Recent content by Dicepshon

Thanks so much for your input everyone. I've thought hard on how portable I need the system to be and the honest answer is not much. I don't travel a lot with my laptop or game in places where I need to bring one; so, I've decided that I'm going to actually build a mid-tower desktop. Thank you...

Thanks for your input so far folks although I was hoping for maybe some examples of what I could expect from a machine in terms of longevity. I know this is also very general, but I've just not the experience to know which is why I'm asking. 5 years is a stretch, I agree but I guess I just...

Hi Folks, I've been messing around with pricing out laptops (and desktops for that matter) with the thought in mind that I want to be able to play games coming out now and in about 5 years on pretty high settings. They don't need to be ultra crazy, in fact I've always preferred high settings to...

here's a link to intel's site to compare your two processors in question: http://ark.intel.com/compare/75116,47341 what you're getting with the new i7 is hyperthreading technology which makes it so that the CPU behaves as though it has 8 threads instead of 4....but not entirely. What this means...

fair enough. battery makes total sense. I know the heatsink has some weight to it and I love the fact that I CAN upgrade the CPU, graphics card and so many other things on it. I'm not certain if asus/msi have this same type of "future-proofing"... which is also something the OP might want to...

I'm also looking scouting for a new laptop (will be posting myself eventually). The laptop I'm on right now is a clevo m860tu, aka sager np8662. I got it before the big change to the i-series processors(has a t9700 core 2duo) and it's held me out since 2007/8. The only reason I want a new laptop...