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Laptops
Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 8:34 pm
by SoDeepPolaris
Alright everyone, I'm looking to buy a laptop.
First off, I hate how non-upgradeable and expensive they are, however with my college situation it would be advantageous to have a decent rig to tote around.
I get discounts through school for Apple and Dell products and I hate Dell.
I'm looking for a machine in the $1500-2200 range with 2gb RAM, pretty good size hard drive, 15+inch display, atleast a 128mb graphics card (mobility would be fine, no onboard please), and decent tech support.
Anyone have recommendations/advice of what to steer clear of? I was thinking, as of now, Macbook Pro (but not sure about how good Bootcamp runs XP) or some Acer/Toshiba options.
As far as gaming goes, I'd like to not have to take my tower to the dorms so if it could run WoW, SC, CS, Quake4 decently I'm fine.
Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 9:14 pm
by ShammerS
You should be able to get quite a bit of horsepower for that range.
My best piece of advice is that, if you do get a Dell, head to Notebookreview.com and click Dell coupons, they'll save you a shitload.
Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 9:29 pm
by chocobojoe
I'd go with the macbook and install XP on it...
Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 9:44 am
by danc1005
Get an XPS laptop.
Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 10:21 pm
by BigBadOrc
Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 10:30 pm
by Effect.
Alright... I might have a list for you.. >_> Be afraid...
This is a nice one.
This one rawked my sawks.
And this is just beautiful.
If you want more I can find them, or if you want something with different specs on it.[/url]
Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 11:50 pm
by Amp Divorax
Here's my experiences with laptops.
1. I have to recommend against Dell's laptops as the quality is rather questionable. Of note being their decision to usually use the Centrino based wireless chipsets (which have numerous driver issues) and lower quality sound chipsets that bottleneck the system.
2. When it comes to the graphics chipsets, I strongly recommend against ATI's mobility chipsets as they are notorious for running extremely hot. If you want something to run games decently a Nvidia Geforce 7 based GPU is more than enough to pull it off.
3. In the case of Macs, the macbook pro is the best that I've seen when I was able to check them out for myself (I cannot recommend the regular macbooks as they feel neutered beyond belief.) and will run just about any game you want thanks to bootcamp and parallels.
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 9:09 am
by Cbav
this thread actually helps me out a lot. I'm wanting to buy a laptop of my own. I've always wanted to get a macbook because of how great they look and feel when using them - But I'm not to sure about using macintosh.
I didn't know you could install XP / Vista on them. :O
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 2:10 pm
by SoDeepPolaris
Cbav wrote:this thread actually helps me out a lot. I'm wanting to buy a laptop of my own. I've always wanted to get a macbook because of how great they look and feel when using them - But I'm not to sure about using macintosh.
I didn't know you could install XP / Vista on them. :O
I wouldn't recommend running Vista through bootcamp due to it's extremely high RAM necessities. It already achieves a slight decrease in performance for running the parallel. Atleast, that's my understanding.
XP should be fine, hell, you can run XP fine with 512mb.
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 2:22 pm
by hascoolnickname
SoDeepPolaris wrote:I wouldn't recommend running Vista through bootcamp due to it's garbage.
oh
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 10:49 pm
by Amp Divorax
What's the point of using Windows Vista on a Mac?
Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 11:00 pm
by Potter
Amp Divorax wrote:What's the point of using Windows Vista?
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 1:14 am
by Ryuhayabusa
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 2:10 am
by SoDeepPolaris
Yeah cause that's great for gaming...
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 4:26 am
by Ryuhayabusa
Yea it is Just get an apple keyboard and mouse for when your home and wanna game
there like what 15 bucks used.