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Buying this custom laptop - where and how?
Marty81
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I'd like a laptop that's decent for gaming, but the only things I can find online are ones that would suck at gaming or ones which would rock but are way too expensive because they're completely over-the-top (physics cards + top-end SLI video cards + huge display, etc).
Here's all I want:
-Decent widescreen display. 15" 1680x1050 is fine.
-Processor comparable to a e6600
-Video card comparable to a 8800gt (what would that be?)
-2GB ram
-wireless internet card
I'd rather not pay for an operating system because I can get a student copy of XP really cheap, but I'm willing to suck it up and buy one (probably Vista
) with the package if I have to.
Where can I get something like this?
Here's all I want:
-Decent widescreen display. 15" 1680x1050 is fine.
-Processor comparable to a e6600
-Video card comparable to a 8800gt (what would that be?)
-2GB ram
-wireless internet card
I'd rather not pay for an operating system because I can get a student copy of XP really cheap, but I'm willing to suck it up and buy one (probably Vista
) with the package if I have to.Where can I get something like this?
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...or is that too over the top? I wouldn't know about the graphics card, I'm not too up to date on that stuff. Really, I only know about these from Diggnation.
Eh, the $3000 price tag is kind of
Macbook pro's are $2500 with an 8600 and poor native resolution.
I saw Dell offering a similar machine with 3GB RAM for $1275 (the only problem being, again, the video card - it only comes with an 8400gs), so I expected to be able to find what I wanted for no more than $1400 or so. Am I asking for too much here?
Honestly, yes...you are asking too much. you're not going to find what you're wanting in a laptop for that kind of price. You might find one in the $2000 range from like Ibuypower or cyberpowerinc, but I personally wouldn't trust their laptops. A lot of their stuff ships DOA, which is an easy fix for a desktop, but it bitch for a laptop.
But really, 3 gigs of ram, a clean OS boot (if it's a dell especially), and an 8400 graphics card is going to pretty much run whatever you want to play. You're not going to get a laptop that churns out 50 fps in something like UT3 for cheap.
My suggestion... if you've got 1600 to spend on a laptop....
Spend 1200 on a really slick gaming pc, and spend 400 on an asus eepc laptop or a cheap gateway for your travel needs. Get the best of both worlds.