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Rx7oneluv   11-13-2009 at 08:24:38 PM

1_What is your budget? 700-800

2_What is the size of the notebook that you are considering? No Concern

3_What screen resolution do you want? atleast 768

4_Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop? No, Extra computer

5_How much battery life do you need? atleast 2 hours

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)? 2008-10 games any Genre

7_What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop? (Photo / Video editing,watching movies, Etc.) Movies, Internet, Games

8_How much storage (H.D.D Capacity) do you need? Doesn't Matter

9_If you are considering specific sites to buy from, please post the links to them.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6834115675
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6834157046


10_How long do you want to keep your laptop? 2-4 years, not expecting to use it for cutting edge games forever.


11_What kind of Optical drive do you need? DVD ROM/Writer,Bluray ROM/Writer,Etc ? DVD or Blu-Ray

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. -----Well Known brands with decent Support, Asus, Sony, HP, etc etc

13_What country do you live in? USA


The two above are the main ones im looking at, lemme know what you think, and if there is one you would recommend over them.

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Bronze Laptops badge Maziar   11-13-2009 at 09:24:10 PM

Between those the HP model has a better GPU with a weaker CPU,so a better option that has Core2Duo and HD 4650 would be Sager NP2098:
http://www.xoticpc.com/sager-np209 [...] -2581.html
Good specs + good price + good build quality too :)

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Rx7oneluv   11-13-2009 at 11:17:53 PM

Only Problem I see with that, is the Turon II is 2.3ghz, and the Core Duo is only 2.0. Both of the notebooks i've listed have 4gb ram, and a larger hard drive, and higher decidated ram for video.

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Bronze Laptops badge frozenlead   11-13-2009 at 11:40:14 PM

The Turion may be clocked faster, but the Core Duo is more efficient/clock, and will outperform the AMD chip, even at a lower speed. Note the Sager has a 2.1GHz CPU, not 2.0.

4GB of memory is up to you. If you do heavy video editing, then you might want it, but otherwise, you probably won't end up using it. 2GB is just fine.

The larger hard disk is also up to you. Note that upgrading the Sager's disk to the same as the others doesn't put you over budget.

The fact that the Sager doesn't have 1GB of video memory is irrelevant. You won't be using 1GB of memory at that low of a resolution, anyway. You won't notice a different between 1GB and 512MB unless you get a high-res external monitor (which, if that's the case, the GPU isn't powerful enough to drive games that high anyway). Having more video memory is a marketing gimmick.

------------------------------ Sager NP5793 | T8100 2.1GHz | 4GB DDR2-667 | 8800mGTX 512MB | 320GB 5400rpm | 1920x1200 17", 24" | Win 7 x64
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Bronze Laptops badge Maziar   11-14-2009 at 08:54:33 AM

Rx7oneluv wrote :

Only Problem I see with that, is the Turon II is 2.3ghz, and the Core Duo is only 2.0. Both of the notebooks i've listed have 4gb ram, and a larger hard drive, and higher decidated ram for video.


You can upgrade the Sager's model 4GB and about the Video card the Sager one has HD 4650 as well and if one has 512 and the other one has 1GB the difference isn't noticeable in games
About Turion vs C2D,its not only the Mhz which makes a CPU better,there are other factors too and as frozenlead said the C2D model outperforms the turion one.

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