1. What is your budget?
£1,000 (+\-200). Poor health makes saving up money take a long time. Slapping on an extra £500 seems very daunting.
Though if £1,200 does not meet below specifications, i guess ill have to reconsider.
2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering?
17.3" screen.
Chunky cooling system.
3. What screen resolution do you want?
1920 x 1080 i think, Not too sure though.
4. Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop?
Somwhere in between laptop and desktop, portable-desktop i guess.
I'm currently building a Yurt (Mongolian Nomadic round-house) that i plan to live in.
once i have waterproofed it, put in floor boards and a wood burner, it will be suitable for Tech Toys.
Planning to put together some Solar cells on the roof to provide power, so a desktop will not suit (not with British weather anyway)
Small living area means each space having multiple uses, very useful to be able to put away laptop when not in use.
May be transported in travel rucksack once a week at most.
I have no need for a slim-form / light-weight laptop. I'm hoping to avoid higher purchase costs + thermal throttling often associated with them.
5. How much battery life do you need?
4 hours watching movies, 2 hours video editing, 1 hour gaming.
6. Do you want to play games with your laptop? If so then please list the games that you want to with the settings that you want for these games. (Low,Medium or High)?
(@high-medium settings)
-Rome 2 Total war (+ all older TW games)
-Arma 2
-Kerbal space program
-War thunder
-Naval Action
Big part of my gaming is large scale history/stratagy:
-Realism mods for Total war series, large scale, multiple armies (+8,000 men on field)
-Division scale military exercises in Arma 2
-big space stations in KSP, multiple ships in use, many parts
generally speaking, slightly older games, running at maximum 'scale'.
7. What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop? (Photo/Video editing, Etc.)
Video editing, not sure on software yet.
Will be a while before i start using for editing. to keep initial cost down, can i get HDD version with empty slot for SSD, to get at a later date?
8. How much storage (Hard Drive capacity) do you need?
1TB HDD.
Not sure on SSD yet.
9. If you are considering specific sites to buy from, please post their links.
Probably Amazon, though open to try anywhere else with reliable customer service.
What you guys think about refurbished laptops?
Or ebay?
10. How long do you want to keep your laptop?
3-4 years
11. What kind of Optical drive do you need? DVD ROM/Writer,Bluray ROM/Writer,Etc ?
DVD writer should do fine.
12. Please tell us about the brands that you prefer to buy from them and the brands that you don't like and explain the reasons.
Long term durability important for me.
Regarding CPU/GPU, i feel AMD can often put out an extra 5-10% clock speeds for the money, but iv found Intel and Nvidia to be more reliable hardware.
ASUS has often popped up as having durable build quality. I like the discreet design profiles of the ROG series.
as mentioned above, looking for large cooling system. The ASUS G75(0/1/2) seems very suitable so far.
(not the thin one).
Within the G750 to G752, i not sure which one would suit?
Or any other laptops with larger cooling systems?
13. What country do you live in?
South England.
14. Please tell us any additional information if needed.
I have been trying to track down some older G750 models for sale, very difficult to find. Seems ASUS doesn't like their older models floating around the market.
With the release of the G752, are the older ROG models going to be much cheaper?
Thanks for taking the time to read
any advice much appreciated
all the best
PW
£1,000 (+\-200). Poor health makes saving up money take a long time. Slapping on an extra £500 seems very daunting.
Though if £1,200 does not meet below specifications, i guess ill have to reconsider.
2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering?
17.3" screen.
Chunky cooling system.
3. What screen resolution do you want?
1920 x 1080 i think, Not too sure though.
4. Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop?
Somwhere in between laptop and desktop, portable-desktop i guess.
I'm currently building a Yurt (Mongolian Nomadic round-house) that i plan to live in.
once i have waterproofed it, put in floor boards and a wood burner, it will be suitable for Tech Toys.
Planning to put together some Solar cells on the roof to provide power, so a desktop will not suit (not with British weather anyway)
Small living area means each space having multiple uses, very useful to be able to put away laptop when not in use.
May be transported in travel rucksack once a week at most.
I have no need for a slim-form / light-weight laptop. I'm hoping to avoid higher purchase costs + thermal throttling often associated with them.
5. How much battery life do you need?
4 hours watching movies, 2 hours video editing, 1 hour gaming.
6. Do you want to play games with your laptop? If so then please list the games that you want to with the settings that you want for these games. (Low,Medium or High)?
(@high-medium settings)
-Rome 2 Total war (+ all older TW games)
-Arma 2
-Kerbal space program
-War thunder
-Naval Action
Big part of my gaming is large scale history/stratagy:
-Realism mods for Total war series, large scale, multiple armies (+8,000 men on field)
-Division scale military exercises in Arma 2
-big space stations in KSP, multiple ships in use, many parts
generally speaking, slightly older games, running at maximum 'scale'.
7. What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop? (Photo/Video editing, Etc.)
Video editing, not sure on software yet.
Will be a while before i start using for editing. to keep initial cost down, can i get HDD version with empty slot for SSD, to get at a later date?
8. How much storage (Hard Drive capacity) do you need?
1TB HDD.
Not sure on SSD yet.
9. If you are considering specific sites to buy from, please post their links.
Probably Amazon, though open to try anywhere else with reliable customer service.
What you guys think about refurbished laptops?
Or ebay?
10. How long do you want to keep your laptop?
3-4 years
11. What kind of Optical drive do you need? DVD ROM/Writer,Bluray ROM/Writer,Etc ?
DVD writer should do fine.
12. Please tell us about the brands that you prefer to buy from them and the brands that you don't like and explain the reasons.
Long term durability important for me.
Regarding CPU/GPU, i feel AMD can often put out an extra 5-10% clock speeds for the money, but iv found Intel and Nvidia to be more reliable hardware.
ASUS has often popped up as having durable build quality. I like the discreet design profiles of the ROG series.
as mentioned above, looking for large cooling system. The ASUS G75(0/1/2) seems very suitable so far.
(not the thin one).
Within the G750 to G752, i not sure which one would suit?
Or any other laptops with larger cooling systems?
13. What country do you live in?
South England.
14. Please tell us any additional information if needed.
I have been trying to track down some older G750 models for sale, very difficult to find. Seems ASUS doesn't like their older models floating around the market.
With the release of the G752, are the older ROG models going to be much cheaper?
Thanks for taking the time to read
any advice much appreciated
all the best
PW
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