Martin
I want a laptop than can run mw3 gta 4 nfs most wanted 2012 fifa 13 on medium settings what do you reccomend that is 700 and below
Answer
This ASUS laptop is $200 above your price point but it can handle most of what you throw at it.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834230597
Core i7 3630QM(2.40GHz) 15.6" 8GB Memory 1TB HDD 5400rpm DVD±R/RW NVIDIA GeForce GT 635M 1 Year Accidental Damage/30-Day Zero Bright Dot
This HP can be customized to what you need, Bump the APU to a A10 and higher ram for better performance.
http://www.shopping.hp.com/en_US/home-office/-/products/Laptops/HP-ENVY/C9W57AV;pgid=c7twGfjc0ptSRpIq7ZUcoGXQ0000fb8mNv9y;sid=NID2W1inOb6JXwkRbh2qz4GoAJwzDmy78dUe8LW2AJwzDtPc7Kuhl6jI?HP-ENVY-15z-j000-Notebook-PC A8-5550M APU HD 8000 Series Graphics 6GB DDR3 750GB 5400 rpm HD After rebate $500
These are not customizable
http://www.shopping.hp.com/en_US/home-office/-/products/Laptops/HP-ENVY/C2K91UA;pgid=c7twGfjc0ptSRpIq7ZUcoGXQ0000ptFcn-Ce;sid=UfkUk5vYup7bi8p-xu5OB0LXZeXRxq_ElKxaT319WyKZOCFLk0_Q5UIX?HP-ENVY-Sleekbook-6-1110us
HP SleekBook AMD Quad-Core A8-4555M APU AMD Radeon HD 7600G 4 GB DDR3 500 GB SATA (5400 rpm) After rebates $500 less then an inch thick 4.5lbs
http://www.shopping.hp.com/en_US/home-office/-/products/Laptops/HP-ENVY/C2N66UA;pgid=c7twGfjc0ptSRpIq7ZUcoGXQ0000ptFcn-Ce;sid=UfkUk5vYup7bi8p-xu5OB0LXZeXRxq_ElKxaT319WyKZOCFLk0_Q5UIX?HP-ENVY-dv7-7230us-Notebook-PC
17" DV7-7230US laptop AMD Quad-Core A8-4500M APU AMD Radeon HD 7640G 6 GB DDR3 750 GB SATA (5400 rpm) After rebates $500
Brand buying advise
You get what you pay for. Systems with high end parts with low prices are to be viewed with suspicion. They have to cut corners somewhere to get the price down. What cost you less today is going to cost you more tomorrow.
Apple makes a good quality laptop. The problem comes when it requires service or minor upgrades. It is near impossible to do anything with them. They even glue the battery and hard drive down so you can not change it. They solder the ram to the logic board so you can not increase it. They lock up most of the software so your stuck with what they approve.
Lenovo has serious stand behind their product problems. They bought IBM PC division and proceeded to drive the quality of the system into the ground. Their customer service is well below par. They even makes Dell customer service look good. The last and final thing to remember about them is they are a Chinese Government own company. It is up to you if you want to trust them.
Toshiba, Panasonic, Sony should be avoided because of their heavy modification of Windows and the drivers. If you remove some of the bloat they install, you can cripple the system.
Acer, Gateway, and eMachines should be avoided period. Low end system that are driving the race to the bottom.
Dell once made a good system and fell from grace. They are now struggling to regain their place in the market. Customer service is one of many problems with this company.
Alienware are glorified Dells and are more name then product. Priced extremely high for what you get. They do perform but you can get the same for less by looking around, just not packaged to be eye candy to the gamers.
Samsung has a history of using cheap parts in critical areas. Capacitors has been one area Samsung has a known history of going cheap, causing units to fail early. For that reason I would avoid them.
ASUS and HP do not modify Windows as bad as the other manufacturers. They have excellent build quality. They might add a lot of bloat but they also makes it easy to get rid of it.
