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Purchasing First Laptop

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Why a laptop? Desktops are soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much better

 

I think everyone knows that.

 

People buy laptops because you can't put a desktop in a backpack and travel with it conveniently.

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Why a laptop? Desktops are soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much better

Maybe he wants to travel or use it on an airplane

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May I ask why you want to stick with Asus and Lenovo?

I'm not fond of other branding. I know you can get a Acer for example with better hardware for around the same price, but I am not fond of owning one.

 

general computing or as much gaming performance you can squeese?

The only gaming I have planned for it is older (2009) MMORPG's which tend to be mostly CPU bound. So the HD 4600 graphics should be plenty for the light gaming I plan on doing with it. Tho its main purpose will be general use and software development.

 

Why a laptop? Desktops are soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much better

Pron in the closet bro...

 

Nah but really, if you check my signature the rig in it just about brand new (I built it last summer). So I have plenty of power at the desktop. Tho when my lazy side kicks in, I wish I had a laptop to just lay in bed and do work on.  ;)

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i wish i had mod privlages so i could delete all the
desktops are WAY better than laptops comments
honestly how stupid can people be? there are legit reasons to buy laptops over desktops especially when the OP ALREADY HAS A GAMING DESKTOP.

wish i could get the old forum back where not every 5 year old comes to be stupid and lies to others in the form of group thinking.

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Nah but really, if you check my signature the rig in it just about brand new (I built it last summer). So I have plenty of power at the desktop. Tho when my lazy side kicks in, I wish I had a laptop to just lay in bed and do work on.  ;)

A 5870 is plenty of power? Guess it depends on the games you're playing but I wouldn't call that plenty of power. Unless you absolutely need the laptop, i'd get a 770 and 4670k.

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A 5870 is plenty of power? Guess it depends on the games you're playing but I wouldn't call that plenty of power. Unless you absolutely need the laptop, i'd get a 770 and 4670k.

When the most demanding game you play is Bad Company 2, a HD 5870 is a bit overkill. It's still right up there with the HD 7850's. It handles whatever I throw at it, even tho my A10-6800k bottlenecks it like hell. Tho I game maybe once every week if that.

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So I've came down to this.

 

Lenovo G510

 

vs

 

Lenovo G505s + Samsung EVO 120 GB

 

I am leaning towards the G505s at the moment as I can super charge it with a SSD. It also has superior graphics performance for moderate gaming. The programming I usually do aren't huge projects (don't need to worry about compile time) so I am feeling the i5 would be least beneficial to me. The AMD can handle daily tasks with ease so, I am feeling that may be the better option.

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I am leaning towards the G505s at the moment as I can super charge it with a SSD. It also has superior graphics performance for moderate gaming. The programming I usually do aren't huge projects (don't need to worry about compile time) so I am feeling the i5 would be least beneficial to me. The AMD can handle daily tasks with ease so, I am feeling that may be the better option.

The G505 would be what i would get. I would also buy a kit to replace the DVD drive with the SSD, unless you will need a DVD drive.

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The G505 would be what i would get. I would also buy a kit to replace the DVD drive with the SSD, unless you will need a DVD drive.

My thoughts are taking out the HDD once I get it (before first boot) and replacing it with the SSD. So the hard drive can be sealed in a anti-static bag and put away completely factory original. My desktop runs on a 60 GB SSD only, so 120 GB is plenty of space for me.  :)

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