Laptop buying advice : Help with Next Laptop
16 inch displays
by imanym - 7/16/09 7:34 PM In reply to: 15.6 Wide = nice size. by R. Proffitt
You know I was tempted to go with the 16"r, it is actually lighte than the 15.6"r. I actually went with the 15 because the vid card was double the size and I saved about $100. I agree with you on the screen size, I had a 15.4 HP Pavilion notebook and loved the screen resolution as well as the size, but it was not an industrial design so I ruined the CD drive a few times so I gifted that to my Wife and went with HP business brand notebooks, much better choice, but I always missed that perfect screen size.
Took the plunge nbd got a MAC
by imanym - 7/18/09 9:10 PM In reply to: 16 inch displays by imanymOkay, I was researching my purchase of the Lenovo ideapad Y550 and I thought to check their own forum. To my surprise the Lenovo's chipset and processor supports Virtualization but the ability to turn it on is not in the bios. That was a deal breaker for me, so it was up to the HP or the Mac. I decided the mac because I have had at least 3 HP's in the past few years and wanted a change. I ended up just going to the Apple store and picked up a Mac Book Pro 15" with 256 Vid Card. To be completely honest, I would have definately gotten the HP VooDoo Envy if it didn't have such a proprietary hard drive. The Lenovo ideapad Y550 was my next option and I actually ordered for the machine until I found out that Virtualization was not available on the systems mb. So I decided that it was time to just take the dive into the Mac world.
Bad Bad Lenovo
by imanym - 7/23/09 7:07 PM In reply to: Took the plunge nbd got a MAC by imanymBe warned I purchased a Lenovo laptop Y550, I then canceled my order 2 days later after reading postings on the Lenovo sight suggesting that the Lenovo's do have Virtualization support in their consumer products. However, the document that I downloaded of the specific laptop suggested they did. When the question was posed I felt obligated to type in my reaction to this with facts that I have of HP brand laptops that have this ability, new and old and all consumer products. The answer from the site was as follows:
"If this is demonstrated as a competitive disadvantage and reason not to buy Lenovo, perhaps that would be a good basis to have the situation examined again."
Lenovo officially stated that they do not support this functionality however, the hardware is capable of this. I did respond but will leave it up to them (like I really have a choice). I did cancel my order and I did purchase an Apple Macbook Pro 15" as a resulyt of this behavior.Did I mention that the documentation for the laptop specifications was changed June 2009 and posted on their site July 2009 after my posting. I still have the original spec sheet which stated VT Support.
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