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|An old fashioned chicken pot pie, made with a thick & creamy roux & veggies, encased in a flaky double crust.
Old Fashioned Chicken Pot PieA couple of food bloggers here recently near about apologized for posting dishes that they had been having tastes for, but that some people might consider to be "off season." I don't even remember what it was now, but that doesn't matter. What struck me was that, well, if I have a taste for a certain dish, a craving if you will, I'm gonna make it, no matter the time of year! It's just silly I tell you, because frankly, down here in the Deep South, we have pretty much one season 90% of the time. Hot.
Such was the reason for me making a chicken pie - something that I suppose some folks would consider to be a dish more geared toward the latter part of the year. I still have plenty of chicken in the freezer and for several weeks now I have simply been craving a chicken pot pie! So I finally got around to making one, and I could care less whether it's August or not. Who cares! I had a taste for it, and that's all the reason I need to cook something.
Now unlike some folks, y'all know I don't have a thing against condensed soups. Heck, they are a Southern Staple in many casseroles, including in this southern cook's collection, and rightly so! They make a quick and easy sauce. But just like a banana pudding made with homemade custard versus one made with pudding, while both are good, you really can't beat the homemade custard, I don't care who ya are.
And that's what makes this chicken pie so darned good, a fresh roux, seasoned just right, and finished with some good chicken stock and half and half. {whispers} Sssshh.... don't tell nobody, but this recipe has actually beat out a few grandma recipes. When I don't make my own homemade pie crust - which frankly is pretty darned easy with a food processor - I also only use the Pillsbury refrigerated pie crusts - no generic in this kitchen - been there, done that. Unlike the generics, Pillsbury pie crusts are reliable, consistent and simply an excellent product, tender & flaky and instantly available. Speaking of pie crusts...
Have y'all seen these press/pat in the pan pie crusts? Well, I have to say that I did try those a couple times and no offense to those of you who love them, but that was about the worse possible excuse for a pie crust that I've ever seen. I suppose if you're just looking for something to hold your pie up it's okay, but to me, if a pie crust isn't tender and flaky, it ruins the whole recipe! You can take the extra step to make your own - if you're up to it, of course. It's really not hard I promise!
I adapted my recipe to use the chicken I had on hand, but of course this is best when you boil down a whole chicken, debone it and use the chicken and the stock off of that, but as written it's delicious and a bit speedier as well. Even still, this recipe does take a little bit of prep because you're essentially pre-cooking the filling, so I've tried to organize the recipe so that you can move along step by step, and hopefully that will help, but trust me. It is worth every single second. The flavor of this chicken pot pie is just spot on. Enjoy!
Recipe: Old Fashioned Chicken Pot Pie©From the Kitchen of Deep South Dish
Prep time: 15 min |Cook time: 40 min | Yield: About 6 servings
- 1 pound of cooked boneless, skinless chicken breasts or mixed chicken (about 2-1/2 cups cubed)
- 3 medium red potatoes, unpeeled
- 1/2 cup of frozen carrots
- 1/2 cup of frozen peas
- 6 tablespoons of salted butter
- 6 tablespoons of all purpose flour
- 2 cups of chicken broth or stock
- 1/2 teaspoon of kosher salt
- About 8 turns of the pepper grinder
- 1/2 teaspoon of dried rosemary, crushed
- 1/2 teaspoon of dried thyme, crushed
- 1-1/2 cups of half and half
- 2 homemade pie crust, or 1 box of Pillsbury refrigerated pie crusts, softened to room temperature
Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Chop the potatoes into small cubes and place into a microwave safe dish. Cook on high for about 2-1/2 minutes or until tender. Set aside. In another microwave safe dish, add the carrots and peas; microwave on high for about 2 minutes, or until tender. Add to the potatoes.
In a large skillet, heat the butter over medium heat; add the flour in a tablespoon at a time, stirring in before adding the next. Cook, stirring constantly until mixture is bubbly and there are no remaining lumps, about 5 minutes. Slowly begin to incorporate the chicken stock, stirring vigorously until fully incorporated. Add in the seasonings and stir in well. Remove from the heat, add the salt, pepper, rosemary and thyme. Stir in the half and half until smooth.
Stir the chicken into the cream mixture, then add the potatoes, the carrots and peas; mix well. Taste and adjust seasonings as needed. Unroll one of the pie crusts and place into a 9-inch, ungreased deep dish, glass pie plate. Gently press the crust down into the bottom and edges of the pie plate. Pour the hot filling into the crust and top with the remaining crust, tucking the top crust up under the edges of the bottom crust. Flute the edges and cut vents into the top of the crust.
Bake immediately at 425 degrees F for 15 minutes. Remove and place strips of foil around the edges of the crust to prevent overbrowning. Return to oven for an additional 15 to 25 minutes, or until crust is golden brown and filling is bubbling. Let stand for 5 minutes before cutting.
Cook's Notes: Use a deep dish pie plate for this recipe. Make sure that the oven is preheated and at temperature before filling the pie crust, because you want to fill the pie, top it and put it into the oven immediately to bake. May also make into individual pot pies.
Variation: For beef pot pie, substitute cubed, cooked beef and beef broth. Prepare as above.
Biscuit Topping: Prepare the filling as above, eliminate the pie crusts and make a batter using 1-1/2 cups of all purpose flour, whisked together with 1/2 teaspoon of salt, and 1-1/2 teaspoons of baking powder. Stir in 1/2 cup of milk, blend together and add 1/4 cup of butter that has been melted. Pour batter on top and bake at 425 degrees F for about 30 to 40 minutes, or until crust browns.
Cornbread Topping: Prepare the filling as above, eliminate the pie crusts and make a batter whisking together 1 cup of all purpose cornmeal, 1 cup of all purpose flour, 1 tablespoon of baking powder and 1/2 teaspoon of salt. Add 1 cup of half and half or whole milk, 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) of melted and cooled butter and 2 large eggs. Pour batter on top and bake at 425 degrees F for for about 30 to 40 minutes, or until crust browns.
Mini Hand Pies: Use a small ramekin to cut out circles, approximately 4 inches in size. Let the filling cool before spooning several tablespoons of filling into each circle, folding over and sealing the edges. Cut vents into each pie and bake in a preheated 425 degree oven on a Silpat or parchment covered baking sheet, approximately 25 to 30 minutes, or until golden brown and filling is hot.
