1. What is your budget?
Flexible. This new job pays quite a bit more, and the budget is anywhere from $1400-$2000. If I think it is worth it, I'd be happy to spend more.
2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering?
17", It will be in a hotel room when I travel and only be used when I am in said hotel room. Won't need to be moved. I will be moving to a different city every week, so its not *too* much travel.
3. What screen resolution do you want?
1920x1080, its what I currently use on a 24" monitor.
4. Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop?
Desktop replacement, mostly.
5. How much battery life do you need?
Not all that important. It can stay plugged in.
6. Do you want to play games with your laptop? If so then please list the games that you want to with the settings that you want for these games. (Low,Medium or High)?
Skyrim, modded with the "Skyrim HD Lite Textures" as well as some of the lighting mods. Total War Rome 2 is one of the games I am looking forward to as well. For the most part I don't mind lowering settings, but for Skyrim those extra textures are just..necessary. My only gripe is that I really need 45+ FPS. I'll gladly shut off AntiAliasing, shadows, etc.
7. What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop? (Photo/Video editing, Etc.)
Gaming and multitasking.
8. How much storage (Hard Drive capacity) do you need?
Not a big deal. I'd be happy buying a 4TB Drive and connecting it via esata. 500GB-1TB is fine, speed of 7200RPM is important though.
9. If you are considering specific sites to buy from, please post their links.
I work at Best Buy, but our discount is shit for laptops.
10. How long do you want to keep your laptop?
2-3 years. Most likely I'll replace it when the games graphics demand more power or I stop being able to run them at 50+ FPS at medium.
11. What kind of Optical drive do you need? DVD ROM/Writer,Bluray ROM/Writer,Etc ?
Blu-Ray would be nice just for renting from red box and stuff.
12. Please tell us about the brands that you prefer to buy from them and the brands that you don't like and explain the reasons.
Brands are largely irrelevant. Being able to get the least amount of bloatware possible would be nice. I'll most likely format the hard drive as soon as I get it and reinstall the windows copy.
13. What country do you live in?
USA, Midwest.
14. Please tell us any additional information if needed.
My current desktop is an Intel 3570k, 16GB of Corsair Vengeance RAM (1600) with a 7950 as GPU. The laptop ideally would be equal performance or better.
Flexible. This new job pays quite a bit more, and the budget is anywhere from $1400-$2000. If I think it is worth it, I'd be happy to spend more.
2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering?
17", It will be in a hotel room when I travel and only be used when I am in said hotel room. Won't need to be moved. I will be moving to a different city every week, so its not *too* much travel.
3. What screen resolution do you want?
1920x1080, its what I currently use on a 24" monitor.
4. Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop?
Desktop replacement, mostly.
5. How much battery life do you need?
Not all that important. It can stay plugged in.
6. Do you want to play games with your laptop? If so then please list the games that you want to with the settings that you want for these games. (Low,Medium or High)?
Skyrim, modded with the "Skyrim HD Lite Textures" as well as some of the lighting mods. Total War Rome 2 is one of the games I am looking forward to as well. For the most part I don't mind lowering settings, but for Skyrim those extra textures are just..necessary. My only gripe is that I really need 45+ FPS. I'll gladly shut off AntiAliasing, shadows, etc.
7. What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop? (Photo/Video editing, Etc.)
Gaming and multitasking.
8. How much storage (Hard Drive capacity) do you need?
Not a big deal. I'd be happy buying a 4TB Drive and connecting it via esata. 500GB-1TB is fine, speed of 7200RPM is important though.
9. If you are considering specific sites to buy from, please post their links.
I work at Best Buy, but our discount is shit for laptops.
10. How long do you want to keep your laptop?
2-3 years. Most likely I'll replace it when the games graphics demand more power or I stop being able to run them at 50+ FPS at medium.
11. What kind of Optical drive do you need? DVD ROM/Writer,Bluray ROM/Writer,Etc ?
Blu-Ray would be nice just for renting from red box and stuff.
12. Please tell us about the brands that you prefer to buy from them and the brands that you don't like and explain the reasons.
Brands are largely irrelevant. Being able to get the least amount of bloatware possible would be nice. I'll most likely format the hard drive as soon as I get it and reinstall the windows copy.
13. What country do you live in?
USA, Midwest.
14. Please tell us any additional information if needed.
My current desktop is an Intel 3570k, 16GB of Corsair Vengeance RAM (1600) with a 7950 as GPU. The laptop ideally would be equal performance or better.
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