Solved! Need help buying

bryanftw

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1. What is your budget?
750$

2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering?
13 - 15( good size for college, in classes?)

3. What screen resolution do you want?
dont care

4. Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop?
need it to be lightweigt enough I can carry it around campus. I have my main desktop at home.

5. How much battery life do you need?
A bit above average, dont want to have to plug it in everytime I want to use it.

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)?
starcraft 2, im fine with low

7. What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop? (Photo/Video editing, Etc.)
mostly just word processing, probably watching movies on netflix.

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

9. If you are considering specific sites to buy from, please post their links.
newegg

10. How long do you want to keep your laptop?
as long as possible

11. What kind of Optical drive do you need? DVD ROM/Writer,Bluray ROM/Writer,Etc ?
just dvd-rom

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.
dont care

13. What country do you live in?
usa

14. Please tell us any additional information if needed.
This is going to be for college, taking it around campus and using it to take notes and what not. I would really like to have decent battery life. Would be a plus if I could play some starcraft 2 on at least low, to pass some time if I need it.

I hope this can help people find their ideal notebook.
 
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You should choose one between these 5: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Productcompare.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100006740&IsNodeId=1&bop=And&ActiveSearchResult=True&CompareItemList=32|34-215-106^34-215-106-TS%2C34-246-094^34-246-094-TS%2C34-215-119^34-215-119-TS%2C34-157-948^34-157-948-TS%2C34-230-074^34-230-074-TS I would go for nVIDIA for its Optimus technology BUT HP says it has switchable graphics so either one will work fine. As for driver support, you can expect nVIDIA to be the winner.

Reviews of the mobile graphic cards:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-HD-6490M.43843.0.html
http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GT-540M.41715.0.html

wintermint

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You should choose one between these 5: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Productcompare.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100006740&IsNodeId=1&bop=And&ActiveSearchResult=True&CompareItemList=32|34-215-106^34-215-106-TS%2C34-246-094^34-246-094-TS%2C34-215-119^34-215-119-TS%2C34-157-948^34-157-948-TS%2C34-230-074^34-230-074-TS I would go for nVIDIA for its Optimus technology BUT HP says it has switchable graphics so either one will work fine. As for driver support, you can expect nVIDIA to be the winner.

Reviews of the mobile graphic cards:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-HD-6490M.43843.0.html
http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GT-540M.41715.0.html
 
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