Saturday, February 15, 2014

How good is my laptop?




New


Windows 7 Ultimate
Asus G73Sw
Windows Rating of 5.9
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2630QM CPU @2.00GHz
16.0 GB (15.5 GB usable) RAM
64-bit operating system
Nvidia GeForce GTX 460M Cuda 1.5GB
2 hard drives,
1 - 596GB
2 - 698GB



Answer
In gaming, slightly better than NVIDIA GeForce GT 645M or GT 730M now available as long as i5-3210M or better. The CPU will have little help until at GT 650M level. The 16GB ram and i7 make for fast video editing, but gaming needs only 8GB total.
It's a pretty good laptop, and at new was top of the line, but computer technology moves fast in the last 5 years. Win 7 ultimate main use is the multilanguage support I think and in Desktops for huge ram in video edit.
Since Lenovo Y580 is up to GT 750M with a faster i7 on sale at $850, let's say $700 to $750 new value as being fair.
Look up your gaming here:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Computer-Games-on-Laptop-Graphic-Cards.13849.0.html
It is pretty good, but getting outpaced by new systems.

What laptop should I buy?




actress_ba


I'm planning on buying a new laptop but I have no idea where to begin. I'll try to make this as detailed as possible so you can get a good idea of what I need.

I'm 15 years old so I'm hoping for something fairly easy to figure out and at the least not terribly ugly. I don't have a very specific budget but I for sure won't spend over $1000. It needs a decent amount of memory since I'm into video and picture editing. I'm not really a gamer. The most intense game I play is the sims (lol) so don't worry about that. I spend a lot of time surfing the web (on youtube & facebook & such). I am a student and will be using my computer to research and write papers. It needs to have a webcam. If it comes with windows 7 that is a huge plus.

I don't care what brand of computer it is but definitely NOT a macbook or a netbook. The more specific you are with what laptop I should get, the better. Links would be great too.

ALSO: if you don't have a recommendation of what laptop is right for me but you know of some great sites that sell laptops for low prices I will still greatly appreciate it!

Thank you!!!



Answer
Video editing appears to be your biggest system demand, but this has a wide range of recommended specs.

If you are shooting, downloading, editing, and exporting movies from a MiniDv camcorder, even a 720 X 480 model, you need the hard drive space, ram, and processor speed to deal with the large data transfer rated from the fireWire. Along with the space, you need drive speed and may want to consider spending a little more for a laptop with a dual RAID drive.

Even more important if you are using premium software such as Adobe's Premiere.

Both of those together put you closer to $2000 for your system (Top quad-core processor, a TB of storage, 4 gb RAM at least, and Windows 64 bit).

Using a mpeg, MP4, or other compressed format camcorder (and no desire to upgrade) and Windows Movie-Maker??? Things are a little easier and an off the shelf $500-$750 laptop should do just fine. A card reader may be helpful if your camera records to one.

Brands, any name brand. There are minor differences between them at any given price point. I've had good luck with HP, Dell, and have considered Ansus and even the iMac.




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