Thread: compooter people

Im using Windows 8.1 as my main OS atm and it works just fine for me.

No blue screen but it will go blank to a black screen and it will still have sound though

No blue screen but it will go blank to a black screen and it will still have sound though

well i went to turn it on tonight. and it allowed me to click the user and it then went to the home screen and then went black. and it didnt go back

Sounds loke a gpu problem aka your mother board.

Do you have a desktop? Remove your hard drive from the laptop. Add the hard drive to the desktop ( don't remove the desktops hard drive ) And hook up your sata and power cables.

See if you can access the drive normally with out lag or freezing windows explorer.



If its fine your gpu on your motherboard is shot and your computer is totaled, as I would say.

I'm a Toshiba fan. I bought a 800 buck Toshiba three years ago and dang thing still runs great and fast. Also battery still lasts forever. And I bought another 300 buck Toshiba last month for hp tuner only and its pretty sweet as well. I love em

Originally Posted by whitehead

If your going to spend > $1000 on a laptop go for an Asus or an Alieware if you play computer games or hardcore graphics work. Otherwise you have no need for an expensive laptop. 95% of laptops under a grand do a great job at day to day tasks and some moderate gaming. Personally not a fan of Macs but to each their own.

Please for the love of god do not buy alienware....

Originally Posted by Russosaur

Please for the love of god do not buy alienware....

I second this motion

I just bought the wife a HP Envy 15t Quad Core AMD with dual graphics for $570 shipped and will be dropping in a Seagate Hybrid SSHD drive. Haven't gotten it yet but seems to be like a good deal.

I would shot for i7 3rd generation PC's, look for higher screen resolution than 13**x768 (trust me, you will thank me later), and a good track record for build quality...Apple, Asus, Lenovo.

If you do the business class HP Elitebook's or Lenovo T-pads, they will last forever, I beat the **** out of mine and they are still going as far as I know.

As a last note, I would spend the money and drop in an SSD on any laptop, those puppies make everything fun, but not required.

And I have a Lenovo with dual graphics in SLi, packed with RAM, SSD, and dominate some of these guys with $1500 gaming laptops and I only spent $900 or so.

Originally Posted by Drunkie

I just bought the wife a HP Envy 15t Quad Core AMD with dual graphics for $570 shipped and will be dropping in a Seagate Hybrid SSHD drive. Haven't gotten it yet but seems to be like a good deal.

I would shot for i7 3rd generation PC's, look for higher screen resolution than 13**x768 (trust me, you will thank me later), and a good track record for build quality...Apple, Asus, Lenovo.

If you do the business class HP Elitebook's or Lenovo T-pads, they will last forever, I beat the **** out of mine and they are still going as far as I know.

As a last note, I would spend the money and drop in an SSD on any laptop, those puppies make everything fun, but not required.

And I have a Lenovo with dual graphics in SLi, packed with RAM, SSD, and dominate some of these guys with $1500 gaming laptops and I only spent $900 or so.

The Lenovo Y510p, eh? Good machine I've heard.

Looking to buy a new laptop too, 17.3" minimum too, I'm eying those Asus G75, they're around 800-900$ refurbished.

Originally Posted by WolvesSoulZ

The Lenovo Y510p, eh? Good machine I've heard.

Looking to buy a new laptop too, 17.3" minimum too, I'm eying those Asus G75, they're around 800-900$ refurbished.

Yup, Y510p.

I wanted to stay 15" because I didn't want a 10-12lb weight to lug around, but a co-worker has one and brings it to work everyday, he loves his. The Gaming end of the laptops tend to be decent machines, time will tell how these hold up; I miss my business class laptops, they felt sturdier than both the Lenovo and ASUS.

As for horsepower, wow what a difference it makes in any Adobe product.

Agreed, avoid Alienware.

You want a class leading laptop...buy a Razer or Falcon Northwest. Just to make you choke a little (http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-systems/razer-blade/)

Originally Posted by Drunkie

Yup, Y510p.

I wanted to stay 15" because I didn't want a 10-12lb weight to lug around, but a co-worker has one and brings it to work everyday, he loves his. The Gaming end of the laptops tend to be decent machines, time will tell how these hold up; I miss my business class laptops, they felt sturdier than both the Lenovo and ASUS.

As for horsepower, wow what a difference it makes in any Adobe product.

Agreed, avoid Alienware.

You want a class leading laptop...buy a Razer or Falcon Northwest. Just to make you choke a little (http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-systems/razer-blade/)

I'm used to having a 18.4" laptop so eh! I'd like to find another as big as that, but my wallet doesn't! 17.3" will suffice for the next.
I'm going to surprise a few here, but I've had this acer since later 2009/early 2010. 18.4" 1080p screen w/ 5.1 speakers and blueray. Been able to play game decently since this year, where it's definitely showing its age! It has a good ol' first gen i3 with 4GB of ram and a 5650M Graphics.

But the thing is, 4 years out of a laptop I paid 597$ taxed and shipped to my door? Steal

I would do this, but it would be obsolete in a year. I do plan to build another Desktop rig some day...and that doesn't even come close to this price.

System Details

Chassis
DRX Exotix - Single Color (Full)
Display
17" Matte LCD Panel - 1920x1080
Pixel Guarantee
Perfect Pixel Guarantee
Laptop Keyboard
Illuminated Keyboard
Processor
Intel® Core™ i7 4930MX 3.00GHz
Memory
SD 1600MHz 4x8GB (32GB)
Video Card
2 NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 780m 4GB
Networking
802.11 B/G/N & Bluetooth
Hard Drive
Crucial® M500 SSD 960GB
Hard Drive 2
Seagate® SSHD 1TB
Optical Drive
8x DVD Writer
64-Bit Operating System
Microsoft® Windows 7 Professional
Battery
1x Lithium-Ion 8-Cell (89.21WH)
Power Supply
1x AC Adapter - DRX
Carrying Case
Falcon Northwest Backpack
USB Rescue Drive
USB Rescue Drive
Warranty
DRX - 1 Year & Falcon Overnight

Total System Price: $6,453.50

it can be upgraded later on.

The thing with Alienware is that you can get a similar laptop for usually, 500$ less or more.