Suggest a laptop for watching Hd movies

sato1986 · August 13, 2009, 9:20am

Hi all

Need a laptop as a download rig, but should be decent enough to play the HD rips which I download

Budget : As low as possible
Requirement : Downloading, Watching 4gb Hd-rips

Source: India or USA(If international warranty)

TIA

archish · August 13, 2009, 9:38am

a dual core will easily handle ur 720p HD movies. On a side note if a hardware supported video decoding card is cheap enough then you may opt for that also.

MohitPreet · August 13, 2009, 9:48am

dell studio 15

around 45k

best bet

or try to some cheap acer models like acer 5738

redscorpion_11 · August 13, 2009, 10:16am

hey guys, i bought a Dell Inspiron 1545 with T6500 2.1 C2D, but it still cannot play even 720P movies without loosing audio sync, its frustrating really, i dont know wt i should do, i tried installing CoreAVC, playing it in KMp, VLC evrything nothing works, i guess, the CPU isnt powerful enough.

archish · August 13, 2009, 10:22am

check setting/codec, i have almost similar proccy T7250, 2ghz and 2mb cache plays flawlessly

sato1986 · August 13, 2009, 10:23am

I’ve narrowed down to this:

Newegg.com - TOSHIBA Satellite L505-S5969 NoteBook Intel Pentium dual-core T4200(2.00GHz) 15.6" 3GB Memory DDR2 800 320GB HDD 5400rpm DVD Super Multi Intel GMA 4500M - Laptops / Notebooks

@arch: so this will do the job?

Any indian cheap laptop deal which can handle the job?

forum67 · August 13, 2009, 10:24am

why are you getting it from US ??Any Acer core 2 duo with intel 4500 HD will do.

sometimes too may codec pack leads to sluggish playback

HailStonE · August 13, 2009, 10:27am

HP has few models with 780G onboard… Look out for them… should be ~45k-50k…

archish · August 13, 2009, 10:30am

you could go for a better proccy, just personal choice.

check out acer laptops, they are good and cheap.

E_E_E_E_E · August 13, 2009, 10:32am

Go for Acer 5738 dude

Perfect for ur requirements…

sato1986 · August 13, 2009, 10:55am

Yup I did a bit of searching around Te and found stormblast’s posts regarding Acer 5738z

I guess I’m totally falling for it, it’s frekin awesome at 28k !!!

thanks to ppl above who suggested to look toward acer

Just need to ask whether it plays 720p rip w/o lag

dharmilstar · August 13, 2009, 11:10am

its there on ebay weekly offer. so with the coupon, it will again be cheaper by 1000 bucks.

MohitPreet · August 13, 2009, 11:34am

dont buy a 30k thing form ebay . its too risky!!

who knows u may be ripped off with a 2nd hand piece!!

amrit_iyer · August 13, 2009, 4:59pm

Take a look at the specs and the price.

Zenith-Product Details

Raider123 · August 14, 2009, 6:30am

Samsung NP-R518-DA03IN is available here a delta chennai for 26.5k

The Specifications:

15.6 inch HD LED backlit display , T3400, 2GB 800 MHz,

160GB, silvernano isolation keyboard with spillproof, Bluetooth,

Wireless LAN, HDMI, 1.3MP Digital motion camera, DOS, DVD

Super Multi, illuminating touchpad, powered USB, E-Sata

But I don’t know about the reliability of samsung notebooks…It must be atleast as good as Acer…

Dark_Star · August 14, 2009, 6:36am

The acer plays 1080p as well , I asked stormy about the same and he said its plays everything fine

Get the Acer its sheer vfm

sato1986 · August 18, 2009, 5:29am

^ Oh cool Decision final now

OT: This makes me wonder, Why couldn’t the inspiron 1525 cope up with HD?

bitsandpieces · August 18, 2009, 6:07am

well, my compaq with a lowly t3200 and intel onboard is able to cope up with 720p reasonably well.I dont think that dell will fail with hd. there might be some other issues.

forum67 · August 18, 2009, 6:14am

^^ yeah agree…even my ati X1250 can handle those 720p 4gb rips , even the Intel 4500MHD .

get a cheap lappy and buy a 22-24 inch LCD monitor and enjoy those BD rips :).