Budget:1600
I'm going to college in the fall. I'm looking for a good laptop to run games such as Company of Heroes and upcoming starcraft 2 on mid-high settings, and a productivity laptop, and one that would be friendly to engineering/architecture programs such as inventor or revit, as i am an engineering major. want this machine to last a few years.
uses:
Gaming (Company of Heroes mid-high)
Productivity (Sturdy Keyboard, backlit)
Multimedia
Animation (blender rendering)
Engineering Applications (Inventor, Revit, CAD)
Audio Editing (Track Cutting, Mixing, DJing in the near future)
I live in the U.S.
My options:
13' Macbook Pro, with a windows 7 install (dual boot or virtualized in Mac OSX) - $1600 + price of W7
My current Desktop (custom circa 2007, Core2 E6600, 8800GTS320, 2gb RAM) and a netbook that i can remote desktop (how i would do that i haven't figured out, but it is a possibility)
PC Laptop. preferably a sturdy build, quality pc. My last laptop was an inspiron from 2005...didn't last one year before it got clogged and obsolete.
I'm going to college in the fall. I'm looking for a good laptop to run games such as Company of Heroes and upcoming starcraft 2 on mid-high settings, and a productivity laptop, and one that would be friendly to engineering/architecture programs such as inventor or revit, as i am an engineering major. want this machine to last a few years.
uses:
Gaming (Company of Heroes mid-high)
Productivity (Sturdy Keyboard, backlit)
Multimedia
Animation (blender rendering)
Engineering Applications (Inventor, Revit, CAD)
Audio Editing (Track Cutting, Mixing, DJing in the near future)
I live in the U.S.
My options:
13' Macbook Pro, with a windows 7 install (dual boot or virtualized in Mac OSX) - $1600 + price of W7
My current Desktop (custom circa 2007, Core2 E6600, 8800GTS320, 2gb RAM) and a netbook that i can remote desktop (how i would do that i haven't figured out, but it is a possibility)
PC Laptop. preferably a sturdy build, quality pc. My last laptop was an inspiron from 2005...didn't last one year before it got clogged and obsolete.