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Gaming Laptop <1400$ 14 " to 16" only

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Flamefist

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Hello ppl,
Am looking to buy a new laptop (14 " to 16" only),
Right now am using an ancient P4 desktop (integrated graphics) so a move to either Dual or Quad will be immensely satisfying.
It should be able to run the newest games (Next 3 years too)
I want 1080p if possible but its not essential.
Will be doing some programming matlab etc
surfing 20%-50% gaming 20% work 30%-60%

1) confused between i5 , i7 and i7(quad),best performance(gaming)?
2) dedicated graphics, gimme suggestions 😕
3) decent battery life
4) SSD? or 7200?

P.S. I live in India so my options are REALLY REALLY limited. so no clevo or sager etc. (import duty will kill me). Gimme some suggestions and ill chk if theyre available.

Easy on the wallet guys .. plz help me out 😉
Thnkx,
Flamefist
 
Calm down. You may have been up for a while, but it's still coffee and slippers time in the US 🙂

I think an i5 is more than enough to do what you want processor wise. A discrete GPU definitley required for playing action type games. You want it to be good performance-wise for three years? I doubt it at your budget. SSD's are nice, but I think you need storage more than speed. Wait a while for the prices to drop and install it yourself later.

An Alienware Dell would be nice but is over your budget. I do see you can get an Inspiron 14R with an HD 6470M for less than $1K. Dell appears to be the laptop of choice in India at the moment. I'm sure you can get something equivalent from Toshiba, HP, etc.

Hope this helps you my deshi friend.
 
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The reason I was asking about i7 is that there are a few choices
HP Dv6 6121 i7 Quad AMD 6770 2GB
Lenovo ideapad Y570 i7 Quad 550M 2GB DDR5

the HP is really appealing though I dont think the graphics are that good..
Lenovo never used 1 before..

Are GTX 560M laptops available in India? if yes then where can I buy them?
One more question, Does anyone make custom laptops in India?

@koenigss15
lol the above laptops are within budget 😀
plus dont care about the HDD even 80GB is fine. I want gaming ability thats all.
The problem is that in india customizations are super limited. SSD's are rare in laptops
heck very few run sandy bridge.
 
The 6770 is better than the GT 550m but not quite as good as the 560m. I wish I had bought that laptop. You can get the screen upgraded in America to 1080p.
 
Consider the following companies, go to their sites, and configure: Malibal, Mythlogic, Xoticpc, Power Notebooks, and LPC-Digital. Mythlogic systems were cited in the Anandtech article about the Bigfoot Wireless card.
 
is the acer aspire with AMD 6850 good? i dunno if it is available in india.
like the Asus G53 too, but been taken down from asus india website

But the thing I wanna know is should I go for i5 or i7 or i7 Quad?
I would want the laptop to play the current games at decent frame rates so should I go for dual core with awesome graphics or should i spend more and future proof myself with Quad which usually do come with good graphics?

My assumption is that
555 560 67XX 68XX are good cards. any notebooks with these cards (less than 1400$) ?
 
Flamefist said:
is the acer aspire with AMD 6850 good? i dunno if it is available in india.
like the Asus G53 too, but been taken down from asus india website

But the thing I wanna know is should I go for i5 or i7 or i7 Quad?
I would want the laptop to play the current games at decent frame rates so should I go for dual core with awesome graphics or should i spend more and future proof myself with Quad which usually do come with good graphics?

My assumption is that
555 560 67XX 68XX are good cards. any notebooks with these cards (less than 1400$) ?
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Here is a great chart that will let you compare the Nividia mobile graphics cards: http://www.geforce.com/Hardware/NotebookGPUs/geforce-gt-555m/performance

* I know a person with a quad i7 with a 540M and he runs everything he plays with solid FPS. Never a problem.

My suggestion is the i7 2630QM quad with the 560M and 8 gigs of RAM (but 4 gigs should do you fine).
 
Ultralight said:
Here is a great chart that will let you compare the Nividia mobile graphics cards: http://www.geforce.com/Hardware/NotebookGPUs/geforce-gt-555m/performance

* I know a person with a quad i7 with a 540M and he runs everything he plays with solid FPS. Never a problem.

