thinking buying a laptop

[hack]

The November PC Gamer Magazine has a whole article on gaming on laptops and which ones to buy

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Formerly known as LPI Police Chief Hull O'Brien.
Creator of Sgt. V. Price, 207th Precinct out of Chula Vista Station

[Carlos_Benitez]

I don't think you specified weather, with your laptop, you wanted a piece of hardware that would obey your every command, or some kind of torture device that will prevent you from doing even the most basic of tasks.

If you're looking for the latter, I really do recommend a laptop with Windows Vista Premium Edition.

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[Enko]

I don't think you specified weather, with your laptop, you wanted a piece of hardware that would obey your every command, or some kind of torture device that will prevent you from doing even the most basic of tasks.

If you're looking for the latter, I really do recommend a laptop with Windows Vista Premium Edition.

[Insert large image to make quote cargoship here]

That was Vista on early on, now it hasn't got any problems of the sort.

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[Xing]

well i dont intend to let vista on it. probably will put xp on it.
screen size doesnt matter me much - preferably keeping it small, but not unreasonably small, and large enough to be comfortable - but not a monstruosity. 15 inch probably will do for me.
what I really seek is speed and video card I guess. I dont care either if its too heavy, just not too large.

I'll admit I just made some shopping cominbg back from school, that Acer is really nice too. forgot which model though. so many choices around hehe

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[13CentKiller]

COMPAQ and HP merged, so COMPAQ have been amped up a little in my opinion. Hence COMPAQ HP.

The HP range are a little more industrial looking than the other COMPAQ HP's. Where as the COMPAQ HP's have a nicer feel to them.

Just remember this:

Duel Core, do more...And Quad Core spend more
3+ GB of RAM
15.4"+ WIDESCREEN
100GB+ HDD (80GB in a laptop sucks utterly)
ATI Crossfire if you can. otherwise 256MB of DEDICATED video memory should do the trick.

Laptops hare hard to pick because its down to look, feel and hardware for them is very expensive.:(

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"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do."

[Xing]

well, for look I'd definitively choose alienware, but I'm not sure if its worth that much. feel, hard to say unless I have on in front of me. hardware, I am dumbstruck when it comes to that.

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[kingvaillant]

I recommend Asus... since they make their own mobo

I also kinda Like Gateway. Del is nice too, but they try to make alot of money on the "options"

If you want a gaming laptop search for a good vid card mainly, since Harddrive, CPU and rams can be changed easily.

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Director of the Liberty Security Force: Fidelity, Bravery and Integrity

The Amundsen Zone-21 Restrictions

[=CR=Trinity]

Well the old saying applies here, "Ya get what ya pay for". Yes, some makes are more expensive than others. If you lack the where with all to build your own, then by all means do purchase something that will do the trick, as previously noted you'll need a graphics intense set up for gaming. Alienware was designed and built for gaming, hence all the hubbub surrounding it. What's in a name? Well if you are talking laptops...everything! It's a lot like cars. Don't buy a Volvo and expect it to perform like a Porsche.

Consider what you wish to accomplish with the laptop, then spend accordingly.

Trin

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[Agmen of Eladesor]

You may as well go with Vista. Once you turn off UAC and tone it down, it's actually a nice little OS. Or give yourself the option to dual boot. The problem with laptops is that, especially with the newer ones, there aren't XP drivers for some of the hardware that you can get on the laptop. So keep that in mind.

Most of you guys aren't old enough to remember why Acer got such a bad reputation - they were selling new computers with refurbished parts and calling them new. Like the tower I had that was supposed to have a 166MHz processor in it - that instead they'd put in an OC 120 MHz processor.

The problem I have with laptops - and I'm using one to play Freelancer and type this - is the lack of easy upgradability. With a desktop, it's not much of an issue unless you buy a slimline HP or Dell - and in that case, you deserve the rape if you were dumb enough to buy it in the first place.

Have you looked at the Toshiba Qosmio? Dual Nvidia 9800 cards...
X305-Q706

Operating System
Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium (SP1, 64/32-bit)
Processor
Intel Core2 Duo Processor P8400
Processor Type
Core2 Duo
Processor Number
P8400
Processor Speed
2.26GHz
Front Side Bus
1066MHz
Memory Size
4096MB
Memory Speed
PC3-8500 DDR3 1066MHz SDRAM
Display Size
17.0" widescreen
Display Type
WSXGA+ with TruBrite Technology
Display Resolution
1680x1050
Graphics Engine
Dual NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTS graphics with NVIDIA SLI Technology
Graphics Memory
512MBx2 GDDR3 discrete graphics memory plus up to 1663MB dynamically allocated shared graphics memory using NVIDIA TurboCache technology
Hard Drive Size
320GB
Hard Drive Speed
7200rpm
Secondary Hard Drive Size
No Secondary Hard Drive Installed
Optical Drives
DVD-SuperMulti (+/-R double layer) with Labelflash drive supporting up to 11 formats
Wireless LAN
Atheros Wireless-LAN (802.11b/g/n)

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Oh god... The end of days... Agmen agreed with me.

[Encheta]

Arrrgh my eyes! One question, why it it PINK!

On the other hand the specs are insane. Toshiba better have fixed their cooling troubles 'cause if the fans fail the whole things gonna melt in 2mins flat!

...And another thought - battery life. It'll be interesting at what life you'd get out of it with that hybrid GPU-thing. I'm guessing.. what? An hour, max?

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