This Laptop worth it?

[Brinsiger]

Check out the Toshiba Qosmio line and compare to Asus before you buy!

[LeslieWest_GuitarGod]

Screw Alienware and Dell.

For laptops, Asus is the way to go (high quality, high customer satisfaction, and best factory warranty in the business, 1 year ACCIDENTAL coverage), and Newegg (which by the way was Egghead Software of years ago) so happans to have a great deal in your price range (2nd gen i7, big screen and dedicated graphic board!):

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834230028

EDIT: Just read a post in this thread about your wish to go smaller on the screen. Here ya go:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834230027

[LeslieWest_GuitarGod]

Check out the Toshiba Qosmio line and compare to Asus before you buy!

I love Toshiba. Tiger Direct has this:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...573&CatId=4938

but its an i5.

Asus gives you more, for less.

[sebastianosmith]

Check out the Toshiba Qosmio line and compare to Asus before you buy!

If traveling with a notebook is what you do most, I would have to agree Toshiba is the way to go. They make solid, lightweight but distinctly business-oriented machines. For gaming, Asus makes a box that's hard to beat.

[sebastianosmith]

Pretty sure the VRAM amount is due to the 555 sharing half of that with the system RAM, whereas the 460M is purely discrete and has its own VRAM, not sharing anything with the system.

That is good to know as I was not aware of the distinction. Many thanks for the info.

The difference is inconsequential anyways, no game uses that much.

With this I will have to disagree. Most games released in the past two years will use all the memory they can for texture buffering. The OP's reference to Cyrsis II is an example. It's a horribly written game that can use up to 4Gb of VRAM if available for texture rendering alone. Not that such will make much a difference except when changing environs when texture palettes get swapped out.

[stille_nacht]

Asus G53SW-XN1 15" with i7 2gHz and GeForce GTX 460M. Around $1200US. Good performer.

Asus G53SW-XT1 is practically the same only with more of everything for about $1300US.

Asus G53JW-3DE is the fully loaded and tweeked version for about $1900US.

And if you can find any notebook that will play Crysis II at full res with high settings, send me a postcard from the future.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RK_Z...eature=related

oh and btw, here is the postcard from the future :P, decided to go with the g53sw- xt1

EDIT: one of my friends just got a maingear SHIFT, crazy bastard >.>, makes my coming laptop seem weak :O, 4 years from now, however, i will laugh at him because laptops will have caught up to it! :P (or maybe not, that thing is a monster)

[sebastianosmith]

decided to go with the g53sw- xt1

I am happy to have been of service.

oh and btw, here is the postcard from the future :P,

And thanks for making me feel old(er).

EDIT: one of my friends just got a maingear SHIFT, crazy bastard >.>, makes my coming laptop seem weak :O, 4 years from now, however, i will laugh at him because laptops will have caught up to it! :P (or maybe not, that thing is a monster)

You crazy kids and your water-cooling done by some third-party yahoos. Back in my day we just sprayed some WD-40 on 'er and poured the liquid N2O down the heat sink. GET OFF MY LAWN!

[MsEricka]

Pfft nothing. In my day we overclocked our 486's and cooled them with Beer, Tequila, Vodka, Rum, Triple sec and Gin!

http://totl.net/Eunuch/

[sebastianosmith]

Pfft nothing. In my day we overclocked our 486's and cooled them with Beer, Tequila, Vodka, Rum, Triple sec and Gin!

Bah! Don't go givin' me none o' your guff. You Canucks don't need no coolin. Just open a window 10 months out of the year.

[stille_nacht]

I am happy to have been of service.



And thanks for making me feel old(er).



You crazy kids and your water-cooling done by some third-party yahoos. Back in my day we just sprayed some WD-40 on 'er and poured the liquid N2O down the heat sink. GET OFF MY LAWN!

/wave greensteel cane

oh yeah, gotta spread the rep, +1 for combined help :]