Any Recomendations for a New Laptop?

[S. Mario]

I'm looking into buying a new laptop. It needs to be able to run some of the newer games like Portal 2. I also want it to be somewhat light, preferably under seven pounds. I want it to have built in bluetooth and up to three USB ports. It needs to have a pretty sensitive touchpad for when I'm not using a mouse. I'd like at least 500 GB of hard drive and at least 8 GB of RAM. It also needs an HD screen, preferably with anti-glare. My budget is around $1500. I can go over if I need to, but I'd rather not.

I don't know if it's possible, but I also would like built in video and audio input so I can use the laptop as a screen for other devices.

Thanks

 

[PhantomTriforce]

Two laptops that are good and have the features you ask for are the HP Pavillion Dark Umber Laptop and the Asus Black Laptop.

Let us know what you get!

 

[Mudora]

You could check out the HP Envy Sleekbook. Here's the link: HP Envy Sleekbook 15.6" AMD A6-4455M Laptop (6-1040CA) - Black : 15" Laptops - Future Shop

Good luck!

 

[Siniru]

Toshiba is good. That is the laptop I have right now.

 

[S. Mario]

It's not what any of you suggested, but I'm looking into getting this one: iBuyPower - Valkyrie 17.3" Laptop - 8GB Memory - 750GB Hard Drive - Black - CZ-17S1. I'd like some opinions on this particular laptop since there was only one customer review. Does anyone know how good the quality on this one is?

 

[tysonrss]

That's definitely a good laptop. And should run what you asked with barely any effort at all. Though I'd go for something with a little more clock speed. Like 3.0 GHz. That laptop is 2.3 GHz.

 

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If you're going to go for something in that range... why limit yourself to a laptop...? I mean, do you absolutely require it to be a laptop? If so, that IS a good laptop, though it might have overheating issues with a GPU like that one, not sure though. But if you don't have to have a laptop, you could easily build an even better desktop with the same amount of money - or less.

 

[S. Mario]

If you're going to go for something in that range... why limit yourself to a laptop...? I mean, do you absolutely require it to be a laptop? If so, that IS a good laptop, though it might have overheating issues with a GPU like that one, not sure though. But if you don't have to have a laptop, you could easily build an even better desktop with the same amount of money - or less.

The reason I want it to be a laptop is I don't want to be limited to one area when using it. I also want to be able to take it to school with me. One reason I wanted a gaming laptop was so I would know it could run any games I make. I'm doing a game design degree in school so I need it to be able to run commercial standard game engines also. I also don't want it to be like my older brother's laptop which crashed when I tried to run Blender on it. Blender is an open-source game engine.