Refurbished laptoo

From: af (CAER)13 Jun 2012 23:29
To: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX) 11 of 57

Um, not in the slightest. I can quite easily tell the difference between 220ppi and 110ppi. Have you actually looked at a retina display?

 

If they subsequently increased the res to 440ppi then yes, the difference would be barely noticeable and more akin to getting 200fps.

 

 

EDITED: 13 Jun 2012 23:31 by CAER
From: Chris (CHRISSS)14 Jun 2012 00:52
To: 99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD) 12 of 57

Well if it was for me I'd take the trackpad out and replace it with a block of cheese. Or maybe a pair of boobs. Although some laptops already come with nipples. I did find the multitouch scrolling pretty useful on my mother in law's laptop recently. Still prefer a mouse though.

 

I'd forgotten how bloody annoying the combat is in Frontier :(

 

And eBay looks like it could be a decent place to get a second hand laptop if I'm lucky. I shall keep an eye out.

EDITED: 14 Jun 2012 00:56 by CHRISSS
From: Chris (CHRISSS)14 Jun 2012 00:55
To: af (CAER) 13 of 57

I read something yesterday that said the maximum selectable resolution on the new macs is lower than the screen res so probably some scaling going on.

 

I should have been asleep ours ago.

From: 99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)14 Jun 2012 07:56
To: Chris (CHRISSS) 14 of 57
I love the trackpad on my MBA, it's large and responsive, but hate the one on the cheap-as-chips Lenovo at work, it's small and shitty. So I guess the answer is it depends on the trackpad, init?
From: af (CAER)14 Jun 2012 09:15
To: Chris (CHRISSS) 15 of 57
Well yes, I'd imagine using the screen at native res would be somewhat impractical – yer average 16 pixel icon would be 1.8mm high if my early-morning maths is correct.
EDITED: 14 Jun 2012 09:16 by CAER
From: ANT_THOMAS14 Jun 2012 10:09
To: Chris (CHRISSS) 16 of 57
That doesn't sound right. Anything lower than native would look awful unless it was a multiple of the native. I really hope that's not true.
From: Chris (CHRISSS)14 Jun 2012 10:29
To: ANT_THOMAS 17 of 57
They assumed the res (something x 1440?) was being doubled then scaled down. Some games allowed the full Res to be used with teeny tiny console text.
From: af (CAER)14 Jun 2012 13:05
To: Chris (CHRISSS) 18 of 57
It's 2880x1800, so double the usual 1440x900.
From: Chris (CHRISSS)14 Jun 2012 18:09
To: af (CAER) 19 of 57
Yes, I think that's the standard "res" that it uses. What I'd read was that even at higher resolutions 1680 x 1050 or 1920 x 1200 the image is rendered at twice the size then downscaled to 2880x1800.
From: Chris (CHRISSS)14 Jun 2012 18:11
To: 99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD) 20 of 57
I'm sure some are better than others, I've just never used one that I've liked using.
From: Chris (CHRISSS)14 Jun 2012 21:42
To: ALL21 of 57
Oops. I was just writing some stuff down (stock prices so I can do some nice trading) and accidentally pressed the spacebar. I shot my lasers in the dock and now have the police after me. I hope my last save wasn't long ago.
From: Chris (CHRISSS)15 Jun 2012 21:25
To: ALL22 of 57

Very quick question:
Anyone know what a Toshiba A100-027 might be like? One ending in 10 mins down the road from me.

 

Looks good, dead battery but pretty cheap.

From: patch15 Jun 2012 21:32
To: Chris (CHRISSS) 23 of 57
Quite old. This lot seem to think it's alright apart from battery problems.
From: koswix15 Jun 2012 21:34
To: Chris (CHRISSS) 24 of 57
From: Chris (CHRISSS)15 Jun 2012 21:37
To: patch 25 of 57

Not worried about battery life or that it's old. This PC will still be used the most (especially by me) so it'll only be used for internet and crappy Popcap/Bigfish games.

 

Anyway, just won the bid at £67 which seems a good price for a decent performing laptop. Happy :)

From: Chris (CHRISSS)15 Jun 2012 22:11
To: koswix 26 of 57
Pretty awful eh? I hope not too bad. It does come quite low down on this chart but I'm sure it'll be acceptable for what we want.

Sian's wanted one for a while but I've never been that bothered about getting one. I had my mother in law's laptop here last week to fix something and it was very useful being able to sit downstairs together to look at stuff online instead of cramming together on this computer.

If it's total crap I'll blame you for not replying soon enough :P
From: Chris (CHRISSS)16 Jun 2012 17:05
To: ALL27 of 57

Picked it up on my way home today (first time I've done that with an eBay purchase) and it's as I expected really. Not blazingly fast but certainly not slow just for browsing the net.

 

It originally came with Vista but they changed it to XP. I might try 7 on it. Seems a bargain for £67. Shame about the battery (completely dead, unplugging the power turns it straight off) though but not too bothered about using it plugged in.

From: Chris (CHRISSS)13 Aug 2014 23:11
To: ALL28 of 57
Well I'm wanting to buy a laptop again. pRobably. The last one got stood on and broke the screen. £50 seems a lot to spend on such an old laptop for a new screen.

Once again not sure whether to go refurb, eBay (with a proper charger/battery this time) or a cheap new one. Hmmmmm.
From: Chris (CHRISSS)14 Aug 2014 07:53
To: ALL29 of 57
Tempted by this Dell E6410. I think it looks good for the price. Certainly far better than I had before.

Or there was an Acer Aspire E1-something for about £100 but can't find that now. Maybe it ended.

Or a Lenovo T410. I like the look of them. 4GB, Core i5, no camera like some.
EDITED: 14 Aug 2014 10:00 by CHRISSS
From: Chris (CHRISSS)14 Aug 2014 08:49
To: ALL30 of 57
Or this Toshiba Ecra A11.
http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=281397419568&alt=web

Looks pretty good. Is 1366x768 a standard laptop res? Think my broken one is 1280x800. Looking at Core i5 laptops now.