Laptop Advice -- $700-$900 bracket

[brencat]

Need to get my wife a new laptop for work...

Will be using CAD, Adobe, Office mostly, and wants to be able to plug it into a 24" LCD when at home to do work on a bigger screen.

She also insists on a 17" laptop screen which has increased the difficulty of my search. My other criteria is quad core, 7200 rpm HDD, and 4GB of RAM minimum.

Thinking about this one here (Asus K72JR-XN1):

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...scrollFullInfo

Would appreciate other suggestions as laptops are not really my area of expertise. Does not need to be purchased from Newegg either.

Thx in advance

 

[ther00kie16]

That's not a quad core. Mobile i5s are dual core with HT. 17" is more difficult.

You can pre-order a Sager with Sandy Bridge (base model of 2630qm) that's faster than any mobile CPU currently on the market, including top of line Nehalem 940xm.
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php for benchmarks

http://www.sagernotebook.com/index.php?page=product_customed&model_name=NP5170
Same price here but with option to not include $90 operating system so you can install your own.

Or you can wait a couple of months for the chipset fix and for HP to have the following deal again.
http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?sduid=840076&t=2576227
They tend to have those coupons fairly often.

 

[brencat]

That's not a quad core. Mobile i5s are dual core with HT. 17" is more difficult.

You can pre-order a Sager with Sandy Bridge (base model of 2630qm) that's faster than any mobile CPU currently on the market, including top of line Nehalem 940xm.
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php for benchmarks

http://www.sagernotebook.com/index.php?page=product_customed&model_name=NP5170
Same price here but with option to not include $90 operating system so you can install your own.

Wow, fantastic. Thank you for that link! Priced aggressively too given new tech... full HD screen OMG. :thumbsup:

 

[ther00kie16]

Wow, fantastic. Thank you for that link! Priced aggressively too given new tech... full HD screen OMG. :thumbsup:

Yea, for me, 1080p or 1920x1200 is a must (I have a 1920x1200 laptop and 2 24" 1920x1200 LCDs). However, for some, the HP may be a better deal considering it has more ram, storage and blu-ray.

 

[brencat]

Yea, for me, 1080p or 1920x1200 is a must (I have a 1920x1200 laptop and 2 24" 1920x1200 LCDs). However, for some, the HP may be a better deal considering it has more ram, storage and blu-ray.

Wife is psyched now. And okay to wait another month or two for the chipset fix. Whichever comes first I guess...hp or the Sager.