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1. What is your budget?
No more then $1000 CND without taxes and shipping unless it is a deal that can't be passed up
2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering?
I want a more thin and light laptop. It's going to be my primary computer and I'm on the go a great deal of the day. The size of screen I have no preference.
3. What screen resolution do you want?
No preference
4. Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop?
I would like a more portable laptop
5. How much battery life do you need?
I would like to be able to get though a full day of work. This would include word, email, internet and programing on a single battery. I seen some manufactures saying that they can get 8+ hours on a battery so I would love to have something that could last 6 hours at least but if its more realistic then 4 hours is fine.
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)?
I play a ton of older games and most of the time I play on medium settings. I like to play Battlefield 3 and Portal 2 on it. If it can be on Medium settings and do 20-25 FPS would be great.
7. What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop? (Photo / Video editing,watching movies, Etc.)
Like I said mostly school work like programing, Word and email.
8. How much storage (Hard Drive capacity) do you need?
I currently have a 250GB so if it has a hard drive nothing less then that. However if it comes with an SSD then I am willing to go down to 80 or 90 GB.
9. If you are considering specific sites to buy from, please post their links.
None really but I like to keep it to Canadian place if possible.
10. How long do you want to keep your laptop?
My old laptop is about 3 years old so I like to keep this one for just as long.
11. What kind of Optical drive do you need? DVD ROM/Writer,Bluray ROM/Writer,Etc ?
DVD writer is fine, if it comes with a Blue ray then that's a plus.
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.
Gateway at the moment. My old laptop is a Gateway and I have had problems through its life. As I type this its temp is up to 80C (and yes I have replaced the thermal grease, cleaned it, use a cooling mat and I have even had the fan assembly replaced)and that's with a browser and Word open. Another guy I know bought one at the same time and his keeps BSD on him after upgrading to Windows 7. So I like to stay away from them for now. Other then that I open to anyone.
13. What country do you live in?
Canada
14. Please tell us any additional information if needed.
I like to get a Sandy bridge laptop since I heard and ready great things about the CPU. I also like some of the features that Intel offers like Theft protection and Visualization as I might be setting up some virtual operating systems like Windows sever 2008 for learning purposes. I might also be dual booting windows 7 and Linux. I don't need an Operating system as I have access to Windows 7 Pro 64-bit for free from MSDN that they have at my University. I also interested at a tablet Laptop like x220t. I know this may be not possible with my budget but if its possible that would be a plus.
Thanks for your help and suggestions.
No more then $1000 CND without taxes and shipping unless it is a deal that can't be passed up
2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering?
I want a more thin and light laptop. It's going to be my primary computer and I'm on the go a great deal of the day. The size of screen I have no preference.
3. What screen resolution do you want?
No preference
4. Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop?
I would like a more portable laptop
5. How much battery life do you need?
I would like to be able to get though a full day of work. This would include word, email, internet and programing on a single battery. I seen some manufactures saying that they can get 8+ hours on a battery so I would love to have something that could last 6 hours at least but if its more realistic then 4 hours is fine.
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)?
I play a ton of older games and most of the time I play on medium settings. I like to play Battlefield 3 and Portal 2 on it. If it can be on Medium settings and do 20-25 FPS would be great.
7. What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop? (Photo / Video editing,watching movies, Etc.)
Like I said mostly school work like programing, Word and email.
8. How much storage (Hard Drive capacity) do you need?
I currently have a 250GB so if it has a hard drive nothing less then that. However if it comes with an SSD then I am willing to go down to 80 or 90 GB.
9. If you are considering specific sites to buy from, please post their links.
None really but I like to keep it to Canadian place if possible.
10. How long do you want to keep your laptop?
My old laptop is about 3 years old so I like to keep this one for just as long.
11. What kind of Optical drive do you need? DVD ROM/Writer,Bluray ROM/Writer,Etc ?
DVD writer is fine, if it comes with a Blue ray then that's a plus.
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.
Gateway at the moment. My old laptop is a Gateway and I have had problems through its life. As I type this its temp is up to 80C (and yes I have replaced the thermal grease, cleaned it, use a cooling mat and I have even had the fan assembly replaced)and that's with a browser and Word open. Another guy I know bought one at the same time and his keeps BSD on him after upgrading to Windows 7. So I like to stay away from them for now. Other then that I open to anyone.
13. What country do you live in?
Canada
14. Please tell us any additional information if needed.
I like to get a Sandy bridge laptop since I heard and ready great things about the CPU. I also like some of the features that Intel offers like Theft protection and Visualization as I might be setting up some virtual operating systems like Windows sever 2008 for learning purposes. I might also be dual booting windows 7 and Linux. I don't need an Operating system as I have access to Windows 7 Pro 64-bit for free from MSDN that they have at my University. I also interested at a tablet Laptop like x220t. I know this may be not possible with my budget but if its possible that would be a plus.
Thanks for your help and suggestions.
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