Best Laptop

INFECTION · 15 Oct 2006 at 19:08

Hey guys am wanting to get a laptop for when am away from home but still want to play games on it fairly good ones like bf2 doom 3 fear etc. Which would be a good laptop to get i think i want to spend around £700 - £800 can anyone help ?

INFECTION

Boogle · 15 Oct 2006 at 19:20

Zepto. HP nx8430/nc8430.

Adam Senior · 15 Oct 2006 at 19:20

hmm you will be pushing it..i know that the dell xps are good for games (freind got one for uni) but thier hella expensive

INFECTION · 15 Oct 2006 at 19:23

hmmm i just want a good one that will play good games i was hoping to get one for about that.

INFECTION · 15 Oct 2006 at 19:27

Boogle said:
Zepto. HP nx8430/nc8430.

That look good do u think it will paly doom 3 and so on ?

Energize · 15 Oct 2006 at 19:30

Zeptos can easily play doom 3, its an old game.

Boogle · 15 Oct 2006 at 20:54

INFECTION said:
That look good do u think it will paly doom 3 and so on ?

X1600 or Go 7600 will both play Doom3 fine

Play BF2142 medium detail @ 1024x768. They're good with the latest games, although you may have to lower the detail.

The Macbook Pro is the exception, the X1600 is clocked so low its the equivelant of an X1400.

pumaz · 15 Oct 2006 at 20:56

You could get a MacBook, Install Windows XP (Bootcamp) and play Counterstrike, Day of Defeat etc, which many consider are excellent games.

Nearly forgot, you will also have the sexiest laptop known to man with the best OS (OSX).

Energize · 15 Oct 2006 at 21:11

pumaz said:
You could get a MacBook, Install Windows XP (Bootcamp) and play Counterstrike, Day of Defeat etc, which many consider are excellent games.

Nearly forgot, you will also have the sexiest laptop known to man with the best OS (OSX).

And some of the worst hardware... This person is asking for a laptop £700-800 that can play modern games, the £750 macbook can barely play pong.

INFECTION · 15 Oct 2006 at 21:27

you got it in one i have just been on the alienware website and seen this http://www.alienware.co.uk/product_...PC-EU-LT-A51M5550&SubCode=SKU-DEFAULT#pdp-nav

i dont think its a bad price what do you think ?

Energize · 15 Oct 2006 at 21:29

Zepto sell better ones for £700.

pumaz · 15 Oct 2006 at 21:32

Energize said:
And some of the worst hardware... This person is asking for a laptop £700-800 that can play modern games, the £750 macbook can barely play pong.

The MacBook is within his price range and while it can't play BF2 it can play HL2 and the games i've already mentioned.

Are you saying the MacBook is using "some of the worst hardware" :confused:

INFECTION · 15 Oct 2006 at 21:41

Energize said:
Zepto sell better ones for £700.

energize have you got one of these or are you a sales man for Zepto?

INFECTION · 15 Oct 2006 at 21:43

pumaz said:
The MacBook is within his price range and while it can't play BF2 it can play HL2 and the games i've already mentioned.

Are you saying the MacBook is using "some of the worst hardware"

i do play dod:S but i want to play more than that and i think he was saying it has some of the worst hardware but it look good

pumaz · 15 Oct 2006 at 21:59

INFECTION said:
i do play dod:S but i want to play more than that and i think he was saying it has some of the worst hardware but it look good

Fair enough, but i doubt the hardware Apple use is worse than that of generic laptop makers. I supose i'm so over the moon with mine i can't stop recomending them

One other thing i will say, You may think you will be using your laptop for games but in the main most people don't and revert back to there main rig for games (I know you will be away from home, but still) You will see allot of posters advising buying a cheap laptop and using your main rig for gaming. You see the other problem with gaming especialy with games like BF2 is they zap your battery!

Good luck

Energize · 15 Oct 2006 at 22:05

INFECTION said:
energize have you got one of these or are you a sales man for Zepto?

It would be a small miracle if I managed to study for my A levels and sell laptops for zepto at the same time.

I have the Znote 6214W, cost £730 at the time, 1Gb ram, geforce 7600go 512mb, 1.83ghz intel core2 duo, 60gb 7,200 hdd, dvd-rw, 14.1" screen and weighs 2.25kg.

pumaz said:
Are you saying the MacBook is using "some of the worst hardware"

Yes its using onboard graphics afterall.

INFECTION · 15 Oct 2006 at 22:38

Energize said:
It would be a small miracle if I managed to study for my A levels and sell laptops for zepto at the same time. I have the Znote 6214W, cost £730 at the time, 1Gb ram, geforce 7600go 512mb, 1.83ghz intel core2 duo, 60gb 7,200 hdd, dvd-rw, 14.1" screen and weighs 2.25kg.

Yes its using onboard graphics afterall.

so what games have you tried to play on your laptop ??

Energize · 15 Oct 2006 at 22:45

Well tbh they haven't been that graphics intensive, it's mostly been dow and worms 4 ,oblivion played fine at low settings at native res, though that game doesn't really play fantastically well on any pc. I did try out doom3 and it plays fine at high settings, native res.

INFECTION · 15 Oct 2006 at 23:00

do you think it would be ok to play fear on it or Call of Juarez or El Matador or Prey ??

Surfer · 16 Oct 2006 at 10:30

INFECTION said:
Hey guys am wanting to get a laptop for when am away from home but still want to play games on it fairly good ones like bf2 doom 3 fear etc. Which would be a good laptop to get i think i want to spend around £700 - £800 can anyone help ?

INFECTION

i'm in a similar position checking around for good laptop deals.

if you can wait 5 weeks for the laptop you can get smt like this for £580 inc vat
Zoostorm 2-6301 15.4"
Intel Core Duo T2300E, 512MB RAM, 80GB HDD, 256MB ATI X1600, 15.4" Widescreen

zepto looks good as well minimum £717 ish with a G7600 go.

Also looking at the following spec for £650 inc vat

Intel Centrino Core Solo T1300 Processor 1.66GHz
FREE Double Memory Upgrade - Was 512MB, now 1024MB DDRII-533MHz
60GB Hard Drive
DVD Dual Layer Drive - To read DVDs and CDs and write CDs, DVD+, DVD- and large Dual Layer DVD
17.0" WXGA+ Widescreen TFT Screen with TruBrite Technology
NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600 128MB dedicated graphics
Integrated gigabit LAN
Integrated wireless 802.11a/b/g LAN - Call for advice on Wireless networking
Integrated 5-in-1 card reader – reads Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, MultiMediaCard, SD Memory Card and XD Picture Card
Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition Pre Loaded
FREE Microsoft Office OneNote 2003
1 year warranty - upgradeable to 3 years