Ultrabooks are the higher end of Wintel laptops but they have some of the same concerns as Apple. They make it next to impossible to change any hardware in them. Service of them will have to be done by the manufacturers. With most of them, you can not change your own battery or hard drive. They are designed to catch your eye but they are not any more special then other laptops except for the fact that they are slim or thin. Your paying for it being thin and slim. For the money your going to spend on it you can buy a much better laptop with more power.
Hybrids are the worse of the worse. The flip or detachable touch screens are just a disaster waiting to happen.
Never buy an All In One. They are far worst then laptops of any kind to service and they have a higher failure rate.
Choose wisely.
:)
This ASUS laptop is $200 above your price point but it can handle most of what you throw at it.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834230597
Core i7 3630QM(2.40GHz) 15.6" 8GB Memory 1TB HDD 5400rpm DVD±R/RW NVIDIA GeForce GT 635M 1 Year Accidental Damage/30-Day Zero Bright Dot
This HP can be customized to what you need, Bump the APU to a A10 and higher ram for better performance.
http://www.shopping.hp.com/en_US/home-office/-/products/Laptops/HP-ENVY/C9W57AV;pgid=c7twGfjc0ptSRpIq7ZUcoGXQ0000fb8mNv9y;sid=NID2W1inOb6JXwkRbh2qz4GoAJwzDmy78dUe8LW2AJwzDtPc7Kuhl6jI?HP-ENVY-15z-j000-Notebook-PC A8-5550M APU HD 8000 Series Graphics 6GB DDR3 750GB 5400 rpm HD After rebate $500
These are not customizable
http://www.shopping.hp.com/en_US/home-office/-/products/Laptops/HP-ENVY/C2K91UA;pgid=c7twGfjc0ptSRpIq7ZUcoGXQ0000ptFcn-Ce;sid=UfkUk5vYup7bi8p-xu5OB0LXZeXRxq_ElKxaT319WyKZOCFLk0_Q5UIX?HP-ENVY-Sleekbook-6-1110us
HP SleekBook AMD Quad-Core A8-4555M APU AMD Radeon HD 7600G 4 GB DDR3 500 GB SATA (5400 rpm) After rebates $500 less then an inch thick 4.5lbs
http://www.shopping.hp.com/en_US/home-office/-/products/Laptops/HP-ENVY/C2N66UA;pgid=c7twGfjc0ptSRpIq7ZUcoGXQ0000ptFcn-Ce;sid=UfkUk5vYup7bi8p-xu5OB0LXZeXRxq_ElKxaT319WyKZOCFLk0_Q5UIX?HP-ENVY-dv7-7230us-Notebook-PC
17" DV7-7230US laptop AMD Quad-Core A8-4500M APU AMD Radeon HD 7640G 6 GB DDR3 750 GB SATA (5400 rpm) After rebates $500
Brand buying advise
You get what you pay for. Systems with high end parts with low prices are to be viewed with suspicion. They have to cut corners somewhere to get the price down. What cost you less today is going to cost you more tomorrow.
Apple makes a good quality laptop. The problem comes when it requires service or minor upgrades. It is near impossible to do anything with them. They even glue the battery and hard drive down so you can not change it. They solder the ram to the logic board so you can not increase it. They lock up most of the software so your stuck with what they approve.
Lenovo has serious stand behind their product problems. They bought IBM PC division and proceeded to drive the quality of the system into the ground. Their customer service is well below par. They even makes Dell customer service look good. The last and final thing to remember about them is they are a Chinese Government own company. It is up to you if you want to trust them.
Toshiba, Panasonic, Sony should be avoided because of their heavy modification of Windows and the drivers. If you remove some of the bloat they install, you can cripple the system.
Acer, Gateway, and eMachines should be avoided period. Low end system that are driving the race to the bottom.
Dell once made a good system and fell from grace. They are now struggling to regain their place in the market. Customer service is one of many problems with this company.
Alienware are glorified Dells and are more name then product. Priced extremely high for what you get. They do perform but you can get the same for less by looking around, just not packaged to be eye candy to the gamers.
