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blue drago
my budget is around 1000 dollars (I have more, but I won't spend that much on a
laptop).
I want my laptop to have the following qualifications:
1. Long battery life (at least 8 hours)
2. good graphics card (the one that can play any game)
And my friend told me to avoid dell and hp and
recommended me acer, asus, lenovo, and samsung.
please tell me if you agree with him.
Answer
The general brand quality is:
Lower quality:
All under $350. Acer and especially its Gateway division, Dell Inspiron, Lenovo Essentials, HP Pavilion, Compaq division of HP, Toshiba Satellite, the lower priced Sony models. They tend to be low price to their performance specifications and features, but quality and reliability suffers.
Higher quality:
Asus (except their cheap ones), Dell XPS, Lenovo Thinkpad and Ideapad, HP Envy, the business lines of Toshiba, the higher priced Sony, Samsung
The basis of this, besides my experience and the brand's own statements of differences between the product lines is:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2020725/apple-macbooks-lead-in-laptop-features-and-reliability.html
http://www.pcworld.com/article/244419/laptop_reliability_and_satisfaction_macbooks_rule.html
http://www.rescuecom.com/news-press-releases/Computer-Reliability-Report-2013.aspx
2009 detailed study:
http://www.squaretrade.com/laptop-reliability-1109/
And, you need to combine all of the information together, to come to my conclusion.
Now, here is your problem.
"long battery life at least 8 hours"
The stated battery life is "up to" hours. That is
All wireless off. Screen dimmed to minimum. Minimal applications running as in no antivirus, DVD, or parallel processing - generally it is a text operation. New battery fully charged. In a series of laptops showing the same "up to" it is the model with the lowest performance of CPU and graphics.
Lenovo Thinkpad T and X series mostly have an ultrabay and battery options that can get an all day operation on the integrated graphics, they are business models for durability and do not feature powerful graphics cards. MacBook Pro 15 has a great battery and very nice graphics card, it runs OSX, and to add Windows, and then buy the model, think closer to $2000 than $1000.
Maybe buying an extra battery or even two and can keep a 2nd charged battery with you to get the 8 hours you seek, because 3 to 4 hours is common on a 6 cell battery with laptop performance strong enough for gaming. You might get close with the small brick called Dell Alienware 14. It is very heavy and thick, has a good battery and has a good graphics card when plugged in.
In the USA, your best deal is to set aside the battery life, carrying an extra battery, and go a Lenovo Y510p on sale at Lenovo.com (and use a student portal for a small savings - google barnes and noble lenovo gold, and lenovo student portal to find the links). The model will be a little under $1000, and you get a 1080p display, a Haswell core i7, and a GT 750M graphics card, with 8GB ram and a big HDD. Even on its HD 4000 graphics and set to conserve battery it gets only about 3 to 4 hours, but it very much satisfies excellent gaming.
You see, when they use a low voltage power saving CPU, they often look for a thin and light and a laptop like this Toshiba:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834216538
only has a 4 cell low amperage battery, and I do not believe it is removeable either to carry a spare.
An option that gets close is an MSI GE40
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834152409
$1100 after rebate, it has a good 6 cell removeable battery and a Haswell i7 4702MQ which is designed to run a little lower in power than a 4700MQ, and has a very strong GTX 760M graphics card. This laptop as new battery on battery conserve can get almost 7 hours. It tends to get hot when gaming because of its low profile and a laptop cooling pad is advised. It has a good 1600x900 resolution screen. It does go over budget, but is as close as I expect you can get. There may be a Dell Inspiron with a decent graphics card, low voltage underclocked CPU and a moderate graphics card and 6 cell battery, but you are giving up a lot in performance and quality to get there. Since I don't feel right recommending the Dell, you can look up its details yourself.
This is a gaming to graphics card:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Computer-Games-on-Laptop-Graphic-Cards.13849.0.html
and CPU performance ranking in laptops:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Processors-Benchmarklist.2436.0.html
At Lenovo.com, you can customize a T430 Thinkpad with 1600 x 900 LCD and 9 cell battery and NVIDIA NVS 5400M Graphics, but that is only rank 191 in gaming.
