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High end laptops recommendations - UK
Hi,
It's my birthday coming up and the Mrs is looking to put money toward a new laptop as mine recently failed..
I know it's not server related or LowEndAnything, however it's a community with some fairly clued up people..
Does anyone have any suggestions for spec along the lines of I7 - 16GB ram, mechcanical and ssd - 960/970m
Thanks
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Check this up http://www.sagernotebook.com/15-Laptops/
what's your current budget?
@arriterx - That's a US site and the shipping charge is circa $250 but thanks for the reply.
@2298 - Max of £1100, prefer to come in below this though.
ASUS ROG or DELL Alienware line up seems to fit your budget
@krs360 so check this http://gaming.msi.com/products/notebook/gt-series
They have a lot of official resellers in uk.
@2298 Dell Alienware with 16GB RAM and 970/980M costs above 1100GBP...around 1900GBP
Macbook Pro.
http://www.dell.com/us/p/alienware-17-r3/pd?oc=dkcwg02m&model_id=alienware-17-r3
It is in USD, so probably it's the same as 1100 GBP
Macbook Pro is a good option, the SSD on them is fast and on some offers you can get 3 years parts & labour for free
@2298 http://outlet.euro.dell.com/Online/InventorySearch.aspx?c=uk&cs=ukdfh1&l=en&s=dfh&brandid=7&fid=1514
in UK Alienware 17 (but not R3, so only 8GB RAM) cost 979GBP excl. VAT and shipping...and it's around 1200GBP + shipping....
@MarkTurner @raindog308 - I like Macs (I made a hackintosh out of an x99 board/i7 5820k/16gb ddr4/120gb ssd which ran really nice for general purpose, however for gaming (as you expect from macs the performance was really poor even on non-taxing games like League of Legends).
@krs360 - then just boot Windows natively on it. Get rid of the OSX
For gaming you need decent video card, gt960/970M is not enough....you need gtx chip to game...notebooks of that level cost more than 1100GBP...
Ah, so you need to ship it and it's exclude VAT. Because in my country there is computer shopping complex, we can buy anything related to computers right there, we don't need to ship to our country by ourselves.
960m and 970m are GTX and are excellent for gaming...
Look at MSI for laptops. They're usually reasonably priced. A high end Lenovo might be another option.
can others recommend laptop sources for under £200? I'm looking to replace an old acer aspire 5736z
This seller has some good deals in that range
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FAST-WINDOWS-7-LENOVO-X201-LAPTOP-Core-i5-CHEAP-1-YEAR-Warranty-Webcam-WIRELESS-/231071084000?nav=SEARCH
You are right. Excuse me, 950M and above are GTX, but real gaming experience you get only with X70M and X80M chips, and not so with X60M...
You can check any budget notebook seller...hp, acer, asus, lenovo etc... there are many many models to choose from..
Actually the 960m is very surprising performance side but I'd advise 970m - 980m for 1080p gaming.
I would not say so about 960m. It's specs are a bit better than 940m. Instead I would totally agree with you about 965m gaming performance.
an extra £500-£600 ish would get you a 4790k http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/form-view/octane-17/G-SYNC-Pro/
In case of gaming notebook I would spend that extra for SLI and dual SSD options rather than top CPU
If it's less than 1080p the 960m is great.
If 1080p I advise at least a 970m
Totally agree, as well as 965m for mid-high settings on 1080p gaming. Since most of gaming notebooks have 1080p screens I would advise 970m and above notebook from MSI or ASUS ROG for that price.
from macs the performance was really poor even on non-taxing games like League of Legends).
Uh, what? I run "semi" modern games like LoL, Dota and Valve games (TF2, Portal 2, L4D2) perfectly on Dual 6870s @ Hackintosh
I would recommend a Macbook Pro as well, value is not perfect but still ok - MSI has better HW for same price but no alu body and worse display iirc.
MSI, Lenovo or ASUS will have much more better hardware for the same price.
For that price your MacBook Pro will have shitty i5 cpu, 8gb of ram, and no dedicated graphics card, only SSD will be in!
Instead from Lenovo you would get 16GB of RAM, I7 CPU (shitty but better than i5), same SSD and at least GTX 860M...
For example :
http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/Lenovo_Y70-70__-_BL_kb__-__i7-4710HQ_16GB_256GB_SSD_NV_GTX_860M_4GB_BT_Ext__80DU004NUK/version.asp
and
http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/Apple_MacBook_Pro_13-inch_Retina_Core_i5_2.7GHz_8GB_256GB_Iris_Graphics_610_MF840B-A/version.asp
pcspecialist.co.uk do some good laptops
I'd say it really depends on your local offers.
+1 for the Macbook Pro (don't install WinBlows, OSX is awesome)
+1 for the Macbook Pro, even better if you find a student or know one who'll show their ID and save you a fortune (+ 3 years warranty is like £29 instead of their £299).
What sort of performance do you get from LoL? I find it terrible vs Windows (I didn't expect it to be the same, however it's so much lower almost to the point of lagging in team fights).
The spec of the Hackintoshs are:
Intel:
X99S MSI Gaming 7 Board.
120GB Corsair SSD.
I7 5820k.
16GB DDR4 1866mhz.
R9 290 Tri-X GPU.
Modded AMD kernel:
Gigabyte 970a-D3.
1TB Mechcanical Drive (only 5400rpm).
Bulldozer FX 8150.
8GB DDR 1600mhz.
GTX 570.