Samsung has a history of using cheap parts in critical areas. Capacitors has been one area Samsung has a known history of going cheap, causing units to fail early. For that reason I would avoid them.
ASUS and HP do not modify Windows as bad as the other manufacturers. They have excellent build quality. They might add a lot of bloat but they also makes it easy to get rid of it.
Ultrabooks are the higher end of Wintel laptops but they have some of the same concerns as Apple. They make it next to impossible to change any hardware in them. Service of them will have to be done by the manufacturers. With most of them, you can not change your own battery or hard drive. They are designed to catch your eye but they are not any more special then other laptops except for the fact that they are slim or thin. Your paying for it being thin and slim. For the money your going to spend on it you can buy a much better laptop with more power.
Hybrids are the worse of the worse. The flip or detachable touch screens are just a disaster waiting to happen.
Never buy an All In One. They are far worst then laptops of any kind to service and they have a higher failure rate.
Choose wisely.
:)
laptop brand with THE BEST quality?
Tony Boeld
In the coming months I am looking to buy a new laptop. I would like to know which company has the best build quality, longevity and repair ability that rivals all other brands. I know personally to stay away from Acer, Gateway, Emachines, and Apple since in my experience, that have poor build quality, don't last very long and have a distinct lack of repair ability so those are already out of the question. So is there any good suggestions?
Answer
Listening to a single opinion will not do any good unless they are in the laptop repair business, and even at that, warranty is handled by the manufacturer and sales volumes may skew percentages.
Apple MacBooks, being cultlike and highly reliable in the first 18 months gets skewed high results, but the rest is valid:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2020725/apple-macbooks-lead-in-laptop-features-and-reliability.html
http://www.pcworld.com/article/244419/laptop_reliability_and_satisfaction_macbooks_rule.html
http://www.pcworld.com/article/211402/laptops.html
Three years 2012, 11, 10.
Now, I worked in Procurement Engineering for Thinkpad components for many years. I also worked with the actual manufacturers and true designers of the industry, as almost zero design work is at Acer, and very limited at HP, and now also limited at Dell. Lenovo G series "essentials" are the same industry products as those. Gateway is now a low end of Acer as is Packard Bell in Europe. Compaq is now another HP brand.
Lenovo's three lines are very distinct as Thinkpad, Ideapad, and Essentials. Thinkpad T and X series are the premium of the industry, but you will not find high end gaming graphics. Thinkpad in general is good. Samsung is shifting from internal assembly to OEM on more models. Toshiba low end also are the same generics while their business levels copy some Thinkpad features.
In general, try to avoid the very cheapest laptops as usually you are getting approximately what you pay for at the low end.
Asus, Samsung, Sony, Lenovo Ideapad Z and Y series and Thinkpads are generally the more reliable set of laptops as a whole.
According to surveys, Acer-Gateway, HP-Compaq, Dell tend to be more problematic, but it does not mean every one made is bad.
Performance for the money should be factored in.
Graphics strength is judged by gaming ability:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Computer-Games-on-Laptop-Graphic-Cards.13849.0.html
CPU strength by a passmark score is OK to use:
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php
Try to ignore adjective words like "stunning, lush, thin, light, smooth, fast, etc." and look for clear data. "up to" for a battery life between charges is not very helpful, but understand higher performance with the same battery is shorter battery life. The "up to" is with wireless off, screen set low, lowest CPU and graphics of a series, application running minimum. An HP customized with choices of CPU and graphics will show a very high "up to" hours.
Generally, the best you can buy is Lenovo T or X series. They are a business laptop. I know how they are designed, produced, and tested. Many have roll cages to minimize dropping damage, spill trays to reduce liquid damage, carbon fiber or fiberglass impregnated with resins instead of a painted plastic, premium keyboards and screens, lid latching, metal hinges, shock absorbers, battery management features with the AC/DC circuit designed at the Japan labs formerly IBM. They do not price as high as Apple Macbooks, but they are not cheap. They are milspec design found on the space shuttle/station and in military use. They have some tablets with gorilla glass, and even the Ideapad Yoga is a neat design coming off of the Thinkpad Twist.
