Best Laptop for Poker
 

Hey all,

Here's my quick story. I play high stakes, and the other day I was playing NL5000 when I 3bet with KQ. Someone cold called, and we saw a flop of QQ2 three handed. On the turn, my computer crashed, and I came back to see the other two had got it in for a 13k pot. Time for a better laptop.

Tee one I have now is a thinkpad R52 that my school distributes, but I would like a laptop on the side JUST for poker. The screen should ideally support 1600x1200. Also, it has to be fast and powerful, because currently I like to attach 2 2007FPS to the laptop (one through the VGA port and the other using VTBook from Village, which basically is another video card and stressful to the computer). So, the laptop should have the best things (RAM? Memory? Video stuff?) to play poker (having 3-4 sites open, with 7-8 tables open, and stuff like PAHUD, PT, PTO, buddy lists, etc all open at the same time as well) with without me worrying about the whole thing crashing. Does such a laptop exist? I dont' mind paying for the best, but I'm not really sure where to start.

I'd like to sit here and say I'll ONLY have poker stuff on it, but I'm sure AIM and some other minor programs will find their way onto it as well.

Thanks for reading this and helping out.

Greg

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If it is just going to be for poker why not a desktop?

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If it is just going to be for poker why not a desktop?

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Because I am a college student and will be traveling a bunch.

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I thought you said you hooked it up to 2 external monitors when you played and had a lappy from the school you didn't want to play on? If you are traveling with 2 monitors adding a desktop isn't that big a deal. However, if you want a laptop look at the first couple of pages, there has been posts about this within the last couple of weeks.

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The screen should ideally support 1600x1200.

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Dell lets you customize resolution. I'm pretty sure you can get to something like 1600x1200 on their 17" notebooks, though I think they're all in widescreen, so it won't be those exact dimensions.

Edit to add: looks like you can upgrade to 1920x1200 on the 17" Inspiron. Sweet!

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You can 9table without overlap using resizing on a 15" 1600x1050 laptop as well.

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Is this a good buy?

Inspiron 9400/E1705
(System Identifier: ZRE2YYV2)

* Inspiron 9400/E1705 Notebook: Intel Core Duo Processor T2250 (1.73GHz/533MHz/2 X 1MB L2 Cache)
* Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium

System Price : $959.00

Operating System
Genuine Windows Vista Home PremiumMemory
1 GB DDR2 SDRAM 533MHz (2 DIMMs)Hard Disk Drive
120 GB EIDE Hard Drive (5400 RPM)Video
256MB ATI MOBILITY RADEON X1400 HyperMemoryCertified Refurbished
Certified RefurbishedBase
Inspiron 9400/E1705 Notebook: Intel Core Duo Processor T2250 (1.73GHz/533MHz/2 X 1MB L2 Cache)Media Bay
8X DVD +/- RW w/dbl layer write capabilitySoftware Upgrade
Microsoft Works 8.5
Corel Paint Shop Pro X - Advanced photo editing. Included in Premium
Premium Pack - Advanced Photo+Music: Deluxe Pack + Paint Shop Pro XINoteBook Screen
17 inch Wide Screen XGA+ Notebook ScreenHardware Upgrade
9 Cell BatteryNetwork Interface Card
1390 Wireless Card

Re: Best Laptop for Poker
 

Upgrade the screen to WUXGA +149
Get XP, not vista

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Upgrade the screen to WUXGA +149
Get XP, not vista

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Why is XP better than Vista? I've been looking at the E7105 and it doesn't seem like XP is an option.

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If you call them you may be able to get XP for it. Poker software is still a little twitchy for Vista, that's about the only reason to not get Vista with new hardware.