Help comparing laptops - Dell and Acer

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Ive been hunting for a laptop that has reasonable gaming performance by modern standards, but I will mainly use it for battlefield 2 and older games. I was looking at a refurbished dell inspiron 1720 for £600 or an Acer 6920G for £460.

The specs are mostly the same except for the processor and the o/s, the inspiron uses XP which I would prefer and the acer uses 32bit vista.

Dell:

CPU: T7500 Intel Core2 Duo 2.20GHz (4MB Cache, 800MHz FSB)
Memory: 3GB (3072MB) DDR2 667MHz
Hard Drive: 250GB Serial (SATA)
Display: 17.0" 1440x900 (WXGA+) CCFL Widescreen Display with TrueLife
Optical Drive: DVD-ReWriter Drive
Video: nVidia GeForce 8600M GT Graphics with 256MB Dedicated RAM

Acer:

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo T5750 2 GHz (667 MHz FSB, 2 MB Cache)
Memory: 3GB (3072MB) DDR2 667MHz
Hard drive: 250GB
Display: 16" WXGA+ HD CineCrystal screen 1366 x 768 pixels
Optical drive: Dual-layer Blu-ray player / SuperMulti DVD writer
Video: ATI Radeon HD3650 graphics card, 512 MB DDR3 dedicated memory

Any advice will be helpful :)
 
Get the Dell. Better CPU, larger, higher resolution screen. Blu-ray on the Acer is nice....but meh, pointless on a screen of that size.
 
Richiev4 said:
I would choose the Dell as well - If it is from a reseller you may find you get 4 year warranty as well.
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Unfortunately the site I seen that one one only gives a 12 month warranty, but another company includes a 3 year one for a similiar laptop, the studio 1737. It has a p8400 2.26 GHz, 3mb cache 1066Hz FSB, 4GB of memory, the ati HD3650 and vista home...
 
Luffy said:
Totally agree, no competition really uness you have to save the £140.
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Thanks, the £140 would be nice but I was budgeting to spend more anyway and blu ray doesnt appeal to me.

What do you think about the studio 1737 that I posted above? :)
 
It looks like a nice spec, I am not sure about the various Studio models though. How much is it?
The extra memory could really help with game map loading times and as it's 4gb it's likely to be a pair that will run Dual Channel unlike 3Gb.
The CPU is a newer spec and the graphics should play your games nicely. Have a look at the Graphics comparisons here.
http://www.notebookcheck.net/ATI-Mobility-Radeon-HD-3650.8839.0.html
Also look at this similar spec 1735 review. http://www.notebookcheck.net/Dell-Studio-1735.11121.0.html
Is it to be a desktop replacement or portable? if portable you need to make sure you go to a shop and feel the weight including Power supply that you are going to lug around.
 
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The studio one is £600 with a 3 years warranty. I currently have a 17" and its only used as a desktop really but having an actual desktop is not an option unfortunately.
 
Well if it doesn't need to be portable it looks a great choice to me at that price. Did you read the review on the 1735?
 
It gets Ok reviews, Im really lost though. I will be gaming a lot on, but mostly old games although I want the best card for up to £650 really. Would an 8600m gt perform the same on a 17" and a 15" sceen?
 
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