Please recommend a laptop for me :D

[Somethngcreative]

Hi,

I am looking to buy a new laptop but I am not sure what technical details I should look for. Specifically, I am looking for a laptop that is small enough to fit into my backpack but powerful enough to support my gaming needs (I play America's Army only). My budget is between $800-1200, the cheaper the better lol.

My friend said I should buy an Alienware laptop but I don't know if that's practical, because I don't play that much games so I don't really need a top of the line gaming laptop. I'm planning to use the laptop for casual gaming of America's Army but will be using most of it for my school work and for office work.

Thanks!

[Dch48]

I can recommend the one I got recently for $599 at Staples. It's an HP Dv6-6140us model. It comes with a quad core AMD processor with Radeon HD6620G graphics built in and 6 gigs of DDR3-1333 Ram. It will play any current game at medium to high settings. It's really amazing for the price. I looked up America's Army on Can you run it and the laptop passes with flying colors and exceeds the recommended requirements.

[Somethngcreative]

Thank you very much Dch48 you've just saved me a ton of money lol. Also, thanks for checking that for me! Much appreciated, thanks again for your kindness

[Somethngcreative]

oh and it's this one right? lol I wasn't sure, thanks

http://www.amazon.com/HP-Pavilion-dv6-6140us-Entertainment-Notebook/dp/B0051OLSKQ

[Dch48]

Yep that's the one

[Marc57]

I can recommend the one I got recently for $599 at Staples. It's an HP Dv6-6140us model. It comes with a quad core AMD processor with Radeon HD6620G graphics built in and 6 gigs of DDR3-1333 Ram. It will play any current game at medium to high settings. It's really amazing for the price. I looked up America's Army on Can you run it and the laptop passes with flying colors and exceeds the recommended requirements.

Good Recommendation.

[bob3160]

I just purchase a Dell 17R Inspiron Laptop with an Intel i5 processor.
This was a floor model which had no operating system but outside of that little
matter was in perfect condition. The price was right at $450.00
I've now had the pleasure of using this computer for the past 3 weeks and can highly recommend it.

[Hard_ROCKER]

http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-HD-6620G.54675.0.html


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[Mr.Agent]

Look at your shops. I find alots good laptops there. Like 8 gb ram for about 800-900 $ ? That alot and its with a 6000 series or GTX nvidia of 1 gb ram. Also with a core i7 so its like nothing for that price i can say if you can compare to 2007 computers you will want now a 900 $ computer instead lol.

Or wait 1 month and im sure there will be a core i8 LOL...

[Dch48]

A few things I didn't mention about mine, the one I recommended. It plays BluRay discs and even though there is no mention of it anywhere, the optical drive will burn Lightscribe labels if you install the Lightscribe software. The sound is better than most laptops as well. It has 4 speakers and has Beats Audio preinstalled which improves the bass significantly. There is another model, the Dv6-6135us which has a discrete HD 6750M card which can run alone or in Crossfire with the integrated 6620G chip. It's a little more expensive of course and the reviews do not say that it performs that much better

[CraigB]

If it had of been a few weeks ago i could have sold you one of the laptops in my sig for $600 which is a quarter of there retail but but i sold 350 of them in 24 hours and gave away 23 of them to family as early xmas prezzies 

[YoKenny]

http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-HD-6620G.54675.0.html


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I would never use any system from AMD as they have a good chance of self distruction.

Read the AMD forum about its problems:
http://forums.amd.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=203&threadid=153888

[Dch48]

http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-HD-6620G.54675.0.html


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I would never use any system from AMD as they have a good chance of self distruction.

Read the AMD forum about its problems:
http://forums.amd.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=203&threadid=153888

I've used 5 different AMD systems with absolutely no problems. They all have been rock solid and lasted at least 5 years that way. Only one fried it's MB after 6 years and I don't think it had anything to do with AMD since it had a Pentium3 CPU and a Rage Fury video card. The guy in that site seems to be one of those who looks for problems and isn't happy until he finds something. I have never seen those glitches with any ATI/AMD hardware or driver. For gamers, AMD has always packed the most punch for the buck and it still does.

Who cares what does or does not happen in WPF anyway? That's only for developers who are a miniscule part of the computer world. From what I've seen none of the glitches he shows have made it out to the release versions of anything.

[Dch48]

I just purchase a Dell 17R Inspiron Laptop with an Intel i5 processor.
This was a floor model which had no operating system but outside of that little
matter was in perfect condition. The price was right at $450.00
I've now had the pleasure of using this computer for the past 3 weeks and can highly recommend it.

I doubt that it would play the games he plays though. Intel graphics are not good at all, even the new 3000 ones that are built into the Sandy Bridge CPU's. My HD6620G chip completely blows Intel out of the water.

[Mr.Agent]

Well ATI do offer good graphics for a very low price that you can compare to a NVIDIA that cost like 30-50 $ more and its do the same...