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| Thread ID: 75916 | 2007-01-14 10:55:00 | Recommand me a good Laptop ($2K-$2.5K) | kingping (11473) | Press F1 |
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| 515910 | 2007-01-15 05:54:00 | Agreed. Don't expect too much quality of gaming from a midrange laptop. For general work and multimedia depending on your preference you should be ok. | winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 515911 | 2007-01-18 01:09:00 | Hey winmacguy. I need to get a laptop for myself as well, and my budget is about $2000++. The laptop that you have specified earlier, Asus Z92T Notebook, seems to be loaded with plenty of goodies and sold at a reasonable price. The only thing I am confused about is the part where it says the graphics is "nVidia GeForce 7600 256MB". I am not sure whether the 256MB is an "integrated" or "dedicated" one. DSE says that it is shared, while this website (store.agearnotebooks.com) says it is dedicated. Could it be a combination of both? Checking out nVidia website on that graphics card doesn't help much. Cheers :) |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 515912 | 2007-01-18 01:23:00 | I like the size of the screen:) on the Asus, James. Everything else looks fairly standard. I have a feeling that shared and integrated are the same thing. Generally unless your going to be emphassing the gaming side of things on a laptop ??? I would think that 256MB shared graphics from the total amount of RAM should be fairly sufficient. |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 515913 | 2007-01-18 07:58:00 | I like the size of the screen:) on the Asus, James. Everything else looks fairly standard. I have a feeling that shared and integrated are the same thing. Generally unless your going to be emphassing the gaming side of things on a laptop ??? I would think that 256MB shared graphics from the total amount of RAM should be fairly sufficient. The screen size does not concern me in this situation. It is the processor, system memory and graphics type that I am particularly on the lookout. I am not going to do intensive gaming on the laptop, winmacguy :) Anyway, the only thing I don't get is that whether the graphics is an integrated or dedicated one. Yes, I do agree that gobbling up 256MB of the system memory should be enough. Cheers :) |
Renmoo (66) | ||
| 515914 | 2007-01-18 08:11:00 | The screen size does not concern me in this situation. It is the processor, system memory and graphics type that I am particularly on the lookout. I am not going to do intensive gaming on the laptop, winmacguy :) Anyway, the only thing I don't get is that whether the graphics is an integrated or dedicated one. Yes, I do agree that gobbling up 256MB of the system memory should be enough. Cheers :) In that case the laptop your looking at should be fine. If you are concerned about the amount of RAM you can always upgrade to 1 or 2GB although 1GB should be absolutely fine for general use, that way you won't feel hobbled when your graphic requirements want to take a bit of extra RAM Just as a suggestion, aside from the technical specs of the laptop I usually look at the software applications it comes with and what sort of things I am likely to be using it for and will it allow me to do all or most of those things straight out of the box without having to buy extra software and is that software easy to use. Cheers winmacguy. |
winmacguy (3367) | ||
| 515915 | 2007-01-18 08:21:00 | After reading all the responses, may I sum it up: It all depends on individual personal preferences!:D All the major brands available in NZ have their pros and cons. |
bk T (215) | ||
| 515916 | 2007-01-18 08:29:00 | After reading all the responses, may I sum it up: It all depends on individual personal preferences!:D All the major brands available in NZ have their pros and cons. I couldn't agree more bk t. :thumbs: Although at the risk of starting a flame war I will go out on a limb and say that unless PC gaming is crucial to your piece of mind you have 2 Operating System choices. You can either get a PC laptop for your computing and gaming needs or you can get a similarly priced secure Mac laptop for your computing and multimedia needs - with "some" gaming capability. Apple's current OS is already ahead of where Vista is about to be. Both systems come similarly priced and specd for the money it is just up to the buyer which they prefer. |
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