"Dual bays that don't take 3.5" disks that beat the pants off laptop disks."
Umm, My 256GB SATAIII SSD would smack any of your platter drives any day. Both in I/O and in access times.
"MXM slots are useless because each card has its own cooling configuration"
This is dead wrong. In fact, for MXM, the processor MUST be located within +/- 2mm of dead-center.
"If you change GPUs you often have to make your own heat pipe cooler (have fun!) because there's no clearance if you swap to ANY OTHER CARD"
That has NEVER been the case. MXM *IS* a standard. Go read the standard. All MXM cards follow a particular form factor and main core location placement.
"AFAIK there has not been a laptop with full key travel since the Mac Portable."
DV-8000 HP. Even had buckle springs. You could run that thing over with a bulldozer and it still works.
"And they blow. Also, that's not a subwoofer, it can't handle sub-bass frequencies."
Now you're just talking nonsense. You couldn't pick up sub-bass frequencies either (lower than 10Hz) and the lowest any typical instrument hits is the Taiko drum, which is about 15Hz. The subwoofer in the Dell XPS can handle down to 25Hz.
The simple truth is you're speaking without knowing what you're talking about. To repeat your sig, "Please read and at least attempt to understand comment before replying, kthxbye."
No, you're feeding someone that did this for a living for Hewlett-Packard. As in I've likely got way more experience and knowledge than you do concerning this subject.
"Good luck getting another motherboard that will fit in your netbook."
Pull it out, look at the part number on the damned sticker. Look online. I'm still finding motherboards for old 75mhz Toshiba Satellite C210 laptops.
"I seriously doubt any laptop has space for a couple of 3.5" hard drives,"
The DV8000, DV9000, DV-7 models of HP laptops ALL come with dual hard drive bays. Have you ever done any serious computer shopping before?
"I recently upgraded my video card. The card, with all its cooling fins, is easily a third of the volume of a netbook. The laptop video cards must be either less powerful or using magical elves to cool them."
Yea, you're way behind the times. MXM slots have been around for at least 5 years. We've put fully-powered 6800 GeForce (when it was top of the line) in the commercial HP units and upgraded them later to the 7800 MXM.
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Pay up the dollar, having worked on EVERY HP laptop model out there, the DV8000 was a tank that had full-travel full-size keyboards, a full centimeter of up and down movement with each key. Each key is full-sized.
Sorry, you're just WAY behind the times. Get a job with a major laptop maker and get on their engineering team.
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"For those of us who aren't just carrying it to and from work, but are out all day, 7.5 lbs + a few more for a bag gets heavy quite quickly"
In high school, I carried EVERY SINGLE BOOK in my backpack. My locker was unused. if 7.5 lbs gets heavy for you very quickly, I suggest going outside and doing some exercise.
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The majority of battery life comes from having almost nil moving parts.
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A. Mine weighs 2.5 lbs. B. Like you can get a full day of work out of a netbook battery? Not if you're doing more than basic web-browsing/data entry. C. Get a proper desk? D. Add another $200 to the price for a micro-keyboard that wouldn't stop the ingress of liquids compared to today's keyboards? Not risking my laptop.
Oh, and hi, I am the director of research for a large multi-national corporation. IT WORKS JUST FINE.
Most everything from nVidia is just a rebadged 9800GTX+ going up to the 200 series. There is no need for a top range GPU. Even the newer cards don't offer that much of a performance difference.
I don't have to pay thousands of dollars when I can bring it into small claims court where lawyers typically aren't allowed, and I can rape them mercilessly.
"The difference between Limewire and CD Drive manufacturers is that Limewire actively encouraged the use of their services to pirate media"
You're wrong about that. That was FROSTWIRE that did that, as Limewire is open source (stupid move when you're trying to charge for a pro version that only needs a single bit flipped to become pro) and Frostwire made the 'pro' version available for free. Frostwire actively advertised the piracy aspect.
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Tesselation is for ATi, not nVidia.
And the older features have barely been fleshed out, there is no need to add new ones.
OpenGL 3 is *BARELY* even finished, let alone usable, and they're working on 4 already?
"Dual bays that don't take 3.5" disks that beat the pants off laptop disks."
Umm, My 256GB SATAIII SSD would smack any of your platter drives any day. Both in I/O and in access times.
"MXM slots are useless because each card has its own cooling configuration"
This is dead wrong. In fact, for MXM, the processor MUST be located within +/- 2mm of dead-center.
"If you change GPUs you often have to make your own heat pipe cooler (have fun!) because there's no clearance if you swap to ANY OTHER CARD"
That has NEVER been the case. MXM *IS* a standard. Go read the standard. All MXM cards follow a particular form factor and main core location placement.
"AFAIK there has not been a laptop with full key travel since the Mac Portable."
DV-8000 HP. Even had buckle springs. You could run that thing over with a bulldozer and it still works.
"And they blow. Also, that's not a subwoofer, it can't handle sub-bass frequencies."
Now you're just talking nonsense. You couldn't pick up sub-bass frequencies either (lower than 10Hz) and the lowest any typical instrument hits is the Taiko drum, which is about 15Hz. The subwoofer in the Dell XPS can handle down to 25Hz.
The simple truth is you're speaking without knowing what you're talking about. To repeat your sig, "Please read and at least attempt to understand comment before replying, kthxbye."
"Oy vey. Ok, I will feed the troll."
No, you're feeding someone that did this for a living for Hewlett-Packard. As in I've likely got way more experience and knowledge than you do concerning this subject.
"Good luck getting another motherboard that will fit in your netbook."
