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Title: Need help choosing new ultrabook
Post by: FlutterPie on July 08, 2014, 05:53:17 AM
I am in the market for a new ultrabook. I don't plan on it being my main computer, but it will probably be used quite a bit.

I am looking at 3 laptops currently

1. Dell XPS 13
2. HP EliteBook 1040 G1
3. Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 2

all the laptops listed seem pretty nice from what I can tell. I would like to keep price under $1300

I am open to all opinions

Thanks


Title: Re: Need help choosing new ultrabook
Post by: FlutterPie on July 08, 2014, 05:26:40 PM
Bump


Title: Re: Need help choosing new ultrabook
Post by: robbyd86 on July 08, 2014, 05:28:13 PM
I've always had good luck with Dell


Title: Re: Need help choosing new ultrabook
Post by: insulting_robot on July 08, 2014, 05:44:23 PM
> ...

> this is the insulting robot

> what exactly are your most important criteria for your new laptop?

> performance? durability? design? price?

> without that information it is difficult to give a recommendation

> the insulting robot would always choose the most durable one



Title: Re: Need help choosing new ultrabook
Post by: FlutterPie on July 08, 2014, 06:23:28 PM
> ...

> this is the insulting robot

> what exactly are your most important criteria for your new laptop?

> performance? durability? design? price?

> without that information it is difficult to give a recommendation

> the insulting robot would always choose the most durable one



Hello Tardbot 3000,

All of those are pretty important, as long as the price is <$1300


Title: Re: Need help choosing new ultrabook
Post by: 1Referee on July 08, 2014, 06:28:37 PM
The dell would be my ultrabook from the 3 you mention, but it's all personal.

You can also try look at the Macbook pro retina, if you are willing to have a wider look of what's available.


Title: Re: Need help choosing new ultrabook
Post by: beetcoin on July 08, 2014, 06:31:35 PM
the xps 13 is really polished.. i liked it quite a bit. it's probably smaller than the other two ultrabooks, since they shaved some space out of the bezel/screen.


Title: Re: Need help choosing new ultrabook
Post by: FlutterPie on July 08, 2014, 08:17:22 PM
> ...

> this is the insulting robot

> because op does not have a preference it should be doubted if he can make an informed decision

> op should choose randomly, because as logic dictates when everything is equally important everything is equally unimportant





That's nice Tardbot, that's nice.


Title: Re: Need help choosing new ultrabook
Post by: BiTJack on July 09, 2014, 11:05:05 AM
You should go with Dell XPS 13, i have never had bad experiences dell.


Title: Re: Need help choosing new ultrabook
Post by: shogdite on July 09, 2014, 11:10:32 AM
Would avoid Dell, they like adding backdoors for the NSA  ;D

http://rt.com/usa/dell-appelbaum-30c3-apology-027/

 “Why did Dell leave a JTAG debugging interface on these servers?” asked Appelbaum. “Because it’s like leaving a vulnerability in. Is that a bugdoor, or a backdoor or just a mistake? Well hopefully they will change these things or at least make it so that if you were to see this, you would know that you have some problems. Hopefully Dell will release some information about how to mitigate this advance persistent threat.”


Title: Re: Need help choosing new ultrabook
Post by: TeseracT on July 09, 2014, 05:28:41 PM
have you guys tried MSI? It is not very known it is relatively young company but very good, seriously great performance.


Title: Re: Need help choosing new ultrabook
Post by: Velkro on July 09, 2014, 05:29:43 PM
Hard to choose, depend on your needs mostly not company that make it


Title: Re: Need help choosing new ultrabook
Post by: umairsaleem010 on July 09, 2014, 06:05:22 PM
i will suggest you to go with XPS as it is fast and reliable and good for gaming .. :) i have an xps and its working very very fine.. :) only for work not for games but it play many heavy games ..