Advice on new gaming laptop

[The_Codfather]

Ok so just started Uni and at the minute am getting by using a crappy laptop that was just floating around my family. So now the time has come to get my hands on something decent.

I am studying Multimedia design so I need to get a fairly good laptop to do my Photoshop, film editing, 3d studio max work on etc(This is how its being justified to parents!) I wouldn’t mind playing games on it too though, so my budget is up to about £1,250.

So what’s the best laptop in or around that price range?

Or what are some decent laptop specs at the moment? As in best gfx card for laptops atm, required cpu power for today’s games? So that I can make some comparisons.

Thanks for any advice guys.

[EXreaction]

http://configure.euro.dell.com/dells...hs&~ck=expbuy3

I'd go with the Core 2 T7100, 15.4" WXGA+, 1GB of ram (buy 2GB somewhere else and swap it, its cheaper), 8600M GT, 9 cell battery, Wireless N card.

Comes to 807 (plus probably 40-50 for 2GB of ram somewhere else).

[compaqtf]

If you are stdying multimedia design a mac is the way to go. Nothing is better and they are in you price range. http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPL...ily=MacBookPro

[RandomNameHere]

http://www.toshibadirect.com/td/b2c/cmod.to?coid=-33936

They have notebooks with 8700m GT or 8600m GT in Sli. Also HD DVD drive.

I've got an Asus G2S...

I probably would have been happier buying a cheaper laptop AND a pretty nice desktop for the same price.

I'm running the Windows Vista that came preinstalled... it would probably be much faster if I ran XP or at least use the full version of Vista.

On my desktop Vista has 30 something proccesses running compared to 70 something on my laptop. Meh, just a thought.

[nemowolf]

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Originally Posted by compaqtf

If you are stdying multimedia design a mac is the way to go. Nothing is better and they are in you price range. http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPL...ily=MacBookPro

Dont listen to anyone else, get a mac. Save yourself lots of headaches and just get the industry standard and not fight the crowd. Macs have far better support in terms of available software for what your doing. If you want the XP experience, get boot camp or parallels.

Since your studying that, if your school is worth its weight in salt, you will end up using macs for all your work anyways. Might as well have portability of knowledge so you dont have to learn how to do everything twice.