A Land Far Away

Looking at a new laptop. You folks are my best reference for value etc.

Special at Costco

http://www.costco.com/HP-ENVY-15t-Quad- ... 00611.html

HP ENVY 15t Quad Laptop
Intel Core i7
2GB Graphics
Windows 7 Professional
Home and Business 2013

Brand: HP
Graphic Card: NVIDIA GeForce GT740M
Hard Drive Size: 1.5 TB
Operating System: Windows 7 Professional
Processor: Intel Core i7
RAM Included: 12 GB
Screen Size: 15.6 in.

Cost:$999 US


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I need to
a) Play ALFA (of course)
b) look at x-rays and MRIs on call
c) hopefully run Voice Recognition software on occasion to dictate those MRIs

otherwise I don't do much with my machine.


What do you think?

Buy from New Egg and it comes with a free carrying case and is slightly cheaper:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6834257175

Stats look good. A lot better than mine and I run NWN2 no problems.

Any idea what the heat sink capabilities are of that bad boy?

Playing WoW, Hearthstone, NWN2 or EVE-Online makes me have to lay a bag of ice-water directly over and on-top of the laptop CPU ....or it will overheat and force shutdown/hibernation.

Galadorn wrote:Any idea what the heat sink capabilities are of that bad boy?

Playing WoW, Hearthstone, NWN2 or EVE-Online makes me have to lay a bag of ice-water directly over and on-top of the laptop CPU ....or it will overheat and force shutdown/hibernation.

Patent it as "extegrated water cooling system", and sell the bags for $25 a pop.

^ lol

Living in Thailand, and Qatar, and now China means hot summers... laptop always melts down, so even the most expensive "under" cooling-fan pads don't help at all. So my fridge has 3 zip-lock bags of water on stand-by... when the current bag heats up (and the laptop ends up making the bag quite hot after a while), I switch the hot bag with a fresh cold bag from the fridge every 30-45 minutes or she shuts down. Air-Con on maximum also is not enough. A small price to pay for continuous gaming!

Thanks all -

I currently use an "under" fan for my older Dell Inspiron and it does fine. (I'm in Cleveland with a room a temp of around 68°F -- so not a big worry)


Thanks for the Newegg link --- I like Costco because the return policy is awesome. Any problems and you just walk in the door, hand it over, and they give you a new one, no questions asked.


I just wanted to check specs and make sure it wasn't a rip-off.

What kind of imaging software are you using for those x-rays (and, more importantly, where is it actually installed)?

That's a middling graphics card you've got right there, and depending on the setup that might not be enough graphics card to muck through the standard radiology-themed habits. That and most PACS I've seen values precision over performance-- so they tend to not look like they're as costly as they are to run.

Though I also know a lot of organizations serve up their PACS stuff over something like Citrix, or try to rebrand something that's exactly like Citrix as a "cloud-based" [sarcastic quotes because only one computer is used for necessary calculations] solution, in which case whatevs-- the server's doing the work.

We run over a citrix link to our PACS.

But I'm not trying to simulate standard PACS workflow or performance. No way. I do my work at a 4 monitor set up with 3k monitors and a big rig.

If I ever do start volume reading from home it will be on a dedicated set up.



All I need from this laptop is for it not to totally choke on scrolling through one MRI while I'm on call so that I don't have to drive into the hospital to give a result.

Oh, then yeah, your card will probably be plenty to render what Citrix sends over.

Just wanted to make sure you wouldn't be setting yourself up for such a drive. Nothing kills gaming quite like work!