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AnandTech Mobile Graphics Guide, Summer 2011by Dustin Sklavos on 7/5/2011 11:07 PM EST
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Iketh - Tuesday, July 05, 2011 - linkGT555M "B" is an option in the Dell XPS line Reply
anotherfakeaccount - Wednesday, July 06, 2011 - linkThis is true ^^ Reply
anotherfakeaccount - Wednesday, July 06, 2011 - linkThe Dell XPS 17 ONLY btw Reply
zackyy - Wednesday, July 06, 2011 - linkOnly on the 17inch brick Reply
barmalej - Wednesday, July 06, 2011 - linkthere is GT 555M "B" with 128bit bus (Clevo Clevo W150HR), and also GTX 570M uses 192bit memory bus Reply
Dustin Sklavos - Wednesday, July 06, 2011 - linkAck, thank you, fixed it. Reply
marc1000 - Wednesday, July 06, 2011 - linkack?
network terminology now? lol Reply
Meaker10 - Thursday, July 07, 2011 - linkI don't see it fixed. Also the 144 shader part with a 128bit mem bus has 16 Rops rather than 24 and is far more common than the GDDR5 part and have been around in clevo and (more importantly) Acer machines (who are the largest notebook maker after all) for far longer. Reply
Althernai - Wednesday, July 06, 2011 - linkJust a word of warning about AMD GPUs in the latest Sandy Bridge laptops: AMD has moved from their manual GPU switching to a muxless, automatic switchable graphics scheme similar to Optimus, except that it doesn't work nearly as well. In particular, OpenGL applications (MineCraft, much of Adobe's content creation suite, etc.) will always run on the integrated GPU, regardless of what the user tries to force them to do.
They tried to pull this trick without telling anyone and now there is a lot of angry people who got a laptop with a graphics card that refuses to work for their purposes:
It's really a pity too because the combination of the 6770M and Sandy Bridge with switchable graphics is the best out there if you need a decent CPU, good battery life and a powerful GPU, but the latter only works for DirectX. Reply
Wolfpup - Wednesday, July 06, 2011 - linkBesides that, they can't use normal drivers on Intel CPUs either.
I *HATE* all this switchable graphics stuff. As though it weren't a minor miracle this stuff worked at all, we're going to add all sorts of complexity to it?!? Reply
Pirks - Wednesday, July 06, 2011 - linkSome idiots from Adobe use ancient OpenGL shit instead of proper DX 10/11 APIs, who cares? Don't buy Adobe shit, buy shit that supports DX 10 or 11, that's the solution.
And Minecraft is such an ugly POS I'm surprised it's not dead yet. Of course such an hideous ugliness would use OpenGL, why am I not surprised. Reply
Drizzt321 - Wednesday, July 06, 2011 - linkOk, so, full of hate. Minecraft is not MEANT to look like a 2011 super new high res textured with all the bells and whistles and features and such that you get in the latest games. Part of it's charm (for many) is it's decidedly simple looks, simplistic seeming game play, and the world building you can do.
Uh...and Adobe probably uses OpenGL since they also run on Mac, and are not intended to look or act like games do, but accelerate things that can more efficiently (and quickly) run on the GPU.
P.S. I know, I shouldn't feed the trolls, but the Minecraft comment really got me with it's hatefulness. Reply
Pirks - Wednesday, July 06, 2011 - linkSimple is one thing and downright freaking hideously ugly is another, you know
If I were Adobe I'd drop Mac support eons ago, it's such a pain in the butt to deal with ancient ugly OpenGL just 'cause Apple is incapable of using something better like DX 11 or something
Anyway, I won't touch any mincecraft, adobe, opengl or any other shit like that with a 10 foot pole
For simple looking games I'd go for proper stuff like MDK, very simple looking but very very far from hideous ugliness of minecraft cubistic shit Reply
UMADBRO - Thursday, July 07, 2011 - linkMDK a "proper" game?!?!?!?1?
wait, he's serious?
No seriously, just because you dont like it, doesnt mean all the vile shit you spewed about it is true. And honestly, the MC community will do just fine without the likes of you. LMAO! Reply
Pirks - Thursday, July 07, 2011 - linkYeah, compared to hideous ugliness of Minecraft, MDK is proper one, simplistic but at the same time doesn't look like your poop Reply
UMADBRO - Thursday, July 07, 2011 - linkYou're so full of it. I would say its funny, but actually, its rather sad and pathetic. You go play yurr 14 year old games and keep deluding yourself on whats "proper" or not... Reply
Pirks - Friday, July 08, 2011 - linkBeauty has no age, and same holds true for ugliness. Time will pass and MDK will stay simplistic and at the same time beautiful, while no time will fix cubistic cheap piece of shit look of Minecraft. I have no say in its gameplay, maybe for some people it's interesting (to me it's as boring as Sims and similar girly shit) but its graphics are worse than Digger and original ping pong from 1970. I dunno what could look more shoddy than that, among 3D stuff. Among 2D games there are more hideous titles for sure. Reply
Penti - Thursday, July 07, 2011 - linkWhy are you trolling? Every professional video postpro, 3D modeling/animation and imaging app will use OpenGL. Also how could they use something Microsoft hasn't made public, standardized and licensed?
OpenGL has nothing to do with the look of a game, you use the same tools and typically the same game engine regardless of rendering pipeline and API. The tools where you are crafting the 3D models are fully dependent on OpenGL any way. Not that it matters. And of course any mobile game is GLES. Reply
Penti - Thursday, July 07, 2011 - linkAlso you can easily convert shaders between HLSL to GLSL, and you can also use Nvidia's Cg which compiles to either (and also works on some consoles). No really big problem there, all the stuff you need is supported in both API's.
For simple games you could just go with something like Unity. For that matter consoles are pretty much limited to 2004 era D3D9 graphics. Newest game on OpenGL (on Windows) probably is Brink. Which doesn't look too bad. Performance is still there so it works out. It's here to stay. Reply
Pirks - Thursday, July 07, 2011 - linkI just want Windows software to use proper APIs for Windows, not some legacy Unix shit, that's all Reply
prdola0 - Thursday, July 07, 2011 - linkOpenGL is a "legacy" stuff? You must be living in a basement locked in a corner. Have you heard of OpenGL 4.1, which is equal or even better than DirectX 11? No. You just troll around. Unlike other trolls, your posts are not even clever or funny. Go back to DailyTech. Reply
Pirks - Thursday, July 07, 2011 - linkIf OpenGL was all that unicorny and shit butterflies like you imply, then game devs would use it instead of DX. Alas, looks like you have no clue. Reply
bhassel - Thursday, July 07, 2011 - linkGame devs do use it. Ever seen a PS3 game?
