Alexandra
I'm a student (17) and planning on buying a laptop, I want it to last because I'll be using it for my A Levels for another 2 years.
What laptop do you have?
Which would you recommend? (Full name and make please)
And what's the price of this laptop? (Approximately)
*i'll pick an answer with some good info and thank you in advance
Answer
These ASUS laptop are a good choice. The first one is a steady work horse but light on graphics ( no gamer). The second one is a 17" and is not light and should not be carried in a standard back pack. They both come with a one year accidental warranty which is great for school.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834230987
Core i5 3230M(2.60GHz) 15.6" 6GB Memory DDR3 1600 500GB HDD 5400rpm DVD±R/RW NVIDIA GeForce Dedicated 2GB GT 610M 1 Year Accidental Damage/30-Day Zero Bright Dot 5.8 lbs
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834230592
Core i7 3630QM(2.40GHz) 17.3" 12GB Memory 500GB HDD 7200rpm DVD±R/RW NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M 1920 x 1080 1 Year Accidental Damage/30-Day Zero Bright Dot
This HP can be customized to what you need. If you want better performance upgrade the APU to a A10, the graphics to AMD Radeon HD 8750M + HD 8000 Series Dual Graphics. and increase the ram to 8GB. That will bring it to $700. Add the 1080p screen for just another $40. Starting at $530
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
This HP can be customized to. Upgrade the Graphics to NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M 2048MB of dedicated video memory, 1080p screen and 16GB ram brings it to $1000. Do not get this lappy without the graphics upgrade. Starting at $870
http://shopping.hp.com/en_US/home-office/-/products/Laptops/HP-ENVY/E4T17AV?HP-ENVY-15t-j000-Quad-Edition-Notebook-PC i7-4700MQ 8GB DDR3 1TB 5400 rpm Hard Drive
Neither of the HP comes with DVD player
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. Lenovo will not allow people to read instruction on how to access the BIOS menu or to get info on their puters on their web site unless you connect to them thru Facebook. They do this so they can spy on their users. 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 than 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. 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.
Chrome books are useless. They are designed by Google to make you dependent on Google. If you can not access the web then you can not do anything.
Hybrids are the worse of the worse. The flip or detachable touch screens are just a disaster waiting to happen.
Always avoid refurbished units. They only come with a 90 day warranty and have a higher failure rate. The service contacts are normally just a one time replace contract.
Choose wisely.
:)
These ASUS laptop are a good choice. The first one is a steady work horse but light on graphics ( no gamer). The second one is a 17" and is not light and should not be carried in a standard back pack. They both come with a one year accidental warranty which is great for school.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834230987
Core i5 3230M(2.60GHz) 15.6" 6GB Memory DDR3 1600 500GB HDD 5400rpm DVD±R/RW NVIDIA GeForce Dedicated 2GB GT 610M 1 Year Accidental Damage/30-Day Zero Bright Dot 5.8 lbs
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834230592
Core i7 3630QM(2.40GHz) 17.3" 12GB Memory 500GB HDD 7200rpm DVD±R/RW NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M 1920 x 1080 1 Year Accidental Damage/30-Day Zero Bright Dot
This HP can be customized to what you need. If you want better performance upgrade the APU to a A10, the graphics to AMD Radeon HD 8750M + HD 8000 Series Dual Graphics. and increase the ram to 8GB. That will bring it to $700. Add the 1080p screen for just another $40. Starting at $530
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
This HP can be customized to. Upgrade the Graphics to NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M 2048MB of dedicated video memory, 1080p screen and 16GB ram brings it to $1000. Do not get this lappy without the graphics upgrade. Starting at $870
http://shopping.hp.com/en_US/home-office/-/products/Laptops/HP-ENVY/E4T17AV?HP-ENVY-15t-j000-Quad-Edition-Notebook-PC i7-4700MQ 8GB DDR3 1TB 5400 rpm Hard Drive
Neither of the HP comes with DVD player
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. Lenovo will not allow people to read instruction on how to access the BIOS menu or to get info on their puters on their web site unless you connect to them thru Facebook. They do this so they can spy on their users. 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 than 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. 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.
