Little laptop with reasonable gaming performance

fish99

fish99

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Hi,

Looking for something a bit smaller and lighter than my Vostro 1500, but with similar gaming capabilities (the vostro has C2D 2.4 GHz, 8600M GT 256MB, 3GB ram). It's not for the latest games, I have a nice desktop for that, I'm thinking more 3-5 yr old stuff like Civ4.

Only thing I've found so far is Samsung Q320 which has a 2GHz C2D and G 105M 256MB video, which are both fine, and at 2.2kg the weight is perfect. Depending on OS and hard drive size these seem to be anywhere from £475 (320GB Vista) to £575 (500GB Win7) which seems pretty reasonable for a very smart looking little laptop. It's not quite as small as I was hoping for though, just a few cm smaller all round, and the screen resolution is pretty low (1366*768. 16:9), 768 pixels is not a lot of vertical height for web browsing.

Anyone know of any alternatives that come in under £600? If there was a netbook that could run games I'd be interested but they all seem to have integrated video.
Cheers,
Simon.
 
fish99 said:
Hi,

Looking for something a bit smaller and lighter than my Vostro 1500, but with similar gaming capabilities (the vostro has C2D 2.4 GHz, 8600M GT 256MB, 3GB ram). It's not for the latest games, I have a nice desktop for that, I'm thinking more 3-5 yr old stuff like Civ4.

Only thing I've found so far is Samsung Q320 which has a 2GHz C2D and G 105M 256MB video, which are both fine, and at 2.2kg the weight is perfect. Depending on OS and hard drive size these seem to be anywhere from £475 (320GB Vista) to £575 (500GB Win7) which seems pretty reasonable for a very smart looking little laptop. It's not quite as small as I was hoping for though, just a few cm smaller all round, and the screen resolution is pretty low (1366*768. 16:9), 768 pixels is not a lot of vertical height for web browsing.

Anyone know of any alternatives that come in under £600? If there was a netbook that could run games I'd be interested but they all seem to have integrated video.


Cheers,
Simon.
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If you wait a little while the ION based next gen netbooks should run basic games (not sure about Civ 4 as I don't use it). They'll be pretty much the same as the Asrock 330 ION nettop that I'm using at the moment, if you can get someone to try out Civ 4 on one it should tell you if they'll be capable to run it.

Also the Asus N10JH sports an GeForce G105M for about £460.
 
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Dell Studio 15's with the Radeon 4570 are on the Dell Outlet for around £380 now. Bargain price, but i dunno if the 15.6" screen will be too big for you?

The 4570 will have way way better gaming performance than the G105.
 
Nymins said:
Dell Studio 15's with the Radeon 4570 are on the Dell Outlet for around £380 now. Bargain price, but i dunno if the 15.6" screen will be too big for you?

The 4570 will have way way better gaming performance than the G105.
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True, but the Studio 15's are huuuuggggeee compared with a "run of the mil" 10/11" netbook
 
It will be very hard finding something small that will run games decently. ION powered ones are your best bet since they are basically geforce 9400m's.
 
HP 311c (Ion) + 2 gig ram upgrade? That would run games that are not CPU intensive.

They are pretty easy to find now. My local Asda was stocking them (£325), although the OCuk price is hard to beat.
 
Cheers guys, that little HP ion netbook looks very nice, just not sure if I can live with another atom cpu, they're very frustrating (I have an EEE PC 1000H). Think I'm gonna go down the small laptop rather than big netbook route.

Basically I want bigger screen, higher res, better cpu and better graphics than my netbook, and lighter and smaller than my Vostro 1500.
 
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