and also play Metro Last Light whenever I feel like. :)

(Caveat: it's almost been a year so it's starting to show its age in some new games. But that's not really something you can get away from. I'm also concerned that the next gen Macbook will only offer an integrated Iris Pro chip instead of Nvidia switching. Don't get me wrong - Iris Pro graphics are impressive, often performing at up to 66% of the Nvidia chip - but it will almost certainly be a performance regression.)

Re: Why Asus trackpad driver sets the CPU speed at maximum during scroll

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Post by cowabunga »

tripzilch wrote: post #193
cowabunga wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ex Mac user and now ThinkPad user here. The MBP pad makes my fingers sore after a couple of hours as the surface is slightly abrasive. The Apple wireless mouse thing nips my fingers when I press it giving me sore fingers plus it weighs and ton and the gestures make my wrist hurt. The ThinkPad nipple mouse works pretty well as it's in the home row but my hands ache after a couple of hours. The trackpad on the ThinkPad…

> Logitech M185 wireless mouse for £8 Anyone got any tips for a great non-wireless USB mouse in this price-range? I dislike when wireless mice (or keyboards) tend to run out of battery when it's really inconvenient, as I hardly ever have spare batteries lying around (not much other devices use them).

I had the same problem with the Apple mouse. The two AA batteries lasted about a month at best.

I've had the M185 for 9 months now and it's still got the original single AA battery in it! I threw a single AA in my bag in a ziplock in case of emergencies.

I wouldn't go back to wires after that mouse.

Re: Why Asus trackpad driver sets the CPU speed at maximum during scroll

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Post by wodenokoto »

etherael wrote: post #183
acabal wrote: post #140

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The Razer Blade 14 is a very nice machine, if you can get over the Matrix-esque green backlit keyboard. Sane keyboard layout (but missing the pgup/dn/home/end column). Beautiful screen and 14 inches, which is my ideal screen size. Amazing gaming performance for the size, if you care about that. Surprisingly good (but not perfect) Linux compatibility too. The three big problems with it are: 1) The choice of Wifi card,…

Similar to the Razer Blade 14, but cheaper, and without the matrix-esque green backlight (just white) is the Aorus XP3+, which is ridiculously powerful and light. The only difference appears to be that it's actually even a little lighter than the blade (1.8kg vs 2.03kg), the screen is not touch based, the processor is a little beefier, it has more memory, and by default comes with 2x 256GB SSD's in RAID0 rather than…

I just did a Google search for "Aorus XP3+" and it literally came up empty. Can you provide some links? It sounds like an intriguing machine.

Re: Why Asus trackpad driver sets the CPU speed at maximum during scroll

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Post by coldtea »

quinndupont wrote: post #52

In no way am I trying to incite Mac vs. PC, but after years of Apple laptops I grew bored with their aluminum fascism and decided (last year) to buy a top-of-the-line Thinkpad. A couple of months later, taking a huge economic hit, I sold the Thinkpad and returned to Apple. I simply could not handle the trackpad (and I gave up on the weird Thinkpad nubbin back in the early 2000s). I quite literally felt like I had a d…

>In no way am I trying to incite Mac vs. PC, but after years of Apple laptops I grew bored with their aluminum fascism

So, they like killed millions of people, or invaded other countries to make them use aluminum laptops?

Re: Why Asus trackpad driver sets the CPU speed at maximum during scroll

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Post by eeZi »

HeyImAlex wrote: post #176
MereInterest wrote: post #160

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Lenovo business laptops. The consumer laptops are shoddy and thin, but the business laptops tend to be rather durable.

Can't stand the clicking trackpad. Loved my $300 consumer grade Lenovo with buttons but my new thinkpad is so awful I've pretty much stopped using it. It never gets better, I haven't gotten used to it, and it's been six months.

I really like the new glass trackpad.

Re: Why Asus trackpad driver sets the CPU speed at maximum during scroll

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Post by quinndupont »

coldtea wrote: post #197
quinndupont wrote: post #52

In no way am I trying to incite Mac vs. PC, but after years of Apple laptops I grew bored with their aluminum fascism and decided (last year) to buy a top-of-the-line Thinkpad. A couple of months later, taking a huge economic hit, I sold the Thinkpad and returned to Apple. I simply could not handle the trackpad (and I gave up on the weird Thinkpad nubbin back in the early 2000s). I quite literally felt like I had a d…

> In no way am I trying to incite Mac vs. PC, but after years of Apple laptops I grew bored with their aluminum fascism So, they like killed millions of people, or invaded other countries to make them use aluminum laptops?

If we must, METAPHORICALLY, yes.

Re: Why Asus trackpad driver sets the CPU speed at maximum during scroll

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Post by etherael »

wodenokoto wrote: post #196
etherael wrote: post #183

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Similar to the Razer Blade 14, but cheaper, and without the matrix-esque green backlight (just white) is the Aorus XP3+, which is ridiculously powerful and light. The only difference appears to be that it's actually even a little lighter than the blade (1.8kg vs 2.03kg), the screen is not touch based, the processor is a little beefier, it has more memory, and by default comes with 2x 256GB SSD's in RAID0 rather than…

I just did a Google search for "Aorus XP3+" and it literally came up empty. Can you provide some links? It sounds like an intriguing machine.

http://www.aorus.com/x3.aspx

X3 plus was the model number sorry my mistake.

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