Which Will Be Quicker?

Biz.Kid09 · 9 Nov 2009 at 16:41

Hi,
I have recently enquired to the price of a dell vostro 1720 and was ready to buy it until i noticed OCUK do laptops also found a few others, The dell vostro and the TOSHIBA Satellite A500-17X and the Acer Aspire 5739G is what i am looking at, The prices are: Toshiba is 600 inc vat and the dell is £600 inc vat and the acer is £582 exc vat.
The specs of the dell are:
2.5 Core 2 Duo
4gb DDR2
320gb 7200rpm
17'' LCD
512mb 9600m GS
Windows 7 Professional

The Toshiba's Satellite A500-17X specs are
Processor Intel® Core?2 Duo Mobile Processor P7450
- 2.13 GHz
- 1066 MHz FSB
- 3 MB L2 Cache
Operating System Windows® 7 Home Premium 64-bit
RAM 4 GB
Graphics card NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 230M
Screen type Widescreen LCD
Screen size 16"
Hard drive 500GB

Acer Aspire 5739G
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T6500 2.10GHz 2MB Cache (800MHz FSB)
- Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GT 130M 1024MB
- Memory: 4GB DDR3 RAM
- Hard Drive: 500GB SATA (5400RPM)
- Optical Drive: Blu-Ray
- Screen: 15.6" WXGA CineCrystal LED LCD Widescreen (1366x768)

Which will be faster in games like COD 4 and MW2 and also general office use like office 2007 e.t.c,

manbearpig · 9 Nov 2009 at 17:32

the acer looks like a better deal, i think they will both perform about the same in games but the acer has additional features like ddr3 ram instead of ddr2 and a blu ray drive and a bigger hard drive

Biz.Kid09 · 9 Nov 2009 at 17:35

I have now changed it to the toshiba what you reckon to that, or do you still say acer.

nutsnut · 9 Nov 2009 at 17:39

Don't you think it would have been useful to leave in the Spec of the Acer so people could compare the specs?

Out of the two, I would go with the Tosh, There build quality is much better.

Is a desktop out of the question?

Biz.Kid09 · 9 Nov 2009 at 17:43

Sorry will put the acer back :/, Ok so out of the three go Tosh? Well it is and it isnt i would prefer laptop and a desktop is kinda pointless as i only wanna play cod 4 against friends who refuse to go 'Console' lol and the rest of my gaming is done via ps3.

Biz.Kid09 · 9 Nov 2009 at 18:45

Has anyone got any other thoughts before i order one of them?

manbearpig · 9 Nov 2009 at 22:28

im liking the look of the acer better

baroniuk · 9 Nov 2009 at 22:35

Well get ready to be beaten by all your mates on desktops as all those laptops will be rubbish at playing games.
If I had to pick one I would go with the acer.

nutsnut · 9 Nov 2009 at 23:25

If it for gaming, spend you £600 on a desktop, it will be a lot lot better.

Biz.Kid09 · 9 Nov 2009 at 23:31

Why the acer guys? Well I only wanna play cod so surely It won't be that bad.. Why will I get beat by my mates with a desktop?, Would you mind putting speccing me something? As small as possible so matx and smaller prefferably. I have a psu,hdd,DVD drive,OS,k board and mouse.

Biz.Kid09 · 10 Nov 2009 at 19:08

Anyone have any more thoughts?

Darkmatters · 10 Nov 2009 at 23:03

just looking at this for my daughter. The Acer looks good. Where it at for this price?

Biz.Kid09 · 11 Nov 2009 at 20:24

Its from Overclockers UK mate, Yeh the acer is good but i think i am going to go for the Toshiba as my dad has a similar one and it is nice build quality and has a nice keyboard also the gfx on the toshiba is better...
I am almost about to buy the Toshiba (2.1ghz Core 2 Duo,4gb DDR3,500gb 5400rpm,GT 230M) anyone think i shouldnt go for it?

Darkmatters · 11 Nov 2009 at 23:24

I've had a look around today and I think you are right to go for the Tosh but I aint an expert!!

Biz.Kid09 · 11 Nov 2009 at 23:33

I have done a bit of research also and the only brand I think that can rival toshiba is dell but they take roughly 2 weeks to arrive.

Greenfields · 13 Nov 2009 at 12:11

I have used the A500-17X for two weeks:

-- The price was £100 less on the Dixons website at first, but they have now reduced this different to £50.

-- The RAM is definitely DDR3 - which means that you can use the whole 4GB [because it uses Windows 7 home premium X64] in addition to the 1GB graphics card. Unfortunately, upgrading the RAM is not currently a realistic option because you would have to replace both sticks of 2GB SODIMM RAM with two 4GB sticks - and as far as I can see only Crucial supply them - at £426.00

-- There is almost no OEM software [which I think is a good thing]. Most are Toshiba utilities - some 64 bit and some 32 bit [i Think 32-bit apps run slower on 64-bit operating systems because they are run through an emulation layer.

-- Few software products are specifically written for 64 bit but almost every 32-bit app I have tried does work. The one exception [so far] is Sandboxie who explain why [and why it never will] on their website.

-- Access panels on back allow you to replace HDD and RAM without removing entrie back.

eSATA port [combined with one of the USB ports] very useful.

Comprehensive collection of drivers on Toshiba website [Search for A500 rather than precise model no - then you have to pick the right ones but thats not too hard]

Generally I am very pleased with the machine.

Only gripes:
-- Shiny case finish collects fingerprints which can be hard to remove when they oxidise.
-- I found that the DVD-RW, which is supposed to write to double-layer discs would not recognise Taio Yuden DL discs.