Help needed for laptop requirement

[Nastumi]

(Hello !)(Everyone), (Help !)(can I have it ?)(Please)

I'm looking for a laptop that could run FF XIV with good quality (XIV is THE reference to get a computer that will be able to handle pretty much anything for a long time ^^). I have saddly no knowledge in this kind of stuff, so I'm asking for some help here, if some of you know about good and not over priced laptops, have some benchmark scores or advices (too bad we don't have an option to enter a configuration and get a rating...).

So far, I got my look on a couple of laptops :

Msi GT680R-058FR, coming with :
-Intel® Core™ i7-2630QM 2 GHz
-NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 460M (1,5 Go DDR5)
-6144 Mo DDR3 RAM (1333 MHz)

Toshiba QOSMIO X770-127, coming with :
-Intel® Core™ i7-2670QM (2,40 GHz, 6 Mo, 4 cores)
-NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 560M (1,5 Go GDDR5)
-4096 Mo DDR3 RAM (1333 MHz)

Dell AlienWare M14x, coming with :
-Intel® Core™ i5 2430M (2,40 GHz, 3 Mo, 2 cores)
-NVIDIA® GeForce® GT555M (1,5 Go DDR5)
-4096 Mo DDR3 SDRAM (1333 MHz)

My girlfriend coming in FF XIV depends on this message, and on the choice of a good laptop. Everyone is welcome to reply, players, moderators, devs, moogles, chocobos etc...

While awaiting lots of suggestions from all of you (which we'll answer promptly), we bid everyone farewell !

Nastumi Losstarot & Mina Tirith


P.S : we're saddly not rich, so the choice of this laptop mustn't be an error, as it will cost us nearly all of our money, so we count on you

[auritribe]

http://www.powernotebooks.com/PowerP...-sys-4273.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UKHj...layer_embedded
The powerpro is the model I use. It works great, and has better specs than the MSI you listed. It's the same basic machine for slightly cheaper.

http://www.powernotebooks.com/Sager-...-sys-3726.html
This one is highly recommended by the users at notebookreview.

Either of these machines will get the job done. They're a bit on the heavy side but I know they'll play the game well.

I typically link these two machines any time a post like this comes up, that's because they get the job done.

You'll want more than a 555m btw, but if you are fine with a 555m, I'd suggest:
http://www.powernotebooks.com/Sager-...-sys-4047.html

I've owned a couple of alienwares and I never found their performance or durability to be satisfying.

[Geesus]

You'll want more than a 555m btw, but if you are fine with a 555m, I'd suggest:
http://www.powernotebooks.com/Sager-...-sys-4047.html

I've owned a couple of alienwares and I never found their performance or durability to be satisfying.

This ^
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[Coldfire]

I'd choose the Toshiba even though the i7 is thrown out money. But the 560M is pretty much the minimum for acceptable graphic details. Or you wait until AMD throws their new laptop APUs on the market and hope they are twice as fast as the previous generation xD

[Nastumi]

Thanks for your answers, that was helpfull

@Auritribe, I looked at your list, but saddly we can't find PowerPro or Sager laptops where we live (we decided to post on the english forum for more accurate answers, but we're french). Even with that, I could manage to get some specs references usefull in our quest to find a decent laptop to roam Eorzea

@Coldfire I agree, if we had the time, we'd have waited a bit more, but my g/f computer died a while ago, and so we need to change it, that's why we're a bit on a rush

From what we saw, the Toshiba would be the best choice ; I'll still need to find someone playing on it (or with a close configuration) to get some feedback/benchmark. If in the end XIV doesn't run on it (or very ugly) we should get a non "gamer" laptop, cheaper and they don't run FF for sure
If you know friends/websites, I'll dig on my side, but I'll gladly accept any infos.

We hope to see you all soon in Eorzea,


Mina & Nastumi

[Quesse]

The Toshiba has my vote. The Alienware is the worst of the bunch.

Too bad no Sager, they are really nice.

[Geesus]

I agree with Quesse on the choice. The GTX 560M is the LT version of the GTS 450 GPU for desktops.

GTX 560m
GTS 450

[Mina-Tirith]

Thank you everyone !!!
We bought the Toshiba and FFXIV works perfectly (with average graphisms)

thanx again see you later


Mina