Looking to buy a new laptop

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

So I've been banging around on my old laptop long enough and I finally decided to break down and buy a new one but I'm looking around for a good deal.  I really only want to spend around $1500 here and while I don't necessarily need a gaming rig being able to play something like Crysis on it at a respectable framerate would be a plus.  I noticed Dell is having a deal going on at the moment with up to 400 bucks off on certain models but their GPU choices are pretty limited and I honestly don't know how something like a Radeon HD 3560 compares to a GeForce 8600M GT.  What's a decent, affordable laptop card?  And what's a good place to buy from?  All I know at the moment besides my price range is that I want though are 4GB of RAM and a Duo T9300 CPU.

Come on Borys.  Give me your polish magic.

[Van Cruncheon]

yer gonna need an 8800M or better to do crysis justice. that said, i have an 8600M GT in my current laptop, and it's decent: i can run titan quest at medium settings at a smooth clip. i'd aim for better, though: an 8700M or a 9650M (or better), or whatever the ATI mobile equivalent is

[CajoleJuice]

Yeah, I don't think a 8600M GT (or whatever that other card is) is quite going to cut it for Crysis. I also have one in my laptop.

[Vizzys]

again i post the laptop gpu tier list:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=275056

its pretty helpful, that site

[pilonv1]

I've got a 512mb 7700go in my 18mth old Asus (2.0ghz core 2 duo and 2gb of ram) and it runs TQ at 1650x1080 at almost full detail with some things like refelctions and shadows turned down. It ran Stalker quite well too. My brother has a 256mb 8600 in his Asus and he gets a fucking shocking frame rate in Assasins Creed.

Basically if you want to do any gaming get a performance card. The mid range cards are fucking useless and you'll regret getting one the moment you buy it.

[Flannel Boy]

The 8400 GS sucks.

  Budget GPU

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

Well, hell.  All the cards I've been looking at are kind of a joke when it comes to DX10. There goes my Crysis fantasy.  I guess I could wait awhile longer but the thing I'm currently using is a piece of crap and I'd really like a new one for work.

[Smooth Groove]

Check out the HPs.  You can get a real good system for $1500.  Try to get at least a 512mb GPU. 

http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/shopping/series_can.do?storeName=computer_store&landing=notebooks&a1=Category&v1=Entertainment%20powerhouse

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

woah.  just saw this over at gateway for $1399 -

Operating System: Genuine Microsoft® Windows Vista® Home Premium (64-bit) SP1

Processor: Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor1 P8400 (2.26GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 3MB L2 cache)

Memory: 4GB (4096MB) DDR3 800MHz Dual Channel Memory (2 x 2048MB modules)

Hard Drive: 200GB 7200rpm Serial ATA hard drive w/ 16MB Cache4

Video: NVIDIA® GeForce® 9800M GTS with 512MB of GDDR3 discrete video memory

Display: 17.0" WUXGA Ultrabright TFT Active Matrix (1920 x 1200 max. resolution)

Color: FX Design with Copper Core Accent

Chassis: Intel® PM45 Chipset

Optical Drive: 8x Multi-Format Dual Layer DVDRW with DVD-RAM featuring Labelflash™ Technology5

Sold.

[Vizzys]

dont expect any battery life

but man will games blaze

[CajoleJuice]

NICE

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

dont expect any battery life

Yeah, that's going to be an issue since I'm using this mainly for work but I can't resist.

[Smooth Groove]

With such a nice screen, you might as well upgrade to Blu-ray.  It'll be a hassle to change the drive later.  

[pilonv1]

Thats an awesome laptop. I think 15.4 is enough screen space but if youre using it for work 17 should be fine.

[Tauntaun]

Check out these Toshiba beasts

[CajoleJuice]

Looks like the Gateway shits all over those.

[Tauntaun]

Looks like the Gateway shits all over those.

Oh I didn't see the Gateway one. 

Gateway laptop

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

I got an estimated arrival date of September 10 for my laptop but I was over at Best Buy yesterday and saw the same unit I just bought and I just have three words - holy freaking crap.  They put in Crysis and I couldn't believe how well it ran with the high settings.  Like butta.  And all this just for $1400?  Get the hell outta here. 

This thing may convert me back to the PC whore I once was.

[Tauntaun]

I got an estimated arrival date of September 10 for my laptop but I was over at Best Buy yesterday and saw the same unit I just bought and I just have three words - holy freaking crap.  They put in Crysis and I couldn't believe how well it ran with the high settings.  Like butta.  And all this just for $1400?  Get the hell outta here. 

This thing may convert me back to the PC whore I once was.

Once a PC gamer, always a PC gamer.  You may have lapses into consolism but you shall always come back to the heart of gaming.