laptop advice (opinion)

[nick.ske]

Hi im nick

I searched for a laptop for about a month and i noticed there are no 15inch laptops that fill my hardware needs so i found this website and its pretty much what i need

i know eneugh of computers to know what i want but i want to know youre opinion on it

what i do and what i plan to do with it

i currently work as a web developer doing some lightweight css and tiny bit of developing
i know u dont need to have a heavy machine for it at all
but im going to run a side project and might go to college back or something like that
what i am planning to do is take advanced networking classes and learn about advanced network
therefor want to have 3 operating systems (win7,linux backtrack 5,os x mountain lion(if that dusnt work out prob ubuntu)

+ prob run few virtual machines tho

i want to do a little bit of gaming in spare time games like: counter strike source, 2007 old school rs

ok so my point is to have a machine that pretty much can handle anything except for gaming i want to run anything on games on med dont need it on ultra or something

my idea is to buy the The 15.6" Vortex IV with these specs modiffied or added:

cpu: i7 haswell 1.7ghz
ram: 16gb kingston hyper x 1600mhz (2x8)
ssd: 240gb kingston hyperx 3k ssd 510mb/sW
hdd: 1tb scorpio blue 5400 rpm
cd/blue ray: caddy for hdd
network card: gigabit lan & killer 1103 Wireless gaming 802.11N

other parts that i dident metion i left the as standard

thanks if u reply sorry for bad english would be happy to know what your opinion is

 

[dogbot]

You do not mention a graphics card but this would have to be your choice depending on how well you want to run games and how much you are prepared to spend.

The main drawback is the single drive bay. Personnally, I would be loathe to give up the optical drive to make it two (which is one of the reasons I bought the 17.3" Vortex). In this situation a 1 TB SSHD drive would give booting similar to an SSD while giving plenty of drive space for one (or 2) partitioned OS installations and data space. With this configuration the laptop is portable for all normal work. Data you do not use very often can always be on an external 2.5 USB. For your additional operating systems, can I suggest this http://www.akasa.co.uk/update.php?tpl=product/product.detail.tpl&no=181&type=Enclosures&type_sub=2.5 Enclosure&model=AK-TL2SEB-BK It is a 2.2 USB/ e-sata enclosure from which additional operating systems/ VM's etc can be run. The drives are easily changed so there could be a different drive for each OS. Being a 2.5 enclosure it can be popped into the carry bag with the laptop.

ADDED

The link does not seem to work properly (too long?). It is for an Akasa Lokstor X21 2.5" enclosure for USB 3.0 and e-sata

In the above link click on enclosures and select 2.5" enclosures.

 

[nick.ske]

For the GPU i choose geforce gtx 770M it should do all the gaming i want wich is not too much i agree with lack of space for the hdd+ssd thats why i "choose" optical bay caddy like u mentioned maybe get a 2.5" hdd i think i dont mind having no dvd reader/burner i think if i need it to install operating systems and other things even tho recover the laptop if i need to i think i go for a external disc reader/burner wich is quite handy but i rather have it external that have to get a 17" cause a 17" is a bit to big in my opinion to move around few days a week and have to cary in a bag so ye thanks for replying tho