As the title says, I'm looking around for a new laptop. I've been searching for about a week now and I have to compliment the staff at Xotic for their site layout and customization choice.
Basically I'm looking for a very solid but not over the top computer. I'm a casual gamer, so graphics are a consideration. Another focus is hard drive size/speed and reliability, I have a lot of media files and don't really care for external storage. Here's a brief list of what I'm looking for.
15-17" display with glare reduction of some sort.
150gb+ hdd with 5400+ rpm.
I've had good experiences with AMD and not so good with Intel, so I'd probably want one of the AMD Turion 64 dual core processors.
The rest is fairly flexible. I want the usual (wireless, optical drive w/dvd burner, etc) naturally.
The thing I'm looking for most is reliability. I don't want a machine that will blow my face off with speed, but I do want something that can handle some large demands on it and will be an excellent performer for quite a while, and I want the option of being able to upgrade components down the road (no integrated video cards!). My budget is flexible, but I'd like to keep it around $1000-1300 if possible. I'd really love a few suggestions, since I know this is what you guys work at and excel in.
One last question: how much are the pre-made skins for the laptops? It'd be awesome to have a simple motif or a bit of art on the back panel.
Thanks in advance for your help
Basically I'm looking for a very solid but not over the top computer. I'm a casual gamer, so graphics are a consideration. Another focus is hard drive size/speed and reliability, I have a lot of media files and don't really care for external storage. Here's a brief list of what I'm looking for.
15-17" display with glare reduction of some sort.
150gb+ hdd with 5400+ rpm.
I've had good experiences with AMD and not so good with Intel, so I'd probably want one of the AMD Turion 64 dual core processors.
The rest is fairly flexible. I want the usual (wireless, optical drive w/dvd burner, etc) naturally.
The thing I'm looking for most is reliability. I don't want a machine that will blow my face off with speed, but I do want something that can handle some large demands on it and will be an excellent performer for quite a while, and I want the option of being able to upgrade components down the road (no integrated video cards!). My budget is flexible, but I'd like to keep it around $1000-1300 if possible. I'd really love a few suggestions, since I know this is what you guys work at and excel in.
One last question: how much are the pre-made skins for the laptops? It'd be awesome to have a simple motif or a bit of art on the back panel.
Thanks in advance for your help

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