In my mind Ultrabook = con laptop. If I can do a presentation, check email, and do some internet things on it, then I am fine. All of my heavy duty things are on my desktop. The Battery life of 8 hours is one of the major selling points for me, and sadly can not find anything else in the $500 range that isn't shit.
No one called anything like that an ultrabook until recently. What you described is just a laptop, or if it's both small and weak, a netbook.
There's nothing "ultra" about a normal laptop. Calling it an ultrabook is silly.
While I more or less agree, "far less powerful" sounds like a significant exaggeration to me
The shittacular 5400rpm spinning disk is the biggest performance bottleneck. The processor is also slower and it has half as much RAM, but that disk is the killer.
Whether and how much the hard drive is a bottleneck depends very much on the application. Moreover, RAM is almost always easy and cheap to add, and hard drives are typically quite easy to change as well.
There's nothing "ultra" about a normal laptop. Calling it an ultrabook is silly.
Agreed. A normal laptop serves a purpose, and there's nothing wrong with having one, but it's not anything special. That said, Coldguy also seems to want something sturdy (I assume "study" was a typo); that's a whole different matter, and much harder to achieve at the $500 mark.
I'll concede that yeah, calling this thing an "ultrabook" is probably a misnomer. The whole point of the "ultrabook" class is some sort of ultra-lightweight desktop replacement class of laptop. This is just a standard el-cheapo basic laptop, or Netbook++, if you will.
My Lenovo X230 is more powerful than most peoples' desktops.
That Aspire is both HUGE (physically) and far less powerful. Much worse battery life too. If that's an "Ultrabook," then so is my genitalia.
In my mind Ultrabook = con laptop. If I can do a presentation, check email, and do some internet things on it, then I am fine. All of my heavy duty things are on my desktop. The Battery life of 8 hours is one of the major selling points for me, and sadly can not find anything else in the $500 range that isn't shit.
A con laptop is not an Ultrabook. Just get a Chromebook or something else insanely cheap. If you want to do a presentation, read email, and Internet, every computing device can do those things. Even an Apple ][gs has a web browser. Get the cheapest thing you can find with a video output that works.
So this probably doesn't fall into any of your specializations, but for a program I need to estimate the bound on the roundoff error of a floating-point polynomial evaluation, and the I'm having trouble following the stuff I can find on the Internet. Would any of you be able to help me?
I love my Chromebook. It does pretty much everything I care about doing on the web.
But I am thinking about convention scenario where I have to do a presentation and there is no Internets, can Chromebook actually save files locally and run Google things without it?
Going camping in a few weeks. Some of my fellow campers have no idea about my obsessive board gaming habits, and it seems like the perfect time to introduce the masses. Definitely bringing Spot It!, travel Catan, and I'm brushing up on my Mafia hosting skills. Anything else that people think is a must-have-campsite-board game?
Going camping in a few weeks. Some of my fellow campers have no idea about my obsessive board gaming habits, and it seems like the perfect time to introduce the masses. Definitely bringing Spot It!, travel Catan, and I'm brushing up on my Mafia hosting skills. Anything else that people think is a must-have-campsite-board game?
Jungle Speed: Campfire Edition. Put the totem in the fire. If that's too hardcore for you, wait for the fire to run low on fuel, and put the totem in the hot embers.
I have a hard lump on the epidermis of my scrotum. I know I should probably just go see my doc, but anyone got an idea of what it could be? (besides cancer)
I have a hard lump on the epidermis of my scrotum. I know I should probably just go see my doc, but anyone got an idea of what it could be? (besides cancer)
Most likely a sebaceous cyst. Your scrotum is naturally pretty oily, and its pores clot up with oil and form cysts like that probably more often than you notice.
But, as has been advised, only a doctor can tell you for sure. If your nutsack is as important to you as mine is to me (read: basically the most important thing), go see someone.
Frighteningly enough, we have had drummers and guitarists express interest in being involved with the band for serious. In fact, our next album will have some for-real guitarwork on it from somebody who plays in an actual band. No, I don't understand either.
Basically the only reason a live show couldn't happen at this point is because I can't keep up the death growl for that long; we usually have to digitally tune down my voice anyway after a couple of tracks because I've just completely lost it. I've been practicing, but I doubt I could do more than one song at the pace they are usually done.
Oh, that and between our quality and our content we might get lit on fire.
I just got a GoPro today and I just found out that it has a recording light on the front. Has anyone here poked out the led with a sewing needle or something?
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There's nothing "ultra" about a normal laptop. Calling it an ultrabook is silly.
You should probably get it looked at, though.
But, as has been advised, only a doctor can tell you for sure. If your nutsack is as important to you as mine is to me (read: basically the most important thing), go see someone.
Basically the only reason a live show couldn't happen at this point is because I can't keep up the death growl for that long; we usually have to digitally tune down my voice anyway after a couple of tracks because I've just completely lost it. I've been practicing, but I doubt I could do more than one song at the pace they are usually done.
Oh, that and between our quality and our content we might get lit on fire.
Sorry, stupid question.