So I'm thinking of getting a new laptop soon to replace the one I have but not sure what I wanna get.
I have a a few requirements that are must haves that makes finding things a little difficult -
Keyboard needs to have a number pad
Screen must be in the 15" range, 1920x180 resolution would be nice but not required,
minimum of an i5 processor
Must be able to handle at least 8GB of RAM,
Needs a CD/DVD drive that can be replaced with a hard drive caddy. THe caddies are usually a seperate cost that I'd have to buy from like ebay to get cheap, but the idea is to throw an SSD in there and take the drive the lappy comes with to use as a data drive in the caddy instead of having an optical drive.
Brand preferences are Asus, Acer and Samsung. Absolutely no dells will be considered, and could be convinced to look at something outside of these three.
I'm not picky on the video card. I do not plan on using this for games, but being able to do valve-engine games would be nice.
Ideally, this would cost about $700. Anyone know of something good?
I have a a few requirements that are must haves that makes finding things a little difficult -
Keyboard needs to have a number pad
Screen must be in the 15" range, 1920x180 resolution would be nice but not required,
minimum of an i5 processor
Must be able to handle at least 8GB of RAM,
Needs a CD/DVD drive that can be replaced with a hard drive caddy. THe caddies are usually a seperate cost that I'd have to buy from like ebay to get cheap, but the idea is to throw an SSD in there and take the drive the lappy comes with to use as a data drive in the caddy instead of having an optical drive.
Brand preferences are Asus, Acer and Samsung. Absolutely no dells will be considered, and could be convinced to look at something outside of these three.
I'm not picky on the video card. I do not plan on using this for games, but being able to do valve-engine games would be nice.
Ideally, this would cost about $700. Anyone know of something good?
