Can someone find a laptop like the one Toungy is describing. As long as it's under 5,000 dollars it's okay.

Thanks!

You can find that for $1500 easily.

Well... You can customize a Dell or HP to your needs or any other laptop manufacturer. A Dell Inspiron 1720 (Choosing the most expensive choice, $1189) You can customize to your needs by choosing these specs. Theres also the monster Dell XPS M1710. But it comes with the more powerful 7950 GTX but is DX10.. Nvidia 7950 GTX murders the 8600 series any day.

Intel Core 2 Duo T5450 1.66ghz
Nvidia 8600m GT (DX10) Im not sure if it has Shader Model 4.0 though.
It already offers 2gb standard at 667mhz if you choose the highest choice in the 1720

Heres a link to customize http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/con...DWMA2&s=dhs

Or, you can customize a HP laptop with pretty much the same specs but instead of the 8600m GT, they have the GS.

http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/shopping...=dv9500t_series

They are both great choices if you customize them correctly. If you don't want any of those 2 brands, theres many other Laptop makers out there.

My HP customized costs $2000 (almost), and I don't have all settings to the highest end, so you could get an even better one if you've got a budget of $5000

And my graphics card (Nvidia 8600M GS) supports Shader Model 4.0, DirectX 10.0 and more. You can compare it to the 8600M GT here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce_8600M.html

Also, for laptops, I personally recommend HP, especially the 9500 series. Best laptop cooling I've ever seen for a high-end laptop like this. Probably around 25 degrees maximum heat production.

NO that is bad, HP and DELL both have around 200 watts of power on laptops and desktops unless u upgrade so get more Power if u want to run good video cards and stuff!

How about that specific one.

Vista has a power saving mode now.

Because everyone fits new video cards in there laptop.

and its hard to customize if u need something that needs lots of power!

It's a laptop. What are you going to add, that requires alot of power?

some video cards need a lot of power like 300 watts. and if run say charing ipod and some more usb device when on battery power it could crash cause of powe failure.

You don't fit new video cards into laptops though. I find it unlikely that charging a iPod would cause your system to crash, it's more likely to cut power to the iPod.

well it does happen when u have like 7 USB powered things plugged in.

Which happens in occasions of.. ? Oh and for the record, my HP uses 90 watts, and it runs an Nvidia 8600M GS just perfectly fine.

Even if it would crash your computer, I find it hard to imagine anyone having 7 USB Powered Devices plugged into a laptop.

how can u have a nvidia 8600 in ur laptop? its probably thinker than ur whole laptop and thats idle or under load?

It's 90 watts because the power supply doesn't give me any more, k?

It's max. 20-30 degrees under heavy stress.

Ever heard of mobile versions.

there are mobile versions?

No, Stobbo just likes to mess around.

(By the way, that's sarcasm)

8600M GS

http://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce_m_series.html

oh ive never noticed that before. srry, so is that under load or idle?

Hey guys, thanks everyone for posting. I customized a laptop on dell, and here's a picture of what I customized it to:





If someone happens to see something that needs to be changed/made better please post!

You might want to get a nVidia 8500, 8600 or even 8700 graphics card with that kind of a processor. Also note that a 2.4GHz Centrino processor is actually ~3.0GHz, because of Centrino technologies.

Other comments? It's a Dell, and I prefer HP laptops, but it's a great laptop anyways. You can try assembling something similar with other companies such as HP, Asus, etc. and see what they ask for it, then decide based on that what you want.

If your happy with Dell, the only thing would be the graphics card as Toungy mentioned. The 8400 isn't that special, low end of the 8 series.

I don't really understand what you mean. Is this a separate thing?

What don't you understand?

I think what he means is that if you like the Dell, the only thing he recommends you to change is the Graphics card (as Toungy has mentioned).


So no, it's not a separate thing..
You just get Dell to take out the 8400 and choose a 8500, 8600 or a 8700 instead. Basically they are saying that using a 8400 is a bit of a waste for the processor (in a good way...).

Oh okay.
I changed it to 8600, because that's the max Dell will allow you to go. Is everything perfect.. or ready to get?

I think everything's fine about that laptop.

If your happy to have a Dell laptop, then go for it.

Great.


I always loved Dell. I guess I'll go for it.

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