Thin and Light 11-14 notebooks gaming worth compendium

[EnriqueM]

I was actually considering the aspire m5, but was a bit dissapointed it had no vga and the screen res also was a bummer. do you know when is it released in north america and why people have sometihng against acer?

[colewheeler]

This thread is excellent. Whilst I have nothing of value to add (I am a newb), I just wanted to chime in and thank y'all for your insight.

C'mon y480 + 650M by June 15th!

Otherwise, I will certainly use this thread to get my grad school lappy.

Thanks again!

[Oats04]

This thread is excellent. Whilst I have nothing of value to add (I am a newb), I just wanted to chime in and thank y'all for your insight.

C'mon y480 + 650M by June 15th!

Otherwise, I will certainly use this thread to get my grad school lappy.

Thanks again!

hmm i think the y480 is too thick and heavy to be considered an ultrabook

[HTWingNut]

I don't think this thread is for ultrabooks. It's for thin and light gaming notebooks with dedicated GPU's. Ultrabooks (usually) don't come with a dedicated GPU.

[Fat Dragon]

I was actually considering the aspire m5, but was a bit dissapointed it had no vga and the screen res also was a bummer. do you know when is it released in north america and why people have sometihng against acer?

Poor quality screens and poor build quality overall.

[whatanoob]

Yup. Just when a laptop starts to look promising, they throw a wrench in it with a 1366x768.

I'm with the other posters - so glad this thread got started. My perfect laptop (which I don't think exists) would fall in this range:

14" (would go with a 15.6 if the weight stayed below 5 lbs.)
< 5lbs.
4+ hrs battery
SSD
Dedicated graphics
Backlit keyboard
Optical Drive
1920x1080

[Karamazovmm]

Lengthy post be warned.

Ladies and Gentlemen for the meeting today I gave what you gals/guys suggested, I appreciate feedback.

1.) The deal with putting the overweight guys here is that for some the weight might not be that of an issue. However to add oversize is already covered in that 2nd post as well, by oversize I mean the Z, height, not Y, width, this wont be covered by this compendium, I expect to make more compendiums with the help of all here, I will discuss this further.

2.) I think we are still best served by putting some performance ballpark for people to compare, since reviews are going to be put along with the model. Im thinking more in good and easy to grasp terms not like '' WoooT my notebook haz over 9000!'' (sorry for the bad joke). And some FAQs like what are SSDs and what is ULV.

3.) The underpowered idea is a good one, but sincerely anything coming with a HD 4000 should be better than any entry line gpu that we have, if we count the 7760g, the igp for trinity, any mid range card from last, or in the nvidia case 2, years past should be in here. Thus Im thinking of adding or not, sincerely this could be better served on a different thread.

4.) Regarding more Compendiums, here is my idea, ultrabooks and gaming notebooks (the real deal). Since for mainstream I wont have the time to do catalog each model from each OEM.

4.1) For ultrabooks Im thinking in terms of what they can deliver, thus I think 2 categories are necessary, overall quality, thunderbolt. For example the Acer S3 from last year was as terrible as you can get, while the MBA is by far the best choice, even for windows users, it gets more battery life, more build quality and more performance than any other. While the keyboard and touchpad are no slouch designs, however with the u300 the keyboard became contested, at least for that model, the touchpad and speed were all in apple favor, I do like more the design of the lenovo though.

4.2) For gaming notebooks I will go in 3 directions, mainly due to the size available, 15'', 17'', 18''.

5.) my perfect notebook has already been stated, but Im up for a revision, get the vaio Z2 to make a baby with the lenovo x1 (from this year), and add a real thunderbolt port, basically is this:

Screen: 1080p Matte
CPU: i7 3612qm
GPU: HD 4000
RAM: 2 soDIMM slots
Connections: USB 3 (2), mDP, Card Reader, ethernet (RJ 45)
Chassis: the strength of the X1
HDD: either blade or mSata
Battery life: 6h-10h

Dock or PMD whatever:
MXM 3b slot so that I can upgrade it, 100w TDP for that design
Multiple connections, USB, esata, mdp, hdmi, vga, ethernet....

Its basically a Z on steroids, just improve the build quality, keyboard, add a real thunderbolt and make the PMD look like a real dock (not aesthetically).

Off course I know it will be thicker and heavier, I dont care.

This is not an impossible design, or simply forego the idea of a Dock, and keep the current one (its a waste I know), but let me have thunderbolt so that I can connect to a real gpu from now and them.

The Z is already being offered with the 3612qm, now the only matter is the keyboard, chassis, battery life, and the RAM slots, albeit the the last one is simply due to costs for me.

Basically this is for casual gamers like me, while I dont game like I used to, I still like some digital fun and why not some eye candy?

[Fat Dragon]

... ultrabooks and gaming notebooks (the real deal). ...

I would say a fourth compendium would be valuable - budget laptops. Maybe the percentage of budget laptop buyers visiting this site would be too low, but they're the least likely to be able to figure things out for themselves, or even know the right questions to ask, so a simple compendium for laptops under a certain threshold ($500?) would be invaluable for those of the unwashed masses wise enough to come here for advice.

[Jonnyinter]

Some information on the new sony S & Z.

S = GF640M LE
Z = 7670M(inside the powerdock)

Could someone provide me with some information on the differences between the 640M LE and the 640M. From what I understand, one is Fermi while the other is Kepler, but how does the performance differ?

If it's not too bad I might go fore a new Vaio S but I have until July to wait and want to see the new Macbook Pros.

[Karamazovmm]

There are conflicting reports that give some flicker of hope for the vaio S13, simply because it appears to exist 2 640m LE, the fermi and the kepler version.

The kepler version is going to be 20% or more faster than the fermi one.