So, with this and the Lenovo Yoga Pro both having QHD panels, I'm hoping there's a lot more in this vein coming down the pipe.
Still 16:9 though for some unfathomable reason.
The New Razer Blade
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#42Most of the specs look great, but like most made-for-Windows-8 laptops on the market there is a fixed limitation of 8GB of RAM. Its 2014. I want 32GB of RAM as an option, and 16 GB minimum. I am still looking for a great Linux development laptop but this is not it.
16GB minimum is still a little silly. My desktop has 16GB, kind of on accident, and my machine literally has no idea what to do with so much RAM. Most of the time it spends 8-10GB on disk cache. There are absolutely use cases for more. I would love to have my home machine at my desk at work, for example, for EDA tools. But that's why you make 16GB (or even 32GB) an option .
You don't need it, until you do. Several developer tools I use regularly eat up that memory like nothing when you run in certain modes.
Development shouldn't feel like working on an airplane tray table.
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#43Oooh, this looks really nice. I'm so happy that high-pixel density screens are becoming available. It's about time.
But with a built-in battery...ahh, almost had me. Sticking to Thinkpads. I'd gladly sacrifice some thinness to be able to replace worn-out batteries or use multiple batteries on the go.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
No way. Everything with a keyboard should probably ship with 16GB. My dev server has 128GB, my laptop has 16, 4GB is a toy and 8GB is the minimum for useful work. This laptop looks pretty good, but compared to a W540 which can have dual sata and 32GB I would have to pass. My next desktop will have 64GB which is not extreme in the least. The worst trend that I don't see being fixed is the lack of ECC memory. ALL MEMOR…
> 8GB is the minimum for useful work I can do a hell of a lot of useful work with far less than that
Every once in a while, I have a wistful desire to take a notebook with a modern high-capacity battery, pull out everything except those batteries, and slap in an e-ink display, a single flash card for storage, and something less powerful than a Raspberry Pi for processing. And then write just enough operating system for it to boot to Emacs.
That, in my mind, would be a programmer's computer. (Or a writer's computer.)
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
No way. Everything with a keyboard should probably ship with 16GB. My dev server has 128GB, my laptop has 16, 4GB is a toy and 8GB is the minimum for useful work. This laptop looks pretty good, but compared to a W540 which can have dual sata and 32GB I would have to pass. My next desktop will have 64GB which is not extreme in the least. The worst trend that I don't see being fixed is the lack of ECC memory. ALL MEMOR…
> My dev server has 128GB ...when you say 'dev server', is that a computer in your home/office, or something hosted somewhere? And, if it's hosted--who are you using for hosting that makes 128GB-memory machines available cheaply enough that it's at-all-sensible to use one for a dev server?
It is a used machine hosted at a friends colo.
For something similar http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sun-SunFire-X4600-M2-8x-AMD-Opteron-...
The only reason to use hosting providers is to provide instant provisioning/scaling. Otherwise, money burned. Colo space is fairly cheap, so are old but still totally serviceable bad-ass machines.
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#46This is actually a very very interesting laptop where my only question is: Will it run Linux without too much trouble? I have a Lenovo W530, but I have an inkling that the future of the Thinkpad is very grim for my work use cases. Laptops like the Razer Blade would be my next potential go-to if it can run Linux without much fuss.
How so? http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/w-series/w540/ I really like my MBP, solid fast machine. It only has 16GB and I would like a machine with at least 32 if not 64. I am a little jealous of a W530/W540 owner. You can have RAID SSD and 32GB of ram. Coupled with VMWare Workstation ... swoon!
What are you doing on a laptop that could possibly require 64GB of memory.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
16GB minimum is still a little silly. My desktop has 16GB, kind of on accident, and my machine literally has no idea what to do with so much RAM. Most of the time it spends 8-10GB on disk cache. There are absolutely use cases for more. I would love to have my home machine at my desk at work, for example, for EDA tools. But that's why you make 16GB (or even 32GB) an option .
No way. Everything with a keyboard should probably ship with 16GB. My dev server has 128GB, my laptop has 16, 4GB is a toy and 8GB is the minimum for useful work. This laptop looks pretty good, but compared to a W540 which can have dual sata and 32GB I would have to pass. My next desktop will have 64GB which is not extreme in the least. The worst trend that I don't see being fixed is the lack of ECC memory. ALL MEMOR…
"8GB is the minimum for useful work..."
What are...just...what are you doing for work?
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#48Page design made me dizzy. But seriously, I really wouldn't mind if laptops were a centimeter or two thicker and the battery held far more than 2 hours on heavy usage. My backpack designed for laptops could easily carry two or three, so that is not a problem, and when the laptop is in use, the extra thickness doesn't really matter. I just don't see why this craze for thinness.
I would say it's so you can have a laptop on you in situations where you weren't specifically planning to bring it with you, just because it's light enough to forget you have it.
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#49is it wrong that I want one for the screen, but to run OSX so I can write code? I don't game on a laptop.
What about dual booting or using Virtual Box and installing your favorite Linux flavor?
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#50How hot will this thing get when gaming? Can it be used for prolonged sessions when playing graphics intensive games on high settings (like Titanfall)?
I have an Alienware M17x and that sucker will burn you if you have it on your lap.
Beyond that, it is prone to overheating when placed on a flat surface and I had to usually put some sort of spacer underneath to give it better airflow.