NP700G7C

[SubPrimePrePar]

Was looking for a basic laptop for work. I then came across this for 1k. Looks to be the same specs as the overclockers one minus the 120hz screen. Ticks all the right boxes:-
- i7 3610qm seems to be decent. Haven't researched all that much. As sc2 is cpu intensive i'd appreciate it if anybody could let me know how this'd cope with it.
-1080p decent screen (no mention of 120hz though): this is a major selling point.
-675m:anything more than a 650m will do me as I tend to play undemanding games or just turn down the graphics settings - all that matters is decent framerates at 1080p.
-16gb ram
-1.5gb hdds with 8gb ssd cachimg: plenty for me, and gives the option of swapping one of tje 750gb hdds for sn ssd.
- blueray player: nice bonus
- not too large/fat considering specs.
- doesn't look like an out-and-out gaming laptop (when backlit keyboard turned off) and doesn't look dull and dreary at the same time.

Problem is it appears to be out of stock everywhere! Also, could somebody put this proccessor in prrspecyive relative to desktop proccessors please?

 

[iv-tecman]

Excellent laptop.

I've got the 700G7A, its got a lesser GPU then the 675M and that pretty much plays anything I throw at it at the screens native res, provided I don't go nuts with the AA settings...

If you've found one for sub 1K - like to know where as most retail this model at around £1300 + then grab it..

You won't find a better laptop for that sort of money, it'll do all you need and then some.

 

[SubPrimePrePar]

Can't really say where from. Nothing to stop you googling it though

Really wasn't looking for a gaming capable laptop bbut just stumbled apon it searching for ones with a 1080p screens for films/tv series.

Ironicly, my first post on this forum was me bashing gaming laptops. Yes, I'm a hypocrite.

Still scepticle about its availabilty though. Did a search for lots of uk stores, none have it available for collection!

 

[roughavoc]

The CPU is around the speed of like a desktop i5 2400/2500. It will be good enough for all games. Defo good enough for SC2.

 

[Purgatory]

That laptop has a 120hz screen too. They just don't mention it. Google about and read some more threads in here and you will see it has a 120hz screen. Good price so grab it.

 

[Rroff]

The CPU is very powerful for a laptop - right behind the latest IB desktop CPUs, no idea how well it handles SC2 but if it doesn't not much else will - its more in the region of the 2600K easily beating the i5 2400/2500 and even beats the i7 975 EE. If your GPU requirements aren't that demanding (as this is the component in this laptop that will become dated the quickest) the core specs of CPU and RAM amount should last quite a long time.

I reccomend swapping one of the HDDs for an SSD right off and reinstalling the OS onto it as other wise you probably won't get around to it and the default OS install is full of gunk - laptop runs a lot faster without the default rubbish on it.

The 675m is pretty capable also - easily handles all the latest games at 1920x1080 with high/max settings aslong as you don't go mad on the AA (I have mine clocked to pretty much identical performance to a desktop GTX560ti).

EDIT: It should come with the 120Hz panel but 1-2 places seemed to be selling a version with only a 60Hz panel? afaik tho pretty high chance it will have the 120Hz panel and its pretty decent too - all in all a really underestimated laptop. I reccomend making full use of the 8GB expresscache and using the samsung setting manager (I'd avoid installing the rest of the samsung software tho) to set samsung opptimised boot mode as this makes it extremely quick at booting to a fully loaded desktop in Windows 7.

EDIT2: Also one other nice thing about the laptop - which you switch it to library mode it really is fairly quiet maybe not the quietest but they've engineered it so that the fan noise is as non-intrusive as possible.