Well if your not restricted budget wise, an apple macbook pro would be best for graphic design material. Ya ram is relatively important for your graphical work n so forth, so get at least 2gb esp if your running on vista. A high end graphic card shd only b invested for serious gaming, thrfore a normal non-integrated g.card would b sufficient.

Sounds like a Dell XPS to me....only thing it comes in 15,4'..but other than that, it meets pretty muc meets your requirements.

Actually oso considering the xps for my own usage since its affordable, yet highly featured. Anyone out thr who knows or experienced any prob's with xps or dell laptops in particular? Thx

It won't lag, but it may take some time to start-up and load the program on vista. Thrfore i recommend XP for u. For that budget, i think you might have to settle for Acer's or Dell's inspiron notebooks.

jon720 Posted Sep 24 2008, 09:58 AM
Budget: 7k
Brand: a few options will be good. exclude Apple and Sony from the list btw.
Specs: light weight, stable, good connectivity ability (preferably with firewire, HDMI, built-in card reader, etc), decent battery life, good looking

thank you!

Err with that budget, you can opt for Fujitsu or just max out one of HP's pavillion notebooks..they look gr8 as well. If you're looking for smtg durable in terms of bat life, try the new dell latitude notebooks with 19hrs bat life. Check em out n Hope this helps.

Solid chasis, powerful performance and lightweight and at that budget = Dell XPS 13' around 3.6k for std unit. Otherwise, fujitsu is probably ur nxt pick but comes at a higher price.

Absolutely NO big time.

Lol, liked how u phrased that.
You're right, coz even some 4k laptops are not able to runCOD n crysis smoothly. However for those who are lil tight on budget n game really hard, thrs this acer notebook that i saw in pc fair last month around RM2999.00. It comes with 4gb ram, & a 512 mb dedicated memory gforce smtg graphic card so on n so forth. That shd allow you to play crysis at full spec. Frm what i rmb, the full range XPS only came with a 256 dedicated memory gforce 9300 or smtg, which will enable u to play crysis but prob only on mid settings.

ya thats the kind of perception we all got from customer complaints. However, i had a fair share of positive comments and many ppl that i know off who use acer computers said they themselves surprisingly had no problems whatsoever after 2-3 years of usage. Long story short, i think acer is definitely not reputable for its quality compared to Fujitsu n so on, but they seem to be improving and many have got away fine with an acer laptop.
ps: [acer, u shd pay me]