Solved! Purchasing Gaming Laptop

[SmythA]

Hi I'm looking to buy a laptop that I will primarily use for gaming. I'm fairly uneducated in this area and was hoping that someone could help me choose a laptop.


1_What is your budget? - up to 3000

2_How much screen size do you need? - 16"

3_How much screen resolution do you want? - preferably 1920x1080

4_Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop? - whichever would work better

5_How much battery life do you need? - as much as possible (not as important as other specs)

6_Do you want to play games with it? If so then what kind of settings you want to play your games?(Low,Medium or High)? - Preferably high

7_What other tasks do you want to with your laptop? multimedia

8_How much storage(H.D.D Capacity)do you need? - I have an external so this isnt very important

9_If you just want to buy from some sites that you like,please post the link of them.

10_How long do you want to keep your laptop? - preferably 4 years

11_If you like to mention some other things,please post them too. - Unfortunately, the on-campus warrantly and support will only cover Dell, HP, and Lenovo laptops, so it has to be one of those brands. Thanks!

 

[Maziar]

Thanks for the responses. I've got a few more questions...
What advantage does having more cores give me? Just more raw power?
Is it possible to upgrade the video card for the studio 16?

Some games and some CPU-intensive apps benefit from more cores.
And not its not possible to upgrade the VGA on Studio 16

 

[Komomu]

1_The first 2 are Dual cores whereas 720QM is Quad core.
2_About 1hr and 15-30mns
3_Cooling and VGA models
4_The best model for M15x is HD 5850M and for AW M17x is HD 5870M

Isn't the i7-620M quad core??

http/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Core_i7

 

[lostandwandering]

Isn't the i7-620M quad core??

http/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Core_i7

No, dual core + hyperthreading + a much higher clock speed. If it were a true Quad it would have the QM designation like the 720, 820 and 920. See here: http/processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SLBPD

 

[Komomu]

No, dual core + hyperthreading + a much higher clock speed. If it were a true Quad it would have the QM designation like the 720, 820 and 920. See here: http/processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SLBPD

Oh thanks

 

[lotri]

The 4670 in the XPS 16 would be the better choice. The HD 5470 in the Studio 15 would only get you about half the performance of the 4670 in games like Battlefield BC2 and Call of Duty MW2.

http/www.notebookcheck.net/Computer-Games-on-Laptop-Graphic-Cards.13849.0.html

Lol, oops. Just looked at that link. I thought higher numbers were supposed to be better?

Oh wow, 64-bit bus and fewer shaders for higher clock speed and dx11.

 

[Gnom3]

I would definitely checkout the soon-to-be-released HP Envy 17". I just posted a video in another thread that has all the details. Check it out.

http/www.tomshardware.com/forum/59797-35-envy

 

[Maziar]

No, dual core + hyperthreading + a much higher clock speed. If it were a true Quad it would have the QM designation like the 720, 820 and 920. See here: http/processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SLBPD

+1^
Its because of HT,which shows double number of cores in task manager