Ok so i have a budget of about £1000 for a new laptop.
I need it for some light gaming, LOTS of 3d, Audio and vidio editing and general email browsing.
Now ive been browsing a well known internet auction site for some bargains and this is kinda what ive come up with:-
Dell Inspiron 1720 (New - 1 yr warranty)
2.20ghz CPU (Core 2 Duo)
2 GIG DDR 667MHZ
160 GB 5400rpm Hard Drive
Vista Premium Edition
Built in Wireless
256Mb GeForce 8600M GT Video Card
DVDRW
17" True-Life Screen (1920 x 1200)
2MP Web Cam
Bluetooth
Apple Core 2 Duo (about 12 months old)
Intel Core Duo 2.16GHz
2 GB @667MHz DDR2
17 inch (1680x1080)
120GB 5400rpm
ATI Mobility RAdeon X1600 with 256 MB of GDDR3 SDRam
built in sight camera, superdrive, 1 firewire 400&800, 3USB 2.0, express card
Mac OS 10.4.9
Wireless & Bluetooth
Dell Precision M90 (New 1 yr warranty)
Core 2 Duo T7200 2.0GHz 4MB L2 CACHE 667MHz FSB
2048MB DDR2 SDRAM 667MHZ
60GB 7200RPM HARD DRIVE
256MB QUADRO FX 1500M OPEN GL GRAPHICS
8 X DVD +/- RW
17.0" WIDESCREEN WUXGA (1920 x 1200)
MICROSOFT WINDOWS XP PROFESSIONAL SP2 With Backup CDs
Intel Wireless 3945 Enabled
DELL 350 Bluetooth Enabled
Rock Extreme CTX PRO (2.5 yr warranty left)
Intel CORE 2 DUO 2.0 GHZ
2GB 677 mhz Ram
100 Gig 7200 RPM hard drive
17 inch 1920x1200 Widescreen
Nvidia Gforce 7950 GTX 512mb video memory
Dual Layer CD/DVD Drive
7.1 surround sound output
wireless
bluetooth
windows XP media centre
Im would love the macbook pro cause...well it looks awesome but i think the inspiron 1720 is the best one to go with.
Any one got any other advice?
I need it for some light gaming, LOTS of 3d, Audio and vidio editing and general email browsing.
Now ive been browsing a well known internet auction site for some bargains and this is kinda what ive come up with:-
Dell Inspiron 1720 (New - 1 yr warranty)
2.20ghz CPU (Core 2 Duo)
2 GIG DDR 667MHZ
160 GB 5400rpm Hard Drive
Vista Premium Edition
Built in Wireless
256Mb GeForce 8600M GT Video Card
DVDRW
17" True-Life Screen (1920 x 1200)
2MP Web Cam
Bluetooth
Apple Core 2 Duo (about 12 months old)
Intel Core Duo 2.16GHz
2 GB @667MHz DDR2
17 inch (1680x1080)
120GB 5400rpm
ATI Mobility RAdeon X1600 with 256 MB of GDDR3 SDRam
built in sight camera, superdrive, 1 firewire 400&800, 3USB 2.0, express card
Mac OS 10.4.9
Wireless & Bluetooth
Dell Precision M90 (New 1 yr warranty)
Core 2 Duo T7200 2.0GHz 4MB L2 CACHE 667MHz FSB
2048MB DDR2 SDRAM 667MHZ
60GB 7200RPM HARD DRIVE
256MB QUADRO FX 1500M OPEN GL GRAPHICS
8 X DVD +/- RW
17.0" WIDESCREEN WUXGA (1920 x 1200)
MICROSOFT WINDOWS XP PROFESSIONAL SP2 With Backup CDs
Intel Wireless 3945 Enabled
DELL 350 Bluetooth Enabled
Rock Extreme CTX PRO (2.5 yr warranty left)
Intel CORE 2 DUO 2.0 GHZ
2GB 677 mhz Ram
100 Gig 7200 RPM hard drive
17 inch 1920x1200 Widescreen
Nvidia Gforce 7950 GTX 512mb video memory
Dual Layer CD/DVD Drive
7.1 surround sound output
wireless
bluetooth
windows XP media centre
Im would love the macbook pro cause...well it looks awesome but i think the inspiron 1720 is the best one to go with.
Any one got any other advice?
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