New Laptop

[2dgreengiant]

Yo yo yo beat boy, that's for real mother ****er.

So I will be getting an new laptop soon ish, I will be selling my desktop http://www.ownedcore.com/forums/gene...rate-mofo.html and getting it for personal and business use.

I'm looking to preferably get an I5 and 4gb+ of ram, HDD should be around 500gb or more but it will most likely be this anyway. I would also like dedicated graphics as that integrated intel shit is horrid, I was looking at something such as BT Business Direct - Sony VAIO CB2M0E/B Core i5-2410M 6GB 640GB 15.5" BluRay W7HP (VPCCB2M0E/B.CEK)

I have a budget for up to (max) of £600, I'm from the UK so no non UK links pl0x <3<3

Cheers

~2d~

[Narudan]

ALTERNATE
u mad UKfgt?

[Sn00p]

Asus K53SC Laptop - Laptops | Ebuyer.com
Meh

dedicated graphics

Don't do this. Eats battery life and Intel HD 3000 is fine for business use.

[2dgreengiant]

Well I wanted to play things like wow etc as well.

[Sn00p]

A 6470M isn't going to perform amazingly in WoW either. To be honest, it's better to avoid distractions with a business use laptop; there'll be times I turn off my internet connection & I have literally no games on mine.

[Narudan]

getting it for personal and business use.

filllllers

[2dgreengiant]

^ e.g. I'll use it at my 9-5 job during the day but after and at weekends ill use it for games and msn and shit

[Sn00p]

If you have a desktop why does your laptop need to be able to run games..?

[Narudan]

I will be selling my desktop

infinite fillers

[Sn00p]

Not being funny, but if you sold your desktop to buy a laptop with a 6470M instead of a low end laptop just for doing work on, you're derping.

[2dgreengiant]

Sigh your not reading or understanding the thread. I'm selling my desktop regardless and I need a laptop for work however it will also be used for when I'm at home. So I would like dedicated gfx to play games better for when I'm at home, I don't want a low end laptop cos it would perform shit for what I need to do which is business use(e..g office and visual studio) and personal use (e.g. games)

[Sn00p]

So you're selling a fully functional desktop, for no specified reason, and in it's place are going to buy a 1366x768 laptop with a dual core CPU and a low-end mobile GPU?

You goofed.

[Narudan]

Why would you need more than a notebook if you only want to play wow or skyrim?

[Sn00p]

Protip:
Laptop dual cores have 2 cores locked - they're dual core processors.
Laptop HDDs spin at 5400 RPM typically, which will give you much slower read speeds.
The 6470 is a discrete basic card, which means it's designed as a GPU to go into word processing machines. Not gaming - furthermore, this is the MOBILE version of it. Meaning it performs even worse.
That card only gets 23 FPS on high settings - you can throw out the prospect of raiding on that machine, or doing PVP on it.
The monitor is typically 1366 x 768, and is usually TFT or TFT/LCD hybrid. They aren't great, and they'll suck for playing games on.
The battery life on those machines is only gonna be 2-3 hours of real world use when performing office functions, nevermind games
It'll overheat tremendously because laptops are not designed to play games, nor are they fitted with heatsink options that will be sufficient.
Overheating causes discomfort, as well as damage to the machine. It reduces the life expectancy dramatically.
Coding/Studio programs are CPU heavy, but an i3 2105 would be perfectly sufficient - those programs won't even touch the GPU.

[Narudan]

"Laptop dual cores have 2 cores locked - they're dual core processors."
Didn't get that part.

And every other argument can't be used to generalize notebooks.
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