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Ultim8Evil
Exit-Strategy
Unchained Alliance
#1 - 2011-09-12 20:27:45 UTC  |  Edited by: Ultim8Evil
I need to replace my ageing C2D T9300 / 4Gb RAM / GF 9500M GS laptop.

Ideally the replacement needs to have the following specs (or as close to):
Core i7
8Gb Ram
Radeon 5850 (GDDR5 not DDR3) or GF GT555M or similar
1TB HDD
1080p screen

Before you all jump on me crying "zomg there's no such thing as a gaming laptop, get a desktop or GTFO"; I travel a lot, I use my laptop around 12-14 hours a day, I don't have room for a desktop, I haven't had a desktop for over 4 years, I don't want a desktop.

Looking to spend a grand (£1000) give or take a couple of hundred.

So far, I have shortlisted these:
Acer Aspire Ethos 8943G
Acer Aspire 5750G
MSI GX660R

I'm swaying towards the MSI one as it has the 5870 GDDR5 which is faster by far than the others. The only downside is the 6Gb of RAM, but that can be cheaply upgraded given the current cost of RAM.

Obviously in an ideal world I would like the next gen Sandybridge CPU, but not at the expense of having a lower spec GPU.

Can anyone find anything better?

Thanks in advance

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Caleidascope
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#2 - 2011-09-12 20:35:09 UTC
Ultim8Evil
Exit-Strategy
Unchained Alliance
#3 - 2011-09-12 20:45:17 UTC
Bearing in mind I live in England and any computers or computer components shipped in from the US will be subject to criminally insane customs taxes, ordering from outside the UK is out of the question.

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NeoShocker
The Dark Space Initiative
Scary Wormhole People
#4 - 2011-09-13 14:51:14 UTC
A question. Am looking around for laptops, but are there laptops that can do 3G and/or 4G service?

BTW are you looking for something pretty portable, versatile, or a powerful/gaming laptop?
Caleidascope
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#5 - 2011-09-13 16:17:01 UTC
NeoShocker wrote:
A question. Am looking around for laptops, but are there laptops that can do 3G and/or 4G service?

BTW are you looking for something pretty portable, versatile, or a powerful/gaming laptop?

I think Verizon has a plan where you get a usb stick that you plug into the laptop and it lets you connect to their wireless phone network.

AT&T might have one too.

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Ultim8Evil
Exit-Strategy
Unchained Alliance
#6 - 2011-09-13 17:16:43 UTC
Well, thanks for "all" your suggestions and for the thread hijack. Lol

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