Buying New Laptop

[phflack]

so, I've decided that since I'm going to be making bank on coop in the fall, I might as well spend some of the money from my summer internship last summer

basically, budget is $2400 for a gaming laptop
currently using an alienware m14x, looking at buying the alienware m15x

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[Nonnel]

Upgrading from a $1900 laptop to a $2400 one??? What job are you going to have exactly

[phflack]

Upgrading from a $1900 laptop to a $2400 one??? What job are you going to have exactly

my current laptop is ~2 years old now, and I'm going to be programming for coop for 6 months
and my laptop was $1.5k I think, not $1.9k

[Nonnel]

Well damn
Should be good tho
I dunno much about price to performance so someone else should get on that

[Frequency]

lol I just got a low-end laptop today and I'm pretty happy.

I'd just need it for homework and studying a programming language or something

[SquartleTurtle]

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00TB8X8GA

[Frequency]

also what's "coop"?

[Ipquarx]

also what's "coop"?

it's basically a program in college that allows you to work a job in your field of study while you're in the last year of study, allows you to get real experience in the field and possibly a job afterwards if you did well enough and the company wants to hire you permanently

[Frequency]

ahh, nice. op's livin the fancy life lol

[Georges]

Please don't buy an Alienware...

[Clear Glass]

Never used this before, but plenty of my friends and people on this forum have said good things about it.
http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/lenovo/y-series/y50/?gaming

[Tokerovin]

Alienware is kind of blah but the Graphics Amplifier kind of makes it worth it if you are dumping assloads of money on your system and are gaming at home a lot.

[phflack]

also what's "coop"?

As said, it's part of college, but I'm going to have three separate coops since I'm on a five year plan at Drexel

[DJ Charizard]

Please don't buy an Alienware...

[phflack]

Please don't buy an Alienware...

but no reason as to why not?
I've had experience with using alienware laptops, and they run pretty well and reliably
I like the design and don't mind the price