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Alber1ch

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My Dell laptop has died, having previously had the screen go (in warranty), a memory chip go (out of warranty) and now the motherboard. I'm therefore looking to buy a new laptop.

After that experience with Dell, and 3 months of arguing with Mesh before my (so far fine) desktop turned up, I am not over impressed with either at the moment. Can anyone offer advice on alternatives?

I mainly use my laptop attached to a monitor at home, and don't use it portably except on holiday. When I do I tend to take it by car, so I'm not too fussed about how lightweight it is, or even battery life. The most resource intensive programmes I currently use are probably Bloodbowl and Photoshop, but there's a reasonably good chance of me wanting to play other games on it and I do like to play at as high a resolution as I can. I probably need at least 500gb space to store current and future photos. I need it to run Windows 7 Pro to be able to run old programmes that are only copmpatible with Windows XP. Optimistically I hope I can transfer the Windows 7 Pro licence and software from my old laptop to my new one, but that may be rather hopeful.

I'd like it to last at least 3 years in terms of future proofing.

Budget £1200, but I'd prefer it to be less.

Anyone got any suggestions?

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I play Blood Bowl on a new Toshiba laptop, been quite impressed with it, but not had it long enough to tell you much about its durability. I did have a similar one before, but I spilled a cup of tea over it and killed it, so this is my insurance claim replacement. Mine's only on Windows 7 Home Premium and with an integrated Intel HD3000 Graphics, but then it wasn't much over £550(ish).

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www.pcspecialist.com is where I will be getting my next laptop. For £1184 you can get:

15.6" display

Core i7 3720QM

8Gb 1600MHz RAM

GTX670M

1TB HDD 5600RPM

8x DVD±R/RW

Win 7 Home Premium

That should do you nicely for futureproofing too, certainly for 3 years. My own laptop (which is about to be replaced) I got 4 years ago and people still think it's pretty decent (although I hate it because my desktop is so much better!) cost £1000, so you're in the ballpark.

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