lappy advice

xirokx · 28 Apr 2009 at 19:44

Hey guys,

I am thinking of buying this machine:-

Asus X59GL-AP007C Laptop, Core 2 Duo T5800 2GHz 3GB RAM 250GB HDD, 15.4" TFT, DVD SM DL, 6 Cell Batt, nVIDIA GeForce 8200 Vista Home Premium

I believe the gpu shares the memory...

What do you think? is it worth it? I was going to add some more ram also, do you think that would be fine...

all advice would be appreciated

thanks

reflux · 28 Apr 2009 at 19:44

It looks like a decent spec to me, but it depends what you want to use it for really.

Smit · 28 Apr 2009 at 19:47

How much are you paying for it?

Spec wise it looks ok. What kind of resolution is the screen?

CK61938 · 28 Apr 2009 at 19:47

I have the exact same machine and I love it...wouldnt bother adding more RAM to be honest...cos I was looking into that too but then thought 3GB would be more than enough...I am using it now as we speak...I have had it about a couple of weeks now...and I am most pleased with it...it has wireless N which is damn fast...especially if u have a wireless N router with it which I do...and I can see the difference from having a wireless G...or even B lol...so yeah go for it

xirokx · 28 Apr 2009 at 19:53

its £400

CK - is the RAM shared for the GPU? do you use it for any adobe software i.e. photoshop - how does it perform? have you tried burning a dvd on it or recoding a film? if yes did it take ages? whats the battery life like?

I will use it for office work and surfing with the occasional game here or there but would like to find out on the above incase I need it for that...

if you wanted to upgrade the RAM could you? does it have tv out for svideo?

well its between one of these and the Dell Studio 15 that costs £100 more...

thanks so far for your comments,

CK61938 · 28 Apr 2009 at 19:59

xirokx said:
its £400

CK - is the RAM shared for the GPU? do you use it for any adobe software i.e. photoshop - how does it perform? have you tried burning a dvd on it or recoding a film? if yes did it take ages? whats the battery life like?

I will use it for office work and surfing with the occasional game here or there but would like to find out on the above incase I need it for that...

if you wanted to upgrade the RAM could you? does it have tv out for svideo?

well its between one of these and the Dell Studio 15 that costs £100 more...

thanks so far for your comments,

It has its own dedicated RAM of 256MB for the GPU.
I dont use it for burning DVDs or Adobe (I have a PC to do that instead). But with the spec of this laptop I can tell you now that it will have no problem using the likes of Photoshop. For burning DVDs well again depends on the size of the film and the disc itself like all things really otherwise I burnt a CD on it and it took like 20secs to burn a small file so not much to go on I guess.

It has a VGA and HDMI out port with 4 USB ports as well. I believe you could upgrade the RAM and I think it can go as high as 8GB. Trust me go with the ASUS. I say that cos my laptop before this one was also ASUS and I had that for 15mths and never had a problem with it either and that one I was using for video editing and such.

xirokx · 28 Apr 2009 at 20:06

oh so the RAM is not shared? the gpu has is own memory? wow thats not bad hey...

what type of games have you tried on it? like would it run COD WAW on low or medium settings etc?

Potential to upgrade to 8gb now thats not bad hey...

how long have you had it? is it heavy? is the battery life good?

CK61938 · 28 Apr 2009 at 20:10

xirokx said:
oh so the RAM is not shared? the gpu has is own memory? wow thats not bad hey...

what type of games have you tried on it? like would it run COD WAW on low or medium settings etc?

Potential to upgrade to 8gb now thats not bad hey...

how long have you had it? is it heavy? is the battery life good?

lol if u read my first post I said I have only had it for like 2 weeks...

I havent tried any games on it cos I have a PC that I use just to play games on already but I am sure it can handle the likes of COD WAW with no problems. Battery life is very good altho I havent tried it for long periods without the charger in and its rather light as well.

xirokx · 28 Apr 2009 at 20:13

thanks mate

reflux · 28 Apr 2009 at 20:13

I have a laptop with an 8600M GT and it struggles with games on Medium and Low settings @ 1280x800....or maybe more correctly, it runs them and they're playable, but not with a great frame rate. An 8200 is not going to do very well I don't think.