Spec me a laptop!

[George Hincapie]

Boss has just said I can replace my 4 year old Mac Book Pro. He has given a budget of £2500. I need beastly processing power, decent graphics and lost of different high speed connections without having to use PCMCIA cards if possible.

Thoughts?

 

[MORE SPEED]

About as beastly as a laptop will get without having a desktop CPU.

YOUR BASKET
1 x OcUK Destroyer P170EM 17.3" LED Full HD Intel Processor, 1600MHz DDR3, SSD + HDD, NVIDIA GTX 680M 4GB GDDR5 Graphics Card - Windows - Black £900.00
- 1 x Standard Build Laptops - Approximately 3 to 5 working days £0.00
- 1 x Intel Core i7-3940XM Extreme 3.00GHz (Ivybridge) Mobile Processor - OEM £999.95
- 1 x Corsair Vengeance SODIMM 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C10 1600MHz SODIMM Kit (CMSX16GX3M2A1600C10) £89.99
- 1 x OCZ Vertex 4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (VTX4-25SAT3-128G) £99.98
- 1 x Samsung SpinPoint M8 1TB 5400RPM SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HN-M101MBB) £74.99
- 1 x Samsung SN-208DB/BEBE Slimline 8x DVD±RW SATA Drive - OEM £17.99
- 1 x Microsoft Windows 8 64-Bit DVD - OEM (WN7-00403) £79.99
Total : £2,274.89 (includes shipping : £10.00).

 

[zakblood]

looks nice

 

[kitkat9933]

Boss has just said I can replace my 4 year old Mac Book Pro. He has given a budget of £2500. I need beastly processing power, decent graphics and lost of different high speed connections without having to use PCMCIA cards if possible.

Thoughts?

If you can push to £3000, I just got this for £3000 (1500 off) from Alienware after ran hour of haggling. Then i'm going to buy just 1 SSD for now and shove in it, then later add another and replace the slow HDD with another SSD. Which will cost me about £3500 overall but i'l have the laptop spec below with the HDD replaced for 3 x 512GB 840 Pro's...

Congratulations! Your system is ready to be built.
Included in your system:
COLOUR CHOICE Alienware M18x Nebula Red - Anodized Aluminum edit
PROCESSOR 3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-3940XM (8MB Cache, up to 3.9GHz w/ Turbo Boost 2.0) edit
OPERATING SYSTEM English Windows® 7 Ultimate (64 BIT) edit
GRAPHICS CARD Dual 2GB GDDR5 NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 680M SLI™ edit
MEMORY 16385 MB (4x4GB) 1866MHz DDR3 Dual Channel edit
HARD DRIVE 500GB 7,200rpm SATA 3Gb/s HDD edit
LCD 18.4" WideFHD (1920 x 1080) WLED LCD edit
OPTICAL DRIVE BluRay Combo (Blu-ray read only, DVD, CD read & write) edit
WIRELESS CONNECTIVITY Killer Wireless-N 1103 a/g/n 3x3 MIMO with Bluetooth 4.0 edit
PRIMARY BATTERY Primary 12-cell 96W/HR LI-ION

 

[zakblood]

well never knew you could have 3 sdd's in one laptop, learn something new here every day.

hope you don't leave that on your car seat, lying around......