http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/828004-REG/ASUS_G74SX_DH72_17_3_inch_Windows.html
this is the one I'm getting in January.
I don't even own a desktop anymore. Being largely bedridden for over a year with a chronic illness requires me to just game on laptops. I miss tinkering with desktops, but I couldn't sit up in a chair and game.
My current laptop has "lasted" 4 years now, but it's an HP and hewlett packard is complete **** engineering coupled with the most shady and dishonest customer service on the planet.
If I can make one contribution to this topic that no one should miss, it's this:
Don't buy HP!
They won't honor your warranty.
They will steal from you when you send things in for repairs.
They will lie to you on the phone.
They will swear at you and hang up if you argue with them.
They will do this over and over and over and over.
It's almost like they have a bet going to see how long they can **** their customers in the *** and keep selling laptops because the CASES ARE SHINIER than the rest of the laptops on Best Buy. I swear to Jeebus Cripes that's the only reason they sell anything. They're good at picking good combinations of silver and glossy black.
Get into the IT world and service a few HP computers for your company, and then work with Asus computers afterwards. You won't believe the difference in engineering. Companies with decent IT departments are all bailing on HP products left and right because Asus and Acer have such better engineering it's ridiculous. Open an Asus laptop case up with a penny and you can do SO much to repair and replace. Or spend 45 minutes unscrewing tiny ****ing screws on your HP and then you'll need a magnifying glass to figure out what the **** is going on inside your case, and you'll have to take the god damn keyboard off to make a simple repair, and then the ribbon cables connecting everything are **** and are taped on with the worst tape on the planet.
It goes on and on and on.
They will run 1 single heat sink between your video card and your CPU, and bring all the heat from the video card straight to your CPU, and then they act all ****ing surprised when the CPUs and GPUs are all overheating like crazy, but they will refuse to acknowledge that it's their fault.
Their fans are ****. HP laptops seriously have the worst designs for airflow in the entire industry.
Look up Asus air flow for the g74 laptop series on youtube. It's like a ****ing corvette with these gangster air vents and killer fans.
Don't buy HP.
