Any cons you've noticed for the XPS 13? The reviews indicate flaky wifi and poor battery life.
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 >> > >
