Help finding a laptop

[admin89]

Clevo Gaming Laptop
or
Toshiba Qosmio Gaming Laptop

[AnyOldName3]

How vitally does it have to be a laptop, and are you open to other solutions as well? If you just need something to take to work/school and want to play dolphin on it, then it may pay off to get a cheap laptop/netbook off eBay now for ~£100, and then save up for a beastly desktop to get later.

[Chin2112]

I've got a really good desktop already. Well good enough for what I need. Basically I got my first credit card as I needed to new laptop and my limit is £600 so that's all I have to spend. I just want something that can Play the majority of games I said and a few wii ones. I will mainly be using it for other things. So I don't really need the gaming laptops that have been shown to me. Thank you for the offers though.

Would this be suitable?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/271082045131?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

[DefenderX]

Not really. The CPU is a bit weak. Besides, this is a multimedia laptop which will likely overheat.

[LordVador]

(10-24-2012, 03:36 AM)Chin2112 Wrote: Would this be suitable?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/271082045131?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

This site isn't really precise about their processors.
Anyway you'd better look for an i5 processor. With a higher clock speed. Don't forget you won't be able to overclock. If you wanna play a lot of games at decent speed this i7 processor might not be enough

[Chin2112]

Sorry for pestering you all this is the last time I will ask for advice

These 3 have i5 processors so shouldn't overheat as much i'm guessing?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ASUS-K55VD-SX071V-Intel-Core-i5-3210M-Dual-Core-Processor-15-6-HD-Screen-Laptop-/370668606542?pt=UK_Computing_Laptops_EH&hash=item564d92144e
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lenovo-Z580-Intel-Core-i5-3210M-Dual-Core-Processor-15-6-HD-Screen-USB3-Laptop-/380490630729?pt=UK_Computing_Laptops_EH&hash=item5897024649
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lenovo-G780-Intel-Core-i5-3210M-Dual-Core-Processor-17-3-HD-Screen-Laptop-/380491250659?pt=UK_Computing_Laptops_EH&hash=item58970bbbe3

[Axxer]

The cooling in all of those laptops will still not be good enough to prevent throttling under heavy load.

[rpglord]

i5 are usually dual core cpus in laptops,so no, I would NOT recommend that.
Buy a laptop with i7 cpu,because that mean it will be quad core

[Chin2112]

I understand cooling would be a problem but I wouldn't be playing for hours on end it would just be an hour here or there and I would be using an external cooler as well.

I'm so confused, I've been told not to get an i7 because of cooling issues and now I have been told not to get an i5 because its a dual core.

I know dolphin uses 3 cores because of LLE (i think) would I defiantly need to use LLE? I'm not too bothered about quality 2x IR

[Axxer]

Overhearing will mean the processor will not run as fast as it would if it were properly cooled. An external cooler won't help with that. You need a gaming laptop to run things well. admin89 suggested some good ones. Look for gaming laptops (but not Alienware).