£500 game-capable laptop?

[furnace]

I'm looking for a laptop for my gf's brother. They've got about £500 to spend, but more if required. He plays games but doesn't need high graphic settings.

About 18 months ago, for £650, I got an AMD Sempron 2800 laptop with a 128mb x700 graphics card. I was hoping that something like this would be available for £500 by now but I can't find much?

If necesarry, they might be able to push it close to £600 (inc vat).

So yeah, what I'm asking for it help finding a laptop that doesn't use integrated graphics, is within budget and has any processor that isn't a celeron (unless they've improved celerons recently)!

Cheers

 

[lsg1r]

you can get a
HP Compaq Business Notebook 6715s for under £500 if you do a bit of shopping around.

Specs

• Product Description - HP Compaq Business Notebook 6715s - Turion 64 X2 TL-58 1.9 GHz - 15.4" TFT
• Dimensions (WxDxH) - 35.7 cm x 26.5 cm x 3.5 cm
• Weight - 2.7 kg
• System Type - Notebook
• Built-in Devices - Stereo speakers, wireless LAN aerial, Bluetooth aerial
• Processor - AMD Turion 64 X2 mobile technology TL-58 / 1.9 GHz ( Dual-Core )
• Cache Memory - 1 MB - L2 Cache
• RAM - 1 GB (installed) / 4 GB (max) - DDR II SDRAM - 667 MHz ( 1 x 1 GB )
  
• Hard Drive - 120 GB - Serial ATA-150 - 5400 rpm
• Optical Storage - DVD±RW (+R double layer) / DVD-RAM with LightScribe Technology
• Display - 15.4" TFT active matrix 1280 x 800 ( WXGA )
• Graphics Controller - ATI Radeon Xpress 1250
• Audio Output - Sound card
• Telecom - Fax / modem - MDC - 56 Kbps
• Networking - Network adapter - Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, IEEE 802.11b, IEEE 802.11a, IEEE 802.11g, Bluetooth 2.0 EDR
• Wireless NIC - Broadcom 4311AG
• Input Device - Keyboard, touchpad
• Power - AC 120/230 V ( 50/60 Hz )
• Battery - Lithium Ion
• Operating System - Microsoft Windows Vista Business (32/64 bits)

Not sure how good it is but would have thought its graphics comparable to the x700.

 

[furnace]

I've just found these. They both have GeForce 8600GT 256mb / 120GB HDD / 1024MB RAM / Vista Home

for £525; Intel® Pentium Dual Core Processor T2310 (1.46GHz, 1 MB L2 cache, 533 MHz FSB)

for £570; Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T5250 Processor (1.5GHz,667MHz,2MB L2 cache)

Both seem quite good deals

 

[TheVoice]

Dell will definitely have some.

 

[lsg1r]

for £570; Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T5250 Processor (1.5GHz,667MHz,2MB L2 cache)

Better deal in my opinion but yes they are both pretty good deals