My Indecisiveness kills me!!!!

[Kurt_]

Asus laptops are tops. A friend of mine has one. It looks nice and performs nice too.

[AfroLH]

Alrighty then!!!

ITS SETTLED!!!

I AM GETTING AN ASUS!!!

[bicostp]

No matter what the brand, if you want to play games on it make sure it does NOT have Intel graphics!

[AfroLH]

No matter what the brand, if you want to play games on it make sure it does NOT have Intel graphics!

Ok, but what about an Intel Processor?

[Bibin]

OK, so that rules out HP..

While researching a little I saw that they had an Asus Laptop for $899 (A little over my budget) that has some pretty good specs (I think?). Although it is a little big...

Intel® Centrino® 2 Core 2 Duo Mobile 2.13GHz
4g RAM
320G HDD
NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS
15.4" LCD Widescreen

Weight: 7.7 Lbs
Width: 14.8"

Opinions?

I havent heard bad things about Asus.
And I messed around with an Asus at Best Buy and I really like feel.

Now, you're doin' it right. Core 2 Duo, GeForce 9800M Gs, 4GB ram? That's decent.

[AfroLH]

(what I said)

Now, you're doin' it right. Core 2 Duo, GeForce 9800M Gs, 4GB ram? That's decent.

Decent as in not too powerful but not crappy?

[palmertech]

Intel CPUs are good, better for overclocking, but more expensive. AMD has more heat, but costs less.

Nvidia is awesome.

ATI is okay.

Intel graphics suck ass.

And that is a good laptop... But, keep in mind, for that price, you could actually build TWO desktop rigs of equal/more power, and keep one at each house. But yes, it is actually a nice gaming laptop.

[AfroLH]

Intel CPUs are good, better for overclocking, but more expensive. AMD has more heat, but costs less.

Nvidia is awesome.

ATI is okay.

Intel graphics suck ass.

And that is a good laptop... But, keep in mind, for that price, you could actually build TWO desktop rigs of equal/more power, and keep one at each house. But yes, it is actually a nice gaming laptop.

Yeah well,
I would rather have one thing to keep everything on.

I lose schoolwork enough as it is...

[Kurt_]

I paid $1300 for mine new from Lenovo.

Lenovo T61, 14.1" Widescreen (16:10, 1400 x 900 resolution, antiglare), 3 GB DDR2 RAM, C2D T8300 2.4 GHz, Nvidia Quadro NVS 140M 512MB Graphics Card, 100 GB HDD, CD Burner (It's all I needed), etc etc (the usual bells and whistles. nub, card slot...)

It was worth it.

[XCVG]

I paid $1300 for mine new from Lenovo.

Lenovo T61, 14.1" Widescreen (16:10, 1400 x 900 resolution, antiglare), 3 GB DDR2 RAM, C2D T8300 2.4 GHz, Nvidia Quadro NVS 140M 512MB Graphics Card, 100 GB HDD, CD Burner (It's all I needed), etc etc (the usual bells and whistles. nub, card slot...)

It was worth it.

A Quadro? Are you planning on doing CAD or something?

[Black Six]

I paid $1300 for mine new from Lenovo.

Lenovo T61, 14.1" Widescreen (16:10, 1400 x 900 resolution, antiglare), 3 GB DDR2 RAM, C2D T8300 2.4 GHz, Nvidia Quadro NVS 140M 512MB Graphics Card, 100 GB HDD, CD Burner (It's all I needed), etc etc (the usual bells and whistles. nub, card slot...)

It was worth it.

A Quadro? Are you planning on doing CAD or something?

Workstation laptops generally have workstation graphics cards. My HP one has an ATI FireGL 5000 (it's four years old now).

[Kurt_]

Actually, I AM. I'm in engineering. I've already used a 3D modeling program and such. It'd be hell with lag. And so would games.

But to be honest, the choice was that or integrated intel graphics.