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Does anyone here own a new or very recent laptop that cost them $3000 to $5000 + (5 Years they have)
- Thread starter WyteWatt
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Thanks.
Is it worth going all out on a laptop?
I am talking everything the latest and greatest! Maybe two hard drives in the laptop if its possible to have enough space! Fastest and biggest hard drives you can get for a laptop for both hard drives, fastest graphics card, processor, at least 2 gigs of the fastest laptop ram maybe more if possible, best sound card and speakers you can get with a laptop builtin, of couse I would buy headphones to so I wouldn't disturb people at times heck may even use just headphones but still its nice to have the option to not have to and still having it sound good through the builtin laptop speakers.
The 'latest and greatest' gaming laptops are an absolute joke. Feel the amount of heat coming out of the back of your computer... and then imagine all that heat coming out of a 12lb (ya.. a fvcking 12 heavy-ass pounds) box and burning your penis.
The latest Alienware laptop ad made me spit my soda all over my keyboard.. It's a 3.2ghz DESKTOP processor.. Those put out like 100W+ of heat!! So.. how much battery life are you gonna get with that?
Seriously.. don't buy a 'gaming' laptop. Anything heavier than 6.5lbs and thicker than 1.5" should not even be considered a laptop. Also, usually anything bigger than those dimensions has sh!tty build quality, loud fans, is heavy as hell..
You can buy a decently-fast laptop, with good battery life (using Centrino or AMD), that is thin (like 1.3" thick), light (5 lbs), and still has a half-way decent graphics card..
But, these big fat bricks that try to pass for a laptop today are jokes. How the fvck are you gonna 'game' on a laptop when you only get 1hour of battery life?
Big laptops are my peeve.. Five years ago, I swear.. the average size of a new laptop was smaller than the average size of today's laptops..
The latest Alienware laptop ad made me spit my soda all over my keyboard.. It's a 3.2ghz DESKTOP processor.. Those put out like 100W+ of heat!! So.. how much battery life are you gonna get with that?
Seriously.. don't buy a 'gaming' laptop. Anything heavier than 6.5lbs and thicker than 1.5" should not even be considered a laptop. Also, usually anything bigger than those dimensions has sh!tty build quality, loud fans, is heavy as hell..
You can buy a decently-fast laptop, with good battery life (using Centrino or AMD), that is thin (like 1.3" thick), light (5 lbs), and still has a half-way decent graphics card..
But, these big fat bricks that try to pass for a laptop today are jokes. How the fvck are you gonna 'game' on a laptop when you only get 1hour of battery life?
Big laptops are my peeve.. Five years ago, I swear.. the average size of a new laptop was smaller than the average size of today's laptops..
Well I know the battery life would be very short but thats why I would use the car lighter that can be used foi smoking or powering a laptop I think. Can't it?
Wouldn't that last for as long as you wanted to have the laptop on in the car?
Would this hurt the car or truck?
I would use a power outlet inside a place and maybe sometimes the battery if I was moving around a little.
I know your going to say whats the point in a laptop though if you will do that? There are no wires and I can take it with me where ever I go!
What about this one?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16834220066
Of course, if I can, I want to upgrade it some more like the 5400 rpm hard drive, ram, etc.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16834220066
Of course, if I can, I want to upgrade it some more like the 5400 rpm hard drive, ram, etc.
Proletariat
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I just got a very good laptop for $1450.
Here are the stats:
1.73 Ghz
1.25 gigs of DDR2 533
DVD writer
ATI Radeon X700
It was a Gateway and I think it was worth it. I can game and work on the go and the screen is on of those new pretty pretty ones 🙂
Here are the stats:
1.73 Ghz
1.25 gigs of DDR2 533
DVD writer
ATI Radeon X700
It was a Gateway and I think it was worth it. I can game and work on the go and the screen is on of those new pretty pretty ones 🙂
So a Pentium M 2.0GHz/1GB/80GB/DVDRW/GF6800Ultra isn't future proof enough? 🙂
Actually I hear your argument a lot, and it really doesn't make sense. Lets say we both have $3000 total we can spend on computer equipment over the next four years.
Person A spends all $3k on one machine, top of the line in every measure, and scores 100 points on a hypothetical benchmark.
Person B spends $1.5k on one machine, pretty darn fast but not top of the line, and it scores 90 points on a hypothetical benchmark.
Fast forward two years. Processors, GPUs, etc. have all gotten much faster. Person A is stuck with the same computer. Person B has $1.5k left to upgrade to the newest hardware and keep their machine current, or to buy a whole new machine altogether.
Spending less now means more money for a newer computer down the line.
