Thin and Light 11-14 notebooks gaming worth compendium

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the game changer would be a thunderbolt egpu. everyone would be happy. imagine a thin and light ultrabook (just needs a good cpu and that's easy) with a desktop processing power.

[Karamazovmm]

the game changer would be a thunderbolt egpu. everyone would be happy. imagine a thin and light ultrabook (just needs a good cpu and that's easy) with a desktop processing power.

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?

completely agree, some variation might be possible

[TheDeluxe2]

I don't like to rain on parades, but I really wanted to purchase the Gigabyte U2442v, and this video makes me nervous about the keyboard (FLEX):

Gigabyte U2442V and U2442N ultrabooks hands-on.mp4 - YouTube

Fast forward to around 48 seconds.

[y2bd]

I don't like to rain on parades, but I really wanted to purchase the Gigabyte U2442v, and this video makes me nervous about the keyboard (FLEX):

Gigabyte U2442V and U2442N ultrabooks hands-on.mp4 - YouTube

Fast forward to around 48 seconds.

As disconcerting as that is, I say keep in mind that it's just a demo/early model, and that the finalized version may be better.

[Fat Dragon]

I don't like to rain on parades, but I really wanted to purchase the Gigabyte U2442v, and this video makes me nervous about the keyboard (FLEX):

Gigabyte U2442V and U2442N ultrabooks hands-on.mp4 - YouTube

Fast forward to around 48 seconds.

The u2442v parade has already been deluged by "it's not gonna come to (the USA/Europe/anywhere)" speculation and build quality concerns. Consider yours a tiny little trickle in the torrential downpour.

I personally suspect it'll have the build-quality of an Acer and the parts of a Clevo. Not sure about potential screen quality, but I'd gamble pretty confidently on heating problems as well.

[Karamazovmm]

yes gigabyte launched notebooks last year with basically the same chassis, and guess what? it was nowhere to be found, with no reviews available as well

[gamba66]

I don't like to rain on parades, but I really wanted to purchase the Gigabyte U2442v, and this video makes me nervous about the keyboard (FLEX):

Gigabyte U2442V and U2442N ultrabooks hands-on.mp4 - YouTube

Fast forward to around 48 seconds.

It looks nice at first glance, features some very strong and good components..

But it fails on every other aspect.. Build quality is very bad, lots of keyboard flex, display is way too dark for a matte screen (180 cdm) and so on.. Of course this is only a "prototype", but very often changes are only minor, a new case and display would be major changes.. And the site also claims they are still debating if 768p/900 and if matte or glossy

Also this notebooksite says, that gigabyte often announced notebooks at previous shows, but they never made it to the US or even EU market, I think there wasnt even a single notebook release in the EU from gigabyte yet..

SO dont get your hopes up too high..

Notebookinfo u2442n hands on Cebit

Just read my rant ive posted before

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.

Considering that the Z uses a rebadged 6650m (7670m), it is very likely that the Vaio SA only gets the rebadge fermi 640m LE, just like the y480

[KendiKong]

Why is the xnote p330 not amongst these laptops?

[y2bd]

Why is the xnote p330 not amongst these laptops?

That's both a Sandy Bridge processor and a Fermi graphics card. Do you know if LG is planning on updating that system anytime soon?

[gelu88]

The Lenovo T430 is pretty much my dream Laptop, It excels in all of the categories this thread values(though 2.1kg weight is borderline).
Thing is the specs showed up on Lenovo's site today and the GPU is the business focused NVS series. Optional top end is the 5400M.

A google search shows me that this is a brand new chip never seen before, but i assume its a rebadge of some other consumer chip right?

Anyone aware of its linage and performance?

Nvidia's page here: NVIDIA NVS

Lenovo's T430 page here: ThinkPad T430 - hard-working, rock-solid business laptop from Lenovo (US)


Edit: just noticed that the new5400M and 5200M are preceded by the 4200M, which is based on the 520M. Assuming the the 5000's are a generation newer, where does that put them?