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I looked around the web, and I couldn't find anything on using an E-350 mini-itx with a honking fast video card. How bad will the 6970 be bottlenecked? can I still play the Witcher 2 at 1900x1200? Does anyone have first hand knowledge?

For an everyday laptop, you might want to step up to one of the CULV i5/i7 11.6-12.1 in laptops from Acer or Asus. Zacate and Atom are pretty low end pieces, both trounced in CPU, if not graphics, by even the CULV i3. I guess it depends on how much you want to do light gaming.

Pick a relatively non-descript but sturdy case and then mount a monitor to the side using a small tilt or arm wall mount for designed for small TVs and the VESA mounting holes?

just a thought, with amazon having free shipping and no tax for most states, it can sometimes be the cheapest option. in fact it is often the cheapest option for me in CA. I don't know much about these newer 1155 boards but here's a gigabyte Z68 at $120 free shipping and no tax...

Technically the Celeron Dual Core SU2300 is CULV and they're about $400 I believe. Acer 1410 has this chip though I don't know if it'll open flat. I also know there are CULV tablets out there, i think from HP. see if they have a tablet with SU2300 and you could be in business. Edit: these...

around here macbooks don't attract any attention as they're ubiquitous. anyways, from personal experience the 13" macbook pro wont get to 8 hours, 6.5 is more realistic. Several reviews have the m11x reaching 8 hours but in my hands it'd probably get more like 6.5 since I use my notebooks for...

I've been wanting a smaller laptop for my personal use for a while now. The Alienware M11x is going to be it. It's pretty expensive but you really give up nothing except an extra 10-12 oz and $400. It can game, it can last 8 hours on battery, it's small, 4 lbs, 4GB of RAM, wireless and...

I kinda like the Dell because of the easy availability of parts. I've had both, I found the THinkpad to be pretty thoughtfully designed but found the Dell a better all around laptop. I like my corporate issued Macbook Pro the best though, design, capability, OS (as a sysadmin, the native...

There's a $70 dongle that outputs 1920x1200 video from a USB2.0 port. We use them at work to power a second 24" monitor with our macbook pros. http://www.amazon.com/Diamond-BVU195...9119172&sr=8-2 Supposedly you can use a hub to display up to 6 screens but we've never tried. I doubt...

So one thing interesting about i7 is turbo boost. I have a i7 860. If the app that I'm using only uses one core (actually, if my machine is only using one core, i.e. I'm not multitasking), that one core is automatically overclocked from 2.8 to 3.2GHz. I believe there is an overclock to a...

I can't seem to find an answer. Does athlon II 240 run 1:1 at 533 or 800 when using DDR2?

actually still not a bad deal at $368, especially if at some point you're willing to crack 'er open and do a proc swap, haha!!

The acer netbook I had was very well built. there's also this: http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/laptop-reliability-survey-asus-and-toshiba-win-hp-fails/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+weblogsinc%2Fengadget+%28Engadget%29 From a relatively respected name on...

interestingly, I've read that Asus has good build quality. Where did you read UL80t had poor build quality? I just bought a X83Vp-A1 this morning. Maybe that fits your bill?

One other thing- most netbooks can only recognize 2GB max memory and when calculating that, you need to subtract any memory that is soldered to the motherboard- meaning, if it came with 1GB soldered on the mainboard, the most you could add is 1GB to end with 2GB. Some of the Acer Aspire One's...