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[AF]

I have something like £600 and I want to buy a laptop, tbu i wanna get a decent one and value for money. Any suggestions? Just note I'd prefer no integrated graphics at all and my aim is to use it both for development and playing spring. I'm not bothered if I cant run the latest games on it or spring with graphics at max and I'd like it if I could find such a laptop for around £450, but I dont want integrated graphics and I've only looked at ebuyer.co.uk.

And wont be wanting conroe or any of those things, I want something i could buy tomorrow if I wanted.

Any help would be much appreciated.

[Aun]

http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?Qu ... 4959538,22

CBA to look properly, but this seems quite good for the price. I might find some more later on if I get bored.

[AF]

My onyl qualms with that are the abismal 1.5 hour battery capacity, adn the following graphics setup

Video Memory
Max Allocated RAM Size 64 MB
Technology Shared Video Memory (UMA)
Video Output
Graphics Processor / Vendor SiS M661MX

btw is an ATI Radeon Xpress 200M good or rubbish?

[Drone_Fragger]

Get an HP laptop. they are good and cheap.

http://www.hp.com

[AF]

checked it out and found the 'best fit' had the same specs as a laptop on ebuyer that was much much cheaper.

[Lindir The Green]

Well, how much is that amount of money in dollars?

Because, unless you're OK with almost everything at min settings and lots of random lag from page file access, a spring-capable laptop is around $1000

[AF]

I found something with a geforce go6600 for £586!

Processor Type Centrino Pentium M
Processor Speed 1.86GHz CPU
RAM 512MB
Hard Drive 60GB
Display 15.4 inch TFT display
Widescreen Type WXGA (1280 x 800)
Digitiser Type
Video Chipset nVidia GeForce Go6600
Video RAM 128MB
Optical Drive DVD Supermulti
Operating System MS WinXP Media Center
Wireless LAN Built in Wireless LAN 802.11g 54Mbps

Much better than anything else I've found.

[mongus]

the thing is.. how much better is that processor, compared to the 1.6 centrino/celeron? DUO that most notebooks seem to have (most likely new ones).

[unpossible]

currys.co.uk have some decent ones

[AF]

A duo sounds ncie but it also sounds out of my price range.

[PauloMorfeo]

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Processor Type Centrino Pentium M
...

As a note, Centrino is just marketing crap by Intel!
Centrino means the combination of a Pentium M, a Intel chip controling the motherboard and a Intel chip controling the wireless card. They managed to lure people (and often many sellers) of the Centrino, instead of Pentium Ms and, now, people search for laptops with the name Centrino, making Intel sell 3 chips in a row, instead of just the CPU.

Pentiums M, basically, are the descendants of P3s, similar to Athlons, and that is why they are so much better than P4s for the same speed.

A duo sounds ncie but it also sounds out of my price range.

I have been seeing Duos for laptops not costly at all. In fact maybe even cheaper than P-Ms. What they do sound me is hot. I bet those laptops have severe problems with heating, weight more (how i whish my laptop was lighter...), and spend quickly they're batery.


Recomendations of a laptop? Droll over a Qosmio from Toshiba:
http://www.toshibadirect.com/td/b2c/cmo ... 00&seg=HHO
Intel Core Duo 2.0 GHz
1024 MBs of RAM DDR2
2 SATA Hard Drives of 100 GBs each in RAID 0 or 1
TV Tuner
TFT of 17" with 1920x1200
NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600 with 256 MBs of DDR3 memory
Remote control
1:48 of batery life (hahahaha)
Extreme random coolness

[AF]

$2300!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!??!

If I had that sort of money I'd have bought it buy now, I have £600, and I cannot find any duo laptops in ym price range so far.

[Mugslugs]

and this is why laptops suck ass for £500 you can get most of these http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/ ... 2d004_2doc

[AF]

I know that.

My computer in my room is good to use.

the problem si that I'd ratehr sit downstairs with a laptop ifnront fo me than ina room that has extreme temperatures. I cant use my computer in the day now because temperatures can go past 40 Celsius, I cant breathe after 5 minutes and I get bad pins and needles, all my work I do at night now.

In the winter I can see my breath infront of me.

That and I cant take my laptop to uni, or someone elses house to show people things or do things. I dont like people going in my room and thus todo anything that invovles anyone else means using the shitty computer with the 32MB integrated graphics my stepdad has and a hard drive USB caddy.

That and I have lots of experiments and research tood that I cant do with a stationary computer.

And if I where going to instead upgrade my tower, I'd wait before doing it. Those of you upgrading to conroe havent looked ahead yet to realize it'll be obsolete by xmas by another set of Intel chips (quad core conroes), which will do to conroe, what you've been saying conroe did to AMD FX. That and caydrs been telling us so much to wait for the DX10 cards for months now.

[Caydr]

HP Pavilion 5000 series is the best bang for your buck. I'm using one right now. Costs about 150 GBP less than your limit. No heavy-duty graphics capability but for your price range you'll never get that anyway.

Has an actual graphics system though, not just integrated intel crap. Turion 64. Great stuff. No complaints.

If you want to spend an extra 50 GBP, go for the 6000 series (I think it's 6000... might be 8000? 10000? Who knows. Dumb marketing people.) Anyway it's the same thing but with dedicated instead of shared graphics memory, extra usb ports, and integrated card readers for CF and SD.

Something that's really cool about this laptop is that it comes with a remote control that normally resides in the PC Card slot. It can be used to turn your laptop into a super-long battery life DVD player... well you can read up on it if you want. Good stuff though.

Only complaint is that the speakers are pretty weak, though you can probably compensate for that with good tuning, I haven't tried yet but I did some pretty impressive enhancement for my old Toshiba A30 which had crap speakers. Also the sound control is strictly digital... like, +5%, -5%, no wheel. That's kind of irritating since it means that your sound will always have to be software-controlled... But the only place this is really irritating is if you're in DOS, which you'll just use DOSbox for, so it's not an issue.

I'll shut up now.

[AF]

I've looked and I cant find that laptop in my price range int eh UK.

This one popped up though but I'm not sure about it

http://www.comet.co.uk/comet/html/cache/572_314420.html

[Lippy]

How about you forget about a spring capable laptop and do this instead:

the problem si that I'd ratehr sit downstairs with a laptop ifnront fo me than ina room that has extreme temperatures. I cant use my computer in the day now because temperatures can go past 40 Celsius, I cant breathe after 5 minutes and I get bad pins and needles, all my work I do at night now.

Get air conditioning: £200

In the winter I can see my breath infront of me.

Buy a good electric heater: £50

That and I cant take my laptop to uni, or someone elses house to show people things or do things

Unless you wanna play spring in uni, you dont need a good laptop: £300


TOTAL £550

and you still get to play spring on your tower, plus have £50 towards a better quad core model.

[AF]

*_* £50 to ugprade a celeron D 2.4GHz tower that has a geforce fx 5200 ultra? Ontop of that it being an 8X card on a motherboard that only has a 4x AGP slot.

If I cant run spring on my laptop then I'll only end up saving up for a new laptop.

[PauloMorfeo]

Don't buy a laptop!

Do not hear them. A laptop can be a great thing. I am happy i have mine and it has been serving me well in many ocasions.

[AF]

Exactly, which is why I'm cosnidering saving a little more.


btw opinions on ATI mobility x600 graphics?