Right, I've been waiting and waiting with this laptop purchase for quite some time now, always waiting for 'the next thing' to be released, and recently been waiting for i5/i7.
So now that's here and I really don't have time to wait for yet another generation of tech to come through. Laptop will be used for your regular day to day stuff - internet, office, etc - as well as the occasional Football Manager / Counter Strike game. Unsure if it will have to replace my desktop, but might as well treat it that way.
Why make a thread for advice on buying such a simple laptop? Well, my current laptop is slow as shit even for internet and microsoft office, booting takes fucking ages and it's just extremely sluggish. I absolutely hate it, more than anything else I've ever had PC-wise.
So I want something fast - preferably as fast as a regular desktop PC. I don't want to notice I'm using a laptop, if you get what I mean. Don't know if that's possible, but yeah. 15" seems to be the ideal size imo. Would also be nice if it had an HDMI port. Battery life is a relatively big thing, for me as most others when buying a laptop. Currently looking at the Dell Studios - sexy and powerful, it seems. Here's a quick rundown of the specs for comparison - is there anything here that is bad, or anything that's unnecesary?
Now, what throws me a bit off is the lack of a blu-ray drive, but I'm really not sure I need that. Also the HDD is a bit small, but I'm going to need externals anyway, so it doesn't make much difference.
So, any better options? To be perfectly honest, it's gonna take some convinsing to make me buy a ThinkPad due to it looking shit.
So now that's here and I really don't have time to wait for yet another generation of tech to come through. Laptop will be used for your regular day to day stuff - internet, office, etc - as well as the occasional Football Manager / Counter Strike game. Unsure if it will have to replace my desktop, but might as well treat it that way.
Why make a thread for advice on buying such a simple laptop? Well, my current laptop is slow as shit even for internet and microsoft office, booting takes fucking ages and it's just extremely sluggish. I absolutely hate it, more than anything else I've ever had PC-wise.
So I want something fast - preferably as fast as a regular desktop PC. I don't want to notice I'm using a laptop, if you get what I mean. Don't know if that's possible, but yeah. 15" seems to be the ideal size imo. Would also be nice if it had an HDMI port. Battery life is a relatively big thing, for me as most others when buying a laptop. Currently looking at the Dell Studios - sexy and powerful, it seems. Here's a quick rundown of the specs for comparison - is there anything here that is bad, or anything that's unnecesary?
- Intel® Core™ i7-720QM Mobile Processor (1.6GHz, turbo up to 2.8GHz, 6MB L3 Cache)
- 1 GB ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD5470
- 4096 MB 1333 MHz duel channel DDR3 SDRAM [2 x 2024]
- 250 GB (7200 rpm) SATA-harddisk
- DVD +/- RW Drive (read/write CD & DVD) with DVD Burn software
- 15.6" WLED-SCREEN WITH HD (1366 x 768)
- 9-cell Lithium batery (85Wh)
Now, what throws me a bit off is the lack of a blu-ray drive, but I'm really not sure I need that. Also the HDD is a bit small, but I'm going to need externals anyway, so it doesn't make much difference.
So, any better options? To be perfectly honest, it's gonna take some convinsing to make me buy a ThinkPad due to it looking shit.
