Which laptop is better?

I m trying to find the best laptop for myself. There is a couple I found with some coupon codes but I am willing to see what other options you guys might bring to the table. Please take a look at the 2 pics I shared down below the questionaire.


1. What is your budget?
$1150 to $1250

2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering?
15 Inches. 14" might be OK too if found an amazing deal.

3. What screen resolution do you want?
Decent resolution, you get the idea..

4. Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop?
I'm leaning 60% on the portable, %40 on the desktop replacement side. So maybe 14" is the way to go for me but I dont want to give up on the nice speakers or performance etc... I guess it all depends on the deal I find.

5. How much battery life do you need?
Decent battery life.

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)?
Yes, but not a huge gamer. I would be happy if I can find a better deal than the 2 I found with better GPU's though.

7. What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop? (Photo/Video editing, Etc.)
Little bit of photoshop, watch HD movies, surfing the web etc..

8. How much storage (Hard Drive capacity) do you need?
250GB is fine, 500 max..

9. If you are considering specific sites to buy from, please post their links.
Any reputable site is OK i guess

10. How long do you want to keep your laptop?
at least 2 yrs

11. What kind of Optical drive do you need? DVD ROM/Writer,Bluray ROM/Writer,Etc ?
I need it to be able to read and burn regular dvd's and cd's. watching and being able to burn bluray would be a plus, but not a must

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.
I do want something with a name brand. I m kind of iffy buying brands like zxykotek, SonicSoft etc that noone ever heard of. (i just made up these brands)

13. What country do you live in?
USA

14. Please tell us any additional information if needed.
I m looking for performance. something really fast installing programs, rebooting etc but also has a decent gpu and sound card too. Take a look at the 2 I found and tell me if I should buy any of these two or should I buy something else? Also which of these has better graphics card?


DELL XPS 15




HP ENVY 15

http://www.gentechpc.com/

I bought my ASUS laptop from them a few years back. You can customize it a little bit. If you're serious about watching blu-ray shouldn't you be looking at screens with at least 1920x1080?

I just took a look at the site and picked a 1200 dollar asus. I added the same i7 chip thats on the two i have in pics and the price jumped to 1700.

but on the other end you want battery life and performance so the xps is good also so it comes down to you...do you want the batterylife or the power (xps for batterylife envy for power)

it is the best thing u can most likely get

i geuss for it to be better by maybe 10-20 FPS i wouldnt expect much tho

Is there a big difference in performance between the base i7 chip versus the one I chose in the image?

you're wrong on that one. Your statement is correct for desktop CPU models, laptop i5's are dual core, and all second gen sandy bridge mobile cpu's have hyperthreading afaik.

OP: if you don't need 2860 for VM features there's no point getting it over 2670.

The 76XXm uses Whistler Pro core. Just rebadge of the 67XXm. So refer back to the 67XXm benchmark. 6750m is slightly faster than GT540m.

For what you are doing (Little bit of photoshop, watch HD movies, surfing the web etc and some gaming), a laptop with i7-2630m + GTX560m (in the gaming laptop category like ASUS G53 or Sager NP8130) is better value simply because the CPU will handle everything you do with ease and the much stronger GPU will handle more demanding games and the useful life of the laptop is extended.

clevo uses mxm, any rebrands of that is still the same mobo.

altun:

take a look at this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6834230141

and this
http://www.xoticpc.com/sager-np815 [...] -2972.html