 KS_Physicist
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Posted: 8/15/2012 4:22:55 AM
THE IMAGE ABOVE IS A PAID ADVERTISEMENT Most of the truly small, thin, light PCs I see are also underpowered compared to the Mac. The base mac air has a 1.7 ghz Core i5 processor, 4 gigs memory, 64gb flash hdd, and intel hd4000 graphics. You can bump it up to a 2ghz i7, 512gb flash hdd, 8 gigs ram. Every search I run ends up coming back with laptops with equivalent /performance/. I want the equivalent /machine/. Small, thin, rugged, fast (or configurable to be so). Not a 15" standard Toshiba (I already have one of those). It is possible that I may end up just purchasing a MBA and tri-booting it (osx, win7, ubuntu), but as impressed as I have been with the macs I am not necessarily excited about buying one right now. Anyone know what the true equivalent to the 11.6" Macbook air would be? |
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Posted: 8/15/2012 7:31:27 AM
with that small of a screen? yikes
i was looking at the Hp Envy Dell Adamo but they all have bigger screens.. |
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rxdawg
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Posted: 8/15/2012 7:34:01 AM
X-series Thinkpad, maybe?
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thedave1164
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Posted: 8/15/2012 10:57:47 AM
The ultabooks are the windows attempt.
You will want to look at the Business class UltraBook But they are gonna run the same or more than the Mac |
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Jakezor
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Posted: 8/15/2012 11:05:32 AM
The new Lenovo X1? Thin and light, but a 14" screen
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/lenovo-thinkpad-x1-carbon-ultrabook-review-ultrabook-now/story?id=16994396 |
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TheRocketmac
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Posted: 8/15/2012 6:55:01 PM
Originally Posted By thedave1164:
The ultabooks are the windows attempt. You will want to look at the Business class UltraBook But they are gonna run the same or more than the Mac Samsung, Toshiba and Asus are the ones running with these mostly right now. Dell and HP's aborted attempts are mostly laughable due to hardware used + heat/power issues. |
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Zak-Smith
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Posted: 8/16/2012 2:50:20 AM
Lenovo X120e with an SSD.
Might be just out of production now. Not sure what they are replacing it with. |
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Posted: 8/16/2012 5:25:00 AM
Originally Posted By KS_Physicist:
I've been looking around for PC/Win7 equivalents to the smaller Macbook Air for a while now with little luck. Most of the truly small, thin, light PCs I see are also underpowered compared to the Mac. The base mac air has a 1.7 ghz Core i5 processor, 4 gigs memory, 64gb flash hdd, and intel hd4000 graphics. You can bump it up to a 2ghz i7, 512gb flash hdd, 8 gigs ram. Every search I run ends up coming back with laptops with equivalent /performance/. I want the equivalent /machine/. Small, thin, rugged, fast (or configurable to be so). Not a 15" standard Toshiba (I already have one of those). It is possible that I may end up just purchasing a MBA and tri-booting it (osx, win7, ubuntu), but as impressed as I have been with the macs I am not necessarily excited about buying one right now. Anyone know what the true equivalent to the 11.6" Macbook air would be? How could you guys forget the new 11.6 and 13.3 inch Asus zenbook primes with 1080p screens. |
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