And yeah, DX is a cleaner API from a developer point of view, but that says nothing about the quality of the graphics it produces (same as OpenGL.) If anything, as more devices move away from windows, *DX* will be the legacy stuff. Reply
Pirks - Thursday, July 07, 2011 - linkYeah, the dead PS3 of the dead Sony, welcome to the dead PSN guys! Gee what an argument, such a shitty console. This only proves my point that only shit developers on shit consoles use legacy OpenGL. If you code for Sony you must be crazy fucked up masochistic pervert enjoying pain in the ass that Sony gives you. Just read any interviews with Sony hardware using devs. I used to develop for PS3 a few years ago and you really have to look around thoroughly to find as stupid, stinking, developer unfriendly and moronic set of tools as Sony puked out for its console. Anything shitty MS ever did looks totally angelic and unicorny compared to poop Sony feeds its devs. No wonder there are some crap games on PS3 and the best stuff is on DX console from MS. Devs are smart and they like the best dev tools and the best APIs and currently no one even comes close to MS in that regard. So Sony using morons can stuff legacy OpenGL in where it belongs, ya know what I'm talking about eh :))) Reply
Broheim - Friday, August 05, 2011 - linkI'm gonna call BS on you being a developer, your complete fucking ignorance about openGL would be completely inexcusable for someone who supposedly "developed for PS3"... Reply
leexgx - Saturday, July 09, 2011 - linkso many comments on here its now stacking
OpenGL is good in some ways as most OpenGL games should work under Linux
but most games that use OpenGL seems like as any game thats made using OpenGL (the feel of the games seems the same) Reply
UMADBRO - Thursday, July 07, 2011 - linkI think you're the one that is clueless Reply
Pirks - Friday, July 08, 2011 - linkTell that to game devs who use DX everywhere instead of legacy OpenGL shit on a shoddy Sony console that is as dead as PSN itself Reply
Etern205 - Saturday, July 09, 2011 - linkPirks kicking Apple to the curb? o_0
Hell has freeze and pigs do fly! :P Reply
Broheim - Friday, August 05, 2011 - linkadobe haven't "dropped Mac support eaons ago" because that's where they make their money.
how do you propose Apple implements a proprietary microsoft technology, that microsoft have no intention of sharing, into their OS?
also if openGL is so inferior why haven't Apple just written their own API like they did with openCL?
the fact that minecraft doesn't try to look good on purpose seems to elude your simpleton brain, but that hardly comes as a surprise, minecraft is about the freedom and gameplay, it's not just shovelware with purty textures. Reply
samspqr - Wednesday, July 06, 2011 - link"First, Intel has the best dedicated video encoding hardware on the market"
no, it doesn't; it has the fastest one, but quality is very poor, so nobody should use it except for delivering content to a smartphone for watching while commuting
until they solve those quality issues, it is a worthless feature
(or maybe they already solved them and I didn't get the news: please report if that is so) Reply
Dustin Sklavos - Wednesday, July 06, 2011 - linkIn every comparison I've read, Quick Sync produces the best encoded quality short of raw CPU-only encoding. It's my understanding that in order of quality, Intel's encoder is best, followed by AMD's and then NVIDIA's in dead last. Intel's just also happens to be the fastest.
That said, I work in video on the weekends and as a matter of principle won't do anything but CPU-based encodes, so I could really care either way. ;) Reply
mino - Thursday, July 07, 2011 - link1) CPU-based encodes are _indifferent_ to CPU used even to CPU ARCHITECtuRE used.
2) That intel has the best _accelerated_ encode _for_specific_use_cases_ is FAR from "has the best encode".
Please do some research on terminology next time. Reply
Darkstone - Wednesday, July 06, 2011 - linkThere is yet another revision of the GT550m. It is identical tot GT 555m "B" except it has an 128-bit memory bus. Confused yet?
It is only found in the xps 17 3D. Reply
Darkstone - Wednesday, July 06, 2011 - linkRemove that "3D" part Reply
Darkstone - Wednesday, July 06, 2011 - linkThere is more: GT555m with 144 shaders, GDDR3, and 128bit-bus:
Higher clocked version of above GT 550m... Screenshot from clevo 15" notebook (BTO 15CL35) Reply
Dustin Sklavos - Wednesday, July 06, 2011 - linkUgh, seriously?
This is insane. I'm impressed. AMD rebadges an entire generation yet NVIDIA somehow still manages to win the "Idiotic Branding" award. Reply
silverblue - Wednesday, July 06, 2011 - linkIf at first you don't succeed... attempt to confuse your consumers as much as humanly possible. ;) Reply
kasakka - Wednesday, July 06, 2011 - linkWhoever is making up these brand names needs to be shot. They're unnecessarily confusing and the whole rebranding old crap thing really needs to stop.
It would be nice to see some sort of comparison of the current mobile chips to the older ones like the 9400M. I haven't bought a new laptop for several years and have no idea how fast the current chips truly are compared to the older stuff. Probably hard to do because you can't just get the same configuration with different GPUs. Reply
Wieland - Wednesday, July 06, 2011 - linkHave you seen this?
And, for good measure, this:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Processors-Ben... Reply
anotherfakeaccount - Wednesday, July 06, 2011 - linkIf anyone is buying a laptop, the best deal you can get is the HP Dv6t or dv7t. 6770m, 2630qm processor, matte 1080p screen, you can't beat it and it's under 1000 or barely over. Yes there is a graphics switching problem but it should not affect a typical gamer.
The Dell XPS 17 is comparable but costs more. Other good choices are ASUS G53/G73, and MSI Force 16F2 for those with bigger budgets who do not care if your laptop looks ugly and is bulky. Reply
anotherfakeaccount - Wednesday, July 06, 2011 - link"This, or AMD's Radeon HD 6800M, will be the bare minimum for gaming comfortably at 1080p, but honestly the GTX 560M is liable to be the sweet spot in offering the very best balance in form factor favoring performance before you start getting into the huge, heavy desktop replacement notebooks."
