Laptop Question

drich290195 · 28 Nov 2006 at 16:27

Buying a Laptop of my mate specs are as follows
P4 2.8ghz
1GB Ram
6oGB hard dricve
dvdrw

etc ,Paying £250 for it. Is that a good price and will i get good performance from the P4 processor as good as a desktop with it being a laptop :confused:

squiffy · 28 Nov 2006 at 16:32

P4 processor as good as a desktop with it being a laptop

No, a desktop PC of identical specs will be faster. 3.5" drives are much faster than 2.5" hard drives, most of the time the laptop HD is the bottleneck.

Just be aware of running times from the battery, faster P4 laptop CPU's do draw a lot of power, so battery life could be around 1 hour, and if it's old the battery is probably on it's way out. What display size and video card does it have? Make/model?

drich290195 · 28 Nov 2006 at 16:46

its a acer aspire 1600. Not sure of graphics but screen is 15inch. I will be using it as a desktop anyhow on mains all the time with minitor and keyboard of sesktop will it be a good replacement for my sempron 1.3mhz with 512 Ram as long as its faster i will be happy.

WJA96 · 1 Dec 2006 at 06:27

I have to agree with Squiffy - on this one I'd say he's spot on. A proper desktop would be significantly quicker and for £250 you could get quite a decent secondhand desktop.

If you're only going to be using it on a desk, then the ergonomics will also be be very poor. OcUK will sell you a complete Athlon 3500 system for £235. OK- the OS is another £60, but that machine will be a MUCH better all-rounder than the laptop spec. you are suggesting. It will also be upgradeable for games later on.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-037-OK