Swing_n_Speed Posted July 20, 2013 Author Posted July 20, 2013 Macbook pro too expensive. Although it has to be said, the retina display is drooool-worthy. If money was no object would opt for a top of the line Alienware or something. And as Cabby pointed out, the I7 is too much power, and certainly don't want any heating issues. Instead of a top end processor I'd be happier with a top end graphics card. I'm pretty much gonna drop the I7 idea for now. If I can get a 13 inch MacBook Air with the latest Intel Haswel processor for about 75k I'd be pretty happy.
Prakat Posted July 20, 2013 Posted July 20, 2013 ^ no games on the mac so be ready to bid goodbye to laptop-gaming if you go for one.
Old guy Posted July 20, 2013 Posted July 20, 2013 im considering change of os soon so my next laptop might be mac..im not a gamer so no problem there :hmmm:
Swing_n_Speed Posted July 20, 2013 Author Posted July 20, 2013 my sister has i7 based laptop form hp and it had heating issues too but does not shuts down and after cleaning it like once every 2 months now it never has problem i think newer chips are better but do u guys really need so much power in laptop ? go for laptop with better battery as gaming experience is never really good on these I7 aside, I find HP products in general to be faulty. Personally I'll never buy anything HP.
Swing_n_Speed Posted July 20, 2013 Author Posted July 20, 2013 If that's your budget look into a Macbook Pro. Select the w/o retina display option. 75k max is what I can go to. I think the Pro series begins at a lak?
Old guy Posted July 20, 2013 Posted July 20, 2013 I7 aside' date=' I find HP products in general to be faulty. Personally I'll never buy anything HP.[/quote'] even i wont again..was a big mistake :(( even my laptop had faulty screen which i had to get replaced with my money :wall: my friend's laptop had faulty motherboard bcos of it only power saver intel graphics were working and not amd one.. dell is good bet in india .. arent sony releasing new line of haswell laptops ?(they all will have 1080p screen ) why not wait for them ? if it was buying i will wait for haswell laptops in ur budget u will easily get them for around 60k wait for few months if u can :two_thumbs_up:
Swing_n_Speed Posted July 20, 2013 Author Posted July 20, 2013 ^ no games on the mac so be ready to bid goodbye to laptop-gaming if you go for one. True. But the new Haswell HD5000 processors do offer a glimpse of hope. Still nothing like having a discrete GPU which would be ideal, and if I can find reasonable specs within my budget on any other system, I'll be open to it.
Swing_n_Speed Posted July 20, 2013 Author Posted July 20, 2013 even i wont again..was a big mistake :(( even my laptop had faulty screen which i had to get replaced with my money :wall: my friend's laptop had faulty motherboard bcos of it only power saver intel graphics were working and not amd one.. dell is good bet in india .. arent sony releasing new line of haswell laptops ?(they all will have 1080p screen ) why not wait for them ? if it was buying i will wait for haswell laptops in ur budget u will easily get them for around 60k wait for few months if u can :two_thumbs_up: I like that advice. Ideally i would like to wait. Thing is I'll be visiting India next month for hols and before I leave I wanna take a laptop back with me....owing to the currency situation and the fact that I made a bit of money on the stock market :--D
Old guy Posted July 20, 2013 Posted July 20, 2013 I like that advice. Ideally i would like to wait. Thing is I'll be visiting India next month for hols and before I leave I wanna take a laptop back with me....owing to the currency situation and the fact that I made a bit of money on the stock market :--D currency situation ?everything is is more expensive.. u will get better deal where ur living anyway computers are expensive here.. for example my htc one was 42k when i bought after currency fell it went to 44 k
Swing_n_Speed Posted July 20, 2013 Author Posted July 20, 2013 currency situation ?everything is is more expensive.. u will get better deal where ur living anyway computers are expensive here.. for example my htc one was 42k when i bought after currency fell it went to 44 k Oh. Well I didn't account for inflation, was merely converting Euros to Rupees. In addition I was also thinking of cashing in on my stock market gains and well there's nothing I can do with those rs but buy something.
Crookbond Posted July 20, 2013 Posted July 20, 2013 Research shows that HP laptops are responsible for 67% of the global warming #TrueStory
Prakat Posted July 20, 2013 Posted July 20, 2013 True. But the new Haswell HD5000 processors do offer a glimpse of hope. Still nothing like having a discrete GPU which would be ideal, and if I can find reasonable specs within my budget on any other system, I'll be open to it. Moreover, Apple will have to make a massive design revamp of their system architecture. Macs not being games-friendly is more a result of the OS. OSX does not allow the kind of unrestriicted machine level access to applications that game developers are used to in the Microsoft environment.
Prakat Posted July 20, 2013 Posted July 20, 2013 im considering change of os soon so my next laptop might be mac..im not a gamer so no problem there :hmmm: Go for a windows laptop. Microsoft needs you! :nice:
Lord Posted July 20, 2013 Posted July 20, 2013 Research shows that HP laptops are responsible for 67% of the global warming #TrueStory :omg:
Old guy Posted July 20, 2013 Posted July 20, 2013 Go for a windows laptop. Microsoft needs you! :nice: why ? im still running windows 7 ..8 is awful .. probably need to talk with ganesh and install linux and try it
DomainK Posted July 20, 2013 Posted July 20, 2013 My i5 laptop had some heating issues. A cooling pad solved the problem.
Prakat Posted July 20, 2013 Posted July 20, 2013 @sabby go for linux if you've never experienced it. Ganno can pick the right flavour for you if you give him your requirements.
StriKe Posted July 20, 2013 Posted July 20, 2013 @pratak ok..i will try it in week or two :) Just try "Live ubuntu using pen drive" :dontknow: If you like it, install it :winky:
Old guy Posted July 20, 2013 Posted July 20, 2013 Just try "Live ubuntu using pen drive" :dontknow: If you like it' date=' install it :winky:[/quote'] Good idea. Still ganna is linux expert so will ask him about it
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