The GTX 560m can hardly be called portable. A 6850m can be put in a laptop with comparable size. And neither laptop is truly portable. Reply
Stuka87 - Wednesday, July 06, 2011 - linkI don't see any mention of the Quadro series of chips? I realize they are somewhat a duplicate of consumer series chips, but they are probably worth a mention. Reply
DanNeely - Wednesday, July 06, 2011 - linkAdding another level of WTF to what's already in the article would cause the servers to explode. Reply
Drizzt321 - Wednesday, July 06, 2011 - linkHeh, yea, I was just asking about that. I have a Lenovo w520 on the way with the 1000m. Reply
Arbie - Wednesday, July 06, 2011 - linkI think you hit the target - pulling together a lot of hard-to-find info and boiling down the choices. This is exactly what I need to even get started on choosing a game-capable laptop / netbook. Thanks. Reply
MrTeal - Wednesday, July 06, 2011 - linkI know that you can't buy these chips yourself, and that OEMs might be able to work out better deals than the list price, but it would be interesting to know what each GPU is listed at in 1000 unit quantities, just to get an idea of the relative cost between them. Reply
scook9 - Wednesday, July 06, 2011 - linkPrice is EXTREMELY relevant here. Something that cannot be ignored. Reason being that nvidia prices are out of this world high compared to ATI and that pushes my hand rather often
I am painfully knowledgeable on notebook hardware (over 10k posts on notebookreview forums under the same username) so I like to think I have some credibility
When wondering why price matters....just look at the pricing on graphics options for the Alienware M18x (bare in mind these are pricing for 2 cards not 1 but shows the differences)
-Upgrade from stock to CF 6970m $400
-Upgrade from stock to SLI GTX 580m $1200
That is WAY to big of a difference for the spread in performance (5-10% real world?). I know that I have the CF 6970m's (GTX 580m's were not available when I ordered mine so was a very easy choice) with a 2920xm and that laptop screams. And for the gaming laptop haters out there....I get 4.5 hours battery life on the HD 3000 :D Reply
randomusername3242 - Wednesday, July 06, 2011 - linkSo you're complaining about prices for upgrades when you bought a 2920xm which you probably paid an exorbitantly high price for? I wouldn't be surprised if you paid over 400 to upgrade from a 2630qm for that.
I think it's idiotic to buy any high end mobile part, GTX 580m or 2920xm.
There's a sweet spot in price/performance. It's with the 2630qm + GTX 460m (maybe the 2720qm + 560m). Go any higher and you're throwing money, go any lower and you don't get enough performance.
And I'll bite. I think it's also dumb to buy a gaming laptop because even if you get 4.5 hours battery life, with the specs thay you say you have your laptop is not portable at all. Sure, you might not have a tower and many wires, but you're overpaying for a big and often ugly piece of metal that will not move around. (You really think you can move around 10 lbs?)
And how much did you pay? You don't get 2920xm + crossifre 6970ms for less than 2000.
I'll make a distinction between a gaming laptop and a desktop replacement. Gaming laptops are feasible, sometimes affordable, and moderately portable. Desktop replacements are not portable, not affordable, and considerably inferior to a desktop. Reply
seapeople - Wednesday, July 06, 2011 - linkWow, you sound somewhat disillusioned. There are millions of people out there spending significantly more money on things they don't need that don't even give them performance benefits (such as a city-slicker buying an F150 or Cadillac SUV, or Joe Smoe spending $3000/yr just so he can get his daily Starbucks coffee).
In fact, if you are the type of person who can afford such luxury items, spending an extra $500 so your processor can turbo 20% higher and not slow you down wouldn't even register on your radar as being excessive, and rightfully so.
Finally, you and so many others are completely wrong on the portability of big laptops. I like to watch movies or tv shows while, say, cooking dinner. Picking up a 10 pound laptop and bringing it to the kitchen with me is not even difficult in the slightest, whereas even the smallest portable desktop would require a 10 minute shutdown, transfer, and setup time. Reply
ppeterka - Thursday, July 07, 2011 - linkFor most of the people portability is more than the distance from your couch to your kitchen. Try lugging that 10 pound beast with yourself on the underground, and try to fix up some slides in a PowerPoint, or try to fit it into the hand luggage when flying to a meeting.
It might be new to you, and I risk ruining your optimistic world, but laptops are work equipment too. For quite some people... And as gaming notebooks are over-over-overpriced and then some, I find them useless unless someone is a traveling game hero... But there is a price in that case, and not only the pricetag, but several other crippling compromises must be made when going that route.
For the price, you could get a decent Brazos based netbook to lug around, AND a fully fledged SLI/CF desktop. You're much better off with this, as I assume
* you don't play interactive, 3d intensive games while cooking (which however Brazos would even support to a degree)
* you won't plan on getting your gaming fix while underway
Do you disagree with this? Reply
rubbahbandman - Friday, July 08, 2011 - linkI think you'd be surprised how affordable a good "gaming" laptop/desktop replacement is. I picked up the HP dv7-6143cl from Costco for only $875 along with a 2 yr warranty and it has some solid specs.
2630qm, 8gb ram, 6770m, and you'd think with a 17.3" screen it would be heavy, but it weighs only 7lbs, less than a gallon of milk and that's in spite of the ridiculous 9 cell battery it has. (supposedly it can manage a 9.5 hr battery life).
The native res is 1600x900 which isn't that special, but it works great for demanding games like Crysis 2. With the dx11 patch and high-res textures pack I can manage a solid 45-60fps, which is perfectly playable, and that pretty much sets the bar for challenging my system, so other than Crysis 2, I can crank up the res to my heart's content. Reply
Mediamon - Sunday, July 10, 2011 - linkAlmost had me sold. Costco's HP configurator shows $1200 current price for rig with those same specs. A $325 difference. You must know someone at costco or playing a joke. Reply
chinedooo - Monday, July 11, 2011 - linki would suggest hp's dv6t6100 straight from their website. $1025 with tax for a i7 2630, 15.6 in 1080p screen, 9 cell battery and hd 6770. this is after getting $450 off with a coupon which is pretty much always available. the thing weighs like 5.5 lbs. It really is a great laptop. Reply
scook9 - Thursday, July 07, 2011 - linkI got the 2920xm because it can overclock (at all) and has considerably better turbo options.
