Hi all. I'm new here, and have a travelmate 3871 on order after scouring the web for over week for the best laptop for around £300-£350. I believe I've found it! £330 delivered for one with a core 2 su9400, 320gb hd, 4gb ram and a hd 4330 is amazing.
By all accounts the screen doesn't have the best viewing angles in the world but it's matte, which was what really stopped me from paying about £100-£150 more and getting a lot more processing power. Whoever decided it was a good idea to put a glossy screen on a laptop should be shot. "Fantastic. We've got a portable pc that can be used anywhere, but there's something mssing. I know, we'll stick a glossy screen on it, so, um, movies'll look a bit richer, although, er... you won't be able to use it outside. Or near a window. Or a bright light. And you'll often sit watching your reflection typing. How does that sound?"
I'll definitely be overclocking both the cpu and the gpu - I've always overclocked every pc that I've ever owned, as it's 100% safe provided you keep voltages and temps within spec and stress test adequately for stability. In this case the only drawback will probably be slightly reduced battery life, which is exceptional in the first place so isn't really an issue for me. It'll be used for some light gaming, web browsing, office stuff and if it's sufficient maybe a little bit of audio production when I'm away from the desktop.
Anyway, enough waffling from me. I'll be sure to post some gaming and performance results when I get both the laptop and enough time to play with it (in the middle of moving house. aarrgghh!)
@tbz_ck
If the 3810 that you are referring to has a 1.3ghz cpu, then it'll run at 1625mhz. The overclock is of the fsb, which increases from 200 to 250. The clock multiplier would be 6.5 (6.5x200 = 1300), so the overclock would be 6.5x250 = 1625.
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