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Help deciding what new laptop to get! Urgent!purchasingtoday

 
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SteveAndrew
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 12:44 pm    Post subject: Help deciding what new laptop to get! Urgent!purchasingtoday Reply with quote
Hi Hitler I'm buying a new laptop today which has a CPU that supports VT-x (Not the only reason I'm buying a new comp, I need a new one regardless, but since I'm buying a new one It has to have support for intel VT-x)


Is this a good choice? I looked up the processor and it says it supports VT-x but I want to be sure:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Toshiba+-+Satellite+17.3%22+Laptop+-+6GB+Memory+-+750GB+Hard+Drive+-+Ice+Blue/6927576.p?id=1218814317411&skuId=6927576&cmp=RMX&ky=2l7iu7WW6y6G6zeAAu6zdTxvwgJl1CVQt

I'm concerned about the intel integrated graphics though! Game's wont play that great will they?

I'm thinking I should step up to this one:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Toshiba+-+Satellite+17.3%22+Laptop+-+8GB+Memory+-+1TB+Hard+Drive+-+Ice+Blue/6927433.p?id=1218814321781&skuId=6927433&cmp=RMX&ky=2l7iu7WW6y6G6zeAAu6zdTxvwgJl1CVQt

As it has "AMD Radeon HD 7670M graphics" instead of intel integrated graphics... with the same processor

So does this processor:
3rd Gen Intel® Core™ i7-3630QM processor
Features a 6MB cache and up to 3.4GHz processor speed with Turbo Boost.

Support Intel VT-x ?


You can also recommend me other completely different laptops, but I was thinking to get a Toshiba as my last one ran great, and Toshiba's have the most chance of being able to run mac OSX natively... (my new laptop doesn't have to be able to, I'm going with the luck of the draw basically but would be cool if it happens to be able to run OSX)

I also noticed most new laptops are coming with Windows 8 now... It came out? Cool but not sure if I'll like Windows 8

Oh and it must be carried by a store (like best buy) as I want to pick it up today! (I hate waiting for thiings in the mail lol)

That is my budget, no more than $1000 USD!

So help me out here with that to get! (And I know I could get a more powerful desktop/build my own, but I need mobility so It has to be a laptop)

Or actually I think I'm going with this one:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=6697664&type=product&id=1218782849014

Thanks! Smile
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 1:55 pm    Post subject: Re: Help deciding what new laptop to get! Urgent!purchasingt Reply with quote
SteveAndrew wrote:
Is this a good choice?
Depends on what you want to do with it. Office work? Programming? Casual gaming? High end all maxxed gaming? Other?
(I'm neither in the US nor up to date on laptops, so I won't be able to recommend a model or reseller)

SteveAndrew wrote:

So does this processor:
3rd Gen Intel® Core™ i7-3630QM processor
Features a 6MB cache and up to 3.4GHz processor speed with Turbo Boost.

Support Intel VT-x ?

Intel's documentation doesn't leave much room for doubt: this processor supports Vt-x.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 01, 2012 1:35 pm    Post subject: Re: Help deciding what new laptop to get! Urgent!purchasingt Reply with quote
Gniarf wrote:
SteveAndrew wrote:
Is this a good choice?
Depends on what you want to do with it. Office work? Programming? Casual gaming? High end all maxxed gaming? Other?
(I'm neither in the US nor up to date on laptops, so I won't be able to recommend a model or reseller)

SteveAndrew wrote:

So does this processor:
3rd Gen Intel® Core™ i7-3630QM processor
Features a 6MB cache and up to 3.4GHz processor speed with Turbo Boost.

Support Intel VT-x ?

Intel's documentation doesn't leave much room for doubt: this processor supports Vt-x.


Well no office work (Don't need any Microsoft office software [even the guy at the store tried to sell me that lol]) Just programming and I guess you could say casual gaming...

The laptop I ended up purchasing:

Has these specs:
CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-3630QM Processor
(6M Cache, up to 3.40 GHz)
Dedicated Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M graphics
RAM: 8 Gigs
HD: 1 TeraByte Serial ATA hard drive (5400 rpm)
Screen Size: 17.3''

(With your advice that there's no room for doubt that the CPU supports VT-x):

Code:

Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT-x)   Yes
also:
Intel® VT-x with Extended Page Tables (EPT)   Yes


The only reason I had a little doubt was this:
Code:

Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d)   No


But VT-d is not the same as VT-x, and only VT-x is required for DBVM to work right?

Overall I'm satisfied with the performance of this thing! Although Windows 8 does take some getting used to! It still feels like Windows at least so I like that (Just have to get the traditional start menu out of your mind)

Game's perform amazingly! (Like I've never played them before!) Everything is so smooth and rich in detail! I can play all my games on the highest settings without experiencing any decrease in performance! I installed and played Assasins Creed II again(To test out my new rig and get me ready for AC3 [although I think they screwed us PC gamers again like they did with Resident Evil 6 and are making us wait longer for the PC release {I only see it out on XBOX 360 + PS3 for some reason}])

Everything is great and I haven't experienced any issues with CE not working properly like I thought I might encounter some problems... But it seems to work fine even with Windows 8...

HOWEVER, I only have one issue now... I haven't been able to get DBVM working even though I now have a processor that supports VT-x...

Visit this thread to help me get DBVM working:
http://forum.cheatengine.org/viewtopic.php?t=559050

Thanks! And I'm now enjoying amazing performance with my new computer (Even though I don't like Dells or I thought I didn't at least It had all the specs I wanted within my price range):

Oh and doesn't the task manager look weird now in Win 8? Razz
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 02, 2012 6:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Lol

your laptop is 5.9WEI and my laptop is 5.8 WEI.

I'm running intel core i5 3210m 2.5ghz turbo boost to 3.1ghz

no gpu Very Happy
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