Gamer/Work Notebook

Hello ,

I am writing this, because something bad happened - my laptop broke... -.-

Good thing: I had everything back up´ed on an external HDD.


Now I need a new one.

It should be a laptop with which I can play games in a good quality and also have a good battery health lenght.

My last one had a nVidia 9600M GT graphics card which got old and 2 hours battery health time - this was defenitly too short...


Now, i first thought about an MacBook Pro 15" - but when i saw the Asus Laptops and compared them, asus was in price/what i get much better(even if i like apple very much!) !

So I thought about this:

Asus X64JV-JX066V - Black
but than i saw it in white - and it was much cheaper!
Asus X64JV-JX084V White

edit: saw the advantages of the black one xD

oh and, it would be nice to have a DVD RW possible..


But now i ask you - are these good notebooks for what I want?

I looked at the Republic of Gamers section of asus - but they all looked so ugly...


Games that I play/want to: GTA IV, Just Cause 2, crysis and such HQ Games xD

Work: Word/Excel/PowerPoint, 3D Work with Blender, and programming with GS and for my Robot.


Thanks in advance,
rei


edit: I found another one which looks good and has really good aspects xD - Asus G60j

Get an Alienware Laptop and install Windows 7 on it. Alienware offers the best PCs available. My older bro has one, and it's simply awesome.

For a laptop it's rather large, but it will fit into a backpack and it can play the latest games with all the settings at or near the max, no problem.

Here's a link:
http://www.alienware.com/Landings/laptops.aspx

Thanks, but I hate Dell xD

I don't like alienware, it is too expensive for what you get - there are also the notebooks of deviltech better

And alienwares notebooks aren't the fastest ones(deviltech has the fastest - 300 euro)


Oh, my I forgot to say: I don't really want to pay more than 1600-2000 euro xD

Decent graphic power OR a long battery life, you won't barely find a laptop with both advantages.

Is there a reason you "hate" dell ? Personally I'm overwhelmed by the support, I've a XPS M1530 with an extended guaranty of 5 years in total and I would NEVER switch back to a vanilla consumer model.
Next-business-day on-site-service is in my opinion definitely worth the money.

The 15" Macbook looks quite impressive and combines long battery life with graphic power but this feature is OSX only as far as I know (since there are only nvidia optimus drivers for osx on the board I guess). So under windows you'll just get an expensive mirror with 2-3 hrs of mobility.

I've seen those countless models Asus throws on the market each week getting very hot and the support is awful.
My advice: take a business model, if you're REALLY in need of a decent graphic card try a 'mobile workstation' (would be the Precision series at dell) or take a thinkpad with an advanced dockingstation with build in graphics card.

Okay, I re-thought about the whole thing

Any brand is okay. The battery should just be better than 1 hour - that is enough

But it must be a 15"-16" display.

At the moment I like these ones:

• Asus G60J - 1.306,99 €
• Asus G51J 3D - 1.489,00 €
• Devil 9700 DXT - 1.636,00 €
• Alienware M15x - 1.733,98 €

Asus G60J:
- Intel CoreTM i7-720QM Prozessor (1.60 GHz, 6MB Cache)
- 4096MB DDR3-1066 (2x 2048MB)
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M 1024 MB VRAM (GDDR3)
- 640 GB S-ATA (2 x 320GB) 7200 U/min
- 2.0 Megapixel Webcam
- 4x BD Combo (Blu-ray read / DVD write)

Asus G51J 3D:
- Intel CoreTM i7-720QM Prozessor (1.60 GHz, 6MB Cache)
- 4096MB DDR3-1066 (2x 2048MB)
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M 1024 MB VRAM (GDDR3)
- 640 GB S-ATA (2 x 320GB) 7200 U/min
- 2.0 Megapixel Webcam
- 4x BD Combo (Blu-ray read / DVD write)
- Special: NVidia 3D Vision Brille and 120 H Display

Devil 9700 DXT:
- Intel CoreTM i7-720QM Prozessor (1.60 GHz, 6MB Cache)
- 6 GB DDR3-1066 (1 x 4048 MB 1x 2024 MB)
- NVidia GeForce GTX 285M 1 GB GDDR3 and DirectX 10/ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 1024MB GDDR5 and DirectX 11
- 640 GB S-ATA (2 x 320GB) 7200 U/min
- 2.0 Megapixel Webcam
- 2x BD Combo (Blu-ray read / DVD write)

Alienware M15x:
- Intel CoreTM i7-720QM Prozessor (1.60 GHz, 6MB Cache)
- 4 GB DDR3-1066 (2x 2048MB)
- NVidia GeForce GTX 260M 1 GB GDDR3
- 500 GB S-ATA (2 x 320GB) 7200 U/min
- 2x BD Combo (Blu-ray read / DVD write)



So the winner is: Deviltech's Devil 9700 DXT
- stupid script... it wuold be(for 4gb ram) 1.636,00 €

so i am gonna take the G51 or G60

Hope this is a typo from you and not the manufacturer.

Yeah, I copied it from the others and made a mistake xD

edited it - should be "1 x 4048 MB 1x 2024 MB"

Do you mean 4096 and 2048

Well, this time i just copied it out of the Deviltech Website...

2 GB - 2 x 1024 MB Hochleistung - DDR3 SDRAM mit 1333 MHz
4 GB - 2 x 2048 MB Hochleistung - DDR3 SDRAM mit 1333 MHz [+69€]
6 GB - 1 x 4048 MB 1x 2024 Hochleistung - DDR3 SDRAM mit 1333 MHz [+179€]
8 GB - 2 x 4096 MB Hochleistung - DDR3 SDRAM mit 1333 MHz [+349€]

Are the choices...

seems to be a typo by them...