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 PostPost subject: Buying laptop        Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2012 11:23 am 
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i decide to buy new laptop
i will pick Toshiba Satellite P875-10T, but i can`t find any review on web
has anyone any experiance with it

Processor : Intel® Core™ i7-3610QM, 2.30 / 3.30 Turbo GHz
Ram : 10GB DDR3 RAM (1,600 MHz)
Storage : 2000GB (1 + 1 TB) 5,400 rpm
Graphic card : NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 630M 2GB DDR3
Screen size : 17,1" (44 cm) 1,600 x 900 LED Toshiba TruBrite® HD+ TFT

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 PostPost subject: Re: Buying laptop        Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2012 11:26 am 
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These specs sound quite fake and exagerated.

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 PostPost subject: Re: Buying laptop        Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2012 11:37 am 
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it`s not fake
you can check it out on google

just visit this webpage http://goo.gl/hHWEz

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 PostPost subject: Re: Buying laptop        Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2012 12:11 pm 
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Honestly, the graphics are underpowered for that laptop.

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 PostPost subject: Re: Buying laptop        Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2012 2:23 pm 
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The specs are good, i haven't used it so i can't comment on the build quality.

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 PostPost subject: Re: Buying laptop        Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2012 8:03 pm 
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Honestly, the graphics are underpowered for that laptop.

depends on how hard you try to game on this thing. of course you should not expect current and future high-end games running smooth on the full resolution, but graphics is always hard on a notebook, because even midrange-graphics pull more power than highend quadcore-cpus, which are already quite hungry.

What do you actually expect from this thread?
A general "tell me your opinion"-poll will only yield "but i'd rather take $COMPLETELY_DIFFERENT_MACHINE" postings. I'd personally take a 15" notebooks, as 17" are heavy as a rock and bulky to carry. If you want a large screen, but be portable, take a smaller laptop and buy some cheap 24" screen for <200 bucks, which is better both at home (much larger screen) and on the road (significantly better to carry).
But maybe you have some very valid reason to stick with 17", but you have to tell us your reasoning and background.


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 PostPost subject: Re: Buying laptop        Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2012 10:55 pm 
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I would get a Satellite L775D Series. They are very good laptops. The build quality is excellent and the deck and clamshell of thelaptop are solid aluminum. It may make the laptop a tad heavier, but it's definitely worth it. My L775D-S7206 came stock with 6GB RAM (upgradable to 8GB), a 640GB HDD (officially upgradable to a 750Gb 7200RPM drive), and a BD-ROM/DVD-R-RW/CD-R-RW drive (replaceable with an adapter for an SSD or 2nd HDD). It also has an AMD A6-3400M APU with Radeon HD 6520G graphics. Again, I strongly recommend it (or one from the same series).

EDIT: It also has a 17.3" screen @1600x900.

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 PostPost subject: Re: Buying laptop        Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 1:12 am 
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CaptainPeanut wrote:
These specs sound quite fake and exagerated.


Yeah whatever, just say he's exaggerating when you haven't even looked it up yourself.

And how in the damn world does it sound FAKE?

@luuxiii

Your laptop has awesome specs by the way. I love the processor.

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 PostPost subject: Re: Buying laptop        Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 2:57 am 
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luuxiii wrote:
i decide to buy new laptop
i will pick Toshiba Satellite P875-10T, but i can`t find any review on web
has anyone any experiance with it

Processor : Intel® Core™ i7-3610QM, 2.30 / 3.30 Turbo GHz
Ram : 10GB DDR3 RAM (1,600 MHz)
Storage : 2000GB (1 + 1 TB) 5,400 rpm
Graphic card : NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 630M 2GB DDR3
Screen size : 17,1" (44 cm) 1,600 x 900 LED Toshiba TruBrite® HD+ TFT


Without a review I from experience of parts can tell you that's an above average laptop, I must say that processor nicely powered.
10GB is more then enough for multi-tasking of an average person and 2 whopping terabytes of HDD storage is going to be great.
The only weaker side is the graphics card however if your NOT going to be gaming hard and your just going to be casually gaming
you may get away with some games. Also your processor does have intel HD 4000 graphics so maybe you can get Lucid Virtu MVP
working with the GT 630M to give you quite a dramatic boost in power, however I have no idea if it works with mobile processors.
17" screen means its gonna be quite big so this is probably more of a business laptop/desktop replacement rather than a portable
gaming machine keep that in mind.

Please note these are all just purely from my knowledge which means some opinions, I may be very wrong.

