Thread: New laptop suggestions please

Originally Posted by 87County

Nobody seems to have mentioned unltrabooks so far....

thinner smaller lighter laptops with increased battery life

I quite like the Toshiba Z830 but the Dell 14z XPS, abt $1200, seems to be the best specified for the $ and I'm thinking of getting one in the near future

Unfortunately they do not have the grunt I need. SWMBO's Macbook Pro is a great bit of kit but the processor, memory and screen size isn't there.

We use Dell at work, and I take mine everywhere. Never had a problem.

I have a Toshiba at home, and like the Dell, is rock solid.

I dont have any nice words to say about Acer thou, so I wont...

I have been doing some looking on the interweb and have stumbled across "METABOX" they are aussie assembled Laptops and you can basically build the laptop you want.
They have 15, 17 and 18 inch screen version. The 18 inch P180HM laptop, has the option of coming with two nvidia gtx 560m cards running in SLI - GPU 3gb GDDR5 (you can't really ask for better when using your machine for graphics, CAD, games or editing - CS5 will take full advantage of this setup) and you can also have up to three HDD's, two could be running RAID, one could be a SSD for booting, i think the memory is expandable to 12gb DDR3 1600mhz of ram,
You would have quite a fast machine, for around 2,300. The alienware (dell) equiv would cost a lot, lot more .

I think they are labelled CLEVO aswell (assembled in another country), but METABOX have a website, where you can build your custom laptop and they send you a quote. Just google METABOX. They are labelled the fastest notebooks in the world. (ha that was probably the case for all of three minutes, one day past)

I am slightly hesitant in METABOX, as there are very few reviews, though what i have found is that they seem to go down pretty good with the GAMERS and they generally know what they are talking about. If anyone has any stories about METABOX please share, as i am not always the keenest guinea pig.

I think i will invest in one next month as a portable edit suite, though i will do some more research before i do.

Originally Posted by WhiteD3

Unfortunately they do not have the grunt I need. SWMBO's Macbook Pro is a great bit of kit but the processor, memory and screen size isn't there.

The 17" Macbook Pro can be spec'd with the fastest mobile processor currently available from Intel (i7-2860QM -2.5ghz). Memory is a bit limited at 8Gb Max, but still I'm struggling to see how that equates to lacking grunt?

Originally Posted by OffTrack

The 17" Macbook Pro can be spec'd with the fastest mobile processor currently available from Intel (i7-2860QM -2.5ghz). Memory is a bit limited at 8Gb Max, but still I'm struggling to see how that equates to lacking grunt?

The suggestion was about ultrabooks and SWMBO's Macbook pro is a 13", hence my comment. I'll bet a 17" Macbook Pro would be north of my 2k budget too.

Ordered the Asus N73 today.

The specs on the N73 are nice. Good sounding machine. Remember to google mercury machine and cuda support for CS5 as you now are the owner of nvidia gt 520m GPU, you just put a patch in a support file and the card will work its magic.

my 2c worth is go with dell.
they are a bit like a volvo, while they never really look cool even the top end models they run for ever and ever and do what they need to do. One of the few real "desktop" replacements.
Outstanding support.
Pricing is very competative if you contact your account manager, $$ cheaper than retail.
They do tend to be on the heavy side.
Their OEM carry bags are horrible.

Although aimed at gamers dont rule out the Alienware range. Good specs for the $$$ one of the guys I work with chose one and swaers by it rather than at it

Saying that some of the new Asus & Toshiba's look really nice

OK so I missed this bit "Ordered the Asus N73 today."

oops