In about 3 days, I will start a next stage in my life, university
It involves loads of new stuff etc, and a also new laptop The problem is that I have no experience on the laptop subject, and I have no idea which is a good choice for me to buy. I tought I wouldn't get a good laptop for under 1500 euros, but now I saw this: for only 833 dollar O.o
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Intel Core 2 Duo Processor P8700 (2.53GHz 1066MHz 3MBL2) Genuine Windows Vista Home Basic 64 GeForce GT 240M graphic card 15.6 HD WLED Glossy, 1366*768 with 1.3M integrated Camera 2x2 GB PC3-8500 DDR3 SDRAM 1066MHz SODIMM Memory 320GB Hard Disk Drive, 5400rpm
So I'm a bit
Budget: 0-1500$ =+- 0-1200 euros ?
Use: Gaming (prefer a very good graphic card, memory etc), just surfing internet, and office stuff As all laptops are capable to run office stuff I need for school, lets concentrate on the gaming part
I would like a powerfull laptop, but one that doesn't run too hot (would like it to be capable to run for like 12 houres or more without overheating)
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1. What is your budget? 0-1500$ = +-0-1200 euros?
2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering? anything, as long as it performs good
3. What screen resolution do you want? anything, as long as it performs good
4. Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop? Desktop replacement, the reason I don't buy a desktop is because I will need to take it to school sometimes
5. How much battery life do you need? Doesn't matter, will be hooked up to the net mostly
6. Do you want to play games with your laptop? If so then please list the games that you want to with the settings that you want for these games. (Low,Medium or High)? CoD 4 and 5, the latest games, ...
7. What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop? (Photo / Video editing, surfing the web, playing music, watching movies, Etc.) surfing the web, downloading, playing music, watching movies, office stuff
8. How much storage (H.D.D Capacity) do you need? Preferably 320GB+
9. If you are considering specific sites to buy from, please post the links to them. Any site
10. How long do you want to keep your laptop? About 4 years or more
11. If you would like to mention some other things about purchasing your ideal laptop, post them. anything that works
12. Please tell us about the brands that you prefer to buy from them and the brands that you don't like and explain the reasons. any brand that has good quality, I'm not buying the brand, I'm buying what's inside
13. What country do you live in? Belgium
Well, I could give you guys some belgian sites with laptops and stuff, but I don't know any good ones, so is it possible to just recommend me some types of laptops (like Acer cxxx, or Toshiba blabla) so I can look where to buy them in my country? Like choose on of these: http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCat [...] -Notebooks and I'm pretty sure most are avaible in my country
The G71 would be the best option if you could find it by you. It is a great value with solid performance. My only complaint against it is the low screen resolution, 1440x900 is going to be pixelated on a 17'' screen.
The first link to laptopshop doesn't work. But between the Toshiba and the Acer, the HD 4650 in the Toshiba is a stronger gaming card than the GT 130M. The only downside to those machines are the relatively slow CPUs.
the one is 100 euro cheaper, has a similar Processor, DDRII instead of 3, 500 Gig instead of 320 (good)
So the only main difference is the HD 4750 versus the 9700M GT
the reason why I'm so much talking about videa cards is because my desktop has some stupid HD 3650 single, and I can't run any game without lag O.o I don't want that to happen on my laptop
I'm pretty happy with it, tough better processor, video card and HD space is always welcome, but I fear that that would add a few 100's of euros to that price...
Message edited by vsdagama on 09-21-2009 at 09:05:15 PM
I'm hesitant to compare those two laptops only because I have never heard of the HD 4750 before and it's not listed on ATI's website. I'm not sure if it's a typo or what the deal is.
edit: upon further inspection, it's really an HD4570 which will be weaker than the 9700M GT.
Message edited by lostandwandering on 09-21-2009 at 10:42:51 PM
Yea, and I also didn't notice the cheaper one has on AMD processor Now, I looked trought all the Acer Aspire laptopts on the site and came with this : [url]http://www.laptopshop.be/vergelijken/?product[]=76406&product[]=76363&product[]=76364&specificationprofileshopid=208[/url] (link is too long)
But you have to know that it's just a site, there are maybe better ones, and better types of laptops for that price range, happen to know some?
Message edited by vsdagama on 09-21-2009 at 10:47:03 PM
Yeah, your list is also actually in order of performance as well. The unfortunate thing is that all the systems that are available here in the US are available over by you.