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 PostPost subject: Re: Buying laptop        Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 5:38 am 
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luuxiii wrote:
i decide to buy new laptop
i will pick Toshiba Satellite P875-10T, but i can`t find any review on web
has anyone any experiance with it

Processor : Intel® Core™ i7-3610QM, 2.30 / 3.30 Turbo GHz
Ram : 10GB DDR3 RAM (1,600 MHz)
Storage : 2000GB (1 + 1 TB) 5,400 rpm
Graphic card : NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 630M 2GB DDR3
Screen size : 17,1" (44 cm) 1,600 x 900 LED Toshiba TruBrite® HD+ TFT



For something like that I would recommend the laptop I just got…
Alienware M17X R4, I got mine with 12 GB on ram and only one hard drive but I will install an SSD for the system and will keep 500gb for storage
Alienware is the best of the best.

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 PostPost subject: Re: Buying laptop        Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 9:06 am 
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SaT wrote:
luuxiii wrote:
i decide to buy new laptop
Alienware is the best of the best.
for gaming...
otherwise they are just heavy, bulky and expensive ;)

btw I have a Core i7-3720QM here (2,6GHz-3,6GHz), but I had had a choice, I'd rather have picked the i7-3520M, which is the fastest dualcore. It basically has the same clock speed, but lower power consumption. Two cores should be fast enough for almost anything and the lower power consumption makes the laptop quieter.


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 PostPost subject: Re: Buying laptop        Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 9:17 am 
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Thanks for great response everybode (I) ;) :>

Will i be able to replace 1 HDD with SSD ? 8-)

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 PostPost subject: Re: Buying laptop        Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 9:41 am 
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Will i be able to replace 1 HDD with SSD ? 8-)

yes, there are SSDs in the same formfactor as HDDs (2.5", SATA), but there's another alternative: mSATA. Usually there are 2 mSATA slots, one for WLAN and one for WWAN. If you don't have a UMTS-card or such, you could just stick an SSD inside this slot and leave the HDD in its place, so you have high performance for your OS and high capacity for data


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 PostPost subject: Re: Buying laptop        Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 10:03 am 
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orsg wrote:
SaT wrote:
luuxiii wrote:
i decide to buy new laptop
Alienware is the best of the best.
for gaming...
otherwise they are just heavy, bulky and expensive ;)

btw I have a Core i7-3720QM here (2,6GHz-3,6GHz), but I had had a choice, I'd rather have picked the i7-3520M, which is the fastest dualcore. It basically has the same clock speed, but lower power consumption. Two cores should be fast enough for almost anything and the lower power consumption makes the laptop quieter.


and heavy video editing...
i will be using it for both tho lol
and yeah its heavy according to fed ex the package is 20.0 lbs/9.1 kg ...

but its so0 co0l! lol btw on the subject does anyone know where i can buy a video card for that laptop... i know i can replace it or install a second video card as well but first i need to know were to look.

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 PostPost subject: Re: Buying laptop        Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 10:28 am 
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Will i be able to replace 1 HDD with SSD ? 8-)

yes, there are SSDs in the same formfactor as HDDs (2.5", SATA), but there's another alternative: mSATA. Usually there are 2 mSATA slots, one for WLAN and one for WWAN. If you don't have a UMTS-card or such, you could just stick an SSD inside this slot and leave the HDD in its place, so you have high performance for your OS and high capacity for data


thanks you :D


is there a way to replace existing graphic card (processor in this laptop) in the future

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 PostPost subject: Re: Buying laptop        Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 1:50 pm 
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luuxiii wrote:
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luuxiii wrote:
Will i be able to replace 1 HDD with SSD ? 8-)

yes, there are SSDs in the same formfactor as HDDs (2.5", SATA), but there's another alternative: mSATA. Usually there are 2 mSATA slots, one for WLAN and one for WWAN. If you don't have a UMTS-card or such, you could just stick an SSD inside this slot and leave the HDD in its place, so you have high performance for your OS and high capacity for data


thanks you :D


is there a way to replace existing graphic card (processor in this laptop) in the future



that depends on the maker.. some use built-in graphics and you cant change them, other use pci express

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 PostPost subject: Re: Buying laptop        Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2012 4:15 pm 
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SaT wrote:
luuxiii wrote:
orsg wrote:
luuxiii wrote:
Will i be able to replace 1 HDD with SSD ? 8-)

yes, there are SSDs in the same formfactor as HDDs (2.5", SATA), but there's another alternative: mSATA. Usually there are 2 mSATA slots, one for WLAN and one for WWAN. If you don't have a UMTS-card or such, you could just stick an SSD inside this slot and leave the HDD in its place, so you have high performance for your OS and high capacity for data


thanks you :D


is there a way to replace existing graphic card (processor in this laptop) in the future



that depends on the maker.. some use built-in graphics and you cant change them, other use pci express


Usually only mobile workstations and high end gaming systems have add-on graphics cards (Like Dell Precision, HP Elitebook, Alienware, etc). It's not PCI Express - it's usually a PCI Express LINK via MXM or another proprietary form factor. MXM is preferred because they're standard GPUs and upgrading it is cheaper than purchasing an upgrade card that runs a proprietary form factor.

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