Best laptop

[duck sauce]

Get the CM Storm Helium Cooltech cooling system, all problems solved

[__3xL]

Not lenovo for sure though their warranties top others usually but really nothing mainstream retail is ever at all best,

 

 

 Clevo a previous poster said and I have to agree, or Sager units

[jayrock]

the best laptop is one that lets you remote into your real computer (a desktop) and basically acts as a dumb terminal.

 

picked up a chromebook earlier this week, really liking it so far. for the price it's pretty damn amazing to be honest... $159 for 2gb ram and 16gb ssd

 

http://www.amazon.com/Acer-Chromebook-CB3-111-C670-11-6-inch-16GB/dp/B00MMLV7VQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1424533648&sr=8-1&keywords=acer+chromebook+11

 

stock it's a perfectly functional machine running solely on ChromeOS, you can remote into your desktop via chrome remote desktop no problem. but i basically picked it up to tinker with and have been bouncing between linux desktop environments via crouton in the last 24 hours trying to figure out what i like best. unity doesn't seem as snappy as xfce, but xfce kinda sucks anyway (previously used cinnamon a lot c/o linux mint, but there is no cinnamon/mint crouton option currently) also been having some struggles getting my VPN to work, but i'll figure that out eventually [hopefully]

 

currently running this script to hopefully get a good elementary os install (awesome, just finished looks good so far) -- https://github.com/AldousP/MyDearWatson

 

anyway though, back to your original point -- if you have a decent desktop you use for all the heavy lifting, it seems like chromebooks are an awesome additional device to pick up. less than $200 for pretty good performance and insane battery life, a pretty sweet deal. you can get a fully functional os on there with very little effort

 

 

 

edit: here's a good crouton walkthrough fwiw https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JWLvbn4cy-LmQ-K3JeWMD-2yvT08V3lyMhrFilMClP8/pub

 

original github - https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton

Edited February 21, 2015 by jayrock

[diagonalzip]

I have a black macbook from 2007 running flawlessly and a macbook pro I got two years ago and they are both running like new. I have friends that own pc laptops and theres always some shit that goes wrong with them so I'd have to say macbooks are the best.

Edited March 12, 2015 by diagonalzip

[swooc]

anyone know whether most jdm notebooks have an english option in the bios/uefi options? specifically vaios?