We know you think it is idiotic, most people do. Because they either a) cant appreciate mobility AND power or b) cant afford it
I never tried to argue that my M18x was a top value proposition ;) simply that bang for the buck is not there for the GTX 580m's vs the 6970m's
A 12 pound laptop is about as powerful as a 50 pound desktop. Additionally, it already has the UPS, screen, mouse, keyboard built in (adding to value mind you). If you cannot handle moving a 12 pound laptop, you are just pathetic. End of story. The thing does not have to be a damned frisbee, but it is plenty portable. I have traveled all over the country with high end (large) laptops, it is perfectly doable.
And as for your remark about being inferior to a desktop, I can share some benches if you still feel that way.
Here is one, it can play Crysis MAXED out with all settings very high and max AA at 60 FPS on the native resolution. Don't spout off shit you have zero experience with, makes you look like the child you are.
SO, at the end of your rant the only real complain I can come up with is price - yes I could have spent that $4000 on a desktop but I did not want to. Because I like being able to take my entire system with me wherever I go without having to think twice about it. My desktop is about 65 pounds by itself - THAT is not portable, a laptop (even if it weighs 20 pounds) is always portable. Reply
jensend - Wednesday, July 06, 2011 - linkYou say "it's even a little difficult to recommend spending up for a notebook with anything less than a GeForce GT 540M or Radeon HD 6500M/6600M/6700M unless you really need the faster CPU on top of it." - but considering the pricing, the power consumption disadvantage, and Llano's strong performance I don't see why you'd go with a discrete AMD chip less powerful than Turks+gddr5. Why would you go for a (equal shader count) 6500M? Sure, there's more memory bandwidth, but you're sacrificing a good bit of wattage for not a heck of a lot of performance. Reply
khimera2000 - Wednesday, July 06, 2011 - linkMy issue with this artticle is the touting of optimus, but the programe isint even supported that well. My notebook hasent seen a driver upgrade in the last 6 months. AMD might not have the dual graphics out all over, but you can bet that it will be better supported once all the bugs are nocked out.
as it stands having intel and Nvidia play nice is really starting to chap my ass, and is becoming a fast reason to dump the intel Nvidia headach, and go for a pure amd build (once the drivers are mature enough of course).
intel based optimus is broken, I wouldent outline the feature so much its missleading.
agree with the rest though :) Reply
RussianSensation - Wednesday, July 06, 2011 - linkIt would have been even more helpful if you guys included some benchmarks with the GPUs segregated into Mainstream and Performance category. I have a feeling the 6970M is the "best bang for the buck" on the high-end for mobile GPUs. The fact that 6970M also lives in the slim iMac chassis likely suggest that it also runs a lot cooler and is more energy efficient/has better power consumption than the 570M/580M chips.
I feel that current stagnation at 40nm process has pretty much leveled GPU progress in both the mobile and desktop space. I foresee a major performance increase, especially on the mobile side in 12 months from now when we begin to see 28nm GPUs enter the marketplace. Reply
Imnotrichey - Wednesday, July 06, 2011 - linkI have never owned a laptop, but I have always wondered how will these things do if you have a home base set up at home (external monitor, external keyboard, mouse, etc.) for hardcore gaming but still want the portability of a laptop for work/school use.
If plugged in, will these things be able to handle playing games on a 24 inch at 1900x1200? I am guessing not the latest graphically intense games (Crysis 2 for example) but what about like TF2, WOW, L4D and slightly older games like those?
How much would you need to spend to handle gaming on an external monitor of that size? Sorry if this is a noob question, but thats always been my goal with a laptop but have never pulled the trigger. Might have to with grad school coming up soon. Reply
randomusername3242 - Wednesday, July 06, 2011 - linkFor games such as WoW, TF2, L4D it is definitely possible. 1920 x 1080 at max settings is something a mid-tier mobile card could realistically do.
For Crysis etc. you *can* make it work but it makes no sense. Like I posted above, you will overpay by $500-$1000 at least and the laptop will not even be portable in the end. It will be as portable as a concrete brick that weighs 10 lbs. Reply
Imnotrichey - Wednesday, July 06, 2011 - linkThanks. Glad to know I can still play many of those steam games when at home without losing the mobility needed for work and school. Reply
seapeople - Wednesday, July 06, 2011 - linkIn comparison desktops are as portable as a concrete brick that weighs 20 pounds, a non-folding chair, and 20 feet of rope that you must tie around the chair and brick and then connect the other end to a tree every time you want to use it.
I think I'll take my 10 pound brick, thank you very much. Reply
UMADBRO - Thursday, July 07, 2011 - linkYou seem awful full of yourself. Not everyone shares the same perspective as you, so stop acting like youre "opinion" is right and everyone else is wrong.
And if 10 pounds is too damn heavy for you to move around, you have more serious problems to worry about then how much someone isomeone "should" spend on their system.... Reply
Iketh - Thursday, July 07, 2011 - linkwhat's with you and 10 lbs??? that isn't shit you pathetic weakling Reply
fb39ca4 - Wednesday, July 06, 2011 - linkAll of these chips (except for the gma in Atom netbooks) are faster than the quadro nvs 120m in mah laptop. ugh. Reply
Seikent - Wednesday, July 06, 2011 - linkA chart comparing the graphics cards in some games would have been great. I know it is not so easy, but it is relevant. Reply
Drizzt321 - Wednesday, July 06, 2011 - linkWhere does the Quadro 1000m fit into here? I just bought the Lenovo w520 (still waiting to ship, arg!). I wasn't specifically looking for Quadro, however it had the rest I wanted (15", 1080p, Optimus, wide(er) gamut LCD, etc. Even a built-in color calibration sensor!) and it'd be interesting to see where it fits in here, give it's 96 cuda cores. Reply
Belard - Wednesday, July 06, 2011 - linkHey, let us know how that W520 works... the screen quality.
Mobile graphics chips are not as powerful as their desktops, there are ways to make them run a bit cooler... such as lower clock rates and other factors. Reply
Drizzt321 - Thursday, July 07, 2011 - linkYea, I know, but since this was a, ya know, mobile graphics guide, I was figuring I'd ask for that since I'm not quite sure where it fits in performance-wise. But, didn't buy it for gaming, although I will probably do some, so it's not as big a deal to me.
