Laptop for vid-ed and select game(s)

CLAWS · 23 Jun 2012 at 11:51

Good Morning

I have been looking at the following laptops for mainly HD video editing and the odd bit of gaming here and there (TF2, DoW2) -

ASUS N55SL-S2019V
Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-2670QM Quad Core
Display: 15.6" (Non glossy, 1600x900)
Memory: 6GB (DDR3 1333MHZ)
Storage: 750 GB
Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 635 with 2GB Dedicated Memory
OS: 64 bit Windows 7 Home Premium
Blu-Ray drive

£768
(£933 - If memory upgraded to 8GB and 750GB 7200RPM HDD)

nSpire 2760
Intel Core i7-2760QM Processor
2 X 4GB DDR3 1333Mhz Memory
Seagate Momentus XT 500GB Hybrid SSD SATA Hard Drive
NVIDIA GT 555M 2GB DDR3 Graphics
DVD Drive (Upgrade to Blu-Ray burner for £79.99)

£759.98

Optimus III
Processor: Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Processor i7-3610QM (2.30GHz) 6MB
Display: 15.6" (Non glossy, 1920x1080)
Memory: 8GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS 1600MHz SODIMM DDR3 (2 x 4GB)
Storage: 750GB SEAGATE MOMENTUS XT HYBRID, SATA 6 Gb/s, 32MB CACHE (7200 rpm)
Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 650M - 1.0GB DDR5 Video RAM - DirectX® 11
OS: No operating system
SONY BD-5750H 6x BLURAY WRITER & CYBERLINK SOFTWARE (£79)

£831

Any help with making a decision would be much appreciated

EDIT: Spec on Optimus III tweaked

Jbugman · 23 Jun 2012 at 13:06

You can upgrade a hdd, you can't upgrade the graphics

Have you looked at the new dells special editions?

CLAWS · 23 Jun 2012 at 13:36

Looking at the Dells now. Not really in my price range unfortunately.

MeAnBoY · 23 Jun 2012 at 13:47

CLAWS said:
Looking at the Dells now. Not really in my price range unfortunately.

There were 10% vouchers going around recently and also you can get BACS cashback via quidco. I got mine for under £700 with cashback and discounts so it's well worth looking around

Alternatively look for an Optimus III lapto which is based off a Clevo chasis. Plenty of spec for your cash.

CLAWS · 24 Jun 2012 at 16:11

Just updated with my Optimus III spec. What you guys reckon? Optimus III definitely looks $exy but I'd never heard of Optimus until MeAnBoY mentioned it. Anyone have any experience of them? Better choice out of the three?

roughavoc · 25 Jun 2012 at 00:03

Optimus III is the name that company have put on it

It is a Clevo machine which are the best for gaming
The company are very good, no faults with them

I would go with it, best bang for buck (Hopefully this wont be deleted, just trying to help a brother out)

CLAWS · 25 Jun 2012 at 12:07

Definitely leaning more towards the Optimus. How good will it be for the HD vid editing? Ill be using Pinnacle HD in the first instance with a view to upgrading to something better. Will the Optimus be able to handle this?

MasterPlan1 · 25 Jun 2012 at 12:52

Just wondering, why on the Optimus 3 did you go for the SB i7 and not the IB i7?

CLAWS · 25 Jun 2012 at 13:26

Price mainly. Is there that much of a difference between them performance wise?

Fallen god · 25 Jun 2012 at 21:35

Go for the Optimus III, if you wanted to save a bit you could drop the blu ray player.

The 650m is almost as good as the 560m which is almost double the 555gt.

roughavoc · 25 Jun 2012 at 23:05

For mobile the IB is about 10-20% better than SB in raw performance. It also uses less power = less heat, last longer

Also im guessing you need the Blu Ray?

CLAWS · 26 Jun 2012 at 10:56

I will need the blu ray player/burner since ill be working with HD videos and pictures.

oweneades · 26 Jun 2012 at 11:11

CLAWS said:
Price mainly. Is there that much of a difference between them performance wise?

The Optimus III is cheaper with the i7-3610QM (£721)* than with the i7-2760QM (£794)*. The former is clocked slightly slower but is ~10% faster clock for clock thus making them basically equal.

*This only highlights the different in price between the CPU's. The laptop would be more expensive overall with the required spec.

CLAWS · 26 Jun 2012 at 13:40

Ok, Ive tweaked my spec for the Optimus III. It still comes in cheaper than the Asus at a similar spec. Looks like I'll be leaving the nspire 2760 altogether but I'll keep it in the list as another reference point.

Jbugman · 26 Jun 2012 at 14:33

Doesn't that clevo run hot and loud? Clevo has also disabled the turbo boost when using the GeForce chipset too so to me that's a big no no

J

Fallen god · 26 Jun 2012 at 20:52

Jbugman said:
Doesn't that clevo run hot and loud? Clevo has also disabled the turbo boost when using the GeForce chipset too so to me that's a big no no

J

Unless I'm gaming it tends to be very quiet, if the graphics card is off it never reachs above 60c, unless I stressed all the cores with soemthing like prime95. With heavy gaming it tends to creep up around 85-90c, which really worries me but I've been told its perfectly fine.

I also have turbo boost working fine on my model, is this with new ones only?

Jbugman · 26 Jun 2012 at 21:31

I'm going with the clevo review on notebook website, it states that the turbo was disabled that's all

Thanks for that though

J

CLAWS · 27 Jun 2012 at 17:57

Been reading up on that review also but not sure if we're reading the same one. The review im reading is dated 25/05/12.

Jbugman · 27 Jun 2012 at 20:16

Do u have a link for the review?
J

Fallen god · 27 Jun 2012 at 23:21

Jbugman said:
I'm going with the clevo review on notebook website, it states that the turbo was disabled that's all

Thanks for that though

J

I wasnt say you was wrong just stating that my current model had it enabled, there is many different models of these machines, then other customation by the company that builds it from the skeleton so thing could easily vary.

Here are the reviews I read (only sites I trust for laptops as they have a proper review, not omg this is pretty I like.)

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4223/eurocom-racer-radeon-hd-6970m-rocks/2

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Schenker-XMG-P501-Gaming-Notebook-Clevo-P150HM.46526.0.html