College Laptop

[Loki_Jortunn]

Hi all, i'm looking for feedback and advice on a new laptop it will only be used for college work and ffxiv:ARR. First up budget $1000CAD not much leeway on this point. Size i'm open to suggestions i think i would prefer to go to either extreme 17" big and heavy or 15"/14" ultrabook.

Maybe those that have followed information closer than I have might know the answers to this but will ARR make use of quadcores? (and the i7 HT technology?)

Will a 635M be enough to run ffxiv at 720p (this would fit the ultrabook options i have seen)

Branding in the past i've done tech support and Acer has always been the "cheap" brand and as such components tended to have issues so i would like to avoid unless there is a really good recommendation. Other than that i'm open to suggestions if the computer is available in Canada or from the US (only if its cheap enough to outweigh import costs)

thanks in advance for any help.

[Rau]

Hi all, i'm looking for feedback and advice on a new laptop it will only be used for college work and ffxiv:ARR. First up budget $1000CAD not much leeway on this point. Size i'm open to suggestions i think i would prefer to go to either extreme 17" big and heavy or 15"/14" ultrabook.

Maybe those that have followed information closer than I have might know the answers to this but will ARR make use of quadcores? (and the i7 HT technology?)

Will a 635M be enough to run ffxiv at 720p (this would fit the ultrabook options i have seen)

Branding in the past i've done tech support and Acer has always been the "cheap" brand and as such components tended to have issues so i would like to avoid unless there is a really good recommendation. Other than that i'm open to suggestions if the computer is available in Canada or from the US (only if its cheap enough to outweigh import costs)

thanks in advance for any help.

Check out the Lenovo Y series. They're pretty good in terms of power/price.

The 635M will probably be able to run it, but it'll probably look worse than N64 games.

[Loki_Jortunn]

Rau, i've had a look and found http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/c...7C0%3A&redir=y
Was it that one you were recommending? Y580 it looks pretty good only downside is see is the slow HDD but that could be upgraded at a later time with an SSD or hybrid.

[Loki_Jortunn]

Has anyone had any experience with Asus N65 series http://www.asus.com/Notebooks_Ultrabooks/N56VM

or http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product...16834230913CVF Vivobook also from Asus?

[Deli]

don't go with Lenovo ideapad, unless all you care about is cheap price...
I had a Y4xx before, came with bad keyboard, I sent it back (1 week), and back with the whole speaker panel lifted up. Sent it back (1 week), CD rom is not locked, the screw is missing. Called and yell at them. They said they can't send me just a screw, so need my credit card info and they are going to send me a NEW drive, and I had to return the old one...
1 week later, CD rom arrive... guess what! NO SCREW!!! called and yelled again... finally they sent me 2 screw...
so, bad service.

now is the build part... the plastic mounting the LCD lifted up at 2nd week...
if you carried the laptop on the side way, you will see your screen panel (so soft) completely bent and touching the keyboard.
Screen is extremely dark even you open the brightness to max.
keyboard is very soft and it wiggle when I type.
The graphic card heated up until you can't put your hand on the sides of track pad.

If you don't care about anything above... ya... you can try one... just remember you get what you paid.

I'll go for ASUS tho...I got my G53sw for $850... it's super nice ^^. No heat up, very strong body, lots room to upgrade, 1080p screen is shinny

I think Nvidia 630 can open the mid quality tho... they use ATI 5750 as mid range machine. I believe it's on laptop, but not sure.
check the nico nico live event

[Loki_Jortunn]

Tsukichu, thanks and it looks like just $99 for shipping to canada, hopefully no sales tax on top of that.

[Tsukichu]

Heya, I just recently received my new computer from Ibuypower.com and I did a little bit of browsing and found a very nice laptop for 1069 dollars:

http://www.ibuypower.com/Store/Batta..._Gaming_Laptop

You could probably lower a few things to match your 1000 mark but its a rig tested to run games like Battlefield and Skyrim at high specs, so it should be more than enough to run FFXIV at beautiful graphics/performance. ^^

It was my first time buying a non-popularized brand myself but they were more than courteous towards me.

Its ram is rather low at 4gbs but you shouldn't need much more unless you're doing heavy rendering using programs like AfterEffects.

[Asael]

Check out this site: www.cyberpowerpc.com One of the nicer sites I've been to for PCs and they have pretty nice prices to boot. Also you can customize your computer if you want to improve performance or just cut down on price.

[Tsukichu]

http://www.ibuypower.com/Store/Batta..._Gaming_Laptop

Messed around on a configurer and got the price down to 1027, lowered the hdd to 500gb and the ram down to 4gb. Same power for a little less. ^^

Edit: It would seem I can't link the changes I made, but you can just choose the 500gb hdd and 4 gb ram to see the price I was talking about.

Hope that helps~

[Loki_Jortunn]

thanks for the advice Deli, i'll admit i had concerns of build quality when i saw it but was hoping the lenovo name would make up for it.

Would love to get a G series Asus but the cheapest on newegg.ca is over my budget Asus G55 even looked on the NA newegg site they are all out of G53s