RL friend needs a laptop

[Drunkenvalley]

So it's me again. (Though I never left in the first place, but.)

I realized that a good friend of mine is literally not just going to attend the same college as me, but also the same course. After 3 years in high school his old laptop is showing its age however, and so he's interested in a new one.

Sadly, he doesn't want a tower. He wants to stay with laptops.

Rather than argue with him over this, I thought I'd doublecheck with you guys what laptops he should be hunting for.
Thusly, he's now looking at this machine: http://www.komplett.no/k/ki.aspx?sku=638271#extra

I notice the i7 and think they could've stuck an i5 in there instead, but alas the i5 alternatives are overall appearing worse for other reasons. :<

[OhpUldum]

Pretty good laptop.
i7 2630
8GB DDR3
HD6770M
640GB HDD

Too lazy to check to see what that price is in CDN but as far as the spec's go it is a solid build that should last him 2 to 3 years easily.

[llDemonll]

Get an ASUS laptop. HP are shit.

[Drunkenvalley]

Get an ASUS laptop. HP are shit.

I would have preferred Asus, but don't see why he should skip HP when the build's looking solid. Mind explaining?

[llDemonll]

they just tend to have much worse bloatware on them that's needed to run and run hot. i've had mediocre experiences with them compared to dells, but i also havent owned or used an hp in a few years because of that. i'm biased

[Drunkenvalley]

Eh, we're good at cleaning out bloatware.

[llDemonll]

necessary bloatware, i mean. like webcam stuff, audio and network stuff, touchpad, whatever other keyboard software, etc., etc. not like the free games the computer comes with

[taekvideo]

If I did the conversion right that's $1,479.24 USD.. which seems kinda pricey to me, though I don't really know the laptop market that well, especially not foreign markets. Good specs though... for a laptop.

[Drunkenvalley]

necessary bloatware, i mean. like webcam stuff, audio and network stuff, touchpad, whatever other keyboard software, etc., etc. not like the free games the computer comes with

Necessary and webcam in one sentence... :3

Yeah, there's a lot of bloatware, but I know for a fact that you can download the raw drivers without the added software.

If I did the conversion right that's $1,479.24 USD.. which seems kinda pricey to me, though I don't really know the laptop market that well, especially not foreign markets. Good specs though... for a laptop.

Norwegians pay a lot more for the same parts.

My stationary rig initially came up at the same price or so, but in the US it would've been sitting on around 1k imo.

[Deleted]

My girlfriend just bought exactly that computer some weeks ago. It have good specs and quality to be a laptop, not a huge fan of them since I they mostly don't handles demanding games very well, but I got impressed actually. No problem at all with WoW atleast.

And yes there were alot of silly stuff on it when she bought it, all this HP shit, but it's easy to remove as you say.