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Gonna be living in Oz and then New Zealand for the first 4 months of 2010 then probs Vegas and who knows after that.
Not sure how much online poker i am gonna play during that time but i need a new lappy where i can effectively play 9-14 tables. Been told i need one with a high resolution of 1920x1200. What else do i need? Ideally needs to be pretty light and as cheap as poss although expecting it will be quite costly. I am crap at this stuff and any advice/links will be a great help. Cheers

1920x1200, light and cheap are all mutually exclusive.

Some options:

Dell (http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/xpsnb_m1730?c=uk&l=en&s=dhs&cs=ukdhs1) M1730 17". Has full 1920x1200. From £900 delivered.

Dell (http://configure.euro.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?b=&c=uk&cs=ukdhs1&kc=NRS17453&l=en&m_30=321942&oc=N0074503&rbc=N0074503&s=dhs) Studio 17. 17.3" 1920x1080. How important are those 120 pixels to you? From £680 delivered.

Acer Aspire 8935G. 18.4" 1920x1080. £950.

HP 8730w. 17" 1920x1200. A workstation more than a laptop. £1500ish.

And just in case you bink a big one before you go: Lenovo W700ds (http://www.dabs.com/products/lenovo-thinkpad-w700ds-c2q-q9100-4gb-400gb-bluray-vb-5FKH.html). 1920x1200 PLUS 1368x768. Dual screen laptop.

HTH.

cheers for this really appreciate it, ty. The links dont seem to work but i'll just copy n paste then google, ta

Links fixed.

Whereabouts in Oz and NZ? Me and Dan Carter are going to Oz on the 28th and staying there for a month before traveling to NZ.

Hey Amatay

Alienware do the best Laptops and PCs for gaming and poker. But they are not cheap!

http://www1.euro.dell.com/uk/en/home/Desktops/xpsdt_gaming/ct.aspx?refid=xpsdt_gaming&s=dhs&cs=ukdhs1&~ck=mn&ST=alienware&dgc=ST&cid=41141&lid=1069630&acd=130028948920561

Longines is god Amatay, anything PC Related he endorses is basically the nuts!!

PLS update more too


k thx

Since when did Dell own Alienware??

That's really annoyed me as I use to love Alienware stuff but now I just see them as mass produced stuff like Dell products are.

over 3 years ago. manufacturing-wise, they still operate seperately from the other dell products.

It must have just been the site thats changed. It's linked to Dell's site now.

Flexible atm. Fly to Melbourne on 18th Jan gonna play an event at the Aussie millions then just move up the east coast, Syndey, great barrier reef etc then fly from Syd to Auckland March 18th

Probs don't need the power of an Alienware just for poker and net.
Consider a usb/wireless mouse, as the mouse pads on lappys are slow and awkward

Yeah i was not too happy but still got the Dell "Alienware" XPS, would not recommend the powerfull ones for lugging around travelling though. It's heavy and 1hr battery life.

The Dell M1730 17" that Longines mentioned has a 9-cell 85WHr Li-Ion Battery. WTF does that mean and how long will that last if i am playing 10 ish tables?

I reckon you'd get between 2 and 3 hours if you have the screen brightness at a sensible level.

I've recently bought a 12-cell 96Whr battery from eBay for the kids' HP laptop. Tools like BatteryMon and BatteryBar report it's actually capable of storing 142Whr. It easily lasts 5 hours+.


EDIT: what it means is the battery can deliver 142 watts for one hour. Or 71 watts for two hours etc. etc. The bigger the number, the longer the laptop can run.

Im Pretty sure they got electric in Aus mate!

Orly, cheers

Yep ive been! You will be ok!

Blatant i'm going to travel all over the world my life is so toasty brag post

Have fun mate

Sigh, just been shopping around and asking cust service and stuff [  ] very helpful. Still dunno what to get. The one Longines reccomeded looks wicked but im guessing its gonna be huge and weigh a ton??? Not the sort of thing i want travelling. Would a normal lappy do the job if? I'd probs only be 9 tabbin anyways??? Would appreciate any more help because i always fk these things up, cheers.

acer timeline 5810T

light, decent spec and 8 hour battery life

I have a Dell with the 1920x1200 screen, and the screen is immense.  Can 4-table on ipoker with virtually no overlap (it does very slightly, but not enough to cover any buttons).

