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heys guys i need some advice...mainly from trem and blood and such.
im looking to get a new laptop thats going to be good for both gaming and schoolwork.
my price range is very.....small. im thinking 700 to 800 may have to go cheaoer tho cus me and my girlfriend are getting a place. i need some sugestions.
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It's been awhile since I've been in the market for a computer considering mine is over 10 years old.. I've always felt the idea of a "gaming laptop" as a bit of an oxymoron.. that being said, i think with a laptop the key for gaming will be having a decent video card and a fast i/o ssd instead of an hdd. also, it is hard in a lappy but not having an onboard sound controller will also be handy. ppl tend to forget to get decent audio processing and wonder why their game is laggy when they have the best cpu and video card on the market.. well duh, you've got a game producing hd audio and all these sounds, but a crappy sound card can bog your hole system down.
i wouldnt expect too much out of $800 for a really good gaming laptop but I would say consider toshiba brand laptops right now they seem to be the best price/quality that is coming out.
"heys guys i need some advice...mainly from trem and blood and such."
Why not me? :(
If you asked me, i would say to go for a desktop computer if you can, because of the ease of customizability and that i was able to put together a very awesome cheap gamig computer for just under $500, so if your price range is 700-800 you could get a very very nice one.
Ive used newegg and tigerdirect, since they have really good parts on the cheap.
After having this laptop for 6 years, once i get a desktop i am never going back to laptops, because ive had all this time to decide that i hate it.
Also if you have a gaming computer, that would be even easier to use it for school work, since you could install some office programs and handle it really well.
Video Card (Fast onboard processor and decent onboard ram/cache)
CPU (Intel I7?)
Ram (4-16)
SSD (1-2TB)
Audio Card
Pretty much everything else is depending on how much money you got, not counting keyboard/mouse/monitor
"This computer is NEVER OBSOLETE"
"32mb RAM, 128 cache, 7.8 GB harddrive, 40x CD-ROM, 56k modem, 566 MHz CPU"
I suggest not getting the best RAM immediately if you're on a budget, if you're going to buy a laptop, get the non-customizable parts first, and the best, and the stuff you can switch out, like ram, can be bought later, so the check out price would be cheaper
Magic... 8 gigs of RAM is just 50 bucks.... in Miami anyway... I got 12 gigs of ram and Its worth it...
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2359664&CatId=4939
This machine is pretty slick if you want to get something all put together. It's only i5 processor but 8GB RAM and a decent video card. The best part of it is that it has Windows 7 PRO instead of "home premium". PRO is so much nicer than home premium for a billion reasons that i wont go into here. Think about it this way, the Windows PRO license itself is 1/3 the cost of the machine.
I put myself in the position of having your budget and only getting a laptop, this was what i found in the 3 minutes time I spent to actually look.
when the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie that's tremoré
Looks like a laptop Batman would have
I thought everyone thought alienware was crap.
Wait, it's an ASUS? Wow!
Alienware is crap
Yeah I tried to look but o don't even k ow what i5 is...im bad with comps. O saw all these seemingly good deals..but I didn't k ow what toget. Thanks guys and dream I said and such....that means u dry I'm typing on phone from work btw