Drew1
10-20-2010, 06:23 AM
I am in a predicament right now so sorry for asking this question and looking for opinions. I asked a few other players who multitable 12+ tables with HEM and TN on or so like me if they play on a laptop and most of them say yes. I play on desktop almost all the time. I find it weird that they play on a laptop as oppose to on a desktop which is a lot easier because of the bigger monitor. But then i found out that even though they play on laptop, almost all of them have an external monitor they tell me.
I bought a sony vaio 15.5 laptop for about $950 10 days ago which had i3 processor, 4gb ram, 320gb hard drive 7200 rpm and 1080P. I was recommended by few other posters here to get 1080P since theres more space and i can put up more tables. When i experimented it and noticed that it does look good. However, 1080P is really hard for me to see things on the laptop such as using a firefox and its very tiny. I am used to my old laptop which is 15.4 and has 1280X800 resolution but its a pentium m processor and very slow since i run HEM and TN on. I will return this laptop to sony mainly because the left/right touchpad does not work, a noise that is known of sony vaio laptops that i wasn't aware of until i got the laptop. To all you guys who want a new laptop, avoid sony at all costs. I still need to purchase a new laptop because my old laptop is too old and people tell me upgrading that would be useless. I will return my sony vaio back to sony for my refund.
My question is do the majority of you guys who grind on laptops 20+ tabling with HEM and TN on use an external monitor or do you just play on your laptop? I think you guys who have those 17' laptops can probably do it but what about you guys with 15.6' and below? I do not stack nor cascade. I basically let the tables just load on my screen. If you do use an external monitor, does it really matter then what size laptop you buy whether its 13.3, 14.1' or 15.6? Resolution for laptop shouldn't even matter then since I can hook it up to my external monitor right? Only thing i would do on laptop is play many tables with HEM/TN on, web browse and that is pretty much it. Maybe watch a movie and listen to music.
And to you guys that grind on your laptop when traveling, i know you bring your laptop but do you bring your external monitor with you with your luggage or is that too inconvenient for you? I will going to Vegas in about 1 month and want to bring a new laptop there to grind as well while enjoying vegas but grind there on my laptop at my hotel room and wanted to know if you guys bring a monitor with you as well? Also, am i right in assuming that the majority of you who grind on laptop with an external monitor the majority of the time just play at home and rarely move your external monitor and laptop around just like with a desktop? By the way, my monitor is a 20.1' that i use for my desktop and would like to use that as the external monitor for laptop.
I'm just wondering if its just a waste of buying a bigger laptop 15.5' now since the majority of the time i will play poker on my desktop or play on my laptop and hook it with my external monitor. I keep thinking a laptop SHOULD BE PORTABLE HENCE THE NAME. The reason is i want to get a small laptop 13.3 because its light and has a strong battery life even though i will be staying at home or staying at one place the majority of the time. Would you guys say its fine to get just a 13.3 laptop' then since i can just hook it up to an external monitor where i can get my normal 1600x1200 resolution? The problem is its 5400rpm hard drive and i know 7200rpm is preferred for HEM. Would it be a good idea to buy the laptop and then just buy a 7200rpm hard drive from newegg and then install it into new laptop?
Someone also told me that if i get 1368X766 Resolution as oppose to 1080p, i might as well just get a smaller laptop size than a 15.5' since i see the same thing. Would you agree?
Hope someone here can answer my questions. Sorry for asking so much.
I bought a sony vaio 15.5 laptop for about $950 10 days ago which had i3 processor, 4gb ram, 320gb hard drive 7200 rpm and 1080P. I was recommended by few other posters here to get 1080P since theres more space and i can put up more tables. When i experimented it and noticed that it does look good. However, 1080P is really hard for me to see things on the laptop such as using a firefox and its very tiny. I am used to my old laptop which is 15.4 and has 1280X800 resolution but its a pentium m processor and very slow since i run HEM and TN on. I will return this laptop to sony mainly because the left/right touchpad does not work, a noise that is known of sony vaio laptops that i wasn't aware of until i got the laptop. To all you guys who want a new laptop, avoid sony at all costs. I still need to purchase a new laptop because my old laptop is too old and people tell me upgrading that would be useless. I will return my sony vaio back to sony for my refund.
My question is do the majority of you guys who grind on laptops 20+ tabling with HEM and TN on use an external monitor or do you just play on your laptop? I think you guys who have those 17' laptops can probably do it but what about you guys with 15.6' and below? I do not stack nor cascade. I basically let the tables just load on my screen. If you do use an external monitor, does it really matter then what size laptop you buy whether its 13.3, 14.1' or 15.6? Resolution for laptop shouldn't even matter then since I can hook it up to my external monitor right? Only thing i would do on laptop is play many tables with HEM/TN on, web browse and that is pretty much it. Maybe watch a movie and listen to music.
And to you guys that grind on your laptop when traveling, i know you bring your laptop but do you bring your external monitor with you with your luggage or is that too inconvenient for you? I will going to Vegas in about 1 month and want to bring a new laptop there to grind as well while enjoying vegas but grind there on my laptop at my hotel room and wanted to know if you guys bring a monitor with you as well? Also, am i right in assuming that the majority of you who grind on laptop with an external monitor the majority of the time just play at home and rarely move your external monitor and laptop around just like with a desktop? By the way, my monitor is a 20.1' that i use for my desktop and would like to use that as the external monitor for laptop.
I'm just wondering if its just a waste of buying a bigger laptop 15.5' now since the majority of the time i will play poker on my desktop or play on my laptop and hook it with my external monitor. I keep thinking a laptop SHOULD BE PORTABLE HENCE THE NAME. The reason is i want to get a small laptop 13.3 because its light and has a strong battery life even though i will be staying at home or staying at one place the majority of the time. Would you guys say its fine to get just a 13.3 laptop' then since i can just hook it up to an external monitor where i can get my normal 1600x1200 resolution? The problem is its 5400rpm hard drive and i know 7200rpm is preferred for HEM. Would it be a good idea to buy the laptop and then just buy a 7200rpm hard drive from newegg and then install it into new laptop?
Someone also told me that if i get 1368X766 Resolution as oppose to 1080p, i might as well just get a smaller laptop size than a 15.5' since i see the same thing. Would you agree?
Hope someone here can answer my questions. Sorry for asking so much.