I'm in need of a laptop, largely to help with school work which is becoming progressively more IT based, but also as a secondary drive for music and some gaming; it's far easier to take a laptop to a friends to hook up on LAN than a desktop. My problem is the age-old one: I'm a student so don't have loads to spend. I've budgeted around £400-500 so not looking top range, but still wanting half-way to decent. Right now the best I can find is an HP Pavilion running Vista. Specs are: CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 TK53 Mobile Technology RAM: 2048 MB DDR II (2 x 1024) HD: 120 GB SATA Hard Disk Drive 5400 rpm Monitor: 15.4” WXGA High Definition BrightView Widescreen GPU: NVIDIA® GeForce™ 7150M Up to 559 MB total available graphics memory (I'm fairly certain it's dedicated) Other features: webcam/mic built in, lightscribe DVD writer, remote control, WiFi, card reader. It's selling for £500 which seems a fairly good deal, but as I've never bought a laptop before I may well be buying junk. Personally I would have preferred a slightly larger HDD and an Intel Core 2 Duo rather than the current CPU but as I'm also after 2gig RAM and a decent GPU this seemed a fair compromise. The only other option I've been able to source is an Acer Aspire 5563, also with Vista. It has a 160GB HDD but only 1GB RAM and a shared Intel 945GMA graphics card, plus less "extras". It is, though, £100 cheaper. I'm just really not sure which to go for, or even if there are better out there, hopefully someone can help.
Don't sweat the HHD you can always buy an external one that is like 200 USDS (500 GB) and a case which for styles it would run you 50 USDS. but that laptop doesn't sound bad for the price I know everyone i talk to buys computers from Newegg.com so check that sight out for some comparison prices.
Newegg doesn't deliver anywhere but the U.S and since hes talking about euros, i doubt it. I think tigerdirect.com delivers to other places, so check that site they have some good laptops. Also the laptop with 2gb ram you were talking about is a pretty decent one. If you could, get a dell and you can pay like 15-30 US dollars a month, which should be like 10-25 euros im guessing. Thats Dell.com
Hmm, ok thanks guys. I use newegg anyway as price comparison, but they don't ship to UK so I can't buy there. As for getting a Dell, the slow pay scheme is appealing but the overall specs just aren't for the price, plus I know a lot of people that have had problems with Dell laptops whereas HP is largely regarded as market leader for this price range in the UK. Anyone else? I also forgot to mention the Acer uses Core 2 Duo CPU not the Athlon X2 chip the HP runs.
well honestly the acer has integrated Intel graphics those aren't great for gaming at all....also the x2 isn't a bad cpu to use. There isn't anything wrong with AMD besides not holding the TOP spots in the cpu market.... Also another slot of so-dimm(laptop memory) can be costly, sometimes 2x or more than that of desktop memory so personally id stick with the HP Hard drives can be updated using external ones and a lot people don't use over 120GB on a laptop.
