looking for a £400 gaming / uni laptop

Adam448

Adam448

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For £400 i want a decent laptop to play new games on medium gaphics, i understand geforce and radeon are the best graphic cards but a lot of the laptops have different graphic cards i never heard of? Are there any other good ones i should be looking out for?

I guess processors should be core 2 duo T.... or AMD turion X2 dual core. 2 or 3gb memory, at least 200gb hard drive, decent battery life. Other than that i want a matt screen with no many reflections and a decent keyboard for typing.


Heres some i found
Asus X59GL-AP007C Intel Core 2 Duo T5800 2GHz 3GB RAM 250GB HDD, 15.4" TFT, DVD SM DL, 6 Cell Batt, nVIDIA GeForce 8200 Vista Home Premium £400

HP 6735s Laptop, AMD Turion X2 Dual Core RM-72 2.1Ghz, 4GB 800DDR2, 250GB 15.4" DVD RW LightScribe Writer, WLAN, Webcam, Bluetooth 2.0+, Onboard ATI Radeon HD3200 Windows Vista Home Premium, MSO rdy £400

Sony VAIO NR38S/S - Dual Core T5750 15.4" WXGA DVDRW 2Gb 250Gb nVidia GeForce 8400 GT VHP £400

I personally like the asus one best, shame i couldnt find any which come with XP instead of vista..

regards adam.
 
The best one out of them would be the sony. Has a bit of a better gfx card.

Although - I think you may be a bit disapointed. I am using one of the new aluminum macbooks with the 9400gt gfx card inside , and it would play command and conquer 3 good at low to medium settings. Left 4 Dead would play at low settings. CSS would play at relatively high settings.

But if you was to put for example COD 4 on it, it would die a painful death :(

My advice would be to save up a few more quid and go for something like a dell m1530 which has the 8600gt on it, lots of people rate that laptop and gets decent frame rates for most of the current games.

Hope this helps :)
 
A laptop with a GeForce 8600M GT or Radeon 3650 should be the minimum you're considering really. My laptop has an 8600M GT, which is enough to play modern games on low graphics @ 1280x800, so really you'll be very disappointed with anything less.

Considered a desktop instead? For £400 you could have a noticeably faster system.
 
i recommended a M1530 to a friend who had same requirements as you, needless to say hes enjoying his laptop at uni and i bet a few other things too. bad news it gonna be few extra £100.

uni just wasnt that cool in my day :(

p.s. he plays cod4,codwaw,left4dead just to let you know ;)
 
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