All laptop related queries here!!!

[aroraanant]

If it is a SSD it won't be 5400RPM.

 

[techno]

My elder brother has a 8yeras old compaq presario M2000 its running on 512 mb ram and works dailty almost 18 - 20hours main task is to download from torrents....its battery is died it dosent give just 5secs back up power gone laptop off matter....dose it harms the laptop? , will a UPS work with the laptop? as it turns on even battery is not inserted and plugged dirctly....what to do? if suugesting go with ups the suggest a good ups also....thanks in advance....

 

[a_medico]

Budget - 50K

My friend's parents are willing to carry a laptop for me from US.

Requirements - 14 inch preferably. (but dont mind 15 inch if lightweight)
3rd generation ivy-bridge based processors ( i am assuming these are the best one currently considering the budget)
RAM - 6-8GB
HD - minimum 750gb
battery - 6 cell ( i havent come across 9 cell battery in ivy-bridge based laptops yet...are they upgradable to 9 cell?)
Preferably backlit keyboard.

Tasks - Adobe photoshop, Adobe Lightroom mostly. Movies. Other routine (and many) applications.

Most important criteria (though it may sound idiotic) - Must open a word document (2010) in minimum possible time.

Wouldn't be upgrading it in next 5 years.

Have zeroed in upon - Lenovo Thinkpad Y480, Dell XPS series, HP Envy series but open to suggestions.

They will be traveling in mid august so I need to decide till July last week.

Your inputs will be very helpful.

Currently I am keeping a watch on Deals2buy.com

 

[aroraanant]

Budget - 50K

My friend's parents are willing to carry a laptop for me from US.

Requirements - 14 inch preferably. (but dont mind 15 inch if lightweight)
3rd generation ivy-bridge based processors ( i am assuming these are the best one currently considering the budget)
RAM - 6-8GB
HD - minimum 750gb
battery - 6 cell ( i havent come across 9 cell battery in ivy-bridge based laptops yet...are they upgradable to 9 cell?)
Preferably backlit keyboard.

Tasks - Adobe photoshop, Adobe Lightroom mostly. Movies. Other routine (and many) applications.

Most important criteria (though it may sound idiotic) - Must open a word document (2010) in minimum possible time.

Wouldn't be upgrading it in next 5 years.

Have zeroed in upon - Lenovo Thinkpad Y480, Dell XPS series, HP Envy series but open to suggestions.

They will be traveling in mid august so I need to decide till July last week.

Your inputs will be very helpful.

Currently I am keeping a watch on Deals2buy.com

In India
XPS with IVB will cost 60k or above.
Thinkpads right now don't come with IVB.
And even Envy will cost you more than 50k.
BTW you can get Dell Inspiron Special Edition in your budget.
You can get more info about the same from dell India website.

In US
The best option for you will be:
Sony - 15.5" VAIO S Series Laptop

 

[rider]

+ 1 for that sony IPS 1080p model, it would be better to use photoshop and other editing softwares in that quality screen. Also you would get free PS3 in offer.

 

[a_medico]

Thanks bhailog.... I'll be getting it from US, not India. I guess I can even fit an i7 in 50k budget if brought from US.

 

[yyyy]

i wanna buy a nice laptop in the range abt Rs 30000 for college purpose so plzz tell me which one is the best (stylish,spacy,speedy) ?

 

[rider]

i wanna buy a nice laptop in the range abt Rs 30000 for college purpose so plzz tell me which one is the best (stylish,spacy,speedy) ?

Samsung NP300E5Z-A0HIN
It is the best coz you won't get any core-i5 2.5Ghz, 4GB RAM, 750 HDD in this price.

 

[har]

Guys what do you think of the HP Envy 4 ? Runs BF3 at medium settings pretty well and is just 1.7 kgs.

 

[aroraanant]

i wanna buy a nice laptop in the range abt Rs 30000 for college purpose so plzz tell me which one is the best (stylish,spacy,speedy) ?

The best option for you are these

 

[coderunknown]

Guys what do you think of the HP Envy 4 ? Runs BF3 at medium settings pretty well and is just 1.7 kgs.

really? where you found that? check this: Review Sony Vaio SVT1311M1ES Ultrabook. Same processor.

*images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph5772/45939.png
a quad core 2nd gen i7 mobile offers 13FPS so even if you lower the graphics to absolute minimum that 1.4Ghz i3 won't run BF3. Seriously get your facts right buddy. BF3's system requirement is way too much for most laptops.

 

[har]

It has a i5(ULV)+7670m radeon.

This video shows BF3 running(medium settings):
BF3 HP Envy 4T FRaps.avi - YouTube

Full reviews:
Part 1:HP ENVY 6t Ultrabook Laptop Full In-Depth Review Part 1 (High Quality) - YouTube
Part 2:HP ENVY 6t Ultrabook Laptop Full In-Depth Review Part 2 - I Responded To Your Questions - YouTube

Part two also shows arkham city running.

 

[coderunknown]

flipkart showing it as 53-57k. Pricing is ok if you are on the hunt for an ultrabook only. else there are many better options.

 

[vds5344]

hi everybody,
I'm pretty new here and noob in laptops. Though i had a system with Intel pentium 4 2.4 ghz 256 mb ram and 80gb hdd , contains a integrated Intel graphics controller 64mb
needless to say it would take too much time to load eragon. Or play gta sa
this time I'm going for laptop as I'll be in college soon, so need a decent lappy which could perform well in games and Maybe able to run max payne 3
budget 30k stretching atmost to 40k
after searching i found that gaming lappy is a seriously expensive business. Though it may be that i might be asking too much but I've not touched a pc since 3 years current one is dead.[posting this from opera mobile]
Help please, if it would last 4 years it would be awesome.
I don't worry much about weight thickness or design. It should just run decent games not at ultra though.

 

[thetechfreak]

Spend a little more and get this- HP Pavilion G6-2005AX Laptop AMD A8 Quad Core/4GB/500GB/Win 7 HB/1GB Graphics: Flipkart.com: Compare, Review HP Notebook

 

[vds5344]

thanks for reply i had being eying thiS one closely and went for reviews but it's still not confirmed if it would be able to run nice new games like mp 3 on medium? This would be only purchase for 4 years so need to get confirmed first.

 

[vkl]

@vds5344
Get HP Pavilion G6-2005AX as suggested by thetechfreak.It is available for around 31k locally.It provides the best GPU in this price at the moment.
Check out the reviews posted by members who bought this laptop:
review1
review2

 

[coderunknown]

thanks for reply i had being eying thiS one closely and went for reviews but it's still not confirmed if it would be able to run nice new games like mp 3 on medium? This would be only purchase for 4 years so need to get confirmed first.

if 2005AX can't run MP3, get ready to spend 45k.

 

[vds5344]

45k on which laptop? i seriously doubt this one would play max payne. i played first version on my comp don't wanna miss 3rd installment of this game

 

[thetechfreak]

if 2005AX can't run MP3, get ready to spend 45k.

Why? I think the ATI Radeon 7670M should be able to run at med-low atleast