What Laptop - sorry I know it's a common question!! Help appreciated

[rossyl]

My god finding a laptop is soo much harder than building a PC! Purely due to a lack of pure choice. Also there seems to be a huge diffrence in price of going for a VAIO or a non-brand with a similar spec. SO PURLEASE any info you can think of.

So here's what i'm after.

£500 budget

2Ghz CPU (unsure of core 2 duo vs AMD X2? please advise. Also is the core 2 duo extreme affordable?)

2 GB RAM expandable to 4GB (could buy with 1GB installed and by more seems a CHEAPER option??)

DVD-RW (poss blue ray?)

GFX - completely lost. But nothing with a shared memory (i don't need anything amazing I rarely ever play games - i haven't in TWO YEARS - but should something take my fancy it should be able to run it)

- decent sound card
- card reader
- wifi
- TV tuner - unsure but would be good.
- If poss remote.
all regular inputs.

PORTABLE - but 15" or 17" screen

USE:
DVD Burning
Web browsing
DIVX watching
MP3 Player
Microsoft Office


All help greatly appreciated, and let me know if more info from me is needed.

Thank you.

 

[melbourne720]

For £500 you really want to pick half those options, and forget about the blu ray drive completely at the moment.

I would start with something like a Dell Vostro 1500, you'll get a 7100 and a 8600 GT for that sort of money.

 

[rossyl]

Hey. Thanks for the reply!

so is that the best graphics and cpu combination i can get?

is there a lowdown of mobile graphics cards anywhere i could look at?

I've thought about getting 1gb of ram and updating it later.

what about acer and asus laptops?