Most Popular Laptops for October 2010 Discussion

Each month we compile data for the number of times a particular notebook is viewed on this site's product pages to get an idea for what mainstream consumers are looking at and thinking about buying. Take a closer look at the notebooks that our visitors wanted to see the most during the month of October.

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ZOMG the G550 has been dethroned

 

lol 1215n.

I had mine for less than a month before the super tiny power plug broke. It's currently "waiting for supplies" at the Asus service center in cali. apparently i'm not the only one. I started a thread over at eeeuser, there's a good handful who have this problem, one guy had his break within 5 minutes of usage.

 

Other than the #5 Alienware m11x, which isn't branded as a Dell, there isn't a Dell product in the Top 20.....just an observation, no real point to my comment....

 

12" X201 is #1. Inspiration perhaps for Dell to make an E4200 successor and HP to provide a better 12" than their 2540P: 2540P versus X201s.

 

A certain model from Lenovo had been for several months....

 

I was surprised when Dell rolled out the E4310 a few months ago, but no mention of an E4210!? To date, I still haven't heard a word about their plan for the 12.1" form factor???

They're still trying to sell the E4200 for $1800+ with a previous-gen 1.6GHz Intel SU9600 and Intel GMA 4500MHD graphics! I'd hope for an update featuring the Core i5/i7 xxxUM-series processors (ultra-low voltage) and the current Intel GMA HD graphics. Even if they decided to take it down to 11.6", as long as they went with a high-quality display, it could be a hit....much more so than the current E4200, no doubt.

I was actually somewhat disappointed with the E4310 compared to the E4300 it replaced. The E4300 had a higher quality display in terms of max. brightness (300nits vs. 220nits for the E4310) and contrast ratio (400:1 vs. 300:1 on the E4310)!? The switch from a 13.3" 16:10 display (1280x800) to 16:9 (1366x768) isn't that big of a deal, especially on a smaller notebook....but reducing the quality of the display in significant and measurable ways is pretty lame, to say the least! An optional 1600x900 250-300nit higher-contrast display would go a long way, IMO.

The E4300 also used the Penryn SP-series of processors, which were smaller than regular P-series and used less power than the T-series processors. It would be nice to the i7-6x0-UM processor(s) offered as an option on the E4310 along with 'regular' i3/i5/i7-models.

On a separate but related note, is the Lenovo X201s still available in some countries? It disappeared from the U.S. Lenovo website almost as quickly as it first appeared and most online vendors sold thru any of the X201s units they had long ago...so it's been MIA here almost since it was introduced! I loved the X200s because of it's 12.1" 1440x900 high-nit, high-quality display and it sucks that we can't get an X201 with a similar display any more!

 

Do NOT recommend the Alienware m11x until Dell announces something official about the weak, breakable hinge issue.

I've personally had my m11x broken for over a month, waiting for Dell to send a tech. Mine broke after only 2 months. My case is probably out of the ordinary, most people report a 1-2 week wait, but do you want to risk it with a laptop that costs $1500+ ?



(I paid about 1600 for mine with some extras)

The broken hinge is essentially Alienware's version of the Xbox Red rings of death. There's a thread in our own NBR forums that is over 1,000+ posts about this issue, with at least a hundred owners affected. That is only those who use the forums, who knows how many are out there at large.

 

I share your disappointment, but my main concern is the aspect ratio. A colleague has the E4310 and said that there is a lot of unused space at the sides of the screen. I must do a side-by-side comparison of the screens. However, Dell gets displays from several manufacturers and the quality varies.

The SP processors may have used less power than the T series but they are the same power rating as the P series. They can also be undervolted.

John