Gaming Sexy laptop - Worth it?

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To end any Acer versus HP versus Toshiba debates. Toshiba has the lowest fail rate. HP has the highest. If I remember correctly Acer sits in the middle-low area.
 

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what's sexy about it?

plus why is the track pad on the left side? are you a lefty?
Right elbow againts the desk, arm tilted towards the touchpad - it's actually very comfortable for a right-handed person.

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It's the touchpads on the right side that make you creep your arm unnaturally that give me shivers.
 

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Acer is not what it used to be. They used to be really bad products. I think its really decent price for that rig and its got everything to serve you a good amount of time.
Acers become frying pans after a certain period of time, I know that from personal experience as I serviced two based on the Core 2 Duo processor and I wouldn't recommend their hardware to my worst enemy.
Funny, in my 4 years of work I can assure you that Acer is a lot better than Toshiba, HP, Packard Bell and such.

HP is the absolute worst, though. Motherboards go belly up most of the times because they turn into freaking ovens after 10 months.

Heck, I have two Acer laptops here at home which are still working majestically. And one has something like 6 years and is still used daily.
Well then you're one of the lucky users. I can only say bad things about the forementioned company. HP also has issues with overheating, I have no opinion on Packard Bell and all the Toshiba's I worked on work exceptionally to be honest.

If I were to recommend any company then I'd say "Asus" hands down - their hardware as of late is of exceptional quality at affordable prices. I'd rather pay those few bucks more and have a "stable" system. ;)
My asus laptop experienced charging issues after two months. I had to send it across the country to get it fixed because my in store warranty was up.

All laptops suck.


My first HP laptop had all of its heatsink vents and openings on the bottom of the computer. When heatsink fans started breaking, I noticed how much animal hair had got sucked into it. Not only that, but the power pin connector broke a number of times. I'm knowledgeable on computers and how they function but the laptop I need to purchase is strictly going to be for mobile purposes and doing my work while I'm at school.

I work for my school which also requires a laptop (or would be nice not to use the computers I'm working on =P). I'm literally on campus for roughly 9-11 hours of the day. My desktop (that I had built for about $600) would be primarily used for gaming and whatever else I want to use.

My brother had a dell laptop, while the heatsink fans were much better situated, the hinges and chassis kept breaking to pieces. After 5 years of him owning the laptop, the monitor plastic is whacked out, the chassis has both hinges broken, the area around the chassis looks like it has been hit with a hammer, etc... Both him and my sisters laptop are pretty much going into the same fate and it's mainly because the hinge designs on their inspirons.

The main reason I have posted two laptop threads is because I haven't used a laptop in several years yet alone seen a few select dell latitude laptops. I could give a crap about customer support as long as they make it easy to use the warranty if needed. The main things I'm looking for is chassis design (including temperatures, build, quality, etc...) and prices (laptops in price do not equal desktop equivalents and I wouldn't know if it was a good deal). I researched a bit today and found the differences between different processors (like i3, i5, and i7) so I have a pretty good understanding on the parts that I will be getting.

One question I'm still debating, should I go ahead and wait until next generation of processors from Intel? By my understanding, they will have lower power consumption (which to me means less heat) and better integrated graphics (If the HD 3000 wasn't enough for not gaming...). If I don't like the price availability of laptops with newer mobile processors, surely the prices of these laptops with the i3-i7 processors would be less demand right?
Intel HD 3000 is the best in integrated laptop graphics at the moment. Expect to be able to run Source games with it, but not too much higher than that.
 

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My asus laptop experienced charging issues after two months. I had to send it across the country to get it fixed because my in store warranty was up.

All laptops suck.
Well, d'uh. Laptop is no replacement for a proper desktop, still, it's better then a damned Netbook.

Most charging issues occour when users simultainously charge and drain the battery by using the laptop as they charge rather then removing the battery not to waste its charging cycles. Either that or pulling at the charger's cable and bending the connector. :P I wonder what happened to yours, was it a factory defect? [/Plain curiousity]
 

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The charging connector on the laptop was screwed up. Wouldn't charge at all unless I held it in place. It was a real pain.

Though thanks for the tip about removing the battery. I'm getting a new laptop later and I'll remember to do that.
 

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The charging connector on the laptop was screwed up. Wouldn't charge at all unless I held it in place. It was a real pain.
Oh, that is oh-so-common! That's the first connector that gets loose or broken - nothing serious, but still a damned pain. They should really put them in place better - half of'em are slightly loose even when laptops are factory-new and in mint condition. That's one thing everybody's gotta watch out for - fiddling with the connector too much equals solder work.
 
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I have an Acer Aspire, and i can tell you, even though it gets hot sometimes (only when skyrim on summer) it works pretty well, and i've had it for 2 years now, i can't complain, it was the best choice between a minor specs asus or this laptop i'm currently writing on.

Also, i do a lot of programming on it, and being an i5 processor, it works flawlessly.
 

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I wouldn't go for Acer, if I had to choose myself. Just my opinion.

What is everyones beef with acers. I've had mine now for about 5-6 months, and not a single issue at all. Hell, I bumped up the RAM to 6GB and this thing screams along now.

I think Acers a decent brand. HP on the other hand, I've had nothing but bad luck with.

But again, just because one person has bad luck with one brand means nothing. Another person could have excelent luck with them.

But yes, as thieves like us mentioned. Do not buy anything with a integrated graphics card if you're going to be doing heavy graphics processing and gaming. Learn from my mistake, although really the most graphically intensive thing I do is Second Life.
 

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what's sexy about it?

plus why is the track pad on the left side? are you a lefty?
the trackpad isn't on the left side, it's centered on the keyboard. all of the laptops that have a dedicated numeric keypad have the trackpad centered on the keyboard (so, it appears to be shifted to the left).
 

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Maybe you should go to a store and have a look at some laptops. As I already said, any laptop can do what you want to do with it. So perhaps it is a good idea to go for a laptop with slightly lower specs, but with a better screen and keyboard. Those two items don't really seem important at first, but they always turn out to be really important in the end.
 
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