Best Laptop for £300

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My friend is after a new laptop. Refurb is fine. Wants to play games like Settlers 6/7, and other games. Whats the best for £300?
Seen an Acer 5536

Product Code
143246

Model Acer Aspire 5536
Lid Colour Blue
Operating System MS Windows Vista Home Premium
Processor Type AMD Athlon64 X2 QL64
Processor Speed 2.10 GHz
RAM Size 4 GB
RAM Technology DDR II SDRAM
Hard Drive Capacity 320 GB
Hard Drive Interface SATA
Screen Size 15.6
Screen Type 720p HD
Optical Drive DVDRW
Graphics Radeon HD3200
Audio On board
Networking Ethernet
USB Ports 4
Wireless LAN BG
Webcam Yes
Keyboard UK
Grade Gold
Warranty 1 Year Return to Base Warranty




and Dell 1750

Operating System Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium
Processor Type Intel® Core™ Duo Processor (CPU)
Processor Cores Dual Core (2)
Processor Speed 2GHz CPU
Memory Size 2 GB (Gigabytes)
Hard Drive (HDD) 250 GB (Gigabytes)
HDD Interface SATA Interface
Optical Drive DVD Supermulti
Card Reader Built-in Card Reader
Display Size 17.3 Inch Display
Glossy Display Glossy Display
Display Resolution 1600 x 900, WSXGA
Graphics Memory Shared Video Memory
USB Ports 3 x USB port
Web Cam Integrated Web Camera
Bluetooth Built-in-Bluetooth
Wired Network 10/100 Internal LAN RJ-45 connector
Wireless Wireless LAN 802.11abg upto 54Mbps
Warranty 6 month warranty

Would the Acer be better becauase of seperate graphics?
 
What about these combos? Which is best?

Intel Core 2 Duo T5500
1.66 GHz
1GB RAM
160GB HDD
15.4 WXGA
Radeon xPress X200

AMD Turion64 X2 RM70
2GHz
Radeon HD3200
4GB RAM
320GB HDD
15.6 720P hd

AMD Athlon64 X2 QL64
2.10GHz
Radeon HD3200
4GB RAM
320GB HDD
15.6 720P hd

AMD Turion64 X2 TL60
2GHz
2GB RAM
160GB HDD
15.4 WXGA
Radeon Xpress 1250
 
The Acer is probably the 'best' of that lot, although it's graphics are integrated, not discreet (HD3200 is the name used for the 780 chipset's internal graphics system). But gaming and £300 laptops just don't mix to be honest. The starting point for a laptop with a basic seperate GPU is about £400-450, and even then that usually means getting a slow CPU or small screen.
 
@DrBomb
i bought an acer aspire 7540 4 months ago for £429 and it can run some games(2 years old or older) on med-high settings with 30fps average it has integrated 4200.how do you know if its separate gpu?
 
I'm also looking for a £300 laptop for a friend. She only wants it to do simple things like the internet. So really battery life is the most important thing and durability. Any suggestions other then the acer? Or is that still the best to go for?
 
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