Starting to go nuts being unable to play games after relocating to Washington (PC etc wont arrive until July). So, I have been eyeing this laptop: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834313740 Thoughts? I don't want a PC seeing as I have a solid rig at home just waiting to move to washington. -Trice
Why is that so fucking insanely cheap over there? I wanted that laptop when I was laptop-hunting, but it wasn't even available in Denmark back then. Now it's nearly twice that price, and still gimped on specs (no hybrid disk for example). :< No doubt that one will do you wonders until your PC arrives. Just know that Lenovo has a habit of installing a fuckton of crap/bloatware on their laptops, so I recommend a clean install if you go with it. :>
It looks like a pretty nice laptop, especially for laptop gaming. I would expect you need to be plugged in to do gaming though, and even office work would probably only get an hour or two of battery life.
I'm trying to figure out if that laptop has the option to switch to a discrete graphics card for office work, like some do. Mine, for example, has a Nvidia 6xxm and an Intel 4000, and I can choose which to use for applications which can have a huge impact on battery life.
I do not see Nvidia Optimus graphics tech mentioned anywhere for the laptop so I doubt it has that capability. Which could be a good thing because there are tons of reports of bugs with the technology and you also need special drivers a lot of the time. But ya it would save a ton on battery for office work if the two discrete GPUs could be shut down when not needed. EDIT: lol. I forgot that you cant use SLI and Optimus, so the laptop definitely wont be able to do the graphics switching like that.
My household items and the rest of the family are not heading out until the end of June / middle of July. Suppose I could ship out my PC but that would leave them without one at the house
Weird, I've never had any issues with my laptop, and I don't download any special drivers either. Sucks about the SLI preventing this technology though, as it's pretty sweet for battery saving.
Fair enough. I would personally go down the path of building a mATX or mITX build rather than a laptop unless you plan to be constantly moving around. Why? 1. mATX / mITX / Small form factors are more powerful per dollar invested than a laptop. 2. SFF are better (thought not as good as a desktop) at keeping lower temperatures. Gaming laptops have a poor lifetime compared to most other computing hardware due to temps. 3. You can build it from scratch to avoid bloat ware and the cost savings in that. 4. You can turn it into a HTPC for your TV once your full desktop arrives. And it can be used as a new PC for your family that is powerful enough for kids/wife (assuming none crazy hardcore gamers). 5. You can upgrade it later if you desire 6. The drivers aren't custom created for the cards and will see updates for a long period of time. GPU on labtops are notorious for only having a couple of releases unless hacked.
I have that exact same laptop (Lenovo Ideapad 510) with dual SLI graphics. I am typing on it right now. Have had it for almost a year now and really liking it. The only issue is, the touchpad isn't the greatest, but I use a mouse anyway. This laptop can run Planetside 2 at high settings, with good FPS. Check out the original thread I made about it here. http://www.xoohq.com/threads/36489.Getting-a-new-laptop I also got a 128GB Crucial M4 micro-SSD, and use that for the OS, with the 1TB HDD being used for data. This is what the game looks like on it, before the PS2 performance update (so should run better now).