A crossfire laptop for <£600!?

DAnDan

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Basically, I'm in the market for a gaming laptop, for about £600, preferably less but can stretch.

After some googling I came across this apparent beauty. http://www.fujitsu-siemens.co.uk/home/products/notebooks/amilo_pa_3553.html

Am I missing something here? I've seen this laptop for sale for £600, which seems an amazing price compared to other laptops.

Anyone know anything about this laptop? Or can anyone suggest a better one for the price?

Thanks all!
 
Looks like a nice bit of kit for the money. I am also looking for a cheapish gaming laptop so thanks for the info.
My searches find a version with 3gb RAM, but still trying to find reviews.
 
Luffy said:
Looks like a nice bit of kit for the money. I am also looking for a cheapish gaming laptop so thanks for the info.
My searches find a version with 3gb RAM, but still trying to find reviews.
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Yeah I could only find one review, which was on Youtube, problem was it wasn't in English :(. Does look like a decent laptop though.

HarryPainful said:
Its got 256MB of DDR2... that would be very slow.
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I'm gonna guess that you're not much into laptops? For a sub £600 or so laptop that's about all you get. If you can prove me wrong, please do, as that's one hell of a laptop.
 
Hybrid Crossfire... So you get the combined power of a slow card (3470) and a really slow intergrated card (3200).

Anything with an 8600GTM would out perform it I think.

Edit: Here we go...

http://www.notebookcheck.net/ATI-Mobility-Radeon-HD-3470.9594.0.html

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-8600M-GT.3986.0.html

The integrated 3200 would add maybe 20% at a push.

3dmark 03

8600GTM avg: 10215

3470 avg: 4194

F.E.A.R.: - GPU: max, CPU: max 1024x768

8600GTM min: 13, avg: 32, max: 73 fps

3470 min: 11, avg: 13, max: 15 fps
 
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Ah damn, that's really quite a difference there!

Only problem is that I am having difficulties finding a laptop with an 8600 for less than £600. I managed to find one online from a highstreet shop, but the specs are different in the catalogue instore, and I can't find it on Samsung's website. It's an R700 if anyone knows it.
 
17", 2ghz core 2, 3gb ram, 8600GTM and 320gb for £599.99?

I would trust their website over the book, more likely to be up to date.

Dell are your best bet for a decent laptop <£600. You can geta 17" studio with a 3650 (about 10% slower than the 8600) for £529.
 
Yeah that's the one, book lists it as a GS, while their website has it as a GT. Guess an email to them will sort this out.
Ideally I was looking for a 15" laptop, as it's going to be used for uni and the like, so the extra portability is a bonus; otherwise I would have gone for the studio 17.

Thanks for the help :)
 
Inspiron 1720 CORE 2 DUO T5550 1.83GHz
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System Price £444.38

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Operating System: English - Vista Home Premium
Memory: 2048MB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM (2x1024)
Hard Disk Drive: Hard Drive 250GB (5400rpm)
Video: 256 MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT
NoteBook Screen: 17.0Widescreen WXGA+ (1440x900) TFT Display
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£532 inc vat and delivery atm on the outlet :) Gives you an idea of what you CAN get
 
i paid £610 for a c2d vostro1500 with a 8600mGT and a few upgrades nearly 11months ago, its very easy to find 8600mGTs for under £600 :)
 
DAnDan said:
Yeah that's the one, book lists it as a GS, while their website has it as a GT. Guess an email to them will sort this out.
Ideally I was looking for a 15" laptop, as it's going to be used for uni and the like, so the extra portability is a bonus; otherwise I would have gone for the studio 17.

Thanks for the help :)
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Hi - If you want a 15" gaming laptop for £600, then a Dell XPS M1530 is going to be your best option I feel. They have an 8600M GT which is proven to run most games well at medium res and detail. You can get them from their outlet website for under £600.

That Fujitsu laptop you linked to uses a hybrid crossfire system which basically means they link a slow GPU to the even slower integrated graphics chip on the motherboard...... The technology is still new and I imagine is going to be highly reliant on driver updates to get it working properly.
 
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