Need a laptop for work. Someone find me one.
 

I need a laptop for work. 3D design and graphics rendering.

Basic Stuff I need:

1) 64 bit OS. I'd prefer XP Pro but I'll go with Vista Home Premium or Ultimate. I can bring the thing home so I plan on getting an external HD Tuner. Basic and business lack Media Center which I want.
2) 7200 rpm HD
3) Expandable to 4 GB. I'm thinking getting a laptop with 1 GB stick and adding another 2GB stick.
4) Dual Core Processor
5) 3.5+ Hour Battery Life. I'm going to need to take this thing to shows and ---- so an hour or two battery life would not be enough.
6) Dedicated graphics card. The new version of the program we use (Vectorworks) is going to be a lot more taxing on the graphics cards according to them so it needs to be pretty powerful.

Budget is $1800.

Re: Need a laptop for work. Someone find me one.
 

You lazy ass :P

I recommend Dell. I have one of their laptops and love it. Been about 2 years now and no complaints. Opt for the extended capacity battery (sticks out a bit further in the back but I never have to bring the power cord when I take my laptop somewhere)

Go to their website, click on "gaming laptops" and customize one.

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64bit O/Ss and processors supports up to 2TB of ram

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Honestly, most of the work done in the office is done on Macs on an older version. The newer version is more of a resource hog in general. 32bit caps me at 3.xx GB and there is a good chance that 3GB won't be enough and I'll need 4+ to combat the slower processor, HD, and lower capacity graphics card.

I spent about an hour today building a PC until they told me they want me to get a laptop now for portability as I have to take it on the road and such. Now looking at laptops they seem to be lacking what I want and the specs available are ----. I already talked to sales reps from Tigerdirect and Newegg. Both were clueless. I'll try Dell, but I thought maybe one of you faggots would do all the work for me.

FYI: Anyone who suggests I get a Mac will get punched in the face. Seriously, the stupidest computers on the planet.

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actually 64-bit can theoretically address up to 16 exabytes (just depends on how much overhead it has)

Either way, no motherboard is going to have enough slots, and no ram chip is going to have enough space, to reach that limit for a long, long time.

This is a retarded post. If you know what you want then go look through laptop manufacturers and pick one.

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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834147663
$850

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834115457
$1299

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834117654
$1299

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16834147654
$1399, with a blue ray player, 4gb ddr2 memmory 320gb hdd and nvidia 8400gs with dedicated memmory (512mb) and my personal favorite but for the bang for the buck i say the one at the top for $850

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Thats sig material

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This post is awesome because if it was a matter of just going on TigerDirect or NewEgg and finding a laptop, I would have been done 3 hours ago. The end result is I haven't found a laptop that fits my needs yet. It isn't a price restriction either, it is just a matter of actually finding a package to have everything I want. End result is most likely me getting a custom laptop made up by HP or Dell.

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Seriously just spend 10 minutes on Dell's website and customize a "gaming laptop."

You already know what you want, so buy it already.

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I hate Dell. I don't feel like getting a new computer full of AIDs and other STDs. I'd pay Dell $50 to not shove every piece of ---- program in the world on it. The end result will be me probably building through HP or Dell, but right now I would prefer to buy some prebuilt unit from a company that doesn't suck.

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Ok.....what do you think I meant by "if you know what you want go to a manufactures website and pick one"?

Nvm, I meant, go to a manufacturers website, like dell, and pick out what you want.

If it has software you dont want, reformat it and only install what you want. I don't know of a single laptop company that won't load it with ----, other than sony that charges you $50 for that "service".

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I understand where you're coming from, but it took me maybe 5-10 minutes to remove the few programs that came preinstalled. It's not hard at all, just go to "add or remove programs" in control panel and get rid of em.

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---- hp and dell if you need a custom laptop go to ibuypower.com
they build exacly what you want for 1/3rd the price of dell and their boards are not locked so you can oc the ---- out of them

Re: Need a laptop for work. Someone find me one.
 

www.newegg.com
www.tigerdirect.com

i recommend a lenovo laptop

Re: Need a laptop for work. Someone find me one.
 

no he said he wants somthing custom so i say

www.ibuypower.com
they will build you anything you want just as cheap as you could build it yourself

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pretty sure between tigerdirect and newegg he has an infinite number of variations available..

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yeah but he said he wanted to buy a computer not build one
and neither of those build they just sell complete or parts to build your own

but if you are buying one i say newegg.com way better than tigerdirect.com