The general brand quality is:
Lower quality:
All under $350. Acer and especially its Gateway division, Dell Inspiron, Lenovo Essentials, HP Pavilion, Compaq division of HP, Toshiba Satellite, the lower priced Sony models. They tend to be low price to their performance specifications and features, but quality and reliability suffers.
Higher quality:
Asus (except their cheap ones), Dell XPS, Lenovo Thinkpad and Ideapad, HP Envy, the business lines of Toshiba, the higher priced Sony, Samsung
The basis of this, besides my experience and the brand's own statements of differences between the product lines is:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2020725/apple-macbooks-lead-in-laptop-features-and-reliability.html
http://www.pcworld.com/article/244419/laptop_reliability_and_satisfaction_macbooks_rule.html
http://www.rescuecom.com/news-press-releases/Computer-Reliability-Report-2013.aspx
2009 detailed study:
http://www.squaretrade.com/laptop-reliability-1109/
And, you need to combine all of the information together, to come to my conclusion.
Now, here is your problem.
"long battery life at least 8 hours"
The stated battery life is "up to" hours. That is
All wireless off. Screen dimmed to minimum. Minimal applications running as in no antivirus, DVD, or parallel processing - generally it is a text operation. New battery fully charged. In a series of laptops showing the same "up to" it is the model with the lowest performance of CPU and graphics.
Lenovo Thinkpad T and X series mostly have an ultrabay and battery options that can get an all day operation on the integrated graphics, they are business models for durability and do not feature powerful graphics cards. MacBook Pro 15 has a great battery and very nice graphics card, it runs OSX, and to add Windows, and then buy the model, think closer to $2000 than $1000.
Maybe buying an extra battery or even two and can keep a 2nd charged battery with you to get the 8 hours you seek, because 3 to 4 hours is common on a 6 cell battery with laptop performance strong enough for gaming. You might get close with the small brick called Dell Alienware 14. It is very heavy and thick, has a good battery and has a good graphics card when plugged in.
In the USA, your best deal is to set aside the battery life, carrying an extra battery, and go a Lenovo Y510p on sale at Lenovo.com (and use a student portal for a small savings - google barnes and noble lenovo gold, and lenovo student portal to find the links). The model will be a little under $1000, and you get a 1080p display, a Haswell core i7, and a GT 750M graphics card, with 8GB ram and a big HDD. Even on its HD 4000 graphics and set to conserve battery it gets only about 3 to 4 hours, but it very much satisfies excellent gaming.
You see, when they use a low voltage power saving CPU, they often look for a thin and light and a laptop like this Toshiba:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834216538
only has a 4 cell low amperage battery, and I do not believe it is removeable either to carry a spare.
An option that gets close is an MSI GE40
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834152409
$1100 after rebate, it has a good 6 cell removeable battery and a Haswell i7 4702MQ which is designed to run a little lower in power than a 4700MQ, and has a very strong GTX 760M graphics card. This laptop as new battery on battery conserve can get almost 7 hours. It tends to get hot when gaming because of its low profile and a laptop cooling pad is advised. It has a good 1600x900 resolution screen. It does go over budget, but is as close as I expect you can get. There may be a Dell Inspiron with a decent graphics card, low voltage underclocked CPU and a moderate graphics card and 6 cell battery, but you are giving up a lot in performance and quality to get there. Since I don't feel right recommending the Dell, you can look up its details yourself.
This is a gaming to graphics card:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Computer-Games-on-Laptop-Graphic-Cards.13849.0.html
and CPU performance ranking in laptops:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Processors-Benchmarklist.2436.0.html
At Lenovo.com, you can customize a T430 Thinkpad with 1600 x 900 LCD and 9 cell battery and NVIDIA NVS 5400M Graphics, but that is only rank 191 in gaming.
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