Good choice of laptop?

[smakme7757]

This will be for uni so portability and power is important as i'll be running visual studio, Vmware and MySQL which is a big chunk of the course.

Now this is what i have chosen:

Stock
HP EliteBook 8460p 14"
Intel Core i7 2620M / 2.7 GHz
4Gb RAM
320 GB - Serial ATA-300 - 7200 opm
1600 x 900 ( WXGA++ )
AMD Radeon HD 6470M
TPM (Trusted Platform Module)

Proposed upgrades:
Corsair Value DDR3 SO-DIMM 1333MHz 8GB
Intel® SSD 320 Series 160GB SATA 3 Gb/s (SATA2.0), 270MB/165MB/s read/write, bulk (OEM)

What do you all think? Is there something better which i should consider?

Thanks

Oh - I read the Anadtech review as well, but i like to get forum input!

 

[Ultralight]

I personally would go with the i7 2630 as it is a quad and shouldn't be much more in $.

 

[sm625]

Are you sure you need that much horsepower? When I'm working I'd much rather have more screen real estate than more IPC.

 

[mnewsham]

Yeah I'd prefer 1920x1080 and an i5-2410 to that.

 

[smakme7757]

I currently have a 3 year old 17" elite book but with such large screen sizes its just too big to carry to and from school every day. Can you get 1080p on a 15" screen?

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[mnewsham]

Yes you can. XoticPC.com

 

[mnewsham]

Sager NP5165 from XoticPC.com $833.23

15.6"
1920x1080
i5-2410
nVidia GT 555m
4GB 1333Mhz
320GB HDD

 

[Ultralight]

The thing with Xoticpc as well as others like Power Notebooks, LPC-Digital, etc. is the freedom for configuring and really decent pricing. Plus the customer service is excellent.