Well, supposedly it's pretty nice. From what I've read pretty good contrast ratio and good black/white levels. Plus 95% NTSC, at least according to specs, so I'm hopefully. Still a TN panel from what I understand, but at least it seems like a decent one. I'll try and remember to get back to the Anand forums on how it is. Hell, if Anand wants to give me some info on how to give all those wonderful graphs he has (I also have an X-Rite eyeOne USB colorimeter), I'd be more than happy to put together that info. Reply
DaveSimmons - Wednesday, July 06, 2011 - linkIt always annoys me seeing a laptop advertised with a "560m" or "6850 mobile". I have to stop and remind myself that no, these offer nothing close to the performance of the desktop cards with those model numbers that I've read about in reviews. Its just nvidia and AMD trying to play me for a sucker by selling me a mislabeled 550 or 5770. Reply
P_Turner - Wednesday, July 06, 2011 - linkI feel the same way about Intel's mobile Sandy Bridge CPUs. I expect an i5 to have four physical cores without hyperthreading, but an i5-2410m has only two physical cores with hyperthreading.
It turns out that the majority of mobile i5 parts have only two cores. Worse, even some of the mobile i7 CPUs are still just two cores. Reply
Belard - Wednesday, July 06, 2011 - linkAs a general guide, this is helpful and yeah, both AMD and Nvidia add their confusion.
But for many people, basic graphics are fine for a notebook... but then again, its nice to have a bit MORE if you want to some gaming.
An excellent site to keep track of notebook GPUs (and CPUs) that has amazing detail (a bit of overkill) and includes pretty much EVERY GPU ever existed (pre GeForce2go). goto notebookcheck.com
Their charts list are here (GPUs on the right, first 3 items are most important) http://www.notebookcheck.net/FAQ-Tips-Technics.123...
This is my favorite section: http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Graphics-Cards...
Check out their notebook reviews, very very detailed - much like AnandTech 10~20 page review of a new technology item, power supply or video card. Warning thou, the side tends to default to German, but it comes in 10 languages - click the UK flag to read. :P Reply
kasakka - Thursday, July 07, 2011 - linkThanks for the info. Damn, my Macbook Pro's 9400M is pretty awful nowadays. Still enough for most things tho. Reply
Pirks - Thursday, July 07, 2011 - linkMy wife's 4 year old Dell Vostro is still too fast for her needs, and I paid like $1000 for it new. Judging by this there's gotta be about 4-6 more years of life left in it. Dell FTW! Reply
burntham77 - Wednesday, July 06, 2011 - linkI have noticed that the only way to get a notebook with highend AMD graphics is to get one paired with an Intel CPU. I would love to be able to buy a notebook with a high end mobile AMD CPU and high end mobile AMD GPU. Reply
DanNeely - Thursday, July 07, 2011 - linkAmd's mobile CPUs lag intel badly in performance, which is why they only show up in budget laptops. I don't know if they're enough slower to actually bottleneck the GPUs, but the fraction of gamers willing to take that large a CPU nerf to save $100ish on a $1500-2500 laptop isn't large enough to justify making the product. Reply
Roland00Address - Wednesday, July 06, 2011 - linkIt should look like this.
160/240/320/400 (6380G/6480G/6520G/6620G) Shaders, 12/16/20 (6480G/6520G/6620G) TMUs, 4/8 (6520G/6480G and 6620G) ROPs, Core Clock: 400-444MHz
You originally had the TMU and the ROPs backwards. The 6620g has higher TMU and more ROPs than the 6480G and the 6520G Reply
velanapontinha - Thursday, July 07, 2011 - link"20/16/12 (6480G/6520G/6620G) TMUs" - don't you mean "12/16/20" instead of "20/16/12"?
Fernando Reply
Meaker10 - Thursday, July 07, 2011 - linkGT555M "C"
144 CUDA Cores, 24 TMUs, 16 ROPs, Core clock 450mhz, Shader Clock: 900mhz, 128bit Memory Bus, DDR3, Effective memory clock 1600Mhz
As used by clevo and Acer and called a 550M when used by Dell. Reply
Bolas - Thursday, July 07, 2011 - linkNvidia states that the GTX 580m supports 3D vision.
Really? On which laptop? I have not been able to find a laptop that supports 3D Vision and uses this card. Someone help me out here and point me to a laptop with GTX 580m and 3D Vision 120Hz screen please. Reply
sidneyleejohnson - Sunday, July 10, 2011 - linkIn that regards:
external note: All laptops with gtx580m would support 3d vision on an external monitor say your Samsung 2011 3d tv beamed via sibeam wirelesshd internal transmitter(m18x)
2) but to meet your needs Clevo and Alienware has the answer:
the P170HM3(Eurocom Neptune etc.) or the M17x
as for dual 580m sli until m18x offers a 120hz option we'll have to wait for the
and the SLI-equipped P270WN (ETA ~Nov(this is a "desktop CPU" laptop hexcore new motherboard/chipset) Reply
JNo - Friday, July 08, 2011 - linkI too would like to voice that this subject matter is very important and great to see an article covering what is a very nebulous area. I'll always prefer the sheer grunt & value of a desktop but we can't ignore that laptops are now outselling them. And searching for notebooks which can play some games and have battery life is of great interest to me (and many others).
Obviously, unlike desktops, you can't do true apples-to-apples comparisons with laptop gfx but nevertheless, it would be good to some performance comparison graphs into the article even though it would have to come with the caveat stating that they are only loosely comparable.
Btw, don't know which GT 555M it is or even if a third type but this unbelievably beautiful 13" i7 nvid GT555M LG laptop (yes, i know, LG!) has what's designated a N12P variant of the 555M:
http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/10/new-lg-p330-lap... Reply
mason.s - Friday, July 08, 2011 - linkI was lucky enough to get a gem of a gaming laptop in the Acer Aspire AS5552G763. I snagged it while it was on a super deep discount, at $589. After gaming with it for a couple of months, I can say that the Radeon 6650M is a very capable GPU at the laptop's native res (an admittedly anemic 1366x768). I've gotta say I was truly blessed to pick up this machine at the price. You can check it out at the link I used to buy it. It's still at the lower-middle end of the price range for this kind of laptop at $790:
http://www.buy.com/prod/acer-aspire-as5552g7632-15... Reply


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Vizio's AMD Z60 Hondo-based Windows 8 Tablet PC at CES 2013by Vivek Gowri on 1/15/2013 5:40 PM EST
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tipoo - Tuesday, January 15, 2013 - linkI look forward to when you guys get your hands on this for another analysis of SoC power consumption. It doesn't seem like AMD has the architecture or the fabrication advantage of ARM or Intel to get so low power consumption, but I'd love to be surprised and have them be a good competitor in this space. We all know they won't catch up in desktops and laptops in performance per watt, hopefully in a new market they can. Reply
frozentundra123456 - Tuesday, January 15, 2013 - linkIt looks nice, but I am comcerned about cpu performance. If it is 800.00 compared to 900 to 1000.00, I would have to strongly consider the IVB more powerful tablet. Seems like 700 ish would be a more appropriate price point. Reply
NichrolasHoult - Wednesday, January 16, 2013 - linkLove my job, since I've been bringing in $5600… I sit at home, music playing while I work in front of my new iMac that I got now that I'm making it online(Click on menu Home)
Happy New Year! Reply
twotwotwo - Tuesday, January 15, 2013 - linkWhen I really think about it, I know I should wait maybe a yearish for Haswell to come out and Ubuntu to get usable enough on tablets. Besides, my 'old' laptop isn't _that_ old, and works fine.
