Sub-£350 powerful laptops discussion

spud17

leosayer39 wrote: »

Heres a thought...
Where has Donnie gone?
He / she used to post all the time on this thread...not now though

Bit of a kerfuffle a few weeks back with Busenbust, resulted in them both being banned.
Donnie came back using various aliases, but kept getting grassed up by someone else, who then also got banned.

Do keep up at the back!

leosayer39

spud17 wrote: »

Bit of a kerfuffle a few weeks back with Busenbust, resulted in them both being banned.
Donnie came back using various aliases, but kept getting grassed up by someone else, who then also got banned.

Do keep up at the back!

Noooooo
Crikey...didnt know that!
He knew his stuff tho...

stefano

My daughter would like a laptop forher imminent birthday, and I was looking at this: http://www.comet.co.uk/p/Laptops/buy-HP-G72-102-Laptop/622869
Does anyone have any feedback on this?

Knarf44

Assuming your daughter will only be doing stuff like emails, facebook, internet browsing etc it'll do. It will play games but only on low to medium settings. Battery life won't be fantastic.

stefano

Knarf44 wrote: »

Assuming your daughter will only be doing stuff like emails, facebook, internet browsing etc it'll do. It will play games but only on low to medium settings. Battery life won't be fantastic.

And which laptop will allow high settings gaming and decent battery life?

Knarf44

stefano wrote: »

And which laptop will allow high settings gaming and decent battery life?

Since you asked:

Asus X64JQ

Battery life 2- 3 hours with power management.

Note the price. Not exactly a budget laptop. Laptops and quality gaming don't go together, desktops are much better suited to playing games. Yes there are some medium priced (£500-700) laptops with decent dedicated graphics that will play many games but not at the £350-400 level. Most laptops at that level are fairly basic specs designed to do general internet stuff and office work. Most are of similar spec and performance so it's mainly in my opinion a matter of what brand you prefer and at what price. Reliability wise, Toshiba and Asus are regarded as the ones to go for first followed by Dell and Acer.

Hope this helps.

stefano

Knarf44 wrote: »

Since you asked:

Asus X64JQ

I appreciate your help, but that is a little out of my pricing range. She's only 12yo.

Knarf44

No problem. Have you looked back through this thread as there have been a number of laptops suggested within the £350 limit this thread suggests?

Here's some I would suggest from Argos's current range: Toshiba L500

Samsung R530

Toshiba L450

Acer 5732Z

Most of these are currently out of stock at Argos but if you use Google shopping I'm sure other retailers will have them.

stefano

Knarf44 wrote: »

No problem. Have you looked back through this thread as there have been a number of laptops suggested within the £350 limit this thread suggests?

Here's some I would suggest from Argos's current range: Toshiba L500

Samsung R530

Toshiba L450

Acer 5732Z

Most of these are currently out of stock at Argos but if you use Google shopping I'm sure other retailers will have them.

Thanks, I thought about sifting through old posts, but there are thousands of them, and I appreciate your replies.
But the first 3 choices seems to sport an Intel Celeron processor, which I thought it was the Reliant Robin of processors. Or have they stepped up in quality and speed?

Knarf44

You're right the Celeron used to be poorly regarded but since they went Dual Core with the T series they now give some respectable benchmark scores including out performing some of the Core 2 Duo cpus that people used to hanker after. For example the benchmark for the Celeron T3300 which the Samsung I listed has, is 1,429. The T3100 which the Tosh L450 has is 1,262.

These are respectable marks which you can compare further here.

So, in terms of performance the Samsung has the best cpu followed by Acer then the Tosh L450 and Tosh L500.

As I said before all would be more than capable of performing everyday internet tasks including some of the latest games on low to medium settings.