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) and will defend there choice regardless of quality as most people would?
Ill be the first to admit i will defend 90% of my purchases
Ask a few friends who probably know nothing (After all, they bought an HP
Ill be the first to admit i will defend 90% of my purchases
Your mass generalisation is based on your friends. Mine are honest about their purchases.Ask a few friends who probably know nothing (After all, they bought an HP
Ill be the first to admit i will defend 90% of my purchases
@leonkehoe: I'm on a strict diet of French bread. That's just how I roll.
No, its based of everyone with a laptop i have ever met. They all say its great, even if its an Acer or advent or any crap
Everyone you have met. If you dig deep enough and ask the right questions you can learn what you need to. Don't just ask the initial 'what do you think of it?' question, follow up with more specific questions around build quality, performance, battery life, what don't they like about it etc. You have to put in the effort to find out what you want to know.
@leonkehoe: I'm on a strict diet of French bread. That's just how I roll.
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OP asked for alienware; gave him the answer and we are still arguing about it? WTF?
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People come here for more than what Google can offer. They want opinion, insight, shared experience and in-depth advice from a community they trust. Stop pointing people to Google.
@leonkehoe: I'm on a strict diet of French bread. That's just how I roll.
He came here because he wanted an Alienware with USB 3 and SLI but said they didn't exist. I proved they do. His question is therefore answered. I will continue to point people at Google when it best answers their question.
Have you decided what laptop you're going to buy riding moon? If not, do you have two or three front runners to choose from?
@leonkehoe: I'm on a strict diet of French bread. That's just how I roll.
No, I haven't Rock is impressive so is Sager and M18x. I don't know if I want a desktop CPU or mobile specific one, then they all seem to do extremely badly on SSD prices and I don't want to buy a 2.5" just to change it over to the SSD I want.
I am thinking it is maybe worth waiting a little for the SSD price to sort it's self out as Sager wouldn't budge, stupid Americans.
Last edited by riding moon; 12-01-2012 at 04:09 PM.
It's not hard to just fit an SSD yourself after purchase if that's what you want. And considering you can flog the hard drive afterwards, you won't lose out too much. Personally I always put a fresh install of Windows on a machine since OEMs have a habit of putting so much junk on there.
As for desktop or mobile CPU, depends why you want a laptop. If you want a desktop that's easy to transport, then a desktop CPU will be fine. If you're actually planning to use it on the move at any point, you'd be crazy to have one.
Mobile CPUs are a bit pathetic. In a not-very-accurate test, my desktop with a Q9550 used to load levels in half the time of my mate's i7 quad-core laptop. However, the power draw is so much lower on them. Even a laptop of fairly mediocre specs will struggle to last very long on the battery life alone, so one with a desktop CPU would end up being a desktop with a UPS rather than a laptop with a battery.
Thanks for the advice. I have just found this site: http://www.gamingonlaptops.com/buy/
if you go to this link they break it down to regions/countries around the world (only 6 listed but very useful)
http://www.gamingonlaptops.com/buy/clevo/
came across another brand to 'Schenker XMG U700 Ultra'
I'm going to receive my laptop soon a expensive beast.
What did you go for in the end?
I'm not one to bash companies but personally, I wouldn't recommend HP myself. I've had 2 laptops from them in the past and they both failed on me within a 3 year period. Maybe it was because they were lower-mid end units but even so, they shouldn't fail so easily, and bear in mind I didn't do any gaming on these units!
And disregarding that people love to hate apple here, I should say I use a 13" macbook for general work on the go or light browsing.
It's lasted me a good 5 years now and it's still running faultlessly. Yes I agree it was much more of an expensive initial outlay, and the tech specs are dire compared to pc equivalents. But it has been completely faultless even using taxing applications like Adobe creative suite on a daily basis.
There's not much in the way of gaming on a mac though, which is why after 5 years of use I've retired the mac as a backup and portable workhorse, but with the money I'ved saved up I've built my new windows 7 machine for entertainment, gaming and intensive image work.
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