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Originally Posted by IceCube! Firstly, to directly answer your question... for gaming (until you get to medium or low settings), they have been known to last 5 - 6 years. Which isn't bad, just don't rely on it as, end of the day although I would consider and actually do the same thing as you the gaming industry and computer industry are developing quicker than ever. I don't see it being long till the comes where software catches up, quickly. On the other hand, I know a guy running a 10 year old AlienWare laptop, it still runs games on Medium... I've seen it, looks pretty good. He has tinkered a bit with it however to keep it going, both with the hardware and software hacks to fool the game into thinking the computer is better than it actually is so he can force the game to try to run at these specs. Therefore if he is still running his? There's no reason you can't be running yours in 10 years time if software doesn't catch up, you seem to take care of your laptops keeping one 11 years! Therefore it should last. and would still compile programs with ease (again, depending on software development). Being someone who needs a computer to be portable aswell, for privacy reasons mainly as I don't like people reading my chats or sitting in the same room all the time. I would as said before do the same thing, There is however the price issue, they are over priced. However the hardware inside them is often build on custom shaped boards in order to allow them to actually fit the hardware inside such as small thing, which is why as said above Razor is the same price really. As for the Asus laptops mentioned above, I've never seen or owned one. Therefore I cannot comment, as I cannot be arsed to look through the site. However your looking to build a computer to maximum specification (32 GB RAM, and 2 x 1TB SSDs). I don't think Asus will send you an incomplete computer and will have to send you a computer of your choice with RAM and HDD included. As for your other question, I would go with the Dual nVida cards without looking too much into it, why Nivida works well with Intel? It also has double the memory 8GB's, although I don't know the clock rates for these GPUs, and depending on what they are you need to choose the best one for you. For life span, I would choose the one with the bigger memory, as this means it can pile up waiting to be processed when the computer becomes outdated instead of leaking over to system RAM. Although if the Clock rate is dramatically more, you would want to take that one as it can process through the information in its memory quicker. I understand you don't want a desktop, and use your laptop where ever you are when you need it. Therefore I wouldn't buy a cheap laptop and build a desktop for home, as your looking to run a computer for everything for aslong as possible. THe lifespan of an off the shelf cheap Laptop is about 1 - 2 years. As you seem to know from your above post stating the dates of purchase I guess? EDIT: I personally however would WAIT! This is because it's around the time where all the new stuff comes out for computers, and laptops everywhere (unless i'm mistaken). This can do 1 of 2 things for you: Make the computer you desire currently ALOT cheaper. Get you better hardware for probably a little bit more, than it is now. Hopefully the new hardware releases will be great, and be more than a little upgrade.

I got a few things to counteract this.

Why would you go for 2x1TB SSD? That seems like a waste to me, especially on a laptop. I would go for like a 100GB SSD and then a 2TB regular, it's cheaper, and makes more sense in my opinion. Also, nVidia doesn't necessarily work better with intel than radeon. You have to look at what you're doing. Each outperform the other in certain applications. So really, look for benchmarks. I know for what I do, my R9 270 works better than a GTX 760. Do your research, you can't compare computer hardware without knowing exactly what you're doing. Some components will be better in certain cases, others will not. Do your research, and decide for yourself is the best way.

However, "Gaming" laptops have crappy batteries. They don't last very long (due to the high amount of power drawn) and they aren't rated for high amount of charges anymore (in account to the companies scam you)

For example: I have an Acer netbook I bought 7 years ago. It's battery is still strong, and it's rated for something like 5000 charges. I bought another laptop 2 years ago, It's battery was rated for only 300 charges (that's less than 1 year, charging only once per day) and i've had to replace it. It was a cheaper computer, though my $800 Toshiba which has less than half the hours of the HP one ALSO had the battery fry..

So if you get one, make sure to get the extra warrenties on your chargers and batteries. They're not cheap.