Miscellaneous laptop discussions forum: Good specs for a video editing and gaming laptop.

Gaming- What games?

Multimedia-What kind?

Video Editing-Unless its heavy, high specs aren't really a necessity.

Roger

I want it for games like half life 2 and doom 3, good ability to listen to music with great sounds, movies, video editing is probably light to medium amounts. Not that much. How were those specs i posted?

i second Qosmio's post. alienwares will crumble before your eyes. they are perhaps the worst company to build laptops on clevos. i have many colleagues that owned alienwares and they all have the same problem with tech support and shipping times. the alienwares with the p4's will fry off the motherboard so avoiding it from overheating will be difficult.

sorry. i was really sleepy last night and i forgot to click on hijack masta2's post to post my input.

the inspiron 9300 is a good deal for $1900. my sager 3880 runs on the specs posted below:

15.4" WUXGA LCD (1920x1200)
Intel Pentium M 2.0GHz
2048MB PC-4200 533MHz DDR2 Ram
128MB nVIDIA GeForce Go 6600
100GB 7200RPM Hard Drive
8x DVD+- with DVD+R DL (Lightscribe Enabled)
Microsoft Windows XP Professional (SP2)

it plays counter-strike: source all maxed out at native resolution smoothly with multiple applications running in the background. the inspiron 9300 that you're looking at has a superior gpu next to mine so it will perform better in games. it will play doom 3 very well and it can play half life 2 maxed out. just hope that you get the hitachi travelstar 7k100 for your hard drive instead of the seagate momentus 7200's.

You may want to have a gander at the Acer Ferrari as well. It boasts some nice screen resolution for a 15.4", its very portable, and has great hardware specs for roughly the same price as the Dell. Plus, it just looks so much better than a Dell

About the Qosmio, that laptop has a great monitor, but the cost is just ludicrious. They are terribly overpriced at $3000.00. Just look the other way, or wait a few months for the new dual-core processor laptops to arrive.

I will agree with your statement if you can prove to me that its possible to get the Qosmio G25 for under $2k from a VERY RELIABLE vendor. Otherwise, its up to you to fork over $2k to some computech4cheap.com store.

It seems the going rate now from trusted stores is about $2500.00. Not too shabby, but I still don't think its worth 500 dollars more than the Ferrari. The graphics cards are equivalent to each other (x700 in the ferrari, and a 6600 Go in the G25), the only pluses i see to the Qosmio are 20gigs more HD space, and a 17" screen. But, depending on the OP's needs, a 17" laptop is a good choice for a desktop replacement, but if you want to go mobile, that 10 lb. 17incher can be a bit cumbersome.

the toshiba qosmio in my opinion and many of my colleagues on the fabled www.notebookforums.com is drastically overpriced for a notebook of its caliber. the screen is only a wxga, which is hardly good enough for video editing or crisp graphics for gaming. you won't see it playing doom 3 anytime soon. the gpu is also a nvidia 6600, which is hardly worth the large sum of money the user is paying for. its better to find a notebook with the 256mb mr x700 or higher like the nvidia 6800 found on the inspiron 9300 like the musician4ever suggested. the reason why the nvidia 6600 is on the qosmio is because it is a low cost gpu to render graphics on a standard resolution wxga screen. the two 60gb 5400rpm hard drives in raid 0 on the qosmio will never stand up in performance to the 100gb 7200rpm hitachi travelstar 7k100 found on the inspiron 9300. the 7k100 is the best performing notebook hard drive on the market as of now, the seagate momentus 7200 as the second best performing. the 60gb hard drives on the qosmio are probably going to be made by a less performing manufacturer like toshiba or samsung. the only good about them is that they total up to 20gb more space than the 7k100, but remember, all hard drives when partitioned and used by windows lose ~7% of its actual space. the audio card on the qosmio is a bit obsolete; the AC '97 is falling into the shadows in the presence of the azalia multi channels that are becoming standard on most laptops now, such as my sager. as for the "qosmio engine," it is a good passive feature of the qosmio but it enhances the screen's quality passively by taking advantage of the high 400:1 contrast ratio and brightness of the screen to produce crisper images. but a wuxga can still smoke the qosmio's screen with or without the "qosmio engine." lastly, about the cpu and ram, the 2.0ghz pm is good, but i could be better for the system's price. once a laptop price goes over $2500, this being the total price after tax and shipping, it must have 2gb of ram or the deal isn't worth it. there are a handful of 17 inchers that are worth the price. www.notebookforums.com is the home of the geekiest of geeks and they will be more than willing to lend you a hand in shopping providing that you give them the guidelines of what you want in a laptop and your spending budget. i'm also an active member on that forums so drop by and pm me if you need more help musician4ever.

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