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Post Date: 2012-07-06
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    Posted: 06 Jul 2012 at 4:26pm
I wanting to buy a Laptop will mainly be used for work but can still used forgaming.
 
1. Budget: $900-1200 but could go up to 1400ish.
 
2.Expectations: 3 hour battery life during surfing, playing a movie,  causal gaming, or typing evaluations. It should have a way to output audio/video to large screen monitor.
 
3. Usage: Be used to access office webmail, write quarterly evaluations, store evaluations, manuals, encrypt files, few large games and 10 older steam games.
It will mainly used to work once a month for three days and play couple of hours a night.
 
4.. Windows 7 pro will be the operating system
 
Low side:
 
Ticket Number: 705673
Total Price with Instant Savings: $1,057.00 


Specifications:
Chassis Model: Digital Storm xm15 Laptop (Model: 3260)
Display: 15.6 Inch (Resolution: 1366 x 768) (Glossy Surface) LED-Backlit Display
Processor: Intel Core i7 3610QM (2.3 GHz Turbo Mode to 3.3Ghz) (Quad Core) (6MB
Cache)
Thermal Compound: Premium IC Diamond CPU and GPU Thermal Compound (Reduces
Thermal & Laptop Noise) <b></b>
Memory: 8GB DDR3 1600MHz
Primary Hard Drive: 500GB 7200RPM (SATA 3Gb/s) <b></b>
Secondary Hard Drive: - Not Available
Optical Drive: DVD/CD 8x Multi-Drive (Writes and Reads DVDs, CDs)
Wireless Card: 802.11 B/G/N Wireless LAN Module
Video Card(s): NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M 1GB with NVIDIA Optimus Technology
Windows OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional (64-Bit Edition) 
Warranty Plan: Life-time Expert Customer Care with 3 Year Limited Warranty
High side:
Ticket Number: 705667
Total Price with Instant Savings: $1,537.00 

Specifications:
Chassis Model: Digital Storm x15E Laptop (Model: 9150)
Display: 15.6 Inch (16:9) (Resolution: 1920 x 1080) (Glossy Surface) LED-Backlit
Display
Processor: Intel Core i7 3610QM (2.3 GHz Turbo Mode to 3.3Ghz) (Quad Core) (6MB
Cache)
Thermal Compound: Premium IC Diamond CPU and GPU Thermal Compound (Reduces
Thermal & Laptop Noise)
Memory: 8GB DDR3 1600MHz
Primary Hard Drive: 500GB 7200RPM (SATA 3Gb/s)
Secondary Hard Drive: - Not Available
Optical Drive: DVD/CD 8x Multi-Drive (Writes and Reads DVDs, CDs)
Wireless Card: 802.11 B/G/N Wireless LAN Module
Video Card(s): NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M 1.5GB with NVIDIA Optimus Technology
Windows OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional (64-Bit Edition)
Warranty Plan: Life-time Expert Customer Care with 3 Year Limited Warranty 
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Posts: 776 		  Quote Orange7 Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 06 Jul 2012 at 4:39pm
I would definitely go with the second one if you could swing the money. As someone who owns an xm15, I can tell you firsthand that the integrated HD4000 graphics are better than the 630M. The 670 is definitely necessary for gaming. While you may still get playable framerates, they will be awful, even with a resolution that low, and the x15E screen would definitely look better than the 1366x768 screen on the xm15.

For battery life the x15E battery is (I believe) about 76Whrs, whereas the xm15 battery is about 49Whrs. Assuming that you disable the graphics card, I could see you getting five hours on the x15E with screen brightness at the maximum level. The xm15 will get you 3 hrs on a full battery with screen at highest brightess.

They are both great computers, but the xm15 is more portable and processor oriented, while the x15E is much better for gaming with the 670.

Edited by Orange7 - 06 Jul 2012 at 4:40pm
DS xm15 Stage 4
i7-3820 (2.7GHz/3.7GHz)
16GB 1600MHz DDR3
GT 630, 1GB
240GB Intel 520
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