My suggestion is the i7 2630QM quad with the 560M and 8 gigs of RAM (but 4 gigs should do you fine).
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Great, the problem is that the 560M is built into very few laptops
Asus G53 , Toshiba Qosmio 770, MSI ,Alienware, Clevo
Only Qosmio supports optimus.

And NONE of the above laptops are available in india ( MSI cant be sure of)
but they cost less than 1400$ in the US, but if they are somehow available in India with the import duty and other taxes the cost of i7 Quad and 560M will shoot up.

Plus there are a few i7 quad laptops (most are super expensive) but dedicated graphics quality is really bad. Just for an example chk this out

http://www.flipkart.com/browse/compu...ort=price_desc

Chk the graphics cards options, canya tell me which is the best one here,

http://www.flipkart.com/browse/compu...4-e95f70977b8d

Cheers
 
Also I dont NEED all the newer games to run at MAXED out settings. The next 2 years games should be playable thats all. Too much to ask?
 
Do you not have any relatives in the US or Europe?

On our recent trip we took over a couple of ASUS' and a Dell for relatives. They got a good deal, and I got lot's of BB and CC reward points.

That way all the exotic options are in play.
 
koenigss15 said:
Do you not have any relatives in the US or Europe?

On our recent trip we took over a couple of ASUS' and a Dell for relatives. They got a good deal, and I got lot's of BB and CC reward points.

That way all the exotic options are in play.
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yah i thot of that but then none of em cumin back soon and theres the warranty issues

i heard there were some OpenGL issues with hp dv6 6121tx 6770M

also i think that Asus G54SW and G53SX are good 15 inchers ..

but again apparently 460M in sw is superior to 560M in SX ( 192 bit >128 bit). Can this be verified?

Also any other alternatives? I want good graphics performance, so is i7 Dual or Quad better. Is it better to invest in a quad with low graphics?
or dual core with great graphics( recommendations pls)
 
There are no OpenGL issues anymore. The problem was fixed.

I don't know about the 460m or 560m - but those cards are generally better than the 6770.

The 6850 on the acer is a DDR3 gimped card - it's not as good as a real 6850 and in fact its often worse than a 6770 in the HP.
 
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I had a dv6, I returned it for an Envy 17 3d.

Battery life is fairly good (make sure you put it on the IGP of course) so if you are browsing the internet you will pull a min. of 3 hours and up to 5 hours.

Surface temperature? The keyboard on the left side will get warm, some people find it uncomfortable, I dont mind because it's just warm, not scorching hot.

The 2630qm is not a good processor to get if you want battery life (and definitely not the ASUS G53 because as far as I know it doesn't have optimus) - it has a TDP of 45w. You should get a dual core processor if you want battery life.
 
whats the diff in performance b/w i7M and i7QM in terms of
1) Battery life
2) Gaming(are the new games quad optimized?)
3) MAtlab Programn
4) Regular usage net+MS office+pdf
 
Tom said:
All you need is a mid range laptop with an i5 and dedicated graphics from class 1 or class 2 at this site.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/ATI-Mobility-Radeon-HD-550v.31270.0.html

You will be able to play any game well, just a few with high settings instead of ultra.

Any HP, Lenovo, or Dell will do. In the USA a suitable model would be as low as $700-800 when on sale.
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sites nice but TMI 😀.. but Would U recommend a laptop that you or someone u knw has used that fit the above reqmnts ? cos its slim pickins here.. if u could suggest me some model nos then I could check if theyre avail here..
Thnkx!
 
Have you considered a work laptop and gaming desktop?

In the US, a $1,000 desktop is faster for gaming than a $2,000+ laptop, since it will have a faster clocked quad-core i5-2500K and a Geforce GTX 560 ti or better, with 8 GB RAM and a 7200 RPM 1 TB hard drive.

Then get some cheap dual-core laptop with integrated graphics, if you really need a laptop at all.
 
Dave, I know that a desktop is best for gaming.. but i need a laptop cos Im gonna be traveling. By really stretching my budget to the extremes and more I can spend 1400$ and I need this laptop to work for at least the next 2-3 years..
If wishes were horses..
 
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