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Wednesday, January 19th, 2011

Not only people, also projects need holidays. And it’s time for towards the optimal laptop to have some rest.

For some time towards the optimal laptop was an engaging and profitable project, so I could devote most of my time to it, but during this year the income I get from it has declined a lot, I had to spend more and more time in other matters, and the quality of the site has also declined, specially the English one. Finally I decided to get a full-time job at the company AttendBio Research (remember that I’m a biochemist) and leave the site in stasis.

The site is not closing and the project is not being terminated, but profound changes are needed to keep a site that’s useful but needs not so much time. Some of the changes I have in mind are:

  • I’ll migrate the whole site to WordPress (I’m still unsure about the forum), probably using a premium theme.
  • The site will feature mainly general advice, probably not only for laptops but also for desktops. I won’t post news from the web (there are too many blogs doing that) or post deals (well, maybe I’ll keep the HP coupon codes). Only a handful of models will be recommended.
  • Probably “optimitza” is hard to remember no anybody save Catalan speakers, so I’ll use different domain names for different languages. I have purchased optimpc.com and pcoptim.com but I’m not sure they are OK for an international audience… Any ideas?

The time this migration is going to need is unknown, maybe weeks, maybe months. In the meantime, I’ll try to keep Gaming on Laptops updated.

I’ll keep you informed, but you can reach me by:

Gaming on Laptops, the new site by Towards the optimal laptop

Wednesday, November 17th, 2010

I’d like to introduce you my last project: the website about laptops and PC games Gaming on Laptops.

Gaming on Laptops

This new site, in English and Spanish, covers the intersection between laptops and PC games: from gaming laptops to anything related to playing PC games on laptops. While it’s not exactly a news site, it’s going to cover the most important events about gaming laptops, in addition to collect useful information and publish articles about game performance on laptops.

I hope you find it useful!

Gaming laptop section updated

Monday, May 31st, 2010

Second section updated today! The gaming laptop section has just been updated, including options sporting the all-new Nvidia GeForce GTX 480M.

There are interesting things happening at Computex, but I don’t have the time to write about them, only to retweet a few. Follow me on Twitter!

Basic laptop section updated

Monday, May 31st, 2010

Updating is going at a good pace: here you have the updated version of the basic laptop section.

Just for clarification, I’m putting under the “basic laptop” sections standard-size laptops that are more expensive than cheap laptops, but less than multimedia, professional and gaming laptops. Enjoy!

Light laptop section (finally!) updated

Sunday, May 30th, 2010

I have to admit that I have neglected the English version of towards the optimal laptop. That’s because it needs twice the time to mantain than the Catalan and Spanish versions combined, but gives 1/10th of the income. But I have decided to update all laptop sections in the English (US/UK) version, so they are more similar to the Catalan and Spanish versions.

The first section to be updated is the light laptops one. I hope you find it useful! I hope to finish updating the rest in the next 2 weeks.

Gaming laptop section updated

Monday, June 29th, 2009

I have to admit that I update the Spanish laptop selections more often than the English one, but the recent launch of the Alienware M17x and the availability of a new sponsor, Xotic PC, prompted me to update the gaming laptops section. I hope you find it useful!

Towards the optimal laptop – optimitza.cat is now PageRank 5

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

I know, compared to the Internet giants with PR 8 or 9, 5 is still not much, but it’s a nice improvement!

News section updated to WordPress 2.8

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

I have just updated the News section to the lastest version of WordPress (2.8). I was still using the very old 2.3.1 version and the update was very needed!

Please tell me in case you notice something is not working as intended.

Contribute to the new laptop benchmarks!

Monday, May 4th, 2009

OK, so the current benchmarks in my site are getting too old. In addition, actual gaming data are more interesting than 3D Mark scores. So I decided to get another kind of benchmarks to publish on this site: user-contributed laptop benchmarks (Crysis, Devil May Cry 4, World in Conflict and X3: Terran Conflict demos). It is hard to coordinate all the sources but the table is finally taking shape. Here you have the laptop benchmark table. As you can see there is a good representation of powerful cards, but entry-level ones are almost absent. It would be very interesting to have data from the Intel GMA 4500MHD, GeForce G 105M, Mobility Radeon HD 4330 and so. In fact, all current cards are interesting!

You can contribute with your benchmarks. What are you waiting for?

Small and fast laptops, ultraportables and netbooks

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

This week I added two new sections to the laptop selections:

These two sections add to the netbook comparison to cover a wide array of small and light laptops. If you need a light laptop, I think you are going to find them helpful.