Buy or Wait?

I am a happy owner of a x220. In fact, I threw all of my Apple gadgets away because of it (and coming from a former Apple occult member that means a lot). It does everything I need and then some, and frankly, I don't need another laptop or desktop for the foreseeable future.

However, I am getting the gadget jones for a W530. Do you think Haswell will be worth the wait? Again, I don't need another laptop. I just want one to play around with, and I can then give my wife my x220.

Ironically, this is the same crap that Apple pulled on me (but obviously solely my fault) when I was an avid Apple fan. Always looking to buy the latest and greatest...

 

You will love the larger display and the FHD resolution. You wont love its weight.

The x1 may be worth a look.

 

That's what I thought too when I had my X220.

After 9 months use I was missing graphical performance as I was often moving around for gaming sessions with friends.

The screen also felt small though I really miss the colors it had with IPS.

It was definitely the perfect laptop for school but I was looking for a desktop replacement for sure.

I switched to the W530 without hesitation after knowing that the K2000M is relatively on-par with a GT650M.

I sold the other two desktops I have at home so I have less headache to deal with...

If you're in the same boat I had, you won't regret it!

 

or even the T430s... similar weight more real estate. Though the quad cores in the W5x0 are pretty darn nice.

 

Haswell - newer technology is always good to wait but the point is your value such as your buying behavior...

If it becomes necessity, you will have it buy it.

And if you are having SB CPU, I don't think you will need IB for only having the battery improvement...

what do you think?

 

Yeah, I am in a similar boat though I don't think I would actually sell my x220. I love the thing too much. It will just be the start of my Thinkpad burger.

Embarrassingly, the on-par with 650M performance and the screen real estate/FHD screen are the sole reasons why I would get a w530. Although I feel that I'm too old to game, I nevertheless recently got addicted to Diablo 3 and though the x220 plays it surprisingly well on low settings...the 12.5" screen is obviously not meant to game on.

FYI...given the amount of the hours I logged on the x220 playing Diablo 3, I am probably going to purchase the tacked on additional three year warranty.

I really have no need for a w530 at all. Being bored at work drives many people (including me) to want to make stupid purchases online. If it were my wife, she would be debating about a $2000 bag. Since it's me, I am internally debating about $2000 laptop.

 

You don't really need to spend $2000 on the W530 if you know how to haggle well enough. My first time ever haggling was over my W520, and I dropped the before-tax price from $2167 to $1665 by using the Barnes and Noble discount, email promotion discount, and haggling over the phone with a sales rep.

As for whether or not you should buy it, it depends on if you have the disposable income to do so. A budget option you could try is to get a ViDock eGPU setup with a powerful budget card (something like the GTX 460 or 560 Ti) and hook up the X220 to an external monitor. Assuming you already have a monitor to hook up to, that might stay under $400. Or build a gaming desktop for about the same price (see my sig).

 

Is the Vidock really work? I know it and watch the youtube of it... but do you know about how much is it??

And will it be connected by TB or PCIE? which one is easier or better?

I think TB only have 10G/s but PCIE is much faster than that...

 

Youth...I love it. It ain't just about disposable income once you get married. You got to pick your battles with your significant other.

 

Is this true?

 

I don't personally know anything about ViDock since I never made/bought one, but it does work on PCIe (TB is in the works iirc). It'll work when you're connected to an external monitor, but not on the laptop display. As for costs, it's dependent on which ViDock or DIY ViDock plan you use and the GPU you buy.

Ha, true. I haven't had to encounter a spouse's conflicting interests yet lol.