Where to get best value gaming laptop?

Quigs Snr

Heres the catch, my top end is 1500 Euro. New or secondhand

I want something with a 6800 Go or better minimum, where would I even start looking ? Dells with that spec are all over the 2K mark.

lifebook

Hey there

My friend works for Fujitsu-Siemens Ireland and he is getting me a M3438G

Specs are

1.6GHz P-M Dothan
512MB RAM
80GB Hard Disk
6800 GO 256MB edition
DVD RW DL 8x
17" screen
plus all the other usual bells and whistles.

And all for the nice price of 1250

They are 16 day returns, only thing is that they have 6 months warranty

If there is interest in this I MIGHT be able to get one maybe 2 more.

Plus we wouldnt be paying any VAT, with the VAT they would have been over 1500.

Great Deal, WHat ya think ?

TempestSabre

Quigs Snr wrote:

Heres the catch, my top end is 1500 Euro. New or secondhand

I want something with a 6800 Go or better minimum, where would I even start looking ? Dells with that spec are all over the 2K mark.

Buy a Shuttle and a TFT screen. Better value, faster, and you'll be able to upgrade it. Get a lan tote bag and you can move it where you want.

LastIrishMonkey

see the 1s on alienware.com omg

Bert Fever

I've got a Inspiron 9300 with following specs for sale if you are interested...

2.0 Ghz Pentium M
1Gb DDR2 4200
Geforce 6800 Go w/ 256Mb
Intel 802.11G/B Wifi
Truemobile 350 Bluetooth
80Gb (5400RPM) HardDisk
17" TFT WXGA
8X Dual Layer DVD±RW Drive
WinXP Home
Battery is very good

lifebook

nice machine

how much u want for that out of interest

KamiKazi

hewlett packard laptops appear to be reasonable

Bert Fever

lifebook wrote:

nice machine

how much u want for that out of interest

looking for €1500 or there abouts

savemejebus

check out the dell outlet for a inspiron 9400 with 256mb 7800go and dual core processor for about €1200

Bert Fever

savemejebus wrote:

check out the dell outlet for a inspiron 9400 with 256mb 7800go and dual core processor for about €1200

yep, before vat.

savemejebus

was looking at one this morning which incl vat and incl €79 discount came to €1245

tq

just seen the following dell 9400 for €1489 inc vat on the dell outlet store
Inspiron 9400 Duo Processor 1.83 GHz
1024MB
80GB (7, 200 rpm) SATA Hard Drive
256MB NVIDIA GeForce7800 Go

Quigs Snr

Yeah saw that and it was gone before I could type in my card number. Does this kind of deal come up often ?

savemejebus

have seen them every couple of days for the past 2 weeks

wingnut

Got one a couple of weeks back:
9400, 1.83 core duo, 1 GB ram, 256 7800 geforce go, Media Center w/remote, Bluetooth, 3 year warranty, XPS backpack.

€1471 inc vat. Was intending to buy Acer but couldnt pass this one up.

Asok

It seems dell have switched to the X1400 for the new 9400's

wingnut

I believe that is temporary due to short supply of the 7800s. You'll have to hang tight and wait for them to come back as they are much better than the X1400

Asok

aye thats what im planning on. there is no way im going to fork out that much for something with a x1400 in it

Duggy747

LIDL or ALDI have great laptops. I bought mine back in October for €1399 and it's still pretty top-notch in the market.

Medion-made laptop:
1.73 GHz Intel Centrino
2 Mb Cache
1 GB RAM
ATI Radeon X700 XL (Plays Doom 3, F.E.A.R, Battlefield 2 at unbelievable quality!)
100 GB Hard Drive
17" Wide Screen
Wi-FI
Bluetooth
5.1 Dolby jack at the back of the laptop
8x DVD Dual layer burner
3 1/2 hours battery (no game drains it's battery)
Great sound from the two tiny speakers (I really mean great sound!)
Finger print sensor which you can log in and lock folders with (Sorta useless but fun to show off)
Media Center w/ remote
3 year warantee
TV Out
TV In (Tv Tuner Card came with it)

And to top it off the touchpad lights up with all sorts of functions for opening programs and tons of other crap.

Alone it's an unbelievable gaming machine, bought from the usually overlooked LIDL and ALDI stores. I use it for my networking course and it's a goddamn dream to work with. I'd give it another month or so when they'll advertise another monster.

Quigs Snr

Sooo, anyway. Just saw what I thought was a bargain on the Dell Outlet and decided to go for it. Rush of blood to the head and all that. Feeling slightly guilty now.

Anyhoo, perhaps someone can ease my mind and tell me if I actually did get a good deal, here it is.....

Dell Inspiron 9400, Dual Core 2400 (1.86) CPU, 2GB Ram, Geforce 7800 Go, 80GB (5400 sadly) Hard Drive, DVD Burner etc.... €1390 for the lot (that was including VAT, delivery and all that stuff). Bargain? About Right? Bad deal ?

nl

yep you've gotten youself a damn good deal there mate!! Out of interset what frequency is the ram 533 or 667MHz??

Quigs Snr

Its 667. Good to know that it seems to be a decent deal. Big desktop fan, never thought I would buy a gaming laptop

nl

I was the exact same. I never even considdered a laptop untill the 9400 came out. I go to college in Dublin and I come home to Dundalk at the weekend so it made sense. Thats what swung it for me.
Its a beast of a machine and especially with the Core Duo and the 2GB of ram you will notice a massive performance increase. Also with the 2GB of ram you will not need any paging file (virtual memory) so make sure you turn that off. Switching between a game and windows is very fast with this setup.

Quigs Snr

Thanks for the tip, I am hoping that the WUXGA screen is standard, all it says is 17", doesn't mention anything else. I guess it will be a bonus if it is.

Do you have your gfx overclocked ?

nl

Yea the WUXGA is a very nice screen if you do get it. You will be able to play alot of games at the max resolution of 1920x1200 which looks really nice.

In terms of the 7800 Go I have it set to 370MHz core and 870MHz memory. This gets me 5850 points in 3dmark05.
Iv also seen that you can flash the bios to increase the core voltage from between .1 and .3V. People are getting over 7000 in 3dmark05 with this flash. But I dont think ill be risking that any time soon!! Mabey in about a year or so when this machine is struggling with the new games id consider it.