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laptop hunting.
« on: June 26, 2010, 05:34:43 pm »
I'm buying a laptop. my price range is $750 at absolute max, and I have found one that I think is a good one, but I wanna see if you guys have anything better. I am strongly towards a gaming laptop - something that can play half life 2, runescape, portal, etc. NO INTEL! I found what I think is a good one here: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834152159

edit: <our dear friend's name here> has shown me this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834157269
I think that is just fantasic.

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Re: laptop hunting.
« Reply #1 on: June 26, 2010, 11:14:07 pm »
Quote from: Snake X on June 26, 2010, 05:34:43 pm
well.. I'm finally being a real man and selling my mac and buying a pc.
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Re: laptop hunting.
« Reply #2 on: June 26, 2010, 11:16:33 pm »
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Re: laptop hunting.
« Reply #3 on: June 26, 2010, 11:30:45 pm »
The troll spray works! :P

Wait until I get on IRC and start omnomnizing, though. :P

That said, I cannot help much on helping you choose those laptops, because their specs seems to feature stuff I don't know much about, such as not showing the video memory and stuff. I personally would go with enough memory and a 64 bit OS, though, and a relatively good video gard is required for recent games.
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Re: laptop hunting.
« Reply #4 on: September 28, 2010, 08:49:45 pm »
ok. Im looking for laptops. again.

price: $800 MAX
gpu type: dedicated
gpu vendor: nvidia
screen size: preferred 17"
ram: maybe 4 GB? im not too worried
Hdd: im not worried about that
OS: windows 7 home premium (professional is preferred)

So ive been looking at these 2 today and i wanna see what you think:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=6241357
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=5581197

I like the 2nd one for its screen size and the gpu
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Re: laptop hunting.
« Reply #5 on: September 28, 2010, 11:17:48 pm »
Didn't you get one already? Or was it just planning?

I would say the second one, but I have no experience in video cards, so...
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Re: laptop hunting.
« Reply #6 on: September 29, 2010, 07:04:58 am »
I think im actually just going to go with the first one because of all the good reviews i got with it. People say they have played like L4D2 on high and COD on high easily
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Re: laptop hunting.
« Reply #7 on: September 29, 2010, 12:14:45 pm »
Ah seems good. Did you read the reviews for the second one too? What did they have to say? Also do you mean the first COD ever?
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Re: laptop hunting.
« Reply #8 on: September 30, 2010, 07:32:01 pm »
I'm not sure. I wouldn't think so either. Also, my sister said that when she researched laptops that gateway was a bad brand.. Idk what to think anymore to be honest.. the only brand that I havn't herd anything bad from is toshiba. Im not sure either if im going to be able to afford one. I just need a good laptop that can do great gaming for around $750. Any suggestions on that?

edit: I fell in love all over again..  ;D
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834115860
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Re: laptop hunting.
« Reply #9 on: October 01, 2010, 12:39:12 am »
That last laptop is overpriced, you could get an i5 for that price. I wouldn't worry about the gpu that much.
Just rely on your default/motherboard onboard one.
The RAM seems fair, but I would upgrade it to 2x 4 asap.
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Re: laptop hunting.
« Reply #10 on: October 01, 2010, 02:16:39 am »
Aren't integrated GPU usually lower performance than most others and unsupported by most games? Maybe I am wrong. It might be nice that he is not stuck playing games from 2005 or before on it either.
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Re: laptop hunting.
« Reply #11 on: October 01, 2010, 02:19:59 am »
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Aren't integrated GPU usually lower performance than most others and unsupported by most games? Maybe I am wrong. It might be nice that he is not stuck playing games from 2005 or before on it either.

True, but with the proper drivers you could make a hack-ish simulated video card.
On my main comp (with some sick specs), I still use the integrated one. (Basically, because I do not need a specialized video card)
-Intel Core i7 980x (6cores + 6 virtual)
-24gb RAM (204-pin SODIMM DDR3, 6 x 4gb)
-256GB SSD - Samsung Solid State Drive
Do I need to say more?
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Re: laptop hunting.
« Reply #12 on: October 01, 2010, 02:21:48 am »
Ah ok. I assume you need to be careful which drivers you choose, though? I remember messing up my old comp before with that... x.x
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Re: laptop hunting.
« Reply #13 on: October 01, 2010, 02:24:28 am »
Ofcourse, you have to be careful with every hardware edit/upgrade you make.
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Re: laptop hunting.
« Reply #14 on: October 01, 2010, 07:09:55 am »
YES! integrated graphics cards are THE WORST. Also, i don't want to rely on some hack to make it "semi-good". Graphics cards is my foundation for this hunt. You gotta realize, the Nvidia GeForce 420M is a graphics card that is coming from the top of the line graphics card series! To me, thats pretty dang important.
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