Pull it out, look at the part number on the damned sticker. Look online. I'm still finding motherboards for old 75mhz Toshiba Satellite C210 laptops.
"I seriously doubt any laptop has space for a couple of 3.5" hard drives,"
The DV8000, DV9000, DV-7 models of HP laptops ALL come with dual hard drive bays. Have you ever done any serious computer shopping before?
"I recently upgraded my video card. The card, with all its cooling fins, is easily a third of the volume of a netbook. The laptop video cards must be either less powerful or using magical elves to cool them."
Yea, you're way behind the times. MXM slots have been around for at least 5 years. We've put fully-powered 6800 GeForce (when it was top of the line) in the commercial HP units and upgraded them later to the 7800 MXM.
Pay up the dollar, having worked on EVERY HP laptop model out there, the DV8000 was a tank that had full-travel full-size keyboards, a full centimeter of up and down movement with each key. Each key is full-sized.
Sorry, you're just WAY behind the times. Get a job with a major laptop maker and get on their engineering team.
"For those of us who aren't just carrying it to and from work, but are out all day, 7.5 lbs + a few more for a bag gets heavy quite quickly"
In high school, I carried EVERY SINGLE BOOK in my backpack. My locker was unused. if 7.5 lbs gets heavy for you very quickly, I suggest going outside and doing some exercise.
The majority of battery life comes from having almost nil moving parts.
A. Mine weighs 2.5 lbs.
B. Like you can get a full day of work out of a netbook battery? Not if you're doing more than basic web-browsing/data entry.
C. Get a proper desk?
D. Add another $200 to the price for a micro-keyboard that wouldn't stop the ingress of liquids compared to today's keyboards? Not risking my laptop.
Oh, and hi, I am the director of research for a large multi-national corporation. IT WORKS JUST FINE.
"I repaired each of those problems in no more than a few hours each, "
Too slow.
Hell I do laptops full tear-down repair and reassembly in under 15 minutes.
Never had a quota to fill?
Top range GPU?
Most everything from nVidia is just a rebadged 9800GTX+ going up to the 200 series. There is no need for a top range GPU. Even the newer cards don't offer that much of a performance difference.
As I play Crysis on my mobile Radeon HD4200.
"Upgradeable CPU."
How do you think it got put on the board in the first place? It's a socket just like any other modern CPU.
"Two internal HDs, with space for two more"
I've got dual hard drive bays in my laptop.
"Upgradeable video card"
MXM slot. Had them forever.
"Full-size keyboard with numeric keypad + trackball"
Got that too, minus the trackball, because I hate the damned things and it's just another dust ingress.
"Decent computer speakers"
I've seen some laptops with built-in subwoofers, man. Dell, specifically.
"No notebook can offer that."
You very clearly aren't looking or have no clue.
Most decent laptops have a full-sized keyboard.
Shit mine's got the 10-key pad.
I've already mentioned the idea of combining a wind turbine with solar panels.
C'mon, DoE, talk to me, I've got some ideas you really want to consider.
No, violent crime is the best response to a tyrranical group of people.
This was proven in the Revolutionary War where we were labeled terrorists.
Learn from history, or be a fool and be doomed to repeat it.
And since you posted AC, odds are you're the fool.
"The only thing murder leads to is more murder"
Now not only do you ignore history but you forget basic nature.
Death in all forms is a naturally-occuring thing. Sadly, you fail to understand this. NATURE IS BY DEFINITION MURDEROUS.
Ignorant fool. Spend a night outside of civilization and learn reality.
Actually I would bet more on seeing them argue over whether or not it should be A4 or A3 paper before they argued about the spacing and wrapping.
Then I'd fully expect to see a thin geek vs fat geek war break out.
You apparently don't pay much attention to history. All other avenues of action have been tried.
Wake up and pay attention to current events, and remember past ones, eh?
Yea, my legal and litigative record is long and only with one failure out of about twenty.
My most recent victim? Electronic Arts. My next victim? Sony.
I don't have to pay thousands of dollars when I can bring it into small claims court where lawyers typically aren't allowed, and I can rape them mercilessly.
You very obviously know nothing about litigation.
Guess what, pal? I used to work for HP. I know their bullshit can't hold water.
See what happened when I smacked EA's entire team of lawyers in court - McQuown vs Electronic Arts - they settled IMMEDIATELY.
Umm, you do realize Limewire is the open source project and Frostwire is the modified version made to be pro for free?
"The difference between Limewire and CD Drive manufacturers is that Limewire actively encouraged the use of their services to pirate media"
You're wrong about that. That was FROSTWIRE that did that, as Limewire is open source (stupid move when you're trying to charge for a pro version that only needs a single bit flipped to become pro) and Frostwire made the 'pro' version available for free. Frostwire actively advertised the piracy aspect.
"Want to fix this? Stop buying RIAA member's products."
Negative. The only way to fix this, given what you say about congress, is to start killing RIAA members, AND congress members.
That's the ONLY way this bullshit will EVER stop, is to show them with absolute certainty that we will no longer tolerate this shit.
'Four Letters: EULA"
I don't know how many times I'm going to have to beat this into the heads of people from my own personal litigation experience.
EULAS DON'T MEAN SHIT IF THEY INFRINGE UPON A PROPERTY RIGHT OR VIOLATE A LAW.
That is my ink, unless I *TELL* you to print out that ad and set it up to do such, you have NO RIGHT.
Trespass to Chattels.
Not a myth in my office.
In my backup room, on the other hand....
More than already had it, we were already using it.
Well, not me. I turned HCP off a long time ago. For gaming, remove all unnecessary cruft.