Laptop advice

[madmadmax321]

1. What is your budget? £1200 (1950 USD)

2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering? 14inch or 15inch

3. What screen resolution do you want? don't mind

4. Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop? Portable

5. How much battery life do you need? 4 hours+

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)? light gaming on medium settings

7. What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop? (Photo/Video editing, Etc.) Lots of CAD work and hd video editing using adobe after effect and sony vegas pro. Also some cinema 4d.

8. How much storage (Hard Drive capacity) do you need? 500gb is fine

9. If you are considering specific sites to buy from, please post their links. dont mind as long as they ship to the UK

10. How long do you want to keep your laptop? 4 years or more

11. What kind of Optical drive do you need? DVD ROM/Writer,Bluray ROM/Writer,Etc ? DVD ROM/Writer is good

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. preferably not acer

13. What country do you live in? UK

14. Please tell us any additional information if needed. Its needs to run CAD smoothly and fast as it will be used during my A-level studies and also be able to handle the editing software running at the same time. Gaming on cod 4 and non graphics intensive games mainly but does need to have a dedicated graphics.

 

[Hegon]

I've heard good things about the Lenovo ThinkPad W520 for graphics/video work, and it supposedly has an excellent screen, and is under budget... problem being the NVIDIA Quadro 1000M Graphics when it comes to the gaming you'll want to be doing.

Given that, something like the Sony Vaio S could be worth a look, in the linked review it is said to boast a "super screen for video" and I have a Vaio C, they're pretty neat little units... though the screen is only 13.3 inch, it's very portable. You do pay a little extra for the Sony name though (always :-/)

Hope that's of some help anyway...

 

[madmadmax321]

Thanks for the reply. What is the battery life like on the sony viao c when doing things like watching youtube videos?

 

[Godsslave]

Dear madmadmax!@)

Hi! My name is Daniel Simon.
If you want I can sell my original Sony
I`ve just bought it. That would be a bargain for you. That laptop is truly superior. Then why would I sell it? Because I want to buy a Alienware.
RRP: £1400 At amazon £1130, I would sale it for £1000.


Sony VAIO F13S0E 16.4 inch notebook (Intel Core i7 740QM 1.73GHz, 6Gb, 500Gb, Blu-ray/DVDSM, WLAN, BT, Webcam Windows Ultimate 64
Product Features

•Processor clock speed: 1730 MHz
•Processor family: Intel Core i7
•Processor model: i7-740QM
•Chipset: Intel PM55 Express
•System bus: 2.5 GT/s


•Intel® Core™ i7-740QM Processor
•Genuine Windows® 7 Ultimate
•Blu-ray Disc™ ROM Drive with DVD SuperMulti
• 6GB DDR3 SDRAM & 500GB Hard Drive
•16.4 Inch 1920 x 1200 resolution

Technical Details



Operating System: Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium 64bit
Chipset:Intel® PM55 Express
Cover Colour: Black
Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-740QM Processor
L3 Cache: 6MB
Number of Cores: 4
Memory: 6 GB
Memory Specification: PC3-10600
Memory Speed: 1333MHz
Memory Type: DDR3 SDRAM
Max. Supported Memory: 8 GB
Hard Drive Type: Serial ATA
Hard Drive Capacity 500 GB
Hard Drive Speed: 7200 rpm
Optical Drive Type: Blu-ray Disc™ ROM Drive with DVD SuperMulti
CD 24x,CD-R 24x/24x,CD-RW 24x/10x,DVD 8x,DVD-R DL 6x/4x,DVD-R 8x/8x,DVD-RW 6x/4x,DVD+R DL 6x/4x,DVD+R 8x/8x,DVD+RW 6x/4x,DVD-RAM 5x/5x,BD-ROM 4x,BD-R 2.2 x, BD-R DL 2.2x/,BD-RE 4x/,BD-RE DL 2.2x/
Diagonal Size: 16.4 Inch
Aspect ratio:Wide(16:9)
Resolution: 1920 x 1200
Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 425M GPU
Total Graphics Memory Approx. 3830MB
Interfaces: SuperSpeed USB (USB 3.0) x2,e-SATA / Hi-Speed USB (USB 2.0) x1,USB Connector Type: Type-A,Memory Stick Duo x1, SD memory card x1,HDMI Output,VGA Output
Microphone Jack, Headphone Jack
Ethernet: 1000BASE-T/100BASE-TX/10BASE-T
Wireless LAN: IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n
Wireless LAN Max. Date Rate: 300Mbps
Built-in Speakers: Internal, Stereo speakers
Built-in Microphone: Yes(Monaural)
Dolby Codec😀olby Home Theater® v3
Built-in Camera: MOTION EYE™640 x 480 webcam
Special Buttons: Display OFF, VAIO, Assist, S1, AV buttons
Kensington Lock:Yes
Software (Solution Portal):VAIO Gate
Software (Photo/Video)😛MB VAIO Edition
Software (Multimedia):Media Gallery
Software (Home Network):VAIO Media plus
Software (Support):VAIO Care
Software (Utilities):VAIO Transfer Support
Software (Office Application):Adobe Reader,Microsoft Office 2010 Starter
Software (Security & Backup):McAfee (60 days free virus update), Norton Online BackUp Trial
Software (SONY Tools)Remote Keyboard with PlayStation 3,Remote Play with PlayStation 3
Dimensions: 387.2 x 263 x 31
Weight:3.1 K

 

[madmadmax321]

Not for me thanks looking for at least 2.0ghz

 

[Godsslave]

Fine, then you will need your £1200 at least!

 

[Hegon]

Battery life on the Vaio C isn't stellar, but I think better than the S series judging from reviews...

It generally lasts 3 to 3.5 hours when not doing too intensive stuff around Windows (which YouTube video watching would qualify as I think - not that I've sat and watched YouTube for 3+ hours solid 😉 )

With some toning down on the power settings you can get a bit longer at the cost of display brightness of course.

 

[Godsslave]

Battery life? Yeah, not the longest, especially if you play, but this is no wonder, cause I have a beautiful Wuxwga display, over Full Hd, it means, I can watch blue ray movies, with the real blue ray res, however windows normally can take only Full Hd. So that extra res, 1920*1200 for the blu ray movies. But who cares. I mean, I am really satisfied with my Vaio. I play with all the newest games in the highest details with full speed, thanks to my 3.8gb ram vid memory and 6gb sd ram dual channel etc. So this is a really fancy machine, I can recommend it to everyone.