looking for a new laptop

ilya124

ilya124

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hey everyone, im looking to buy myself a new laptop in a couple months, a birthday gift to myself. Since this is a massive purchase i want to make sure i'm making the right choice. Does anybody know a sexy laptop that has good hardware and preferably good graphics to run windows 7 when it comes out. the price range is up to 1500. maybe a little more. any suggestions?
 
DMGrier

DMGrier

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What kind of gaming? And most computer made in the last three years will have the specs to run windows 7.

Gateway - FX Edition $1,149.99
Intel® Core™2 Duo processor P8400; 4GB DDR3 memory; DL DVD±RW/CD-RW drive; 17" widescreen; 320GB hard drive; built-in webcam; Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit with SP1, NVIDIA 9800m GTS 512 MB
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9172511&type=product&id=1218043606827

HP - Pavilion Laptop $1,199.99
Intel® Core™2 Duo processor P8600; 6GB DDR2 memory; DL DVD±RW/CD-RW drive; 17" widescreen; 500GB hard drive; built-in webcam; Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit with SP1, 9600m GT 512 MB
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=9166323&type=product&id=1218041149114

Dell - XPS $1,299.99
Intel® Core™2 Duo mobile processor T8100; 4GB DDR2 memory; DL DVD±RW/CD-RW drive with Blu-ray Disc support; 15.4" widescreen; 320GB hard drive; fingerprint reader; built-in webcam; Bluetooth; Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit, NVIDIA 8600m GT 256 MB
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8989124&type=product&id=1218006773367

The Gateway is your best as far as gaming, Dell would be the worst but I have read a lot of positive reviews on the xps series as far as being a reliable laptop's and lots of nice features.
 
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daisymtc

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The gateway one is provide best value for money.

If you want a 15", the following 2 Asus is quite good options

ASUS G Series G50V-X5 NoteBook Intel Core 2 Duo P8600(2.40GHz) 15.6" 4GB Memory 320GB HDD 7200rpm DVD Super Multi NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT - $1150
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220490

ASUS G Series G50VT-X6 NoteBook Intel Core 2 Duo P8700(2.53GHz) 15.4" Wide SXGA+ 4GB Memory 320GB HDD 7200rpm DVD Super Multi NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS - $1300
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220483
 
ilya124

ilya124

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i don't really use my computers for gaming, i have a 360 for that. i use my computers mostly for music and videos. i also heard that gateways where just as bad as dell. i like the design on the alienware and the sony. are they any good?
 
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mcconnell14

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i've been looking for a gaming computer and alienware sounds like Budweiser VS Lucky....same thing only 1 costs alot more .Unless your gaminng high end games on the laptop then i would stay away from alienware
 
DMGrier

DMGrier

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Dell are good quality. I thought you where looking at gaming cause you did mention something about good graphics. Any laptop you buy today will be able to ru windows 7.
 
Kill Bill

Kill Bill

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Any Laptop can run Windows 7. A pentium M 740 with GMA 900 from 2006 on an old sony can run 7. How ever if you feel strong about it pick yourself up a mac and bootcamp 7. Also 7 will have to be 32bit....
 
Aastii

Aastii

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ok, from what has been said above, a little advicce.

1. consider steering clear of dell, they have the worst customer support on the planet. However, should you know how to fix the majority of hardware/softare issues on your own, they are very good systems for very good prices.

2. steer clear of alienware and apple. they may look awesome, but you are paying about 150% of the actual price that you can get the same system for elsewhere, just because of the name "alienware" or "apple". neither are all they are cracked up to be.

also, whoever said about apple is a little silly and didnt read that you wanted to use vista 7 ^^

go to either:

www.newegg.com

or

www.ibuypower.com

they sell performance notebooks within your price range, all of the ones around your price range will be good for the price and more than capable of what you want them for.

I dont know what the sony fx series is like, look up sony fx review and then look through some of em.

I cant really offer you any kind of system that would be good because you seem very interested in the looks of it, but with that price so long as you stick to places that are generally very good value for money, you will get just that with the look you want
 
Kill Bill

Kill Bill

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Aastii said:
ok, from what has been said above, a little advicce.

1. consider steering clear of dell, they have the worst customer support on the planet. However, should you know how to fix the majority of hardware/softare issues on your own, they are very good systems for very good prices.

