New Lappy recomendation

[privateb]

Hi Guys I am after some recamend laptop ideas this is what I am after. (i am flexable)

£400 budget
3 or 4 GB Ram
Preferably dual core intel chip
256 min graphics card
as much hard drive space as possible.

Any info or recemendations you can give me would be great.

#thank

[alferret]

http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.205-3429.aspx

Not an intel cpu but more that adequate.

[privateb]

Originally Posted by alferret

http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.205-3429.aspx

Not an intel cpu but more that adequate.

Thanks anyone else?

[MovedGoalPosts]

What we really need to know is what you hope to do with the lappy. Without that nobody can determine a reasonable spec.

Personally I'd always take a look at the Dell offerings.

[privateb]

Originally Posted by Rob

What we really need to know is what you hope to do with the lappy. Without that nobody can determine a reasonable spec.

Personally I'd always take a look at the Dell offerings.

Hi thanks it will be mainly for home internet use and playing on fairly hi spec games.
Thanks again

[MovedGoalPosts]

hmm, lappys and high spec games tend not to mix primarily due to the graphics capability. You'd also be concerned about screen size. A £400 budget will be a tall order to get something that can make you happy. Any particular games in mind?

On the other hand my Dell core duo based lappy with 15.4" screen is after 3 years still doing me very well for office use (internet, email, wordprocessing, web design, etc). If you can cut out the gaming expectation, £400 for a lappy will get to a good computer.

[privateb]

Originally Posted by Rob

hmm, lappys and high spec games tend not to mix primarily due to the graphics capability. You'd also be concerned about screen size. A £400 budget will be a tall order to get something that can make you happy. Any particular games in mind?

On the other hand my Dell core duo based lappy with 15.4" screen is after 3 years still doing me very well for office use (internet, email, wordprocessing, web design, etc). If you can cut out the gaming expectation, £400 for a lappy will get to a good computer.

Thanks for your reply the main game would be Football manager which requries the following


* OS: Windows XP or Vista
* Processor: XP: 1.4GHz or Faster / Vista: 2.0GHz or Faster
* Supported Processors: Intel Pentium 4, Intel Core, AMD Athlon
* Memory: XP: 512MB RAM / Vista: 1.0GB RAM
* Hard Drive Space: 2GB
* DVD-Drive: 4x Speed
* Video Card: 128MB *Supported Chipsets (see below)
* Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible
* LAN: TCP/IP compliant
* Input: Keyboard, Mouse
* *Supported Chipsets – Nvidia FX 5900 Ultra or greater; ATI Radeon 9800 or greater; Intel 82915G/82910GL or greater.

[ZrByte]

Originally Posted by privateb

Thanks for your reply the main game would be Football manager which requries the following


* OS: Windows XP or Vista
* Processor: XP: 1.4GHz or Faster / Vista: 2.0GHz or Faster
* Supported Processors: Intel Pentium 4, Intel Core, AMD Athlon
* Memory: XP: 512MB RAM / Vista: 1.0GB RAM
* Hard Drive Space: 2GB
* DVD-Drive: 4x Speed
* Video Card: 128MB *Supported Chipsets (see below)
* Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible
* LAN: TCP/IP compliant
* Input: Keyboard, Mouse
* *Supported Chipsets – Nvidia FX 5900 Ultra or greater; ATI Radeon 9800 or greater; Intel 82915G/82910GL or greater.

Any new laptops graphics will be up to the job of playing that game, even the lowest end intel chipset. I would lean more towards the mobile Radeon offerings though personally. I have a laptop with an integrated HD3650 and it plays all the games I want on high detail and though I don't play any FPS games currently I do play some modern RTS games which can actually be more demanding on the CPU and graphics.

The current AMD and Intel CPU offerings are very similar so it doesnt make a big difference which you go for though I do believe the Intels are currently more power efficient which may be of interest if you plan on running much on the battery.

[Noggo]

Acer 7730. I got mine in the Jan sales for £390 now it's £ 430, but still good value. It has a crystal clear 17" display, good build quality and generally good feel to it. The only downer side from what you listed is the HDD size at 160GB

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/sto...&category_oid=