A little help

[darkd3th]

Hey I'm going to be buying a laptop for college this coming fall. I'd like a laptop that can handle some of the recent games. Not to pricey would be nice something around $1000 to $1200.

Please don't move this topic, I only put this in this section because I know the people here and respect their opinions rahter, then someone I dont know.

Thanks

[Voodoo Daddy]

Hey Dark I just got back from Chicago. I'll give it some thought and send you a PM. also you could ask Deluged, He has helped me out in the past and really knows his shit.

[alchemi2]

Scar also is good to ask, he's built a few comps from scratch, pm him as he ain't always around.

[bob_fox]

I recently bought a laptop in the HP Pavilion 9000 series. You should easily be able to get one in the price range you indicated, and they're pretty good value for money. Nice 17-inch screen too!

[darkd3th]

Hey does anyone else have recommendations cause I need to get one soon with school sneaking up??

[GhostHunter]

Lenovo (or IBM) is the most reliable notebook out there, surpassing even Apple's. There's nothing else built better or that has better reliability (mainstream at least) than those. They're faster, constructed better, and reinforced through things like roll cages for the LCD, motherboard, and a additional one for the hard drive. They include active monitoring programs to turn off the hard drive if angled in a certain direction as to prevent possible data loss. They're the best laptops for Windows-based platforms period. They are however, more expensive on average and even the ones with the discrete nVidia quadro cards might not be enough for what you're discussing - just to give you an idea.

HP just released a new line-up for their mainstream notebooks. They incorporate (on the 15'' at least; I'd really shy away from a 17'' if you're going to college) a nVidia 9300 or 9600 which would be plenty.

Dell's do the same. Great notebooks with a slew of graphic options, particularly the XPS line-up.

A few other things to mention is you need to look at 3-4GB of RAM on Vista. Period.

And go with an Intel processor. They just released the Santa Rosa chipset on the T5000 and up series, but you'll probably want a processor that's within the T8000 or T9000 line-up.

[darkd3th]

Thanks ghost always coming through big.

[GhostHunter]

If you have any other questions feel free to PM/IM me - I work with every brand on a daily basis so I can give you a heads up and would love to be any help