2. steer clear of alienware and apple. they may look awesome, but you are paying about 150% of the actual price that you can get the same system for elsewhere, just because of the name "alienware" or "apple". neither are all they are cracked up to be.

also, whoever said about apple is a little silly and didnt read that you wanted to use vista 7 ^^

go to either:

www.newegg.com

or

www.ibuypower.com

they sell performance notebooks within your price range, all of the ones around your price range will be good for the price and more than capable of what you want them for.

I dont know what the sony fx series is like, look up sony fx review and then look through some of em.

I cant really offer you any kind of system that would be good because you seem very interested in the looks of it, but with that price so long as you stick to places that are generally very good value for money, you will get just that with the look you want
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I feel sorry for you that you don't keep up with tech news. Ever hear of bootcamp and intel hmm.
 
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bengal85

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Go with either like dell or acer they are to really good and stable brands. Also they both should be able to run windows 7
 
ilya124

ilya124

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i've been looking at lenovo laptops. they look nice and have good specs + good price. I'm probably going to go with one of those or an eeeeeeeeepc. i still didn't decide. because one is like 350 and one is 1300. lenovo is more powerful but eeeeepc is more portable. so i dont know. what do you think?
 
DMGrier

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Kill Bill said:
I feel sorry for you that you don't keep up with tech news. Ever hear of bootcamp and intel hmm.
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Kill bill do you know why I rag on you apple guys so hard, as a apple user your option consist of two laptops, Macbook and Macbook pro. One has a raping price tag of about 2,000$ and the other is about 1,200$. And these are your options. PC, a bunch of different companies to choose from, Are you buying Dell HP Sony Gateway Acer Asus, do you like AMD or Intel, What about Nvidia or ATI? With PC you have a variety of option at all sort of prices. You do have the better OS (not saying Vista or 7 sucked) but I am running Linux on my laptop's and from what I have seen next to my buddies macbook are OS's about the same in efficiency. And with the amount of open source available I have been able to find everything I need out of a pc to work on Linux. So I will continue to buy my 700$ laptops that match a macbook in performance and run a OS as great as yours without joining the apple cult. So why buy apple?
 
ilya124

ilya124

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well i've decided to go with a netbook. after many painstaking, headache causing hours i decided on the eeepc 100he. its coming out soon so ill probably preorder it. but now im thinking about the acer aspire one. which one should i get?
 
DMGrier

DMGrier

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Well it's hard to say, have they released the prices for the baseline model yet? I read somewhere that one of the models is suppose to get up to 9 hours of battery life with the 6 cell. But I like acer more, But my honest opinion Dell mini 9 would be your best bet for net books. Plus you arn't stuck with windows with Dell, if you like Linux you can get ubuntu on the mini.
 
Kill Bill

Kill Bill

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DMGrier said:
Kill bill do you know why I rag on you apple guys so hard, as a apple user your option consist of two laptops, Macbook and Macbook pro. One has a raping price tag of about 2,000$ and the other is about 1,200$. And these are your options. PC, a bunch of different companies to choose from, Are you buying Dell HP Sony Gateway Acer Asus, do you like AMD or Intel, What about Nvidia or ATI? With PC you have a variety of option at all sort of prices. You do have the better OS (not saying Vista or 7 sucked) but I am running Linux on my laptop's and from what I have seen next to my buddies macbook are OS's about the same in efficiency. And with the amount of open source available I have been able to find everything I need out of a pc to work on Linux. So I will continue to buy my 700$ laptops that match a macbook in performance and run a OS as great as yours without joining the apple cult. So why buy apple?
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Sure. Can't wait for you to show me an Linux Final Cut studio or a Linux Movie editing app that has All of: Motion features,Final Cut Pro features, Sound Track Pro features,Live type features and for the fun of it Color features with it's ease of use. Can't find one? Thats why people Buy Macs
 
DMGrier

DMGrier

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I bet you didn't even look to see what video or photo editing software linux has. I have just got my laptop so it's on my to do list to find some of those app's for it but I won't need all the features final cut offers. But that goes back to my original point, I don't care you recommend mac, it's the fact the 90% of the time thats all you give is recommendations for mac even if there are better options out there for that persons needs. And for some people they have a hard time buying computer that is either 1200$ or 2000$, for there baseline models. I do believe OSX is better than windows but apple needs a laptop in the 5-700$ range for those who want a good notebook and are not looking for performance.
 
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