What make of laptop to buy?

ziedth

Hey all,

I'm juat looking for a little help in purchasing a laptop, in a nutshell i'm selling my desktop for a laptop due to space issues as i just moved in with my gf, anyway for a budget of around 1k pushing a little over what would you reccomend as the best laptop to buy? it will mainly be used for surfing/college/downloading, not 2 interested in gaming as i own a 360 but would still like one that could run games faily well,

Thanks for any help in advance.

Matt

echoindia756

Ok, I recommend a Dell Inspiron 1520, that will play games. Although it won't play games like Half Life 2 and Battlefield 2142 that well. Other than that, it will run all 2D applications nicely and perform very well in general. The total cost is €999

You could also buy a Dell Vostro, but these are not built for gaming - at all. These are purely for business work and business work only tbh

Linoge

echoindia756 wrote:

Ok, I recommend a Dell Inspiron 1520, that will play games. Although it won't play games like Half Life 2 and Battlefield 2142 that well. Other than that, it will run all 2D applications nicely and perform very well in general. The total cost is €999

You could also buy a Dell Vostro, but these are not built for gaming - at all. These are purely for business work and business work only tbh

How can you have 2 laptops with the same components and say that one is for gaming and one is "purely for business work and business work only"?? Is there someone looking over your shoulder to check what you are doing on it? Last time I checked, the graphics card decided what games could be played, not the branding that Dell places on it...

Complete bollox.

I would recommend a vostro as they are hands down much cheaper than the inspiron. Bit of a wait time though. Approx 2 weeks.

If you want to hook your laptop to your xbox (media streaming) you will have to get either Vista Home Premium or Ultimate (Ultimate is an optional upgrade on the votros.

TBH, if its not going to be used for gaming your budget is prob way too high. E600 would get you a very decent comp. Put the 400 towards upgrading in 18 months time if your needs outgrow the machine.

echoindia756

Linoge wrote:

How can you have 2 laptops with the same components and say that one is for gaming and one is "purely for business work and business work only"?? Is there someone looking over your shoulder to check what you are doing on it? Last time I checked, the graphics card decided what games could be played, not the branding that Dell places on it...

Complete bollox.

I would recommend a vostro as they are hands down much cheaper than the inspiron. Bit of a wait time though. Approx 2 weeks.

If you want to hook your laptop to your xbox (media streaming) you will have to get either Vista Home Premium or Ultimate (Ultimate is an optional upgrade on the votros.

TBH, if its not going to be used for gaming your budget is prob way too high. E600 would get you a very decent comp. Put the 400 towards upgrading in 18 months time if your needs outgrow the machine.

How do you know what vostro I was talking about?, I could have been talking about the Vostro 1000 worth €349, which, by the way, IS, like I said, purely for business work and business work only.

Linoge

echoindia756 wrote:

How do you know what vostro I was talking about?, I could have been talking about the Vostro 1000 worth €349, which, by the way, IS, like I said, purely for business work and business work only.

lol, ok:D

Johnny Bitte

If your replacing your pc I can highly recommend this laptop
HP dv9565ea
Just got one myself and think its great.
Loads of feature and sturdy as hell.

Heavy tho so dont traveling around europe with it

ziedth

thank for your help lads,

On another note, are toshiba's supposed to be any good if ya google for reviews they seem to very spread, the dell vostro your on about does seem to be a winner in my eyes.

Thanks again.

Mr.Plough

echoindia756 wrote:

How do you know what vostro I was talking about?, I could have been talking about the Vostro 1000 worth €349, which, by the way, IS, like I said, purely for business work and business work only.

thinking of buying one of these. would it be able to handle online poker just?

Tom Dunne

Mr.Plough wrote:

thinking of buying one of these. would it be able to handle online poker just?

It should. Just get as much memory as you can afford (2Gig would be ideal).

Linoge

tom dunne wrote:

It should. Just get as much memory as you can afford (2Gig would be ideal).

Its rediculous really. Vista takes up half a gig of memory. They shouldn't really even be selling vista machines with less than 2gigs:rolleyes:

Tom Dunne

Linoge wrote:

Its rediculous really. Vista takes up half a gig of memory.

That's why I use Ubuntu on my laptop.

Hespy

Linoge wrote:

How can you have 2 laptops with the same components and say that one is for gaming and one is "purely for business work and business work only"?? Is there someone looking over your shoulder to check what you are doing on it? Last time I checked, the graphics card decided what games could be played, not the branding that Dell places on it...

Complete bollox.

I would recommend a vostro as they are hands down much cheaper than the inspiron. Bit of a wait time though. Approx 2 weeks.

If you want to hook your laptop to your xbox (media streaming) you will have to get either Vista Home Premium or Ultimate (Ultimate is an optional upgrade on the votros.

TBH, if its not going to be used for gaming your budget is prob way too high. E600 would get you a very decent comp. Put the 400 towards upgrading in 18 months time if your needs outgrow the machine.

When you describe someone elses contribution as "Complete bollox", make sure you don't talk "Complete bollox" urself 2 paragraphs later. Advising people to fork out cash for an operating system upgrade when free software like Orb can stream media just as well is nothing short of, what is it, "Complete bollox".

Linoge

Hespy wrote:

When you describe someone elses contribution as "Complete bollox", make sure you don't talk "Complete bollox" urself 2 paragraphs later. Advising people to fork out cash for an operating system upgrade when free software like Orb can stream media just as well is nothing short of, what is it, "Complete bollox".

Agreed, thats why Linux is used on 90% of all systems

Hespy

Linoge wrote:

Agreed, thats why Linux is used on 90% of all systems

At the other side of my office wall is a room full of linux servers, none of which have crashed for as long as i can remember. And nothing beats a linux envoirnment for coding. But aside from using 3rd party progs like Wine, VMWare etc. the fact remains that Windows is on 90% of all systems because of the software it runs and Microsofts very large advertising budget.
But that is completely off the point. Orb runs on Windows, does everything useful that MCE does, and installing it on ur computer won't prevent u from running commercial software. So u can have an operating system like XP Pro, which is far more stable and far less resource hogging that Vista, runs all the programs u've paid for and have experience in, and still stream to ur XBox 360.

Tom Dunne

Ladies, take your Windows vs. Linux debate elsewhere.

TerrorFirmer

echoindia756 wrote:

How do you know what vostro I was talking about?, I could have been talking about the Vostro 1000 worth €349, which, by the way, IS, like I said, purely for business work and business work only.

Actually even that one is pretty good for Half Life 2 and Counter Strike Source.