laptops that meet these qualifications...?

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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.

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Bryce

For a little more detail, a friend of mine wants me to build her a gaming computer. She said she wants the ABSOLUTE best, and that she's willing to pay up to $6000. (yes, I told her that she can get a very good one for less than half of that, and anything over $2000 max is excessive and not worth the performance increase per dollar, but she insists.) Anyway, so this is what I've come up with to be an absolute powerhouse of a PC.

Case and out of case stuff:

Cooler Master HAF XB Gaming Case

LG 12X Internal Blu-ray Drive

Razer Blackwidow 2013 Expert Mechanical Gaming Keyboard

Razer Naga Hex 5600 DPI Laser Gaming Mouse

Lamptron FC10 5.25" Steampunk Design Fan Controller (gotta love those nixie tubes)

INTERNAL 12in1 Flash Media Reader/Writer (for all those SD card needs)

Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920

Inner doodads and workings:

Intel® Core⢠i5-3570K (overclocked to 4 Ghz)

Xtreme Hydro II Liquid Cooling for CPU, and GPU with dual fans

GIGABYTE GA-Z77X-UP4 TH Intel Z77 Motherboard

16GB (4GBx4) DDR3/2133MHz RAM (Ripjaws x)

GPU1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN 6GB

GPU2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN 6GB

Corsair AX1200i Digital 80 Plus Platinum Certified Modular Power Supply (1,200 watts) (I figure shes spending so much on this thing, I could get a really good power supply and maybe at least help her save on her power bill)

2 64 gig SSDs in RAID 0

3TB 7200RPM HDD

Dual Vigor iSURF II Hard Disk Drive Cooling Systems (it'll need all the cooling it can get)

Annnd of course, it'll be running windows 7 Ultimate.

So yeah, honestly, I think its a tad overkill, but it should be able to run pretty much... well... anything. Probably anything in the next 10 years actually. This is about as future proof as you can currently get. So, give me any and all opinions on the build. In my personal opinion, its a monster of a computer.
The final price will be almost exactly $5000. Give or take 30 bucks.
I'd also like to bring up, I never said I know much about computers. I built my own for about 900 a year ago, and thats the extent of my knowledge. For some god awful reason, she still wants me to build it, and only me. I've tried to convince her otherwise, and I've told her shes probably going to lose money coming to me, but she still insists, and hell, I'm getting paid. So yeah. I know alot about lower end gaming, I know how to overclock an i5 and I know about some lower end products, but high end stuff is new to me. So yeah, thats why i'm on answers asking this. I've tried to convince her to go to someone else, but she refuses.

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First of all, I think this post is BS because if you have the knowledge and experience to build a rig like this, you wouldn't be posting on yahoo answers for opinions ( you would already know it is good). Which brings up the question, if you don't know how good this rig is, then you have no business trying to build it because there are issues here that are obvious to people who actually do have experience. Soooo if this post is legit, here are some observations from a 30+ year gaming/computer geek. This is assuming that money is NOT an issue.
1) An i5 really?? (you should know to use an i7 and now a Haswell i7)
2) You will have to either switch the brand of RAM or the hydro cooler because the heat spreaders on the top of the RAM in the first slot will hit the cooler.
3) You will have to either dump one of the titans or upgrade the power supply to something bigger such as the Rosewill Hercules 1600 watt because that 1200 you have listed is only capable of about 1000 watts continuous and considering that each of those titans under load ( gaming with real world temps) will be drawing about 375 watts each, that uses 750 of your 1000 watts. now add in 125 for the CPU then add in the CPU cooler, SSD's, fan controller, media card reader, BR burner, HDD cooler and RAM. You will be over loaded. (which also leads me to believe either this is BS or you don't know what your doing).
4) Why are you using (2) 64 GB SSD's in RAID??? seeing that money isn't an issue, why not just get an OCZ Vertex or Samsung 840 series 1TB single SSD??? (another reason I call BS or incompetence)
5) With the motherboard you have listed, you wont be able to use the 2133 Mhz RAM you have listed, it does not support it. ( another BS / incompetence call)
6) Why would you waste time with a 3TB HDD ???? when you could be using the 1TB mentioned above???
OK, well that's enough to convince me you either don't know what your doing or this is just a BS post, thank you.

laptops that meet these qualifications...?

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.

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Re: Romney the Racketeer: How do get a RICO, POTUS wannabe - indicted?

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laserace01

Where's the instruction manual for handling tyranny, cronyism and corruption concerning Goldman Sachs and Bain Capital?

We have iron clad proof that Mitt lied upon his Federal Election Campaign Finance OGE 278 Form. Romney erroneously states - "Under Penalty of Perjury" - that he had Nothing to do with Bain Capital in "any way" after February 11, 1999.

Turns out he lied and SEC documents, his own attorney statements, his BIO (prior to 2011) and former Bain Capital Associates (such as Marc B Wolpow) all have evidence to the contrary. As a result, Romney's campaign flipped their flop and claim that Mitt "retroactively" retired.

