So I've been doing a bit of researching on laptops and Haswell and it's bugged me for awhile; should I plan on getting something with like say a 4800MQ i7 or would a decent IB be fine?
I'm going for computer engineering so probably looking at the around $1000 range. I'm not really into high-end gaming but I must admit the Alienware M14x (with minimal upgrading [i7 and RAM (maybe after buying)]) sounds nice. I already have a tablet (Asus Transformer Pad TF300T) so touch screen/convertible isn't necessary.
I plan on using this for all 4-5 years
anyways is it reasonable to expect a ~$1000 Haswell laptop before September that's worth getting over some other ~$1000 IB laptop (or AMD if they can actually compete at that point)
I guess I'm also looking for more specific suggestions in terms of what laptop to get
I'm not very picky except I want under 17", good battery life, a disc drive (I'm looking at you Samsung), and I want something that supports 16GB (or 32GB) of RAM (I'll accept something with an 8GB max if it's really that awesome though)
It'd be nice to go with SSD (or hybrid or mSATA & HDD) but not necessary
I'm going for computer engineering so probably looking at the around $1000 range. I'm not really into high-end gaming but I must admit the Alienware M14x (with minimal upgrading [i7 and RAM (maybe after buying)]) sounds nice. I already have a tablet (Asus Transformer Pad TF300T) so touch screen/convertible isn't necessary.
I plan on using this for all 4-5 years
anyways is it reasonable to expect a ~$1000 Haswell laptop before September that's worth getting over some other ~$1000 IB laptop (or AMD if they can actually compete at that point)
I guess I'm also looking for more specific suggestions in terms of what laptop to get
I'm not very picky except I want under 17", good battery life, a disc drive (I'm looking at you Samsung), and I want something that supports 16GB (or 32GB) of RAM (I'll accept something with an 8GB max if it's really that awesome though)
It'd be nice to go with SSD (or hybrid or mSATA & HDD) but not necessary