When I don't really think about it, I want one of these. :) Reply
kyuu - Tuesday, January 15, 2013 - linkI'm definitely looking forward to this tablet. However, I hope you're wrong on the price point. Considering there are Atom-powered Win8 tablets in the $500-600 range, and AMD's chipset should be significantly cheaper than Intel's, I was more expecting this to be in that range, *maybe* ~$700. Granted the 1080p panel instead of 1366x768 is going to drive the price up a bit, but I still don't see this being competitive at a price approaching that of Ivy Bridge tablets.
If they bring this in at $600 or cheaper, it's pretty much an instant buy for me. $600-700 I'll definitely consider it. Any more than that, I don't really think I can justify it over getting a touchscreen laptop... like Vizio's refreshed 14" Thin+Light. Reply
LordConrad - Tuesday, January 15, 2013 - linkI'm glad to see AMD has a horse in this race, their low-end chips are much better than the Atom. This might change when Intel updates Atom to support Out-of-Order execution, but for now AMD rules the x86 low-end. Reply
Shadowmaster625 - Tuesday, January 15, 2013 - linkWay way way waaaaaaay too expensive. Wow. Two years ago you could buy a C-50 tablet with 32GB SSD for $500. Hell it was on sale for $450 several times. 64GB of SSD costs less than 32GB costed back then. The same 2GB of RAM costs less. The battery costs less. The panel probably costs $50 more. The SoC probably $20 more. So where in blazes do you get off even speculating $700? Where do these outrageous numbers keep coming from? The bill of materials on this thing cant possibly be over $400. Reply
Beenthere - Tuesday, January 15, 2013 - linkIt's all good. Nice to see smarter PC makers not being bamboozeled by InHell hype and strong-arm tactics. Reply
themossie - Tuesday, January 15, 2013 - linkI believe AMD's TDP figures are for a system including everything except for storage and screen, such as radios. As such, they're not directly comparable and a 4.5W TDP isn't as bad as it sounds.
Looking up how AMD calculates TDP for this isn't getting me anywhere, maybe my memory's wrong - only relevant links I found were
http://hothardware.com/News/AMDs-Hondo-Will-Challe... (see Competitive Positioning)
http://www.amd.com/us/press-releases/Pages/new-amd... (see bottom, reference 2)
Also, Z-60 systems do not stay connected to wifi in standby mode. This is a big difference from iPad and Android, which you can rely on to notify you of emails, IMs and the like... Reply
kyuu - Wednesday, January 16, 2013 - link"Also, Z-60 systems do not stay connected to wifi in standby mode. This is a big difference from iPad and Android, which you can rely on to notify you of emails, IMs and the like..."
That's true, but as far as I'm concerned, a non-issue. I have a smartphone to keep me appraised of things like that. A tablet for me doesn't need to replicate the connected-standby function of the computer I have in my pocket all the time anyway. Reply
themossie - Wednesday, January 16, 2013 - linkNot a problem for your use case (or, I suspect, most use cases) but I know some strange people...
A surprising number of my non-techie friends don't have smartphones, and rely on a tablet as their main computer at home. Several of these have data plans for their tablets.
On my last smartphone, battery life was at a premium so I left background data off - relying on my tablet for notifications. I'd argue this is one of the few advantages of a tablet over a laptop for power users :-) But... yeah, most people use their smartphones for this. I'm really not sure how big an issue this is. Reply
Wolfpup - Wednesday, January 16, 2013 - linkA Windows 8 tablet wouldn't be ideal, but could work for that, but I can't imagine trying to use an iPad to replace a real PC :-O Reply
Hubb1e - Wednesday, January 16, 2013 - linkif your needs are really simple, like email and web browsing, then an iPad can easily replace your PC. For many people this is all they do with their PC so I've seen it quite often. They get a keyboard dock for that ipad and are perfectly happy on it. That's why these tablets are taking off because that use case represents a very large percentage of PC users. Reply
Wolfpup - Friday, January 18, 2013 - linkYou're still stuck with a teeeeeeny tiny screen, limited web browser and multitasking, etc. Like I basically gave up using iOS to do something as simple as look at my email for forum responses and reply...it's just orders of magnitude more difficult than doing it on a real PC.
Looking up an entry on IMDB or something? Slower, but not too bad...but much more complicated and it's just a terrible solution. Reply
Wolfpup - Friday, January 18, 2013 - linkEDIT: Not to mention it's a terrible choice for any document files. No user accessible file system, terrible programs available, etc. Reply
nanfad - Wednesday, January 16, 2013 - linkHow does the GPU stack up against the iPads?
What about the iPads GPU vs Intel's HD 4000? Reply
aicom64 - Wednesday, January 16, 2013 - linkThe iPad 4's GPU does 71.6 GFLOPS while the HD 4000 does ~200 GFLOPS. While GFLOPS aren't everything, they do give you some idea of the performance delta between the best current mobile GPU and a relatively poor performing desktop part. Reply
twtech - Friday, January 18, 2013 - linkAnd to put that into context against high-end desktop GPUs, they are up in the 3,000-3,500 GFLOPS range, with the next generation coming soon expected to be up around 5,000 GFLOPS.
I think some people start thinking, "My tablet has a 2GHz quad-core processor. Desktops only have 3ish GHz quad-core processors, so that means tablets will be as powerful as desktop PCs soon." Reply
tipoo - Wednesday, January 16, 2013 - linkStill far behind the HD4000. The SGX cores are actually used in Intels older GMA graphics for Atom. Reply
Visual - Wednesday, January 16, 2013 - linkNice to see an improved alternative to the Fujitsu Q572. The Vizio has better resolution and not so ridiculously large bezel size, but unfortunately it seems like it lacks an active digitizer.
