Which laptop? Not too powerful needed

samat2001 · 17 Jul 2006 at 21:33

Hi guys

I'm in the market for a laptop - don't have a budget per se, but don't want to spend a lot of money. Basically it needs to have the basic functions of a normal laptop but needs to be able to connect to internet wirelessly, have at least 512mb ram (preferably 1gig though). As far as games...I don't want it to play the best games but some of the older ones, like RA2, Starcraft, HL etc...games from 'that' generation. Any suggestions?

fenderbass86 · 17 Jul 2006 at 21:37

Dell Inspiron 6400 Intel Core Solo T1350 - XP Home

For £528.69 it has 1GB RAM and a wireless LAN.

samat2001 · 17 Jul 2006 at 23:53

Thanks for the suggestion but I've checked the dell site, and that model is more than that price if you add the extra ram (unless theres a discount code somewhere lol)

Any more suggestions please?

TheVoice · 18 Jul 2006 at 00:29

That 6400 is here mate:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Dell_Notebooks.html

xirokx · 18 Jul 2006 at 02:18

why dont they put decent gfx cards in laptops and offer them at half decent prices?

samat2001 · 18 Jul 2006 at 09:12

That laptop looks pretty good for the price to be honest. It's hard to tell how good a graphics card is for a laptop though - what would this be the equivilent of? (In desktop terms, I mean).

FTM · 18 Jul 2006 at 09:16

acer 5622 1 gig ram, intel core duo 1.66, 80 gig HD, wireless,DVD RW 15.4 widescreen and a radeon x1300 with 128mb dedicated ram - not the fastest in the world but not bad for a cheap laptop and better than part of the chipset...runs far cry nicely in widescreen 1280x800

599.99

TheVoice · 18 Jul 2006 at 10:23

xirokx said:
why dont they put decent gfx cards in laptops and offer them at half decent prices?

It'd drive up the price. Just as it would with a PC, really.

samat2001 · 18 Jul 2006 at 16:28

FTM said:
acer 5622 1 gig ram, intel core duo 1.66, 80 gig HD, wireless,DVD RW 15.4 widescreen and a radeon x1300 with 128mb dedicated ram - not the fastest in the world but not bad for a cheap laptop and better than part of the chipset...runs far cry nicely in widescreen 1280x800

599.99

Sounds pretty good for the price. How is the graphics card on this?

FTM · 18 Jul 2006 at 16:35

it plays far cry at 1280x800 no problem...

I play H&D2 on it as well but not tried anything newer on it

its not much by desktop standards..but by £600 quid laptop standards its much better than a chipset only solution plus its has its own vram and is not shared...though you can allocate extra memory to it if you want to
you can get x1400's and x1600's but you are then moving up to substantially more expensive laptops