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my current laptop has been having problems for half a year.
Besides overheating in the summer, it also could not power off and then immediately power back on. It would stop during the startup and then shut down. Startup repair did not help and would never load, and the computer would shut down. Changing power options also caused a crash. I needed to wait 8 hours before turning it on. This all happened after it fell off my table. The computer was 3 years refurbished. >1 year reused by my parents. 1 year by me.
It came as no surprise that an hour ago my computer crashed since my leg was blocking the USB fan port while I was watching YouTube. Its been starting up now but the screen sometimes turns into random changing pixels and it just shut down on me while the CPU temp was low. Thankfully most of my things are backed up on drop box.
Now I need a new laptop for my internship doing qa and my final year of school as a CE. It just has to run lol and possibly d3 on low. Preferably it'll be powerful enough to do that with ease so I never have problems using eclipse. My budget is anywhere under 2k USD(1 yr internship whoo) but preferably closer to the 1300 mark. 6-800 would spook my parents less. I want a tablet too... I don't care about finger use able tablets. I'm fine with just stylus. Weight is practically irrelevant. My current laptop is a dell n5010 and is slightky larger insize than 15". This is the first computer I'll ever buy.
I'm looking on new egg right now and then will transfer over to tiger direct(?) And finally take a look at Ibuypower and cyberpowerpc.
As a fellow to member I hope you can help me out
1. What's a good price for a tablet( want to take notes in class). 800 too low?
2. Where do I start when I look at a laptop. All I see are numbers and brands but I know some brands are better than others. Do I look st benchmarks for everything? Reviews of whole laptops? What?
Thank you. Sorry for the mess. Typing on a nexus 7 from workl
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Wait. Haswell CPUs are coming out very, very soon for ULV. That will give you better battery life, and enough CPU/GPU horsepower to play the games you want easily enough.
A lot of them will be convertibles too (i.e. switching from laptop to tablet mode), so you might be able to get both things that you want. If it is at all possible for you to hold out a little bit longer, it would be extremely beneficial for you to do so. Haswell has thrown around things like 10+ hours of battery life, 50% more battery same performance, etc. Even if we only get half that, 25% is still a pretty significant jump in battery life.
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I can't speak to D3, but I remember looking for stuff that would run LoL on decent settings. The kind of break point that I found was around $600 for laptop with a dedicated graphics card (rather than intel HD bullshit). I'm fairly sure you don't even need a dedicated card for lol, and it's mostly processor stuff. But for D3 (and whatever else might come along that you want to play) you'll probably want to be lookign at dedicated cards.
In my experience Vivo aren't worht it, you're typically paying a premium for the name (E.g. Ipods costing far more than any other mp3 player that does the same damn thing).
Newegg sometimes have some good things, but there are random sales that come up on other sites that you wouldn't expect that are surprisingly good. There are sites that are dedicated to cataloging the latest and best deals, I can't remember the names of any, but I'm sure a google search will yield some positive results. Furthermore, they typically aren't just random bullshit sites, they are actually real cst conscious people that like sharing their cost consciousness with other people.
Hope that helps somewhat. My answer to the above would be neither. You can probably get somethign around the Vivo's price range that does what you need, but without the added expense of the vivo name.
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On June 02 2013 11:35 Alryk wrote:
Wait. Haswell CPUs are coming out very, very soon for ULV. That will give you better battery life, and enough CPU/GPU horsepower to play the games you want easily enough.
A lot of them will be convertibles too (i.e. switching from laptop to tablet mode), so you might be able to get both things that you want. If it is at all possible for you to hold out a little bit longer, it would be extremely beneficial for you to do so. Haswell has thrown around things like 10+ hours of battery life, 50% more battery same performance, etc. Even if we only get half that, 25% is still a pretty significant jump in battery life.
I can not wait. The old laptop is dead.
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The newegg link is almost as much power as you can get into a laptop(there are some higher specced parts, but not many, and not particularly cost effective anyways). If weight/battery life/looks aren't an issue, that one looks fine. My laptop is quite a bit lower specced and I can still run LoL/D3 at reasonable framerates.
Don't know about tablets, but generally around 5-700 mark? unless you want a convertible, in which case add about 200 to my estimates.
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I got the more expensive one. Thanks all. I think both can run lol well.
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By the time your laptop ships to you, Haswell will be out. You can't wait another 2 weeks?
If weight is irrelevant, try the Alienware m14x, or MSi GT60, or Asus G55VW.
They're all gaming laptops so they have good specs plus great build quality eg sound system
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Haswell released this morning in UK (the 2'nd) at least in some online stores
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I would have just bought a haswell PC and then done faster shipping  oh well. Cheers, hope you like your new laptop.
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Aye. Soon as I get my order processed, I get an email from tiger direct that haswell is out. I really can't wait a week though or however long I'd need for rebuilt touch capable laptops with haswell to come out.
Just a note for people in the future. Neither of the laptops I looked at is a convertible. It's gonna look funny when I'm taking notes with the keyboard propped up at a 90 degree angle lol.
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In that case, go to your local electronics store, buy a laptop and then return it when Haswell comes out with the laptop you want.
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