New laptop

Feb 26, 2011 03:29

My Thinkpad T61 has served me pretty well for the last couple of years but now it's time for something new. I shopped around a bit but ended up going back to Lenovo and customized a W510. It helped that right when I was trying to make a decision between brands they went on sale (coinciding with the release of Sandy Bridge?) and I got it for half ( Read more... )

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laptop price anonymous February 26 2011, 11:56:03 UTC
How much did you pay for that?

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Re: laptop price psykil February 26 2011, 12:09:30 UTC
2G CAD. it was 3300 regular, everything else i looked at was around 3500.

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EFI anonymous February 26 2011, 12:02:36 UTC
Make sure you enable CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION=y in the kernel. Took me a day to figure out why my kernel wasn't able to remount / in rw mode (lenovo G460). :)

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Re: EFI psykil February 26 2011, 12:10:52 UTC
Cool, thanks for the tip.

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nvidia anonymous February 26 2011, 16:15:19 UTC
what is wrong with nVidia? binary drivers just work (TM) and performance is on-par with windows. you currently can't beat that with Intel or ATi/AMD

for CAD I would personally prefer a slightly faster GPU (probably FX1800M), but still a pretty impressive machine, even more with that pricetag

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Why no SSD anonymous February 26 2011, 17:31:22 UTC
Why no SSD for you! Nice machine btw :)

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Re: Why no SSD psykil March 1 2011, 22:07:35 UTC
- no good filesystems
- all sorts of stuff to be paranoid about, like aligning the filesystem to erase block boundaries which LWN just covered recently that would drive my OCD-half freaking nuts
- but mainly because I'm constantly (seriously, always) rebuilding @world with new gcc snapshots, meaning constantly writing and rewriting. there is no write-once, read-many on my system.

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Re: Why no SSD anonymous March 2 2011, 03:24:23 UTC
I'm curious as to what CFLAGS LDFLAGS and CXXFLAGS you use to rebuild @world. Do you include any special flags to possibly take advantage of new GCC release/feature?

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Re: Why no SSD psykil March 2 2011, 03:57:54 UTC
No, I keep things pretty sane these days (-O2 -march=native -g -pipe). I'm looking for broken packages and it's tough to track down issues sometimes when you build everything with experimental flags.

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16GB anonymous February 27 2011, 22:35:35 UTC
congratulations to your new machine... I didn't even know, that there are notebooks with 16GB out nowadays ;)
I also would like to know what reasons are speaking against a SSD?

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