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greg20

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I'm looking at purchasing a new laptop and I'm having a hard time choosing. I do a fair amount of gaming along with the usual school work, however, it will be primarily for entetainment. Portability isn't that large of an issue. As for price, I don't want something that is not overly expensive (max $3000 can). I know that the criteria given is pretty broad but I hope I can get some suggestions that will point me in the write direction.

p.s. I might want to upgrade components in the future if possible.

Any suggestions would be greatly apreciated.
 
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How much graphics power do you think you will need? Do you play wow or fear type thing would be nice to know... and what size screen are you hoping for? 17" gets hefty when you need to carry around books and a power brick...


You could load up a dell e1705 with 200gb HD 7900gs 2gigs of ram, software you need for school vista

PROCESSOR Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T5200 (1.60GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 533 MHz FSB)
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Basic + Belkin Easy Transfer Cable
LCD PANEL 17 inch UltraSharp™ Wide Screen UXGA Display with TrueLife™
MEMORY 2GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz
HARD DRIVE 200GB 4200rpm SATA Hard Drive
OPTICAL DRIVE 8x CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW) with double-layer DVD+R write capability
VIDEO CARD 256MB NVIDIA® GeForce™ Go 7900 GS
SOUND OPTIONS Integrated Audio


BATTERY OPTIONS 80 WHr 9-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery
WIRELESS CARDS Intel PRO/Wireless 3945abg
BLUETOOTH OPTIONS Dell Wireless 355 Bluetooth Internal (2.0 + Enhanced Data Rate)

Microsoft® Office Home and Student 2007 - Word, Excel + PowerPoint

all that for 2366 american which is under budget
 
Okay I have had several laptops over the years. Right now I have two laptops. HP business NC4200 12", and a Macbook Pro. The Mac is by far the best laptop I have ever owned period. This thing is completely awesome and the Dell laptop listed above I can beat both in price and in spec

http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APP...6294002/wo/a4ln4kldTbnl23TQQc6dFW6QV2X/2.?p=0

* 2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
* 2GB 667 DDR2 SDRAM - 2x1GB
* 120GB Serial ATA Drive @ 5400 rpm
* SuperDrive 6x (DVD+R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
* MacBook Pro 15-inch Widescreen Display
* Backlit Keyboard/Mac OS - U.S. English
* Accessory Kit

for $2,174 dollars shipped (thats in USD of course)

You can load and install windows on it if you want.
 
It beats in price, but wuth a smaller HDD and the graphics card lacks... on top of that you would need to buy a FULL copy of Vista and the copy of office 2007

Plus macs and gaming are sometimes iffy...
 
I play mostly first person shooters like fear, half life etc. and need enough graphic power to run these kind of games smoothly on high settings. I also do alot of online gaming so I need a system that will do that well. As for size, im looking at some thing between 15" and 17". I don't have an excess amount of money so im kind of trying to spend at least as possible and only getting what I need.

I've been looking at manufactureres like asus, acer and dell but I haven't really made a decision.

Haven't really thought of getting a mac because im doing a lot of gaming

As for sony, are they any good? Ive haven't really given them a chance because I haven't heard that many good things about sony in general.

Thx for all the advice so far I greatly appreciate it.
 
80 gig external HD is no biggie, and is something you can buy down the road.

The macbook pro comes with ati radeon x1600 which is not a bad video card by any means.

I have seen mac pros run BF2 better than PCs,

If you are a student you can get a 10% discount on the Apple computer as well, and I think you can get a free ipod shuffle also (for college students). Then if you really have to have windows you can get OEM versions of it through your university cheap as well.

MS Office? Blah, just run an open source version of office which is just as good and is free.
 
I would get this one from www.dell.ca

Components
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T7400 (2.16GHz, 4MB L2 Cache, 667 MHz FSB)
Free Upgrade to Vista Ultimate- $150 Value
17 inch UltraSharp™ Wide Screen UXGA Display with TrueLife™
2GB DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHZ, 2 DIMM
120GB SATA Hard Drive
8X CD/DVD Burner (DVD+/-RW) with double-layer DVD+R write capability
256MB NVIDIA® GeForce™ Go 7900 GS

For $3008.00 Canadian

I know it is $8 more then your budget but you can always get a 100GB hard drive and that will put the laptop under $3000.00.

Hope this helps
 
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Actually I will agree with soccerdude, my only suggestion being to get 1gb of ram, If you really need more then you can buy ram yourself, I personally use one with core duo @1.73 and 1gig of ram and It is an awesome machine, also if you get a sightly slower proc. you could bring down the price alot.
 
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