Laptop Review Database

[shovenose]

check it out, add to it...
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/62...views-database
i didnt want to make 2 so heres the link

[toastygoodness]

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let's make a bcn one instead lol. toms hardware :-/

hp probook 6555b is a beast. well-made. problems with the firewire because they were too lazy to give me a real one, so they put a sd-card reader/usb/fw ricoh pos attachment. good thing the southbridge is still an ati so i just put in a ti expresscard and my audiofire works lovely.

[shovenose]

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Ok. Well you can post here or follow the link to tomshardware.com for more (if anyone posts)

[weirdlookinguy]

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Sony VAIO VPCY2. Great build quality, not beastly but definitely solid feeling. Magnesium alloy case. Perfect size. No optical drive (that's a big plus in my book). Camera is decent.

The built in card reader and firewire are also ricoh based in this one. Luckily the USB is based off the intel chipset. The crappy ricoh controller is not much of a problem for me because I don't use FW, but it would have been nice to get TI firewire. Card reader works fine, I don't use it very heavily.

[toastygoodness]

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Sony VAIO VPCY2. Great build quality, not beastly but definitely solid feeling. Magnesium alloy case. Perfect size. No optical drive (that's a big plus in my book). Camera is decent.

The built in card reader and firewire are also ricoh based in this one. Luckily the USB is based off the intel chipset. The crappy ricoh controller is not much of a problem for me because I don't use FW, but it would have been nice to get TI firewire. Card reader works fine, I don't use it very heavily.

yeah, no lappy has TI firewire anymore haha. the expresscard slot is still southbridge, so a simple rosewill ti card fixed that. just avoid using taht special usb port to the side that's controleld by the ricoh lol

[weirdlookinguy]

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Good to know about that USB port. There is one right next to the firewire, I mean, *ahem*, i.Link S400. I'll avoid using that one for anything more than a mouse.

Forgot to mention one of the VAIO's strong points: Atheros (excellent) wireless chip.

[toastygoodness]

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Good to know about that USB port. There is one right next to the firewire, I mean, *ahem*, i.Link S400. I'll avoid using that one for anything more than a mouse.

Forgot to mention one of the VAIO's strong points: Atheros (excellent) wireless chip.

lolz ilink. ahh good reception on that eh? mine has broadcom its overpriced but is decent. but there's no support on archlinux or any linux for that manner without stupid things like ndiswrapper (which doesn't even work anymore) /endrant.

[ratdude747]

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review of my dell latidude d400:

pro's:

dock comptible
compact (13.3")
has 4 pin 1394 (TI chipset)
2 usb 2,0
built in bt (once i order a module)
broadcom G wifi

cons:
not new (2005)
no card reader
4:3 screen



not to mention mine needs a new battery

[shovenose]

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ratdude 747: may i ask what is wrong with a 4:3 didplay?

[ratdude747]

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we are living in a widescreen world... some things may become quirky on 4:3 in the future...

[shovenose]

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yeah but some wides are almost too wide

[ratdude747]

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it's a preference thing... some like wides and some like fulls.

[weirdlookinguy]

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Yup, great reception with the Atheros wifi. Even with less-than-optimal signal strength in some parts on campus I still always get a solid connection. Back in the days of 54g PCI wireless cards, I always used Atheros based cards. Ralink and Realtek cards couldn't hold a candle to them! Atheros cards seem to give a solid or at least useable connection even with a shitty weak signal. All of my Atheros cards always worked great under Linux too.