Federal records show the overwhelming possibility that Bain Capital is guilty of RICO (Racketeering Influencing Corrupt Organization). - between 1999 and 2001 in the cases of The Learning Company that the www.MNAT.com law firm merged with Mattel in 1999. Also in 1999, Goldman Sachs took eToys.com public (see March 2013 story NY Times "Rigging the I.P.O. Game") and, though the stock went to $85, eToys only received $18,50. MNAT has confessed lying about Goldman Sachs being an MNAT client, in order for MNAT to become eToys attorney.

In 2000, Bain Capital acquired Kay Bee with Michael Glazer CEO (See Rolling Stone Sept 2012 Cover Story "Greed and Debt"). Michael Glazer then paid himself $18 million and Bain Capital $83 million; before filing bankruptcy of Kay Bee.

Romney is known to have obtained his original seed monies for Bain Capital from Salvadoran emirgre connected to "Death Squads". He continues that bad faith habit by utilizing Junk Bond fraudster Michael Milken's money to fund Stage Stores. What Matt Taibbi's "Greed and Debt" story is the fact that Michael Glazer was a director at Stage Stores and Barry Gold was an assistant director (who hired his secret buddy Paul Traub). But Taibbi did make note of the fact that the judge let the Romney/Milken Stage Store deal go through; because the Judge's wife was a partner in the deal.

Then, in 2001, MNAT lies to become eToys attorney, Paul Traub lies to become eToys creditors attorney (this is confessed also - see Wall Street Journal 2005 story "eToys investors find conflict at law firm"). Then MNAT and Traub, in spite of being forewarned NOT to do so by the U.S. Trustee, put in Barry Gold as President/CEO of eToys. MNAT, Traub and MNAT then ask for and receive permission to DESTROY eToys Books & Records. (Destruction of evidence is a pattern of the RICO with Romney, as he destroyed the Utah Olympics paper trails an his staff bought up his Governor computer hard drives for $94,000 and crushed them).

MNAT and Barry Gold then nominate their partner in crime (Paul Traub) to prosecute their secret client Goldman Sachs in the NY Supreme Court case 601805/2002. But you can't see anything as the NY Times reports - the ENTIRE case of eToys (renamed ebc1) v Goldman Sachs is Under SEAL. (To hide such things as the proof of MNAT asking for Destruction of Books & Records). Cause - if it comes out in court - that Goldman Sachs law firm, while perpetrating fraud on the court via Perjury, had a hand in Destroying eToys Books & Records. THEN Goldman Sachs loses and eToys becomes rich again.

But that's not going to happen. The DOJ Deputy Director of the Executive Office of United States Trustee's (Lawrence Friedman) replaced the Region 3 U.S. Trustee (DeAngelis) with a press Release on December 22, 2004. Also on December 22, 2004, eToys was having an Emergency Hearing on the Perjury & Fraud. Traub and MNAT confessed in writing on January 25, 2005 and in Depositions on February 9, 2005. The U.S. Trustee Motioned to Disgorged Traub's firm for $1.6 million on February 15, 2005.

Then, another Romney RICO secret kicked in. Only the $18 million that Taibbi notes Michael Glazer paid himself, while paying Bain Capital $83 million, MNAT is representing Bain Capital on that probable fraudulent conveyance and (believe it or not) Paul Traub was the one seeking to be prosecutor of Glazer and Bain. Doing that conflict of interest (not telling the court Traub worked for Glazer/ Bain/ Romney/ Barry Gold in Stage Stores) - at the SAME EXACT TIME Traub's firm is being punished in eToys.

The reason Romney claims to have resigned in August 2001 - back to February 11, 1999 - is that he believed he destroyed all the proof of these organzied crimes. For if the CEO of Bain Capital is involved in any way - then he is a RACKETEER boss. But we will never know; because of the other August 2001 RICO secret. An MNAT partner from 1999 to August 2001 (the "retroactive" era) - is Colm F Connolly;

who became the Delaware U.S. Attorney on August 2, 2001 and then buried the crimes from investigation!

How does John Q Public get these powerful, DOJ corrupting racketeers - INDICTED for RICO?
Have filed (vast/plethora of times with - SEC, OSC, OIG, OPR, OGE, UST, Public Integrity Section, President Corporate Fraud Task Force, FBI (who threatened me 3 times), State AG's and Public Corruption Task Force. - The Delaware Federal Court received my complaint naming Romney on October 24, 2012 - the Clerk of Court withheld it from the record for 2 weeks and docketed it on November 6, 2012 (once they realized the election was lost).

Then the Judge held a hearing for me - changed it to a hearing Romney's MNAT firm controlled (please NOTE - MNAT has confessed lying under oath 15 times) - then the court accepts MNAT's forgery they supplied stating "Laser Haas WAIVED his/CLI rights to be compensated {$3.7 million}". The court accepts the (ABSURD) premise that Haas "waived" his fees and rules that I'm no longer a party of interest. (Actually - the court stipulated I'm NOT a person aggrieved - REALLY).

Legislating from the bench, the court stipul

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By filing a complaint with the public prosecutors and let them begin their investigations.

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