A laptop is not upgradable for CPU and graphics after you buy it generally. Typically look at the high end of the pricing range you have in mind first, and then compare to cheaper models of various companies.
General PC sales global as a total have HP and Lenovo near tied for #1,2, Dell and Acer near tied 3,4, Asus #5 as the major players, but note that companies like Toshiba and Samsung are not selling Desktop PCs.
Consider also that Windows 8 is very much designed for touch screens, though there is software available that makes to look closer to Win 7
http://forum.notebookreview.com/windows-os-software/708472-list-start-menu-replacements-windows-8-a.html
Listening to a single opinion will not do any good unless they are in the laptop repair business, and even at that, warranty is handled by the manufacturer and sales volumes may skew percentages.
Apple MacBooks, being cultlike and highly reliable in the first 18 months gets skewed high results, but the rest is valid:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2020725/apple-macbooks-lead-in-laptop-features-and-reliability.html
http://www.pcworld.com/article/244419/laptop_reliability_and_satisfaction_macbooks_rule.html
http://www.pcworld.com/article/211402/laptops.html
Three years 2012, 11, 10.
Now, I worked in Procurement Engineering for Thinkpad components for many years. I also worked with the actual manufacturers and true designers of the industry, as almost zero design work is at Acer, and very limited at HP, and now also limited at Dell. Lenovo G series "essentials" are the same industry products as those. Gateway is now a low end of Acer as is Packard Bell in Europe. Compaq is now another HP brand.
Lenovo's three lines are very distinct as Thinkpad, Ideapad, and Essentials. Thinkpad T and X series are the premium of the industry, but you will not find high end gaming graphics. Thinkpad in general is good. Samsung is shifting from internal assembly to OEM on more models. Toshiba low end also are the same generics while their business levels copy some Thinkpad features.
In general, try to avoid the very cheapest laptops as usually you are getting approximately what you pay for at the low end.
Asus, Samsung, Sony, Lenovo Ideapad Z and Y series and Thinkpads are generally the more reliable set of laptops as a whole.
According to surveys, Acer-Gateway, HP-Compaq, Dell tend to be more problematic, but it does not mean every one made is bad.
Performance for the money should be factored in.
Graphics strength is judged by gaming ability:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Computer-Games-on-Laptop-Graphic-Cards.13849.0.html
CPU strength by a passmark score is OK to use:
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php
Try to ignore adjective words like "stunning, lush, thin, light, smooth, fast, etc." and look for clear data. "up to" for a battery life between charges is not very helpful, but understand higher performance with the same battery is shorter battery life. The "up to" is with wireless off, screen set low, lowest CPU and graphics of a series, application running minimum. An HP customized with choices of CPU and graphics will show a very high "up to" hours.
Generally, the best you can buy is Lenovo T or X series. They are a business laptop. I know how they are designed, produced, and tested. Many have roll cages to minimize dropping damage, spill trays to reduce liquid damage, carbon fiber or fiberglass impregnated with resins instead of a painted plastic, premium keyboards and screens, lid latching, metal hinges, shock absorbers, battery management features with the AC/DC circuit designed at the Japan labs formerly IBM. They do not price as high as Apple Macbooks, but they are not cheap. They are milspec design found on the space shuttle/station and in military use. They have some tablets with gorilla glass, and even the Ideapad Yoga is a neat design coming off of the Thinkpad Twist.
A laptop is not upgradable for CPU and graphics after you buy it generally. Typically look at the high end of the pricing range you have in mind first, and then compare to cheaper models of various companies.
General PC sales global as a total have HP and Lenovo near tied for #1,2, Dell and Acer near tied 3,4, Asus #5 as the major players, but note that companies like Toshiba and Samsung are not selling Desktop PCs.
Consider also that Windows 8 is very much designed for touch screens, though there is software available that makes to look closer to Win 7
http://forum.notebookreview.com/windows-os-software/708472-list-start-menu-replacements-windows-8-a.html
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