Spring RTS Engine

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/132487

I know it runs Vista basic, which is evil, (the basic edition is not Vista, I dare to even call it an operating system), BUT, I can replace that, that's not what I'm bothered about.

What I am bothered about is the price versus the hardware. Is this worth the money? Or can I find a better deal in another laptop? examples? Is there something of similar spec but cheaper? I don't want to spend money on hardware grunt I don't need, I have a tower for that, although I'd like to be able to run spring on basic minimum settings with this.

I'd be more worried about trying to run Vista with only 1GB of RAM which is also going to be shared with the graphics card.

As I said ignore Vista, I'm not sticking with basic edition, I'm not bothered which windows is on it as long as it isn't Vista basic, XP x64, Windows 2000 or anything earlier, and I can get any windows OS I want for free via MSDN AA.

I would take a look at Dell's new business targeted laptop range, Vostro. They are great value for money, I'm thinking about getting one myself.

http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/produ ... l=en&s=bsd

Edit:

Also take a look at Lenovo. I bought a Lenovo 3000 C100 for my mother a little while back and its pretty good.

nm one has purchased the original laptop after a bit of searching and a wild goose chase on the dell website

AF wrote:nm one has purchased the original laptop after a bit of searching and a wild goose chase on the dell website

*Shakes fist at dell's £60 shipping costs*

I got free shipping with ebuyer. yay!

I don't think that wireless card supports wireless G connections...

Simply put, processor - poo, HDD - poo, graphics - poo, OS - poo, at least it acctually has a gig of RAM, which they seem to be advertized as a halo encrusted gift from god... Plus acer machines blow, they have so much bloat installed by default, anyone who knows what they are doing will be frustrated by it.

Widescreen display with high glare/reflection is also poo for laptops...

For normal work, get 4:3 display, widescreen is only good for films and some gaming. And display which is essentially mirror sux unless you are in dark room.

Ok if I wanted amazing cpu amazing gfx etc I'd have upped my budget and aimed at £600-£800

Any bloatware and OS is irrelevant as its crushed by my allmighty "fdisk" or "format" command (All Hail GNOME Disk partitioner!)

That and I'm not bothered about wifi as I'm never going to need more than 5MBps anyway.

AF wrote:Ok if I wanted amazing cpu amazing gfx etc I'd have upped my budget and aimed at £600-£800

Any bloatware and OS is irrelevant as its crushed by my allmighty "fdisk" or "format" command (All Hail GNOME Disk partitioner!)

That and I'm not bothered about wifi as I'm never going to need more than 5MBps anyway.

I'm not calling it mediocre, I'm calling it poo.

AF wrote:Ok if I wanted amazing cpu amazing gfx etc I'd have upped my budget and aimed at £600-£800

Any bloatware and OS is irrelevant as its crushed by my allmighty "fdisk" or "format" command (All Hail GNOME Disk partitioner!)

That and I'm not bothered about wifi as I'm never going to need more than 5MBps anyway.

It would help if you told us what this is for. You've told us extensively what it isn't for and what you don't care about; tell us what it is for and what you do care about.

All we've heard is "Spring on minimum settings" which isn't a very good indicator of performance; I ran Spring on minimum settings on a 3.33GHz Celeron box and an Intel integrated shit card.

But if I'm reading correctly you've already purchased so it's probably too late for critical commentary.