Need a new laptop

[timaishu 10+ year member]

Never heard of them or worked on one. About the comment on macs I have a 2 year old power book g4 filled with music only has 2 gb's left on the hard drive and i play Unreal Tournament on it at LAN parties. My next computer will be another mac.

If your talking about original unreal, Im not impressed.

my emachines that i junked a few years ago could play it. an EMACHINES

 

[blackdragonaudi 10+ year member]

No not that one the newer one

 

[timaishu 10+ year member]

3?

 

[andrewmoore13 10+ year member]

I have an M1730 with dual GeForce 8700's, physics card, 2.4ghz, 2gb ram, 160 gb hd, built in web-cam, and it is DIRTY

go build one on Dell.com

it does not have a shoddily built case //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

 

[blackdragonaudi 10+ year member]

As many of us have said stay away from dell go with HP or sony

 

[quins90lac 10+ year member]

If your talking about original unreal, Im not impressed.
my emachines that i junked a few years ago could play it. an EMACHINES

they aint that bad i got a w3107 with nividia chip set and a AMD 3100 sepron processor with 2 gb of ram and it work reall good and its nice a fast

 

[timaishu 10+ year member]

Nah dude, this thing has you beat.

From what I can remember.

It came with a 1.5ghz P4, 256megs of ram, 40 gig HD, and a nvidia TNT2 graphics chip.

 

[Scoobydoo 5,000+ posts]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&SubCategory=773&N=2010030773&SpeTabStoreType=1

 

[lilmaniac2 5,000+ posts]

As many of us have said stay away from dell go with HP or sony

LAWL, failure rates on HP are among the highest in the industry and sony doesnt offer a model for him.....

dells vostro series is great for the average consumer....

but hey what do I know

 

[ballstothewall 10+ year member]

Lenovo T61p.

 

[tigerf117 10+ year member]

Stay far away from HP and Sony's. Other than off brands like Averatec, they are the worst laptops to buy (on the consumer end). There have been nothing but good reviews on the Gateway FX series laptops. I would definitely consider one of those. Otherwise, I've had nothing but good luck with every XPS I've dealt with. Specially if you get one on sale (like valentines, or Easter sales coming up). HPs are EASILY the most common laptop I get in for repairs. They outnumber everything else 2:1 for repairs, it's pretty ridiculous.

 

[blackdragonaudi 10+ year member]

No way my father has had 2 of them "hp" in 6 years and loves both of them dell is by far the most repaired computer out there and you have to order a lot of the parts from dell or end up sending the computer to them which who knows how long that could take.

 

[papo783 10+ year member]

I have to agree with blackdragonaudi I have been threw 4 dells in the past year all the same model I have had to send it in to dell for repairs. I will never ever buy another dell for as long as I live.

 

[SSS 18734 5,000+ posts]

it does not have a shoddily built case //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

Compared to the Precision line, yes it does.

I would get that Sager over any of the laptops mentioned in here, including the M90 that I mentioned. Only plus I see with the M90 is that they all come standard with a 3-year on-site repair warranty. I haven't had to use it once in two years, though.

 

[SSS 18734 5,000+ posts]

Also, another option I forgot to mention: If you really want to have a computer that can fluently play any game as well as a notebook to take to class, you could buy a good used gaming desktop to sit in your room, and then something like an Asus EE PC to take to classes. You could get both for cheaper than a single mid-level gaming notebook would cost you, and it would be the best of both worlds.

My 17" M90 is a pain to take to classes and the battery life is atrocious. When i first got it, I was lucky to get an hour and a half out of it.