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Any 12"/11.6" CULV Optimus-enabled notebooks coming?

CZroe

CZroe

Lifer
12" is the largest notebook/netbook I can fit into my motorcycle's tank bag, so that's what I'm aiming for. I'm looking for something with at least a 768p display.

A small SSD option (32-64GB) is preferable because it is a powerful magnetic tankbag and I don't want to wonder if a HDD can take it. Of course, I can always add it later at greater expense. 🙁

I'm waiting for Optimus as long as it takes because I demand a discrete GPU even though I've been spoiled by my 9-cell netbook battery's 9-hr battery life (for an original Acer Aspire one).

CULV pretty much comes from demanding Optimus and wanting to make sure that, whatever the GPU, it isn't bottlenecked by a netbook CPU, even if it is a netbook like the Alienware M11x. Too bad there is no Optimus in the Alienware M11x. I hope they revise it or make an M12x.

I keep hitting up Google and I'm not finding much (too early?)... nothing fits my exact needs. Is there a list of known Optimus-enabled notebooks both in production and in development? Wikipedia fails me, as does typing "Optimus" on engadget.com and sorting by date.
 
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My understanding is that the Alienware M11x has the 2nd gen technology, which requires a button press to switch GPUs. Iersonally for a tech savy person (And I assume that you are quite savy with 6k+ posts)I think that that probably isn't much of an issue. However, the M11x has a really funky profile, it's almost as long as it is wide. It's as long as my 15.6" work Dell, and at 4.3lbs is pretty heavy. I'd love something like this myself too, but it just seems like It'd be better to have a slim 12 or 13" chassis with that sort of equipment
 
maniac5999 said:
My understanding is that the Alienware M11x has the 2nd gen technology, which requires a button press to switch GPUs. Iersonally for a tech savy person (And I assume that you are quite savy with 6k+ posts)I think that that probably isn't much of an issue. However, the M11x has a really funky profile, it's almost as long as it is wide. It's as long as my 15.6" work Dell, and at 4.3lbs is pretty heavy. I'd love something like this myself too, but it just seems like It'd be better to have a slim 12 or 13" chassis with that sort of equipment
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Thanks. Good point too. Any idea where I can check it out to size it up with my tank bag? Who demos Dell/Alienware at retail? I tried to fit a 13.3" MacBook Air in it once and it was just ever so slightly too wide.

corkyg said:
You need not worry about the effects of your magnet tank bag on either SSDs or HDDs.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/116572/busting_the_biggest_pc_myths.html
http://askville.amazon.com/magnets-adversely-affect-items/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=7363946

My concern about a cycle's tank bag would be more about vibration rather than the magnets holding the bag to the tank. Consider a backpack as well. Then when you dismount, you don't have to do anything except walk away.
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While I agree that an occasional encounter will not cause a problem, storing it with such powerful magnets is a different story. And... Yikes! There is some seriously dangerously misinformed info in those links.

Yeah, I've heard all that about magnets being safe before and every time someone explians why, they fail HARD. For example, we aren't talking about erasing bits or corrupting sectors, which is something that can be restored to be functional by formatting the drive, I'm talking about the kinda stuff that we can't manage since the days of LLF'ing a dive... Such as the tracking rings between sectors that Scott Mueller (the definitive PC Hardware Troubleshooting, Upgrade, and Repair author) estimates to have a 5-10 year life span due to the weak disturbing influence of the Earth's own magnetic field... And this was so many years ago that HDDs weren't nearly as sensitive as they are today.

I'm not worried about a magnet causing a sudden erasure but, rather, a hastening of a gradual failure that would be the same as any HDD would eventually fail. Not once has any of my numerous drive failures been investigated (I may have lost over 50 drives in 10 years). As for vibrations... they are only a concern when the drive is spinning, but people still always say that it is a greater conern. I don't plan to USE the notebook on my bike. 😉
 
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