Thread: Laptop shopping
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Old 04-12-2010, 06:45 AM   #12
PurdueBrad
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: DeKalb, IL
Guys, thanks for all your advice, SovereignStar in particular as I went on a graphics card hunt (looks like this is a "Class 2" so I should be good there). I think I ended up doing okay, thanks to a friend I've got that works there. Here's what I ended up with:

Toshiba Satellite A500-ST6647
Intel Core i7-720QM w/ 1.6 GHz (2.8 GHz w/ Turbo Boost, 6MB L3 Cache, 1333MHz DDR3)
Windows 7 64-bit
6 GB DDR 1066MHz SDRAM
320GB HDD (7200rpm)
NVidia GeForce GT 330M w/ 1 GB GDDR3 discrete graphics
Blu-Ray Disc ROM
and some other crap they threw in like a backlit keyboard.

I ended up paying $1168.
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