I'd readily pay $150-200 more for a version with Wacom.
Will there be a keyboard dock for this? Seems like a must-have nowadays... Reply
Death666Angel - Wednesday, January 16, 2013 - linkI've been researching Windows 8 laptops and x86 tablet for the past week. Just out of curiosity mostly, as I am happily using my desktop old i3-330UM 11.6" laptop and 10.1" Android tablet still. I have no real need for any upgrades.
But the Asus 13.3" AMD A6-4555M 1080p laptop for 800€ (Vivobook U38N) is pretty enticing as is the UX32 with a GT620M (better performance but at 1050€ much too expensive compared to the AMD offering for me). Now this tablet is just as interesting with the internals. Though price needs to be 700€ or below in my opinion.
But I don't need any of those right now and considering that much better tech is just around the corner, I'm hoping for more powerful products at better prices in the fall of this year or early next year. :) Reply
duploxxx - Wednesday, January 16, 2013 - linkaccording your feedback.
its smoother in usage, cpu powerfull enough, gpu much better and according the specs low power usage.
yet all oem provide the atoms and none to find with AMD.... consumer is yet again loosing. Just like with the netbooks, Brazos is a way better platform, but almost all devices are atom based in sales... Reply
MrSpadge - Wednesday, January 16, 2013 - linkToo bad the CPU can't turbo up a bit if only one core is used. "Race to idle" and better responsiveness FTW! Reply
jamawass - Wednesday, January 16, 2013 - linkIsn't this a standard feature of windows 8 regardless of hardware? Shouldn't this tablet be able to download email etc while in standby mode? Reply
kyuu - Wednesday, January 16, 2013 - linkI'm pretty sure it has to be supported by the hardware. Reply
amdwilliam1985 - Wednesday, January 16, 2013 - linkI believe the feature you're talking about is Smart Standby. Forget whether it's a windows 8 feature or a intel SoC feature. Reply
B3an - Wednesday, January 16, 2013 - linkIt's a Win 8 feature. The hardware has to support it. Reply
Wolfpup - Wednesday, January 16, 2013 - linkI have a tiny notebook based on AMD's C50 that I bought last year. C50 appears to be the exact same hardware-dual core Bobcat (basically a stripped down Athlon 64) @ 1Ghz + 80 VLW5 slowish clocked GPU cores, only the C50 could draw 9 watts versus this thing's 4.5.
I remember thinking last year what a great chip that would be for a tablet, and...here it is.
It's sluggish, but not unusable, and of course "sluggish" is relative, as it's running a real full OS with real multitasking, yet still outperforms my iPad 2 with it's dual core A9s on a limited OS without much real multitasking. Reply
Wolfpup - Tuesday, February 12, 2013 - linkThe more I think about this, the less interested I am in Atom tablets. I know for a fact z60 can play back video fairly well (and even accelerate Flash)...25% more single threaded performance and a bajillion times better GPU (not to mention better driver support)...I'm really wishing Dell and HP had used z60 for their tablets too. Reply
haukionkannel - Wednesday, January 16, 2013 - linkTablets are very good for reading, so good GPU that allows smooth scrolling is actually very good compromise for tablet CPUGPU. I am not so interested in Hasvel tablets, bacause they most propably are way too expensive, but this and the next generation Atoms can be something that can compete with ARM based tablets. Hasvel based will be in their own league and more like very portable laptops, with removeable keyboards. Very good and fast items, but 1000$+ price will keep them in very different category than these portable electronics books! (allmost like softcover vs hardcover novel :-) Reply
zaddie63 - Friday, January 18, 2013 - linkHi I have been reading your reviews for over 10 years and they are always great. I noticed that you are planning to review another tablet and I had some thoughts.
I am typing this comment on a Gigabyte S1080 tablet that I installed windows 8 on.
It has a Windows cpu experience rating of 3.4. the new z2760 also gets 3.4. In another test someone did and posted the test results online, along with what Intel released, I saw that the N2800 cpu was supposed to be faster than the N570 that I have.
How come my cpu which is two releases old has the same rating as the new z2760, when the previous generation was supposed to be faster than mine and the Z2760 is supposed to be so fantastic.
Reviews of tablets tend to get treated like cellular phone revise. Talk about the hardware and run some IE test. For your next tablet review I'd appreciate it very much and I know a lot of other people would as well, sine tablets are on the rise and as we use them for business we need to know the truth about their performance in business and not how well they run sunspider.
I'd like to see a full suite of laptop type tests run on tablets (preferably) running the Z2760, the N570, the N2800, the Amd Z60, and I3 or I5.
Gigabyte has 4 tablets running all of the above, you may be able to get a Samsung s7 which has an I5, then there are the Acer, Asus and Samsung which you already know about. Compare them to laptops, because that is the business decision a lot of FCs are looking at.
I know it will make great reading. Reply
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Lace Overlay Knee Length Cocktail Dress by Cinderella Divine 1921
Dazzle the room in this lace overlay knee length cocktail dress by Cinderella Divine.
Lace overlay cocktail dress with shimmering appliques detail the bodice and the knee length skirt.
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- Orders are usually shipped via UPS or Priority Mail within 2 business days depending on availability. Shipping carrier may vary depending on the item(s).
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- Before placing an order, we recommend customers to contact us to check if the item(s) is in-stock and ready-to-ship. Call us at: 972-264-9100 or e-mail us at: firstname.lastname@example.com with the item#, size, color and we will let you know within 1 business day. Inventories are done manually on a rotational basis, and we don't control when an item is out-of-stock.
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- When being measured, look straight ahead. Do not look down, as this can alter your measurements. Stand tall with your arms down your sides. Do not measure over clothing. Measure with undergarments similar to those you will wear with your dress.
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- Always choose the larger size if your measurements come between two sizes because it's always easier to alter a dress if it's a little too big.
Bust: Measure across the back and fullest part of the bust (not under the bust).
Waist: Measure across the narrowest part of the natural waist. The waist is usually located 1-2 inches above the belly button. Bend to one side to find the natural waist.
Hips: Standing with feet together, measure at the fullest part of the hip.
Skirt Length: Wearing your shoes (or shoes with the heal height you are going to wear on the day) measure from your waist to the floor.
Skirt Length: Wearing your shoes (or shoes with the heal height you are going to wear on the day) measure from your waist to the floor.