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Sabu113
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States11047 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-05-14 23:10:05
May 14 2012 22:54 GMT
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Dear TL,

I turn to you sages of the internet for some general advice about getting a new laptop.

I graduated today from my undergraduate program and I'm looking for a new laptop as my macbook is beginning to act up.

I have approximately 1.3k to spend on the laptop though I would be willing to spend a little more for ease of mind. I do know this is probably overkill for what I want.

The attraction of PC is that I would be able to do some moderate PC gaming. Play SC2 without any lag. Play diablo, maybe a total war and mass effect/ some rpgs. I'm not used to super high settings on the computer so that's not a huge deal for me as long as I can play games released in the next few years.

Other considerations: I am going into finance related fields so I'll be doing some manipulation in excel. If I could run stata on my laptop that could be a cool plus but I imagine not a huge huge deal. I would probably use this as my primary computer at home slash traveling with it. I am unsure if it would be used that much in a daily setting so weight is a moderate but not huge concern. Thinking a 15" screen.

One part of me is wondering if I should just go with the idiot proof piece of mind of a 13" macbook pro and drop money on a desktop eventually... I haven't really used a windows computer in awhile so I'm slightly afraid some driver installation will go wrong and everything will go to hell.

Questions:

Are there any sort of technology releases or recently released technology that would be awesome to have and make it worth to wait a few more months before buying a laptop? I.e. Should I wait maybe 2-3 months until the price of ivybridge processors drop a little?

What kind of graphics card should I be looking for?
What sort of HD size should I be shooting for?
General things I should be thinking about?
What version of Windows would I want?

I was eying : the sager 6165.

I've been doing some lurking about the notebook review forums but I thought I'd ask here first since... well you know you guys <3

Biomine is a drunken chick who is on industrial strength amphetamines and would just grab your dick and jerk it as hard and violently as she could while screaming 'OMG FUCK ME', because she saw it in a Sasha Grey video ...-Wombat_Ni
Tzel
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States72 Posts
May 15 2012 00:24 GMT
#2
I've always been a huge fan of the Sager series, and anyone I know who's gotten one has been incredibly impressed with it. You want a graphics card with at least 1 gig of dedicated video RAM (learned that the hard way, mine from three years ago has 256 and it's getting murdered) since the min requirements for a lot of the new games now are 512. Win7 or XP just depends on which interface you like better, honestly. Win7 is a bit more like the mac interface than XP, so that might be a better transition.

As for pricing or anything, I don't know much about that. I'm looking at the sager NP9150 right now, I think with min everything it's exactly 1.4k, but that's with 1.5 GB DDR5 on the graphics card and an ivybridge, so.... good luck on your hunt!
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Praetorial
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
United States4241 Posts
May 15 2012 00:45 GMT
#3
I can second the Sager series, my sister dropped hers about seven feet onto angled driveway and it didn't even break.

Sager has very high quality construction for their laptops.
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Sabu113
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States11047 Posts
May 16 2012 01:18 GMT
#4
Thanks for the recommendations on the Sager series.
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mizU
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States12125 Posts
May 16 2012 01:49 GMT
#5
What kind of graphics card should I be looking for? You shouldn't have to spend too much on any fancy graphics cards, focus on processor instead.

What sort of HD size should I be shooting for? 500GB is a good average, if you download a lot of music+movies go a little bigger, you can always get an external.

General things I should be thinking about?
Think about battery life/weight

What version of Windows would I want?
7 Home probably?

I have a Dell and don't have too many issues besides heat problems.
if happy ever afters did exist <3 @watamizu_
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