Beast of a laptop though, and definitely more of a desktop replacement than a laptop for use on the go. 

I'm leaving my job soon, so will be needing another laptop, again mostly as a desktop replacement.  Think I'll be looking for another with a similar screen, as it really is good.  Very limited choice though from the look of things, and I'm going to have a look at longines' links to see if there's anything for me there.

The Dell Studio 15 (http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/laptop-studio-1555?c=uk&l=en&s=dhs&cs=ukdhs1&ref=lthp) is available with a 1920x1080 screen. That will (obviously) be a couple of inches smaller but also a couple of pounds lighter than the 17" version. If your eyesight is up to very, very small pixels it may be a better option for travelling.

Question for you sir.  I had a quick look at the Studio 17, and it doesn't have the WUXGA screen (or whatever my 1920x1200 screen is on my Vostro), but some true-life mutlittouch something or another.  Do you know if the screen it has is any good, as the rest of the spec looks decent to me?

Just had a look, and the option is for a 17.3” 900p (HD+) TrueLife WLED Multi Touch panel

:dontask:

Surely with these screen res you can 9+ table with no overlap on mini size screen no?

With mini-size I guess it's no problem.  I don't use mini-size though, as I can only manage 4-tables of cash at once and use HEM's HUD which works well on the full-size tables.

I am also looking at new laptops... I'm sure that when I first looked at the link put up by longines, the LCD option did actually state 1920 x 1080. :dontask:

It's definitely all of the above however the screen is 1366x768 i.e. it has less than half the pixels of a 1920x1080. Not ideal for multi-tabling IMO.

Dell quite often change their options based on component stock levels etc. If you really want the "new" Studio 17 with a 1920 x 1080 then phoning and discussing it with a sales bod may well get one.

Alternatively, the "old" Studio 17 (http://configure.euro.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?b=&c=uk&cs=ukdhs1&kc=NRS17351&l=en&m_30=321942&oc=N0073501&rbc=N0073501&s=dhs) can be ordered with a 1920x1200 LCD.

Think im gonna opt for this beast. Not ideal for travelling but its not like im gonna be lugging it around all the time. Cheers

Dell M1730 17". Has full 1920x1200. From £900 delivered.

http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/xpsnb_m1730?c=uk&l=en&s=dhs&cs=ukdhs1

Mega siiiiiiigh. Just read a ton of reviews on the lappy above and most obv wank off over the picture quality etc but all slate the it because its weighs a ton, its very big and the battery is shit. I know you said that high res and light etc are not mutally exclusive but i really dunno what to do. I dont mind some overlap and am comfortable playing mini sized tables. maybe i should opt for something in between? lighter, smaller but with an ok res?

Ive got the xps m1530 with that screen and its been fine, battery life is not great though but there is an option for a better battery.

The Acer I mentioned on page 1 looks like it would last 3 to 5 hours (http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Acer-Aspire-8935G-Notebook.18793.0.html) playing poker.

I'm now looking at this, but what does this mean???

Just had a look, and the option is for a 17.3” 900p (HD+) TrueLife WLED Multi Touch panel

I'd suggest it's 17.3" 1600 x 900.

TrueLife appears to mean "a bit brighter than normal".

The weird bit is "Multi Touch" - that's akin to the two-finger zoom on iPhones, a technology which I didn't think had reached notebook screens yet. You can get it in desktop monitors (http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/archive/2009/10/28/dell-multi-touch-panel-for-windows-7.aspx) at a price.

I'd phone them and ask if they have any clue what it is. Personally I think their product description copywriters have been at the chrimbo brandy.

fk it, just brought the old dell 17 you mentioned for £650 with the 1920x1200, hope it does the job. Thanks for all your advice, cheers