I have 3k need help!!

[kamkk]

I already asked but no answer so ill ask again

i have 3k, need a laptop

Needs the be thin
sleek
nice looking
5 hours + battery life
14" - 16" screen size
Be able to run Bf3 med-high
far cry 3 med-high
Minecraft with SEUS mod

Please provide links

oh and if it's known to overheat then please don't reccommed

IK it's alot to ask for, but pl0x? :3

 

[mattwd]

The Samsung series 7 NP780Z5E-S01UB: http/www.samsung.com/us/computer/laptops/NP780Z5E-S01UB-specs
-It just got refreshed, and is pretty much the best gaming to form factor balance you can get

I have last years model the NP700Z5C-S01US (http/www.samsung.com/us/computer/laptops/NP700Z5C-S01US) and I love it. I play battlefield on medium at 30-40 fps all the time, and i believe the refreshed version has an even better graphics card. It's also not hard at all to drop in a SSD which makes it a beast. Let me know if you have any other questions.

 

[bluethulhu]

I don't know how "thin and sleek" you want, but there really isn't such thing as a thin gaming laptop, if you mean Macbook air thin. Can we please have some more info? Also, don't know about the 5+ hour battery life while gaming. Sleek is sort of a matter of opinion. Do you want a professional clean black look, a brushed aluminum look, or a glossy white look? Your expectations may be a little too high, sorry to say. Also, if you have $3k to drop, get a nice desktop for around $2000 that will kick any games ass on the market right now, and get a nice ultrabook for portability. You could even get a mini-itx LAN desktop rig and an ultrabook, if you want to attend LAN parties/go to a friends house for gaming/whatever.

Please fill this out, and post here when done. That would help me a lot.

 

[g-unit1111]

The Samsung series 7 NP780Z5E-S01UB: http/www.samsung.com/us/computer/laptops/NP780Z5E-S01UB-specs
-It just got refreshed, and is pretty much the best gaming to form factor balance you can get

I have last years model the NP700Z5C-S01US (http/www.samsung.com/us/computer/laptops/NP700Z5C-S01US) and I love it. I play battlefield on medium at 30-40 fps all the time, and i believe the refreshed version has an even better graphics card. It's also not hard at all to drop in a SSD which makes it a beast. Let me know if you have any other questions.

$3K for a laptop? No way would I get a Samsung 7 series. Get a Falcon Northwest TLX: http/www.falcon-nw.com/laptops/tlx

 

[JackNaylorPE]

Gaming laptop and sleek / thin are mutually exclusive
Gaming laptop and 5 hour battery life are mutually exclusive

One thing Id advise is to avoid 5400 rpm Hard Drives commmonly found in the Lenovos and Samsungs, SSD / HD combos are best balance but hybrid SSD / HD like the 750 GB Momentus XT give ya 95% of the performance with none of the "what do i put where" hassle.

I'd also advise .... "Know who really made your laptop" The vast majority of laptops on the market (94% in 2011) are manufactured by a small handful of Taiwan-based Original Design Manufacturers (ODM), although their production bases are located mostly in mainland China. Major relationships include:

Quanta sells to (among others) HP, Lenovo, Apple, Acer, Toshiba, Dell, Sony, Fujitsu and NEC
Compal sells to (among others) Acer, Dell, Toshiba, Lenovo and HP/Compaq
Wistron (former manufacturing & design division of Acer) sells to Dell, Acer, Lenovo and HP
Inventec sells to Toshiba, HP and Lenovo
Pegatron sells to Asus, Toshiba, Apple, Dell and Acer
Foxconn sells to Asus, Dell, HP and Apple
Flextronics (former Arima Computer Corporation notebook division) sells to HP
Clevo sells direct to local distributors such as Sager, FalconNW, VoodooPC, WindowPC and other boutique gaming houses.

For $3k, ya might wanna look at a Clevo P370EM3 custom built job
http/www.lpc-digital.com/sager-np9370-3d.html
117.3" Full HD 3D LED 120Hz 72% NTSC Color Gamut Matte with Emitter and 1 pair NVIDIA 3D Vision™ Glasses
Dual NVIDIA GeForce™ GTX 680M's total 8GB GDDR5 in SLI
Intel Core i7-3630QM Processor
Microsoft Windows® 7 Professional 32/64-Bit Edition
16GB Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz - 2 X 8GB
750GB Seagate Momentus XT ST750LX003 7200RPM 32MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 8GB SSD
6X Blu-ray Reader/8X DVD±R/2.4X +DL Super-Multi Drive
Killer Wireless-N 1202 with Bluetooth 4.0 (Dual Band)
Removable Smart Lithium-Ion battery pack (8 cell) 89.21WH
Integrated Fingerprint Reader
Free Shipping

List is $2,899 but ya should be eligible for a $200-250 discount

Now that's not what I buy....Im perfectly happy with these:

http/www.lpc-digital.com/sager-np9170-features.html

w/ GTX 675MX, Seagate Momentus 750 GB, 16GB RAM, BR reader, 17" screen 1920 x 1080 for $1325

 

[kamkk]

I don't know how "thin and sleek" you want, but there really isn't such thing as a thin gaming laptop, if you mean Macbook air thin. Can we please have some more info? Also, don't know about the 5+ hour battery life while gaming. Sleek is sort of a matter of opinion. Do you want a professional clean black look, a brushed aluminum look, or a glossy white look? Your expectations may be a little too high, sorry to say. Also, if you have $3k to drop, get a nice desktop for around $2000 that will kick any games ass on the market right now, and get a nice ultrabook for portability. You could even get a mini-itx LAN desktop rig and an ultrabook, if you want to attend LAN parties/go to a friends house for gaming/whatever.