Chrome books are useless. They are designed by Google to make you dependent on Google. If you can not access the web then you can not do anything.
Hybrids are the worse of the worse. The flip or detachable touch screens are just a disaster waiting to happen.
Always avoid refurbished units. They only come with a 90 day warranty and have a higher failure rate. The service contacts are normally just a one time replace contract.
Choose wisely.
:)
Help with Laptop Graphics Card?
Q. I plan to buy a Toshiba Satellite L770, however my only problem is the Graphics Card. The only option is the Mobile Intel card, which has a maximum of 300-somethin' MB and the games I intend to run on this computer require a minimum of 512 MB. (I'd much rather run a 1GB Nvidia either way <.<)
I CAN get this upgrade however it's $250 more... The card alone is only worth about $50. SO, is it possible to upgrade the card on my own (Like.. Do laptops have the open slots?), I read somewhere that there aren't any PCI-E or any slots I should say to use because they'd take to much space..
After starting with the base price of $450, upgrading from i3 to i5 processor and 4 to 6GB of RAM the price is around $650. To have the laptop with the specs I require and the Nvidia 1GB card... It's around $900 minimum. Which is absolutely outrageous considering the only difference is a $50 graphics card. -.- SO, if you have another laptop in mind that I can consider please feel free to tell me and if you can verify what I'd read about the laptops not having any slots then please tell me so as well.. I really don't want to be charged a pointless $200.. However, if there isn't another way then I'm going to look into whatever you all suggest or Alienware/Battalion laptops. (:
Please DO NOT tell me to get a desktop, I do NOT want one..
I CAN get this upgrade however it's $250 more... The card alone is only worth about $50. SO, is it possible to upgrade the card on my own (Like.. Do laptops have the open slots?), I read somewhere that there aren't any PCI-E or any slots I should say to use because they'd take to much space..
After starting with the base price of $450, upgrading from i3 to i5 processor and 4 to 6GB of RAM the price is around $650. To have the laptop with the specs I require and the Nvidia 1GB card... It's around $900 minimum. Which is absolutely outrageous considering the only difference is a $50 graphics card. -.- SO, if you have another laptop in mind that I can consider please feel free to tell me and if you can verify what I'd read about the laptops not having any slots then please tell me so as well.. I really don't want to be charged a pointless $200.. However, if there isn't another way then I'm going to look into whatever you all suggest or Alienware/Battalion laptops. (:
Please DO NOT tell me to get a desktop, I do NOT want one..
Answer
It is possible to upgrade a laptop graphics card, but unless you want to take the laptop completely apart and risk damaging the machine, the short answer is no, you can't do it your self. You are paying for them to do it, and the portability of it.
That being said, there are plenty of laptops out there with decent graphics cards installed for around the 650-700 you were going to pay without the upgraded graphics card.
I suggest shopping around some laptop sites, or use a place like Amazon to compare.
If you happen to be a high school or college student, google HP Academy, they have great deals for students on laptops, and one deal right now is that you get a free xbox 360 with the purchase of a laptop. Just a quick example, you can get a quad core processor, with a 1GB graphics card for less than $700. So it does pay to shop around.
Good Luck!
It is possible to upgrade a laptop graphics card, but unless you want to take the laptop completely apart and risk damaging the machine, the short answer is no, you can't do it your self. You are paying for them to do it, and the portability of it.
That being said, there are plenty of laptops out there with decent graphics cards installed for around the 650-700 you were going to pay without the upgraded graphics card.
I suggest shopping around some laptop sites, or use a place like Amazon to compare.
If you happen to be a high school or college student, google HP Academy, they have great deals for students on laptops, and one deal right now is that you get a free xbox 360 with the purchase of a laptop. Just a quick example, you can get a quad core processor, with a 1GB graphics card for less than $700. So it does pay to shop around.
Good Luck!
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