I’ve got around 800 dollars and have been thinking about what to spend it on. Alienware was the first I looked at but I’ve decided they’re just too expensive. What do you guys think I should get with my budget?
Also, I’m pretty interested in having a smexy looking case, and a backlit keyboard would be very smexy.
What do you want to do with it? Gaming or just work?
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834115681
This was just on the newegg frontpage, effort isn;t my strongpoint 
Goes well, but isn’t a looker like you want
I use mine for university, and an excellent piece of advice is for the love of god get a light one
Gaming. And I’d really really like looks. I might be getting a job soon, so I might just save up for the alienware because of it’s extreme sexiness.
Problem is my dad hates video games and hates when I play them so he might veto me buying a laptop.
Honestly don’t go for an alienware. They’re so overpriced, and not the only good looking laptops out there btw. For a proper gaming laptop tho, you might wanna spend more than $800
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I know of one that can play games very well, it’s got an ATI radeon 4570 in it with 4GB of RAM and a 2.2Ghz Dual core. It’s called the Acer Gateway NV5329h laptop. The normal price is about 750$ but right now at Staples they’re selling it for 600$.
Don’t buy acer, hp, gateway or alienware and you should be fine.
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Core Clock: 500 MHz
Shaders/Texture Samplers/Raster Ops: 48/16/8
Texture/Pixel Fillrate (Billion textures/pixels per second): 8.0/4.0
Mobility Radeon 4650
Core Clock: 550 MHz
Shaders/Texture Samplers/Raster Ops: 64/32/8[/font]Texture/Pixel Fillrate: 17.6/4.4Mobility Radeon 4570 (SLOW!!!)
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Core Clock: 680 MHzShaders/Texture Samplers/Raster Ops: 16/8/4 [font=Arial]Texture/Pixel Fillrate: [b]5.4/2.72
Mobility Radeon 5650 (coming out soon)
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Core Clock: 450MHz - 650MHz
Shaders/Texture Samplers/Raster Ops: 80/20/8
Texture/Pixel Fillrate: 9.0-13.0 / 3.6-5.2
I’d wait for the Mobility Radeon 5650. The x6xx series laptop gpus from ATI tend to go into laptops at the price point you are looking for.
Edit:
Why should he have any control over how you spend the money you earned? I assume you got $800 from your[/font]font=Arial[/font] joband not your folks, and I also assume that you are legally an adult.
I’m pretty sure he’s not.
You should seriously consider Sager as an option, they’re a little on the expensive side (but nowhere near alienware) and they make top notch gaming laptops.
I bought their np8662 fairly recently and have been more than happy with it.
I personally wouldn’t trust alienware with a dime of my money, plus their customer service is a nightmare, and quality control has gone completely down the tubes since their being bought out and completely dellified.
Unfortunately, you might want to save up a little more than $800 though, as most decent gaming laptops run just above that… not saying you cant find any for that amount of $$, just be prepared to sacrifice performance for price.
just my 2 cents
You don’t need to be an adult to buy a laptop, I used to buy crap all the time before I turned 18.
Legal adult: the age at which you must register for selective service or need to represent yourself when you sign something in the country of your choice. In the U.S. that is 18.
Fiscal adult: Financially independent from your parents.
I don’t think I’ll be a fiscal adult until I am 25 :’(
I dunno what you mean about needing to be 18 to sign for shit. Unless you’re talking about something other than delivery. I’ve always been able to sign for UPS and Fed-Ex.
Don’t buy a laptop for gaming. You can buy a better desktop + a netbook for cheaper or the same price.
I also went with the uber desktop + netbook approach…
But then got a gaming notebook anyway…
That’s because you don’t pay for any of it.
zing
You forgot Dell there.
Level’s approach would be the best bet; laptops aren’t really meant to be used as your main system.
The only problem I had with dell was the damn charger/battery issue where you absolutely have to use an official dell charger otherwise the CPU is stuck at half the clock and the battery won’t charge. I hope they stopped doing that in newer models.
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