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[arter_2]

Hello GAF can you tech heads help me find a good laptop for school. I’ve been looking for month and I have been having a lot of trouble. See I’m going to art school [The school of visual arts to be exact] and my major is computer graphics. I know I need a high-powered laptop for the essential programs I will be using. Programs like Maya, Photoshop, After Effects and many others. So here are the two options I’ve been looking for:



1. A regular high powered gaming notebook with a high-powered graphics card and main processor. I’d prefer And AMD 64 chip whether it be duel or regular and an ATI graphics card [whatever is the best at the time the best seems to be the x800] though I am open to other choice I just am confused what will be the best for my money. Also I’m looking for the highest quality screen too 17” wide screen.




2. The second option is a little more ambitious but I believe it will be perfect for my major. I am looking for the closest thing to the above a leading edge high-powered computer that is a tablet pc. See a tablet could be great for the drawing and modeling that I will be doing. The problem is all the tablets on the market that I could find is that they are way under powered.



I know I am asking for a lot guys but I’ve been looking for months and there is nothing out their that really meets these specs some companies have one thing and not the other and I’m just wondering what company has the best for the money that I will be paying which I know is a lot. I’ve looked at Dell, Alienware, Falcon, and some random others.
So guys can you help???



p.s.

How is the Dell xps it seems way under powered compared to the other high end note books?

 

[Cmdr. Solrak]

ABS

 

[retardboy]

Dell 9300 (Big ass 17" but its sexy and powerful... can add media center onto the thing if you want), 6000 (Pretty powerful and is a decent size for carrying around 15.4"), or 700m (Small for carrying around school), Latitude X1 (even smaller)

 

[Duality]

I'm also in the market for a laptop (in Canada) so if anyone spots any Canadian deals, I would be grateful. I have been looking at the Dell 9300 and some of the Toshiba Satellite models, however.

 

[arter_2]

Eh, I work for dell and the 9300 still isn't really what I need. I need a strong laptop more of a desktop replacement witha lot of raw preformance power. Hell the dell xps is even more powerful than the highest Insperon 9300.

 

[retardboy]

well... it depends on what you wanna do. if you're doing video editing or something then the xps is faster, but the pentium-m is a very powerful processor. the 9300 goes to 2ghz? i'm betting that 2ghz pentium-m will beat almost any of the p4s in almost everything.

 

[arter_2]

Im going to art school for computer graphic like computer modeling and special effects which probably is one of the most resource intensive things you can do on a computer.

 

[seanoff]

what about a Dell Precision with a NVidia Quadro 256Mb Graphics card.

The Quadros are built for what you want isn't it.

 

[retardboy]

Ahh grahics design... Why not a Powerbook then? Guess you want a pc though... Hmph... I dunno.

 

[arter_2]

Ahh grahics design... Why not a Powerbook then? Guess you want a pc though... Hmph... I dunno.

No not graphic design Computer Animation like what Pixar does Apples suck for 3D modeling.

 

[arter_2]

does any one have mobile graphics cards and chip bench marks????

 

[Kung Fu Jedi]

No not graphics design Computer Animation like what Pixar does Apples suck for 3D modeling.

I'm not even sure how to respond to this.

Alienware?

 

[arter_2]

I'm not even sure how to respond to this.

Alienware?

Why??

 

[arter_2]

how are sager note books???