I'm looking at buying a new laptop before i throw my current Dell one through a wall. Are there any computer savy people on my t/l who could give me an opinion?
I use my laptop for games predominantly, although it will need to do basic day to day business stuff to. Ideally I want something that can run SL and games such as Batman Arkham City and the like without
crashing, freezing and erroring out with boring regularity.
I'm looking at the Asus N76VZ-V4G Specs are: Intel Core i7-3630QM Quad Core 2.4Ghz | 17.3" (1920x1080) | NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 4GB | 8GB DDR3 RAM | 1.5TB HDD | Windows 8
Bare in mind i'm in Oz and we pay through the ass for everything.
Not an expert but I love HP for its graphics. But I will replurk in case there is someone who can advise 
you're a gem, thank you 
Definitely stick with the nVidia GeForce Series of VGA adapters, but avoid Windows 8 like the plague. Request it with Windows 7...
Moniq
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that's a great config, it should run sl just fine
That laptop looks very, very good indeed, just ditch Windows 8 and get Windows 7 Professional 64bit.
That's awesome, thanks for the help!! I run Windows 7 currently and would prefer to stick with that anyway so that is a-ok with me!
Good laptop and what Daft said lol
That laptop's going to be great, should be able to run pretty much all games at medium-high settings with no problems!
fixit4u
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Have you tried Windows 8? I would make sure your what ever you buy has down grade rights to window 7. Window is is not very good I find it hard for users to get use. And the GUI was done by fisher price I swear
So i has a new laptop, yay, thank you all for your help and suggestions! I couldn't get the new one with Windows 7 only Windows 8 but I do have an OEM version of Windows 7 from my last PC. I'm going to trial
Windows 8 for a week but if I hate it or have problems I will simply reinstall Windows 7.
Also "GUI being made by Fisher Price" might be my favourite comment ever 
It's not just the 'My First Computer' look but also the way Win8 locks everything down with their 'Windows Store' etc. Seriously, my advice is to go to the manufacturer's website, download the driver packs
for the chipset, LAN card, WiFi adapter, VGA Adapter, Soundcard etc. and burn those to CD/DVD, install Windows 7 and the driver packs to get a proper laptop setup, not one that was designed for touchscreens