Heads up - Dell haven't upgraded their XPS line with the new Haswell chips yet (except the XPS 12) so depending on what your needs are, either get in soon to get a soon-to-be-superseded model at a cheaper price, or wait until the new ones come out.
-----Original Message----- From: "Tom Rutter" <[email protected]> Sent: 12/07/2013 7:17 PM To: "ozDotNet" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [OT] Notebook Thanks Stephen. Will have a look at the xps. Any other trustworthy sites besides those for buying? There's so many.... Cheers On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Stephen Price <[email protected]> wrote: Wow, you could buy just about anything and you'll have a major upgrade if you are going from an 7 year old laptop. I recently got a Dell XPS 13 ultrabook for about $1400 (added in the essential 3 year warranty thing or it would have been less than that). Light, good CPU, SSD, and 8Gb ram. 13 inch screen but mini display out can plug into any screen with a displayport for kickarse resolutions. (will drive your 2560x1440 screens, thats what I've tested it on anyway). My dev laptop (when not working on client hardware) is a gaming laptop. http://www.tech4u.com.au/asus-g75vw-t1443h-173-i7-3630qm-16gb-1tb-windows-8-p359995.html Its a G75VW. Wow the price has come down heaps now there is a newer model... http://www.tech4u.com.au/asus-g750jx-t4134h-173-i7-windows-8-gaming-notebook--p383552.html 4.8Kg is the only downside. :) Best laptop I've owned in years... really happy with it. Damnit, now i'm drooling over the new updated model. *shakes fist* On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Tom Rutter <[email protected]> wrote: My notebook of almost 7 years has died a tragic death. RIP. What's the go on notebooks these days? I used to just go straight to Dell and choose something but haven't looked for years so don't want to go down the wrong path if things have changed. Don't need anything crazy- 4GB ram was fine but I hear 8GB is the norm now, solid state I guess as I've never had one of those, windows os obviously- win8? not sure never used it, and of course visual studio- i currently use a single instance of 2010 running at any time but I guess I may upgrade to the latest version whatever that is or just use the free express versions I need. :-) Any recommendations? Price willing to spend? $1200? Cheers
