Buying a new laptop.

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I'm buying a new laptop soon since my current one is desperately out of date and sounds like it's going to die again soon. The problem I'm facing is that my knowledge of computers is even more out of date. I'm looking to get something in the 700-800 pricerange.
15" or 17" with a decent batterylife but also enough processing power to be relevant next year.
My current laptop is a HP Pavilion which I've always found to be noisy and to heat up, I do not like either feature.
From googling a bit I've come to the conclusion I need to get one with an Intel i7-series processor.

Any hints/ideas/suggestions/animals mating?
 

I read somewhere that Toshiba, Asus, and Lenovo are the most reliable laptops.

Having owned an Asus for 5 years (absolute trooper), and now currently in the second year of owning a Toshiba (never a single fault), I can recommend these two brands VERY highly. Its likely i'll never buy a non Asus/Toshiba laptop ever again.

Avoid Sony Vaio like the plague, if you're thinking of buying one from the online store, stop, slap yourself in the face, and then don't. Believe me.
 

CahillsCornerFlag said:
I read somewhere that Toshiba, Asus, and Lenovo are the most reliable laptops.

Having owned an Asus for 5 years (absolute trooper), and now currently in the second year of owning a Toshiba (never a single fault), I can recommend these two brands VERY highly. Its likely i'll never buy a non Asus/Toshiba laptop ever again.

Avoid Sony Vaio like the plague, if you're thinking of buying one from the online store, stop, slap yourself in the face, and then don't. Believe me.
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Does your Toshiba heat up (and how was your Asus)? My HP died two times in the first 1.5 years because of CPU failure or something. Now it's been stable but it heats up, makes a lot of noise and has almost reached a halt.

I'm not considering Sony as I've thought that for the last 10-15 years it's been technically lesses brand than most of it's competition but still having a 1.5x price.
 
Thanks for the suggestions thus far, I'll have to see how they are priced over here. That Dell XPS-15 looks convincing. (by specs. By looks I had already decided to buy a white Samsung until I googled it up and found the hw specs were ****)

The software I need to run is Photoshop and the other Adobe products, but I'm not into video editing or proper 3d stuff. Gamewise it'd be nice if it'll run FM well but I can live without that.

Oh that nSpire Tubey looks good too as it has an SSD boot drive.
 
somuchfun said:
Does your Toshiba heat up (and how was your Asus)? My HP died two times in the first 1.5 years because of CPU failure or something. Now it's been stable but it heats up, makes a lot of noise and has almost reached a halt.

I'm not considering Sony as I've thought that for the last 10-15 years it's been technically lesses brand than most of it's competition but still having a 1.5x price.
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My Toshiba is nearly silent, and even though its only i3, it does everything I ask of it. As a brand, they don't come much more reliable and sturdy. I dropped it walking up the stairs, and I'm sure I heard it yell 'come at me, bro!', because its just that hardy.

My Asus was incredibly outdated by 2010, yet in all 5 years of having it, it only had one issue. The 'O' key fell off. I sent it away, they fixed it in a week, done. It was noisy by the end of its life, but that was probably down to various bumps than down to the laptop itself.

My advice, is go reliable first, then look at the perks later. My Vaio broke 7 times in 5 months. I wish that was a joke.
 

..however the new range of intel processors are due very soon, ivy bridge, oak bridge etc.
 
Acer Timeline mate for battery life, I bought a 2nd hand one as an emergency replacement and the battery still lasts the 8 hours that they claim, everything seems fine with it although dual core (the newer version) would've been better.

Only criticism is lately I'm noticing that it is a touch flimsy, prob due to being mega thin, maybe some of the others have changed to LED screens and better batteries ?

The £180 I paid though is money well spent and I reckon I would esy get it back if I now upgraded to a sponner one.
 

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