Need a high end laptop Win 7 - screen 10 to 13.3 Max 14 inch

uberalles

Requirements:

High spec - money no object.
Good graphics.

What would you top choice be for a small screen laptop

1) With DVD. I know there are very few to choose from, but really would like DVD.

2) No DVD

Dats me

pcspecialist.co.uk seem to come reccomended around here, very good quality build for mid to high spec aswell as good build quality. I wouldn't know about the DVD issue sorry.

Overheal

13 Inch Macbook Pro, and you can Dualboot into Windows 7.

Frankly, it's one of the best engineered units you're going to find with a drive. Magnetic Charger. Mother****ing ball-bearings on the USB ports. It's the little things. Lots of little things.

You can also look at the Dell XPS or Alienware series. Im surprised they still do business with Nvidia after it was a Nvidia cock-up that nearly ruined the XPS13's reputation forever, but hey, they come with Nvidia graphics. Configured as low as €989 or in excess of €3000, the MX14 seems like the other omgwtf pick. This is a € 3,075.47 config, with some extras I feel are worthwhile considerations (3 yr ADH, Lowjack, Perofrmance MX mouse)

COLOUR CHOICE Alienware M14x Cosmic Black edit
PROCESSOR 3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-3840QM (8MB Cache, up to 3.8GHz w/ Turbo Boost 2.0) edit
OPERATING SYSTEM English Windows® 7 Home Premium (64 BIT) edit
GRAPHICS CARD 2GB GDDR5 NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 650M edit
CHRISTMAS DELIVERY Delivery required in time for Christmas (on or before Dec 21) edit
MEMORY 16384MB (2x8GB) 1600MHz DDR3 Dual Channel edit
HARD DRIVE 128GB mSATA Boot Drive + 750GB 7,200rpm SATA 3Gb/s edit
LCD 14.1" WideHD+ (1600x900) WLED with TrueLife edit
OPTICAL DRIVE Blu-Ray ROM (Blu-Ray read only, DVD, CD, read and write) edit
WIRELESS CONNECTIVITY Killer Wireless-N 1202 a/g/n 2x2 MIMO for Gaming & Video and Bluetooth 4.0 edit
PRIMARY BATTERY Primary 8-cell 63W/HR LI-ION edit
OFFICE SOFTWARE English Microsoft® Office Home and Student 2010 ( Word, Excel, Powerpoint, One Note) edit
SECURITY SOFTWARE Anti Virus Not Included edit
SERVICES AND SUPPORT 3 yrs Next Day In-Home Hardware & Premium Software Phone Support edit
ACCIDENTAL DAMAGE PROTECTION 3 years Accidental Damage Protection edit
THEFT PROTECTION Computrace LoJack for Laptops, 3yrs license edit
Accessories
ALIENFX COLOUR Quasar Blue edit
AVATAR Alien Cyborg edit
OS CUSTOMIZATION Alien Cyborg Wallpaper edit
MICE Logitech® Performance Mouse MX™ edit
STEAM AND PORTAL Steam® Factory Installed and Steam Extra Content edit
SOUND SOFTWARE Creative Sound Blaster Recon3Di with THX TruStudio Pro Software edit
Also included with your system
BASE Alienware M14x Base
Keyboard Internal UK/Irish Qwerty Keyboard
Cables UK 220V Power Cord
Documentation/Disks Western Europe Documentation (EN, FR, IT, GER, DUT)
Bundle N11W4M01
Placemat Placemats (Eng, Fre, Ger, Ita, Dut)
Order Information Alienware M14x Order
Camera Integrated Skype HD Certified FullHD Camera with dual digital microphones
Additional Software Alienware M14x Resource DVD
Power Supply MOD,ADPT,AC,DLTA,150W,3P,WW
Dell Backup & Recovery Dell Backup and Recovery Not inlcuded
TimeZone (GMT + 00.00) Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London

I mean, when an OP tells me money is no obstacle, I take it serious. You could do a more expensive build if you want to reconfigure the hard drives but thats the best choice, I don't bother much with RAID I think its a bunch of Hooey; you'll feel plenty spiffy running an OS SSD and a storage 7200 drive.

uberalles

Thanks Overheal.

Is this graphic card a bad one as well?

I remember a disastrous Dell Lattitude I had years ago with an Nvidia nightmare graphics card in it.

http://configure.euro.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=ie&cs=iedhs1&l=en&kc=&oc=sbn34618
Graphics
1GB nVidia GeForce GT 630M Discrete Graphic Card

Overheal

630M Overview, Technical layout, and Framerate performance lists:

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GT-630M.63761.0.html

It really depends on the titles you want to play, and its easy enough to get a feel for it based on the games given engine. WoW for example is an old DX9-based engine that has been patched to death, while Guild wars 2 won't want to play on anything but base settings. Its not the type of card I'd look for when money is objective and graphics are a heavy consideration. In another year or two you'd struggle to find new titles that will run well on it at all, which would be a waste of the machine's i7. The Alienware I specced is obscenely pricey, but the type of machine that would run games some time into 2020.

cgordonfreeman

My vote goes for the Inferno from pcspecialist.co.uk . I don't own one yet but I'll definitely get one in the new year. The nVidia 650 should be good enough for 720p gaming once you don't go too mental with the settings. Its 11.6 inch and pretty light too. Waaaay cheaper than that alienware.