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February 26th, 2011
03:29 am - New laptop
My Thinkpad T61 has served me pretty well for the last couple of years but now it's time for something new. I shopped around a bit but ended up going back to Lenovo and customized a W510. It helped that right when I was trying to make a decision between brands they went on sale (coinciding with the release of Sandy Bridge?) and I got it for half of what I was expecting.
The shit:
Core i7-820QM Quad-core
16GB DDR3-1333 RAM
NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M (1GB DDR3)
Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 AGN Wireless
500GB 7200RPM HD (no SSD for me, thanks)
I'm not big on nVidia, but I'm also less than impressed with the Intel GM965 I have now. The only laptop I could find with ATI wasn't even close to what I wanted (and cost more). I find myself needing good 3D for AutoCAD these days so I'll give it a try. I was also tempted to get an i7-940XM, but I just couldn't justify it.
So I expect to be elbow-deep in kernel configs and rebuilding for most of the weekend.
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| From: | (Anonymous) |
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| Date: | February 26th, 2011 11:56 am (UTC) |
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| | laptop price | (Link) |
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How much did you pay for that? ![[User Picture]](https://l-userpic.livejournal.com/105602299/367921) | | From: |  psykil |
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| Date: | February 26th, 2011 12:09 pm (UTC) |
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| | Re: laptop price | (Link) |
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2G CAD. it was 3300 regular, everything else i looked at was around 3500. |
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