Highend laptop needed £3000 budget, HELP!

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Hi all, starting a new job, which has ment moving I have no space for my desktop pc, which I was planning on upgrading next year, so having to bite the bulit and spend the money now and get a laptop. What I am really looking for is something that can do the work of a desktop, will mostly be used or games, dvds and internet, but be compact have looked at some of the 19" laptops but think they will be do big, if I am haveing to use my bed or lap for the majority of use. I have a budget of £3000, I have done a bit of research and have found the following 4 options, looking for a bit of advice, value for money, bad experiances, good experiances or other suggestions.

many thanks

Mark

Option 1: Xtreme CTX = £2234.85

Intel Core Duo T2700 2.33GHz / NVIDIA Quadro FX Go 2500M 512MB (CAD/3D design) / Hi-res WUXGA+ X-Glass no rock logo / 2GB DDR2 667MHz (1GB x 2) / 100GB 7200rpm SATA / 8x +/- Dual Layer DVD Writer

Option 2: Znote 6214W = £1239.26

Intel Core Duo T2700 2.33GHz / nVidia Geforce Go 7600 512MB / 14" WXGA Crystal Clear 1280x768 / 2048MB (2x1024) DDR2 PC5300 - 667MHZ / 100GB 7200rpm SATA / DVD-RW Dual Layer Slot-in

Option 3: XPS M1710 = £2369

Intel® Core™ Duo Processor T2700 (2.33 GHz 2MB L2 cache, 667 MHz FSB) / 512MB DDR3 nVidia® GeForce™ Go 7900 GTX / 17" UltraSharp™ Wide Screen WUXGA (1920x1200) TFT Display with TrueLife™ / 2048MB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM (2x1024) / 120GB (5,400rpm) / 8X DVD+/-RW Drive Double Layer

Option 4: Aurora m9700 = £2359.40

AMD Turion™ 64 Mobile ML44 2.4GHz 800MHz FSB 1MB L2 Cache / Dual 256MB NVidia® GeForce™ Go 7900 GS - SLI Enabled / High-Definition Audio with surround sound / 17" WideUXGA 1920 x 1200 LCD with Clearview Technology - Saucer Silver / 2GB DDR SO-DIMM at 400MHz - 2x1024MB / 160GB (80GB x 2) 7200 RPM SATA / 8x Dual Layer DVD+/-RW / 24x CD-RW Combo
 
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Just buy a £500 laptop for light use, and spend £1500 on a desktop. We've build a £400 PC and it's far better in spec than a £600 laptop.

Option 3: Avoid that company
Option 4: Avoid that company.

:)
 
Hi, thanks for the reply, as I said i have no room for a desktop, so it has to be a laptop, I would love to get a new desktop but cant.

Why do you say to avoid options 3 & 4

thanks

Mark
 
Terrible after sales service, option 4 products are over priced also. You better blank out option 4 company name, not allowed to name competitors.

Why don't you have space for a desktop? Living in a cupboard? :confused:
 
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I had the dell XPS 1710 (albeit with 2.13ghz processor) and it was utterly fantastic (till i sold it to big stan for financial reasons).

Played everything i threw at it though, prey looked amazing :)

I got it for £1500 with a XPS bag, only thing i could fault on it was going for the 5400 hard disk rather than the 7200 one, dont think you need to spend 3k to get a cracking laptop though, save your bucks :)
 
Its going to be hard to recommend you one without breaching the forum rules cos you'd be naming competitors.

The high end options on OCUK aren't too bad tho.
 
Fanatic said:
Wait a bit and get Memrom.
Click to expand...

Merom :p

And would there be room for a micro-ATX PC? Surely you'll have SOMEWHERE to put a monitor in your room, the PC itself can go under the bed :D

SiriusB
 
Hi would love to wait for a memrom, but cant need a lappy fairly quickly, from the advice so far I think i will be going with

Option 1 (edited): Xtreme CTX = £1971.65

Intel Core Duo T2700 2.33GHz / NVIDIA GeForce 7900 Go GTX 512MB / Hi-res WUXGA+ X-Glass no rock logo / 2GB DDR2 667MHz (1GB x 2) / 100GB 7200rpm SATA / 8x +/- Dual Layer DVD Writer

thanks for all the help

Mark
 
You have no room for a desk? :confused:

Surely you can find a small space. What about a small TFT and a shuttle set up? I wouldnt go laptop unless you really like wasting money.

Or maybe a cheap laptop for email web and an xbox360 for games?
 
I have owned many many laptops, normally mid range (£1000 to £2000)

Go with a IBM, I have owned the T40, T41, T42 and a T43. The only other laptop I have owned that has even come close to the quality is my Apple MacBook pro. The warranty support is fantastic, you normally get a 3 year guarantee and they are unbelievably helpful. I called them last week because the space bar was sticking. Within 24 hours they had sent me a new KB and a new battery because the battery life was not very good after 150 cycles.

I have had a few Dells, they are not bad but still not as good as the IBM’s. Sonys are a Waste of time.

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Now i am using a IBM T43, 2gb ram, 60gb 7200 rpm, 1040 x 1400 15" and could not be more happy and they cost next to nothing.
 
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aye I would just buy laptop with reasonbly good graphics, ATI X700... at least have decent opengl/DX support & performance, 1GB RAM so less HD accessing. Those are around £500-£600 and should play most games at reasonble quality and more than suitable for uni work.

Even a MATX Qpack machine will outperform a gaming laptop, and be cheaper. Surely you can fit a 17" TFT and keyboard? After all you'll put a laptop on a desk which'll take space?

A £3000 laptop will get swiped if you take it to your lessons.

Laptops are useful, small and everthing built into a portable unit, but cost for replacement parts means when something breaks it's unworthwhile. I'm using a laptop now with the built-in keyboard ripped out and using full size, old 20GB taken out for a 60GB, upgraded RAM from 256MB to 512MB, replaced PSU...spend about £100+. This second PSU is acting up when that gives up going to junk this lappie.
 
Thanks for the advice everyone, you have definalty given me somestuff to think about. I am not sure what to do know so will have to spend some time thinking about it

Mark
 
Agree with the above - get a cheap 15.4" WS laptop (say £1k max - easily buy you are very good multimedia non-gaming laptop) to be used for work purposes and then spend the rest on a mATX system like a shuttle later on (are there conroe shuttles yet?) - the footprints a similar size to a laptop (which youll have to put somewhere when your asleep :p) - just need to find room for the TFT - even a shelf would do...

I would cry in 6/9months time if you bought a £2.5k laptop and tried to resell it becuase of moving to a bigger place or something - wont be worth half its value...

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
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