[QUOTE=garry;40844836]How does this compare to a macbook pro?
[url]http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_mac/family/macbook_pro[/url]
I have the 13 inch retina with bootcamp, and can do everything I could do on my old massive noisy black box.[/QUOTE]
I find it somewhat difficult to understand how you don't know the answer to that question being a game developer and all.
what kind of crackhead would buy this shit
oh wait nvm a crackhead can't afford it.
[QUOTE=garry;40844836]How does this compare to a macbook pro?
[url]http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_mac/family/macbook_pro[/url]
I have the 13 inch retina with bootcamp, and can do everything I could do on my old massive noisy black box.[/QUOTE]
This is better, but not worth nearly double the price.
I bought a 15" laptop with an i7 3630QM and a GTX680M for far less than this.
It looks like a black MacBook with green led backlit keys.
The SSD definitely a reason for the price so high and the fact that it's 1920x1080 on a laptop is pretty impressive. I've never seen it. But even for $2500 is way too high for this. I would barely pay $1000 for this.
[QUOTE=Yummy Pie;40845137]The SSD definitely a reason for the price so high and the fact that it's 1920x1080 on a laptop is pretty impressive. I've never seen it. But even for $2500 is way too high for this. I would barely pay $1000 for this.[/QUOTE]
My 1920x1080 laptop with SSD and 500GB 7200rpm cost £700.
You can buy 1920x1080 15.6 panels for sub £60 on ebay, in bulk for manufactures i'd say £40 each.
Haha, this is definitely marketed towards the upper middle class tech kids who have a stressful life and want to get back into vidya games, and this is what they'd buy.
[QUOTE=Yummy Pie;40845137]The SSD definitely a reason for the price so high[/QUOTE]
No, it's not. I have the same size SSD in my laptop right now, which has a slightly worse GPU, but double the RAM and an actual HD too. My laptop was ~$1500, including the SSD, and that was over a year ago. Unless the unannounced "future" processor is really, really high end, there's no reason for it to cost $2500 except for the branding.
(EDIT: And I should specify too, it's also a 17" model.)
[QUOTE=Yummy Pie;40845137]and the fact that it's 1920x1080 on a laptop is pretty impressive. I've never seen it.[/QUOTE]
That's not really impressive. Most laptops that aren't 13" models have 1080p.
[QUOTE=rhx123;40845153]My 1920x1080 laptop with SSD and 500GB 7200rpm cost £700.
You can buy 1920x1080 15.6 panels for sub £60 on ebay, in bulk for manufactures i'd say £40 each.[/QUOTE]
Well I feel stupid now. Guess I haven't really been up to date with laptop tech. I didn't think 1920x1080 was that common for laptops.
So 2,500 and it can do everything my 1k sager laptop can do.
At this point Razer is outdoing Alienware on markups.
Fuck, I just got a pretty nice used Volvo for $2500. I should've waited!
[QUOTE=Gustafa;40845097]I find it somewhat difficult to understand how you don't know the answer to that question being a game developer and all.[/QUOTE]
[url=http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1461]Bootcamp, dude[/url].
[quote][b]Run Windows at native speed[/b]
You can run the Windows operating system on your Mac at native speed—without the performance penalty that comes with software emulation or "virtual machines." Windows applications have full access to multiple processors and multiple cores, accelerated 3D graphics, and high-speed ports and networking[/quote]
It's not that bad of a laptop, but the price is kinda high(which is what happens when you put expensive hardware in a laptop). Not really useful for most gamers since we sit at home anyways, but if you absolutely have to move a lot I suppose it could be useful. Also the price doesn't really tell me much since most things double in price when they come to Sweden, so I don't know if it's actually a $2500 laptop here or a $5000 laptop here.
[QUOTE=WaLLy3K;40845489][url=http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1461]Bootcamp, dude[/url].[/QUOTE]
What does that have to do with it? He was asking why Garry, with all his game developer experience, wouldn't just compare specs on the two laptops himself, not how Garry could use a Mac to make games for Windows.
