Laptop Advice

deltaforce111

Hello people, im buying my first laptop and thinking about purching a Dell Inspiron 1720. I am not entirely sure about the reliability of Dell's as i dont know much about them and the specs i would need. I play games regulary (mainly older spec ones) but would mainly be using it for the internet and films. Anywho these were the specs i was thinking of going with, coming to a cost of £630 :

BASEIntel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T5850 (2.16 GHz, 667 MHz FSB, 2 MB L2 cache)
OPERATING SYSTEMGenuine Windows Vista® Home Premium SP1 - English
HARDWARE SUPPORT 1 Year Base Warranty
COLOUR CHOICESpring Green Colour with Microsatin Finish & 2.0mp camera
LCD17.0" Widescreen WXGA+ (1440x900) TFT Display with TrueLife™
MEMORY4096MB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM [2x2048]HARD DRIVE160GB (5400RPM) SATA Hard Drive
GRAPHICS CARDnVidia® GeForce™ Go 8600M GT with 256MB DDR2 dedicated graphic memory
OPTICAL DRIVEFixed Internal 8X DVD+/-RW Drive including Software
Primary 6-cell Lithium-Ion Battery (56 WHr)




Any advice is appriciated

[Deleted User]

If you're getting 4GB of RAM then you want to make sure that you're getting the 64bit version of Vista to ensure you use it to it's full potential.

What games are you playing btw?

deltaforce111

Well i was only getting 4GB of ram as i was told it would help vista run better but i will enquire about that. I am mainly play comand and conquer style games. Currently playing command and conquer 3 on a friends laptop that has similar specs and it seems to run ok.

totalsolutions

That should be fine even over the top in terms of speed. You will only have 3.2Gb availble for Vista 32bit, to use more you need 64bit and also 64bit software/programs.

Just try and check the game are supported by all the hardware and not run to fast!

deltaforce111

On some of the games i have looked at it says '(32-bit - 64-bit versions of Vista are not supported)' does this mean it would not run at all ?

Lokolo

C&C takes a LOT of ram up. I can't play C&C with Vista, Antivirus and that on 2GB....

From what I can remember C&C3 takes up about a gig of ram on its own....

Lokolo

deltaforce111 wrote: »

On some of the games i have looked at it says '(32-bit - 64-bit versions of Vista are not supported)' does this mean it would not run at all ?

Which games? Usually that means it won't work.

deltaforce111

it says that on command and conquer 3 according to play.com

Lokolo

Well I can play, but it does crash, but I thought that was because of memory...?

deltaforce111

the vista is 32Bit...

deltaforce111

any more opinions on weather this will run a game like command and conquer 3?