darksonic45 Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 My parents said that I could get a laptop for my graduation present. I want a computer that can do pretty much everything (within reason) and I think I might have have found a good laptop but I'd like some feedback from you guys. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6834220461 Basic info: CPU Type Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 2.4G Memory Size 4GB DDR2 Hard Disk 250GB Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GT Video Memory 1024MB I'd also like it if you guys told me to get this laptop now or if I should wait until the end of the year to get a computer with similar stats with Win 7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nadril Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 If you can wait and see what AMD and ATI are going to be doing with the mobile HD4000 series coming out sometime here in the middle of the year (IIRC). Should be quite powerful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darksonic45 Posted January 31, 2009 Author Share Posted January 31, 2009 If you can wait and see what AMD and ATI are going to be doing with the mobile HD4000 series coming out sometime here in the middle of the year (IIRC). Should be quite powerful. Thanks, but I'm not sure that ASUS will put it into their laptops, but other then that is it good? (Also, is ASUS a good brand?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dracion1 Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 ASUS are good, but a lot of other brands are too. Considering how good value for money things like the 4850 HD are (on par with Nvidia's GTX 260 for just over half the price), if you can wait then it should be worth it. "In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Roverud Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 Seems a little expensive to me. I think you could get a similar quality laptop (minus the video card) for probably around $300 cheaper and just buy a video card... Unless you really like that processor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sloter Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 I find it funny that that laptop has 4GB memory and a x86 OS on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darksonic45 Posted January 31, 2009 Author Share Posted January 31, 2009 Seems a little expensive to me. I think you could get a similar quality laptop (minus the video card) for probably around $300 cheaper and just buy a video card... Unless you really like that processor. I don't really know how to install a video card on a laptop and the other laptops I've found have a weak video card and their ratings aren't as high. I find it funny that that laptop has 4GB memory and a x86 OS on it. Can x86 use 4GB to it's full potential? (I only sorta know what x32 and x64 can handle, no idea about x86) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nadril Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 Seems a little expensive to me. I think you could get a similar quality laptop (minus the video card) for probably around $300 cheaper and just buy a video card... Unless you really like that processor. .... I'll let you figure out what went wrong there. Can x86 use 4GB to it's full potential? (I only sorta know what x32 and x64 can handle, no idea about x86) x86 is a 32 bit processor FYI. It can't. You want Vista 64. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sbrideau Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 Yeah, sometimes Asus do things like that, that should be done differently, but even there, an 32bit os, even if it uses 3.5 of the 4GB, will be faster than on a system with 3GB memory. Asus is actually one of the best brands imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darksonic45 Posted February 1, 2009 Author Share Posted February 1, 2009 So would you guys recommend that I buy this, look for another laptop or wait for Win 7? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nadril Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 What games are you playing on it, if any. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darksonic45 Posted February 1, 2009 Author Share Posted February 1, 2009 I will probably be playing RSHD but I might try to play some other MMORPGs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevepole Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 So would you guys recommend that I buy this, look for another laptop or wait for Win 7? I think that you should wait to get your laptop after graduation or wait til they start have the back to school sales because by then you could get either the same laptop for cheaper or get something better for the same and if your interested in getting a macbook at all apple has some pretty good back to school deals too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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