Paul le Fou ([info]paul_le_fou) wrote,
@ 2009-06-07 13:30:00
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Computers!
So I'm looking at new laptops. I'm going between two right now. One is a gaming laptop by Digital Storm - 17" monitor, 6 gig of RAM, Geforce 9800M GS graphics card. The other is an HP, 18.4" monitor with 4 gig of ram and a geforce 9600M GT graphics card, and is a couple hundred cheaper. They both have core 2 quad processors, blu-ray drives, etc. So basically I'm split between a smaller enthusiast/boutique company with better performance or a company that's guaranteed to be around in 3 years with a cheaper product (and a bigger, probably nicer screen). The HP's weaker card should be fine for the gaming I'd be doing since I won't be playing Crysis or anything, but the stronger card would also last longer as far as playing future games goes. Also, being overseas, tech support on the Digital Storm will be harder (i.e. impossible) although I don't know how much better HP's would be. I... I don't know what to do! SOMEONE MAKE MY HARD DECISIONS FOR ME



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[info]misshatter
2009-06-07 07:11 pm UTC (link)
DAMN. This just reminds me how badly I need to upgrade my poor computer. TWO QUAD CORE PROCESSORS GODDAMN. One thing you might want to take into consideration is that a stronger graphics card, if not cooled properly, can heat up and cause a lot of wear on your computer. That's probably not a big issue here, but it leads me to think that Digital Storm would probably take that into consideration more than HP. My cousin had an HP back in the day that had smoke pour out of it at one point. I've never really trusted them since.

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