Please fill this out, and post here when done. That would help me a lot.

I meant macbook pro thin

 

[g-unit1111]

I don't know how "thin and sleek" you want, but there really isn't such thing as a thin gaming laptop, if you mean Macbook air thin. Can we please have some more info? Also, don't know about the 5+ hour battery life while gaming. Sleek is sort of a matter of opinion. Do you want a professional clean black look, a brushed aluminum look, or a glossy white look? Your expectations may be a little too high, sorry to say. Also, if you have $3k to drop, get a nice desktop for around $2000 that will kick any games ass on the market right now, and get a nice ultrabook for portability. You could even get a mini-itx LAN desktop rig and an ultrabook, if you want to attend LAN parties/go to a friends house for gaming/whatever.

Please fill this out, and post here when done. That would help me a lot.

I meant macbook pro thin

Well either you're going to get high quality hardware or sacrifice for a thin form factor, you can't have both in the same system, there's no laptop on the market that would support both qualities.

 

[mattwd]

Check the link it's one grand.....

 

[bluethulhu]

I meant macbook pro thin
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Sorry, still not going to happen. Not trying to be a dick, but I think $3000 is way too much for a laptop. There is a point in all PCs where you start to spend ridiculous amounts of money more, but you get a minimal performance increase. Just like the 3930k and the 3960x. The 3960x is $500 more, but you will get very little performance increase in games, maybe 2-3FPS tops. The GTX 670 and the GTX 680. The 670 is about 5% worse, but you can overclock it and easily pass a 680's performance. As I said before, get a nice desktop for about $1700 or so, and get a thin, but mediocre laptop. If you need to move around, get a mini-itx build. You could even put it in something like an Elite 120 from Cooler master. It is about the size of a large loaf of bread, though I haven't seen one in person, so I cant say for sure. Get something like a Y500 for portability. You could probably play some low-end stuff like Far Cry on low-medium, or Minecraft without many mods.

Final answer: Macbook pro thin-ness in a GAMING notebook is pretty much impossible. You will have to lower your expectations.

 

[g-unit1111]

Sorry, still not going to happen. Not trying to be a dick, but I think $3000 is way too much for a laptop. There is a point in all PCs where you start to spend ridiculous amounts of money more, but you get a minimal performance increase. Just like the 3930k and the 3960x. The 3960x is $500 more, but you will get very little performance increase in games, maybe 2-3FPS tops. The GTX 670 and the GTX 680. The 670 is about 5% worse, but you can overclock it and easily pass a 680's performance. As I said before, get a nice desktop for about $1700 or so, and get a thin, but mediocre laptop. If you need to move around, get a mini-itx build. You could even put it in something like an Elite 120 from Cooler master. It is about the size of a large loaf of bread, though I haven't seen one in person, so I cant say for sure. Get something like a Y500 for portability. You could probably play some low-end stuff like Far Cry on low-medium, or Minecraft without many mods.

Final answer: Macbook pro thin-ness in a GAMING notebook is pretty much impossible. You will have to lower your expectations.

My sentiments exactly. Either you have a small form factor or you sacrifice quality components. You'll never find both in the same system - not even the ridiculously overpriced Macbook Pro with Retina Display has that.

 

[mattwd]

The one I pointed out is Macbook pro thin, and capable of moderate gaming.
-it can play all the games he listed at medium at the minimum
-is 15.6 inches
-gets 5+ hours of battery life (not while gaming of course, that's not possible)
- thin: Samsung (14.80" x 9.84" x 0.89") v. Macbook pro (14.35" x 9.82" x 0.95") so it's actually thinner
-only $1300

 

[bluethulhu]

The one I pointed out is Macbook pro thin, and capable of moderate gaming.
-it can play all the games he listed at medium at the minimum
-is 15.6 inches
-gets 5+ hours of battery life (not while gaming of course, that's not possible)
- thin: Samsung (14.80" x 9.84" x 0.89") v. Macbook pro (14.35" x 9.82" x 0.95") so it's actually thinner
-only $1300

You already said that twice. Please stop posing the same thing, we all saw your recommendation before.

 

[mattwd]

The one I pointed out is Macbook pro thin, and capable of moderate gaming.
-it can play all the games he listed at medium at the minimum
-is 15.6 inches
-gets 5+ hours of battery life (not while gaming of course, that's not possible)
- thin: Samsung (14.80" x 9.84" x 0.89") v. Macbook pro (14.35" x 9.82" x 0.95") so it's actually thinner
-only $1300

You already said that twice. Please stop posing the same thing, we all saw your recommendation before.

My apologies, it seemed to be disregarded. All i'm trying to point out is that you can achieve moderate gaming performance with a thin form factor, which i believe is what he is looking for