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lukasdesign
Profile Joined April 2011
Switzerland93 Posts
November 08 2011 09:02 GMT
#41
If u want a beautiful and extremely well built Notebook, go for the Macbook Pro. You might install Win7, too. Its moderately powerful. If you want more power than the MBP offers you will have to compromise on design. However the MBP runs SC" just fine on a 1900*1200 external Display with medium settings.

In terms of build quality nothing comes close to a MBP. Samsung etc all make heavy use of plastics. I own one and I see all those business laptops of my managers....its all a crap. HP, Samsung Vaio...Toshiba...you name it: Plastic all over the place, cheap keyboards and a plastic cover in front of the screen. A tin foil of aluminum at best with a MBP copy cat design.

Most laptops with dedicated GPU are designed for 15 year old nerds.
Apoth
Profile Joined May 2010
England194 Posts
November 08 2011 10:23 GMT
#42
Toshiba A665

I love the damn thing.

4GB RAM (up to 8)

i7, 2GB NVida 3D graphics
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Shikyo
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Finland33997 Posts
November 08 2011 10:58 GMT
#43
On November 08 2011 19:23 Apoth wrote:
Toshiba A665

I love the damn thing.

4GB RAM (up to 8)

i7, 2GB NVida 3D graphics

I think he said gaming laptop.
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Jibba
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States22883 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-08 13:00:52
November 08 2011 12:57 GMT
#44
On November 08 2011 14:33 Womwomwom wrote:
Edit: The reason I am asking is because the consensus seems to be extremely polarized. Most reports about the build quality are either "this is really horrible, what the fuck" or "this is better than the Macbook Pro", which leads me to suspect there are actually two series of Series 7 laptops - one extremely shit one and one very good one.

I haven't seen anyone complimenting its build quality. The general consensus I've seen is that Samsung royally fucked up the 7.

There's a weak hinge and the bottom is plastic, so there's some flex. And the screen is very bad, worse than all of its competitors. There are multiple versions of it and the Best Buy version is probably the worst, but the upper level versions that have been reviewed don't seem to have any better build quality. Just a better video card, the motherboard cache and a backlit keyboard.

People make too big a deal out of using plastic. Plastic is not bad, cheap plastic is. Quite frankly I'd rather have a well built plastic notebook than a well built aluminum notebook that'll have heat problems.
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mr_tolkien
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
France8631 Posts
November 08 2011 13:08 GMT
#45
The Asus N55 series is very good for gaming (I run SC2 with all maxed on mine, i7 version) and looks very good.
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Womwomwom
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
5930 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-09 07:58:06
November 09 2011 07:55 GMT
#46
I don't really make a big deal out of plastic; I've only got good things to say about Thinkpads and they're plastic all round. A lot of the time manufacturer, however, use fake chrome that peels over time as well as faux metal finishes which look terrible and often feel just as bad.

The palmrest area of the Series 7 was similar in appearance to the Dell XPS, which has that horrible feeling glossy metallic finish that will literally peel off over time, which kind of confused me whether or not it was aluminium or plastic. If its aluminium, I'm not surprised Samsung had to use such thin aluminium because of milling and machinery costs; if its plastic, I don't know what Samsung puts into their plastics but its been universally bad for a long time...even their high end business monitors exhibit enough flex to induce backlight bleeding in their PLS panels.
DystopiaX
Profile Joined October 2010
United States16236 Posts
November 09 2011 07:58 GMT
#47
Look up Sager/Clevos. Pretty much what you want.
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