Question:
What notebook should i buy?
General Questions
1) What is your budget? 2500.00 USD
2) What size notebook would you prefer? D
a. Ultraportable; 12" screen or less
b. Thin and Light; 13" - 14" screen
c. Mainstream; 15" - 16" screen
d. Desktop Replacement; 17"+ screen
3) Please select your country's flag as a post icon and tell us what country are you buying this in. USA
4) Are there any brands that you prefer or any you really don't like? NO
5) What tasks will you be performing with the notebook? Hardcore Gaming
6) Will you be taking the notebook with you to different places or leaving it on your desk? Taking it everywhere
7) Will you be playing games on it; if so, which games? WOW, GRAW, BF2142, FEAR,
8) How many hours of battery life do you need? 1
9) Do you mind buying online without seeing the notebook in person? NO
10) What OS do you prefer? Windows (XP or Vista), Mac OS, Linux, etc. Vista I guess for the future dx 10 games.
Screen Specifics
11) Would you prefer standard or widescreen? wide
12) From the choices below, what screen resolutions would you prefer? prefer F, though not a deal breaker if something better is d or e.
Standard
a. XGA -1024x768 - Large and easy to read text + graphics icons, but you fit less stuff on the screen.
b. SXGA - 1400x1050 - Compromise resolution between XGA and UXGA.
c. UXGA - 1600x1200 - Very small text and graphics icons, you can fit lots of stuff on the screen.
Widescreen
d. WXGA or WXGA+ - 1280x768/800 or 1440x900; Wider viewing version of XGA, good for movie viewing or spreadsheets.
e. WSXGA+ - 1680x1050; Wider viewing version of SXGA, good for movie viewing or spreadsheets.
f. WUXGA - 1920x1200; Wider viewing version of UXGA, good for movie viewing or spreadsheets.
13) Do you want a glossy/reflective screen or a matte/non-glossy screen? glossy
Build Quality and Design
14) Are the notebook's looks and stylishness important to you? no
15) When are you buying this laptop and how long do you want this laptop to last? asap, at least 2 years. Reliability is HUGE to me, i have a satellite p105-s9312 that overheats so bad that its unusable. No repairs have fix the problem, bastards dont even listen to me. Also a HP pavilion 9000v with a mobo thats been replaced twice now in 4 months.
Notebook Components
16) How much hard drive space do you want; 40GB to 200GB? anything higher than 150 gig. prefer max hdd speed
17) Do you need an optical drive? If yes, a DVD-ROM, DVD-CD/RW or DVD-RW drive? DVD-CD/RW
Hook me up u masters of laptops!
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Re: What notebook should i buy?
Just double checking, are you sure you want a 17" when you will be taking it everywhere?
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the one i use now has a 17 in widescreen, if ur asking because of the size thats not an issue for me. although if for a technical reasona smaller screen is better feel free to recommend y. im not dead set on any of these options, if going another way would improve performance.
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Re: What notebook should i buy?
No technical reason why smaller screen is better (Other than battery life of course... Bigger LCD drains more power).
Clevo M570ru @ around 2200$ could satisfy your hardcore gaming needs.
Geforce 7950GTX GPU
T7500
2-3GB RAM
7200RPM HDD
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I say either the Clevo M570RU or Asus G2S-A1.
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The Asus seems like a good pick. With the cpu being a 64bit, would it be beneficial for me to opt for the 64 bit vista? The site I visited wouldnt let me upgrade the card from the nvidia 8600 to the 8700, anyone know a place where i can? Lastly, I've grown reliant on the keypad on my toshiba p105, anyone know if its possible to get the asus model with a keypad?
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Don't worry about "64-bit" CPUs or OS's, they're still way too infant to be of any real practical use, essentially, anything a 64-bit system can do, a 32-bit can still do just as well, and in some respects, do better because of the well-established software base and drivers that come with the tried-and-true 32-bit system.
Also any Santa Rosa Core2 Duo processor is capable of 64-bit, so the Asus and the Clevo (Sager NP5790) are capable of 64-bit Windows XP and Windows Vista if you want.
The Sager NP5790 comes with a numberpad, I'm not sure about the Asus G2S-A1 from the top of my head. Also, the 8700m GT loses to the 7950 GTX in benchmark tests, but the Sager is MXM compatible and can have its graphics card upgraded to an 8700 or even 8800 if they prove to be compatible. If you're unsure, I say wait a bit and see how people fare with upgrading their graphics cards if you can afford to wait.
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I was considering the 8700 over the 7950 because my understanding is it will offer better support for the dx10 games coming out. Is that incorrect, would the 7950 be the better choice?
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Well in DX10 only games, then the 8700m GT will be the only obvious choice, but doing that for a game is akin to marketing suicide, games want to be as compatible as possible to obtain a large player base to play it, so making a game DX10 exclusive is, to be frank, dumb. Don't worry about any DX10 games in the near future, they will have DX9 modes, including Crysis, and from videos and screenshots, you'll still get plenty of eye candy, but you'll be missing some effects.
Of course if that's uncomfortable for you, you can always upgrade the card later if it proves to be compatible for the Sager.