Asus makes some great gaming laptops (that also double as really nice college computers) that are probably more powerful than this at almost half the price.
[QUOTE=Qui Cattus;40845718]Asus makes some great gaming laptops (that also double as really nice college computers) that are probably more powerful than this at almost half the price.[/QUOTE]
I have one, and I can confirm that they're pretty good. The only problem I've ever had was a fan failing, but their support actually shipped me it fixed in under two weeks.
[QUOTE=Tudd;40844808]They call it the blade cause it cuts your wallet in half.[/QUOTE]
It's probably good to cut oranges aswell, and that makes it worth the price.
[QUOTE=Qui Cattus;40845718]Asus makes some great gaming laptops (that also double as really nice college computers) that are probably more powerful than this at almost half the price.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Neo Kabuto;40845761]I have one, and I can confirm that they're pretty good. The only problem I've ever had was a fan failing, but their support actually shipped me it fixed in under two weeks.[/QUOTE]
I have an older Asus ROG laptop, and for the price it was pretty good.
And even now it's still managing to keep up with modern games. But I plan on replacing it with a newer model later this year.
[QUOTE=Qui Cattus;40845718]Asus makes some great gaming laptops (that also double as really nice college computers) that are probably more powerful than this at almost half the price.[/QUOTE]
All the ones I've seen have poor battery life for the price
They put physically small batteries in their ROG laptops and I hate it, its the one big thing that prevents them from being perfect
You can fry an egg on that thing I bet
[QUOTE=meppers;40845932]All the ones I've seen have poor battery life for the price
They put physically small batteries in their ROG laptops and I hate it, its the one big thing that prevents them from being perfect[/QUOTE]
I get about 2-2.5 hours on battery. Honestly, it's not [I]amazing[/I], but it's good enough for what I use it for.
Ah good
My furnace was need replacement
seems like a pretty neat lapt- holy shit 2.500$?! keep it.
I love how some of the advertising says it's thinner than a dime. Thinner than the diameter of a dime. Pretty shady phrasing. I don't think I'd ever measure the thinness of a dime as its diameter.
looks like it'd melt in half
[QUOTE=Vedicardi;40846171]looks like it'd melt in half[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]It’s outfitted with a future 4th Generation Intel Core Processor and [B]NVIDIA GeForce GTX765M[/B][/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Neo Kabuto;40845949]I get about 2-2.5 hours on battery. Honestly, it's not [I]amazing[/I], but it's good enough for what I use it for.[/QUOTE]
i'm used to my 5 hour macbook
i REALLY want to switch over to a windows laptop but its so hard to find a touch screen laptop with a powerful gpu and a 5 hour battery and good build quality (why are laptop makers so afraid of metal? i understand why they would make the bottom plastic but not the whole thing!)
[editline]30th May 2013[/editline]
also it will be hard to say goodbye to the apple trackpad
[QUOTE=meppers;40846399]
i REALLY want to switch over to a windows laptop but its so hard to find a touch screen laptop with a powerful gpu and a 5 hour battery and good build quality (why are laptop makers so afraid of metal? i understand why they would make the bottom plastic but not the whole thing!)[/QUOTE]
Plastic cases are really underrated. Most are pretty high quality now, so you don't need to worry about it not being metal.
Eh, I dont know why this shit is so expensive, I have a Dv7 (Not a gaming laptop, but pretty decent, I need it since I travel a lot, especially during summer and winter vacation) and got it for about 600$ during Christmas, and guess what happens, they fucked up shipping, so they sent a second, free, overnight, to make sure it got here on time. They let us keep both, which was fantastic, really, I dont know why you'd buy a 2500$ Laptop, if you had that much money to spend on portable gaming, you could just buy a normal rig and afford to move it around, or hell, just buy a new computer every time you leave home, that shit would still be cheaper.
i dislike laptops, especially for gaming
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