My first laptop

[dgrunt]

1_What is your budget?
Budget is about 1500-2000$

2_What is the size of the notebook that you are considering?
16"

3_What screen resolution do you want?
1920x1080p

4_Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop?
portable -ish

5_How much battery life do you need?
i would like 2 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)?
just like warcraft 3 and CS:S at medium would be nice

7_What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop? (Photo / Video editing, surfing the web, playing music, watching movies, Etc.)
Photo editing,surf web, movies and music _yes.

8_How much storage (H.D.D Capacity) do you need?
Thinking about 160-320, i would like the 7200rpm.

9_If you are considering specific sites to buy from, please post the links to them.
the site where i found the laptop that i would like is http://www.shopping.hp.com/series/category/notebooks/HDX16t_series/3/computer_store?jumpid=in_r329_personalization/browse1/home_SDP

10_How long do you want to keep your laptop?
? / / lets say 2-3 years

11_If you would like to mention some other things about purchasing your ideal laptop, post them.
My ideal laptop would be portable and still able to play games on a medium setting for up to 2 hours on battery alone.


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.
I like the HP HDX 16t, after reading a few reviewes and looking around, i like the specs that i can put to gether there.

13_What country do you live in?
I live in europe

 

[Maziar]

that HDX is good but take a look @ this SAGER one too,its 15.4" but has better specs and can max out those games :d
http://www.xoticpc.com/sager-np8660-built-clevo-m860tu-p-2411.html

 

[dgrunt]

Cant go for the sager.

These are the tid bits that i would like in my notebook.

Operating system Vista Home Premium with Service Pack 1 (64-bit)
Display 16.0" diagonal High Definition HP Ultra BrightView Infinity Display (1920x1080p)
Memory 4GB DDR2 System Memory (2 Dimm)
Graphics card 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT
Hard drive 320GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive with HP ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection
Networking Intel Next-Gen Wireless-N Mini-card with Bluetooth
DVD/CD drive Lightscribe Blu-Ray ROM with SuperMulti DVD+/-R/RW Double Layer
Primary battery One 6 Cell and One 12 Cell Lithium Ion Batteries

I wanted to get Intels Core 2 Duo Processor T9400 (2.53 GHz) 1066 MHz 6 MB
But the shop cant get that processor it can get the T8400 (2.26 GHz) 1066 MHz 3 MB

This system should be able to run CS:S at medium wouldnt it?
Mabe even high.

 

[Maziar]

yup shoud do@ medium

 

[Peaks]

Why cant you go for the Sager?

Similar Price,
Same Res,
OK less RAM but it is DDR3, (can be optimised to 4GB) and you could save on the OS by getting 32-bit
Better GPU

I would go for the sager, gonna easily run CS:S on medium

 

[dgrunt]

I havent found a shop that sells Sager where i live.
I am gona call some shops after the weekend and see what they say.
I am gona take a better look at those notebooks
Sager vs HP HDX(wich i need to special order to get).
That is if i can find a shop that sells the Sager.

 

[lostandwandering]

I havent found a shop that sells Sager where i live.
I am gona call some shops after the weekend and see what they say.
I am gona take a better look at those notebooks
Sager vs HP HDX(wich i need to special order to get).
That is if i can find a shop that sells the Sager.

Where do you live? You are only going to find the Sager systems online. They generally aren't sold retail like HP's, Dell's and Gateway's.

 

[dgrunt]

I live in Iceland.

 

[Peaks]

Sager deliver to iceland!!!!!

 

[dgrunt]

I am waiting to here from them to see how much the shipping cost would be.
But i dont like the idea if i have to ship it over seas if there would be a problem of any kind.

 

[dwellman]

Iceland? Didn't it fall into the ocean last week? Glad to hear there's at least on guy NOT participating in the "recession".