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Registered Member #618
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Location: Us-Great Lakes
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I've been wanting to get a laptop for some time now, but never quiet knew what I wanted in one other then it needed to be affordable, well priced, and needed to be able to some what match toe-to-toe with the gaming potential of my desktop.
I also wasn't quiet sure on WHERE or what company I wanted to get from, I was looking at dell for a while, and truthfuly its right upther at the top but Now I'm also looking at an Asus laptop.
Anyways heres the parameters that I'm looking for in a Laptop:
Be able to play intense 3d graphics games Have moderate storage space Have 2GB or ram or more (possibly able to upgrade in the future with relative ease) A 1.8GHz CPU anything EXCEPT Celeron or AMD's cheapo chip A semi full sized keyboard 5Hr or more of Battery-life A 128MB independant video card or bettter $1050<= after tax, S&H and all the other chargers Have a DVD player Be from a reputible company or a company I trust
Now just for Reference since I said " match toe-to-toe with my Desktop:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000 (3.2GHz) 2GB DDR2 Ram Western Digital 120GB HDD ASUS Sli-Delux M1A Mother board with Wireless card built in Nvidia Geforce 8500 GT 256MB 17in LCD Monitor
Registered Member #56
Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 05:02AM
Location: Southern Califorina, USA
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Your only bet to find a laptop that is going to last 5 hours with a 2gz processor, 2gig of ram, powerful videocard, etc is to get one that has an removable optical drive and use a (or several after the first few months, don't forget that all Li-ion laptop batteries loose half of their capacity after the first year) battery in that slot to extend the battery life.
Registered Member #191
Joined: Fri Feb 17 2006, 02:01AM
Location: Esbjerg Denmark
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if you treat your lithium batteries right, they will last a lot longer.
Basically, don't leave it fully charged inside the laptop, high temp plus a fully charged battery = -4% capacity per month. Instead, charge it to about 40% and then take it out and store in a cool place. Exercise/ cycle atleast once a month.
My battery is almost 4 years old, and still have >75% of the original capacity.
Have you looked at the Lenovo R61 or the SL400? My friend got the T60P, and it runs TF2/Crysis/UGS NX5...
Registered Member #618
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Yes ... I noticed the Dell link was broken after work today, but when I went to set it up again to re-link the deal was over so the laptop is back to being 1100 with anything else, so I'd still have to tack on insurance, tech support, warranty, etc. Which would Make it be I think in the 1200-1400 range. I'm not in the mood to spend that much!
Registered Member #477
Joined: Tue Jun 20 2006, 11:51PM
Location: Seattle, WA
Posts: 546
"Gaming laptop" has always seemed like an oxymoron to me
FWIW, I got a Lenovo (a.k.a. IBM ThinkPad) T61P a couple of months ago. It's been pretty good to me so far, but there are a few kinks in the nVidia driver under Vista SP1. Latest update addresses most of them. I've generally been a fan of IBM hardware. Not cheap, but never (or not usually, anyway...) cheesy.
Registered Member #618
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I ordered it Sat and should be in Tommorow, Mr. Holmes, I choose to say gaming, mostly because I'm a gamer like most of my generation. I have my desktop which works great for it, But I never liked the idea of going to a freinds place WITH the PC since the tower weighs like 20lbs, plus having to connect all the periphals, Keyboard, mouse, network, power, monitor, plus finding the place to put it all, where as I could just pack up the laptop, go, plug it in, open it up and play.
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