Laptop shopping

PostRe: Laptop shopping by **1cmanny1** » Tue Nov 06, 2012 11:05 am

Gaming socially? Well I never.

PostRe: Laptop shopping by **Errkal** » Tue Nov 06, 2012 11:10 am

For me its more so I am not just abandoning the wife, so more sociable in that sense.

PostRe: Laptop shopping by **Holpil** » Tue Nov 06, 2012 2:01 pm

How is that comfy though? Surely being hunched over the coffee table for an extended period of time is going to make you ache after a while? I know what you mean though, I never get more than ten minutes peace when I descend to my man cave.

PostRe: Laptop shopping by **Oh Teh Noes** » Tue Nov 06, 2012 10:36 pm

Errkal wrote:precticle

sorry what

PostRe: Laptop shopping by **Drumstick** » Tue Nov 06, 2012 11:28 pm

Oh Teh Noes wrote:
Errkal wrote:precticle

sorry what

Stop being such a frightful bore.

PostRe: Laptop shopping by **Errkal** » Thu Nov 08, 2012 5:45 pm

Oh Teh Noes wrote:
Errkal wrote:precticle

sorry what

Practical, sorry was typing on my phone.

PostRe: Laptop shopping by **1cmanny1** » Thu Nov 08, 2012 10:13 pm

Oh Teh Noes wrote:
Errkal wrote:precticle

sorry what

Sorry, what?

PostRe: Laptop shopping by **Rax** » Fri Nov 09, 2012 12:59 pm

PostRe: Laptop shopping by **Lagamorph** » Fri Nov 09, 2012 2:39 pm

Back on topic.
Think we'll go for the twin 7970's in crossfire. About the only advantage the 680 would have is PhysX, but the gains from the crossfire performance outweigh that in my opinion.

PostRe: Laptop shopping by **HSH28** » Sat Nov 10, 2012 12:03 pm

16GB of RAM...why?

PostRe: Laptop shopping by **Lagamorph** » Sat Nov 10, 2012 1:49 pm

HSH28 wrote:16GB of RAM...why?

Why not? RAM is dirt cheap. Hell, for another £80 the XMG can be doubled up again to 32GB.

Though I showed him them this morning and his response to both the XMG and Voyager were,

My idiot brother wrote:They look gooseberry fool

He prefers form over function. Think he's got it stuck in his head he wants an Alienware because it 'looks cool' so would rather get something that costs more and does less just because it has a snazzy case.

:fp:

Personally,

I absolutely love the minimalistic style of the XMG.

For reference, I just specced a 17" Alienware laptop and the closest spec I can get costs £1,718.99. And that only comes with a single 7970M rather than the twin ones in crossfire that the Voyager or XMG comes with and only a 1 year warranty instead of 2 year :fp:

You can get two 7970M's in the 18" model however....for a whopping £2,268.99. £700 more than the equivalent spec XMG :shock:

PostRe: Laptop shopping by **HSH28** » Sat Nov 10, 2012 3:39 pm

Lagamorph wrote:
HSH28 wrote:16GB of RAM...why?

Why not? RAM is dirt cheap. Hell, for another £80 the XMG can be doubled up again to 32GB.

I wouldn't say £80 was 'dirt cheap', if you want to spend it there are better places to spend the money. As far as I'm aware giving yourself more than 8GB of RAM is pretty much a waste of money. You are better off if you can going for less of faster RAM than more of slower RAM for instance.

PostRe: Laptop shopping by **Lagamorph** » Sat Nov 10, 2012 3:46 pm

HSH28 wrote:
Lagamorph wrote:
HSH28 wrote:16GB of RAM...why?

Why not? RAM is dirt cheap. Hell, for another £80 the XMG can be doubled up again to 32GB.

I wouldn't say £80 was 'dirt cheap', if you want to spend it there are better places to spend the money. As far as I'm aware giving yourself more than 8GB of RAM is pretty much a waste of money. You are better off if you can going for less of faster RAM than more of slower RAM for instance.

£80 for 16GB of RAM is pretty cheap when it's SODIMM.

PostRe: Laptop shopping by **KjGarly** » Sat Nov 10, 2012 8:43 pm

Go for an MSI GT70 with a GTX 680m card. And the keyboard lights up and gooseberry fool and looks nice :shifty:

and the MSI writing on the lid also lights up.

PostRe: Laptop shopping by **Lagamorph** » Sun Nov 11, 2012 12:32 pm

FFS

He's now insisting it has to be an Alienware because it's the only one that "looks cool".
He's actually willing to take a performance hit, reduction in memory (12GB instead of 16GB) and graphics performance (Single 7970M instead of dual 7970M's), to get an Alienware M17x for the same price as the XMG.

The boy is a strawberry floating idiot :fp:

YouTube · PostRe: Laptop shopping by **Stugene** » Mon Nov 12, 2012 3:41 am

Tell him to stop being a baby and get him ~~a wii~~ the xmg.

PostRe: Laptop shopping by **Fishfingers** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 10:24 pm

A fool and his (parents) money are easily parted.

PostRe: Laptop shopping by **Lagamorph** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 10:30 pm

I've been forced to spec and order an Alienware laptop.

I feel dirty.

7256930752 · PostRe: Laptop shopping by **7256930752** » Mon Jan 14, 2013 9:58 am

From the PC thread:

Hime wrote:Is this a decent laptop for the price?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B009QZCYU4/ref=mp_s_a_1?qid=1358075688&sr=8-1&pi=SL75

If not could someone recommend anything better for the price?

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