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Cheebee on 27 September 2010

Get a Macbook. Seriously.



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theman88 on 27 September 2010

It needs to be less than $1600. I want performance so i am most likely going to go for an i7 processor, i just want it to be fast for a long time, have awesome speakers and decent battery life.... needs to look tight lol



Tanstalas on 28 September 2010
theman88 said:

It needs to be less than $1600. I want performance so i am most likely going to go for an i7 processor, i just want it to be fast for a long time, have awesome speakers and decent battery life.... needs to look tight lol

 

 

Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64bit, English
Intel® Core™ i7 740QM Quad Core Processor, 1.73GHz (2.93GHz Turbo Mode, 6M Cache
512MB GDDR3 NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 240M
15.6-inch WideHD 1600x900 (900p) WLED
6GB Memory (1x 2GB, 1x 4GB DDR3)
500GB SATAII 7,200RPM
Slot-Load Dual Layer DVD Burner (DVD -RW, CD-RW)
Primary - 6-cell (56Watt) Lithium-Ion Battery
Wireless 1520 802.11n Half Mini-Card
Internal High-Definition 5.1 Surround Sound Audio
Internal Bluetooth 2.1 Mini-Card - 2.1 Enhanced Data Rate

 

$1,399



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Tanstalas on 28 September 2010
Tanstalas said:
theman88 said:

It needs to be less than $1600. I want performance so i am most likely going to go for an i7 processor, i just want it to be fast for a long time, have awesome speakers and decent battery life.... needs to look tight lol

 

 

 

Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64bit, English
Intel® Core™ i7 740QM Quad Core Processor, 1.73GHz (2.93GHz Turbo Mode, 6M Cache
512MB GDDR3 NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 240M
15.6-inch WideHD 1600x900 (900p) WLED
6GB Memory (1x 2GB, 1x 4GB DDR3)
500GB SATAII 7,200RPM
Slot-Load Dual Layer DVD Burner (DVD -RW, CD-RW)
Primary - 6-cell (56Watt) Lithium-Ion Battery
Wireless 1520 802.11n Half Mini-Card
Internal High-Definition 5.1 Surround Sound Audio
Internal Bluetooth 2.1 Mini-Card - 2.1 Enhanced Data Rate

 

 

$1,399

Oh - and it looks friggin awesome..

 

The notebook?  Alienware (15" model)



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specialops787 on 28 September 2010

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TheRealMafoo on 28 September 2010
Tanstalas said:
Tanstalas said:
theman88 said:

It needs to be less than $1600. I want performance so i am most likely going to go for an i7 processor, i just want it to be fast for a long time, have awesome speakers and decent battery life.... needs to look tight lol

 

 

 

Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64bit, English
Intel® Core™ i7 740QM Quad Core Processor, 1.73GHz (2.93GHz Turbo Mode, 6M Cache
512MB GDDR3 NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 240M
15.6-inch WideHD 1600x900 (900p) WLED
6GB Memory (1x 2GB, 1x 4GB DDR3)
500GB SATAII 7,200RPM
Slot-Load Dual Layer DVD Burner (DVD -RW, CD-RW)
Primary - 6-cell (56Watt) Lithium-Ion Battery
Wireless 1520 802.11n Half Mini-Card
Internal High-Definition 5.1 Surround Sound Audio
Internal Bluetooth 2.1 Mini-Card - 2.1 Enhanced Data Rate

 

 

$1,399

Oh - and it looks friggin awesome..

 

The notebook?  Alienware (15" model)

He wants long battery life, and that laptop gets only an hour and a half.

http://www.laptopmag.com/review/laptops/alienware-m15x.aspx?page=2

Nice laptop though.



Soleron on 28 September 2010

You need to choose between gaming performance and battery life. There are essentially zero laptops that have both, no matter how much you pay. Which do you value more? Could you buy a gaming desktop and ultraportable laptop for the same total money?



TheRealMafoo on 28 September 2010
Soleron said:

There are essentially zero laptops that have both, no matter how much you pay. 

You can definitely game on a MacBook Pro 17" with a GT 330M video card and an i7 CPU. You also get 8-9 hours of battery life out of it.

I would not recommend this laptop with respect to this thread, due to cost, but I just wanted to respond, being you said it could not be done at any cost :).

http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/specs-17inch.html

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GT-330M.22437.0.html

 



Soleron on 28 September 2010
TheRealMafoo said:
Soleron said:

There are essentially zero laptops that have both, no matter how much you pay. 

You can definitely game on a MacBook Pro 17" with a GT 330M video card and an i7 CPU. You also get 8-9 hours of battery life out of it.

I would not recommend this laptop with respect to this thread, due to cost, but I just wanted to respond, being you said it could not be done at any cost :).


That's better than I thought existed, however the GT 330M is hardly fast. Performing short of a desktop GT 220 will mean low to medium settings at the native resolution on most games.

So it depends on the games he wants to play and the settings he'd like it to be, against battery life.



rocketpig on 28 September 2010
Tanstalas said:
theman88 said:

It needs to be less than $1600. I want performance so i am most likely going to go for an i7 processor, i just want it to be fast for a long time, have awesome speakers and decent battery life.... needs to look tight lol

Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64bit, English

Intel® Core™ i7 740QM Quad Core Processor, 1.73GHz (2.93GHz Turbo Mode, 6M Cache
512MB GDDR3 NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 240M
15.6-inch WideHD 1600x900 (900p) WLED
6GB Memory (1x 2GB, 1x 4GB DDR3)
500GB SATAII 7,200RPM
Slot-Load Dual Layer DVD Burner (DVD -RW, CD-RW)
Primary - 6-cell (56Watt) Lithium-Ion Battery
Wireless 1520 802.11n Half Mini-Card
Internal High-Definition 5.1 Surround Sound Audio
Internal Bluetooth 2.1 Mini-Card - 2.1 Enhanced Data Rate

$1,399


If he wants battery life, he needs to stay away from that quad core i7. It's a great desktop chip but suffers in a laptop.




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