Good laptop deal?

Neelie

Priced at £549 - for home use and some gaming (mainly Sims3 so not sure if the video card is good enough??)

Sorry - can't post links yet - it's the Toshiba Satellite A300-1RY

My current Toshiba is 7 years old and still going strong, hence the reason I would like another Toshiba. Unfortunately my current one has a 7 year old graphics card that can't be upgraded, plus I have stuffed the keyboard up after a couple of drink spills!

Any helpers gets a homebaked chocolate brownie

Edit to add - found this one for £499 - TOSHIBA Satellite L300-222 - both are on the Dixons website.....not sure which is better?

4743hudsonj

Neelie wrote: »

Priced at £549 - for home use and some gaming (mainly Sims3 so not sure if the video card is good enough??)

Sorry - can't post links yet - it's the Toshiba Satellite A300-1RY

My current Toshiba is 7 years old and still going strong, hence the reason I would like another Toshiba. Unfortunately my current one has a 7 year old graphics card that can't be upgraded, plus I have stuffed the keyboard up after a couple of drink spills!

Any helpers gets a homebaked chocolate brownie

yes it should be enough

sims 3 requires 2gb of ram on vista plus 0.5gb graphics memory(intergrated)

so yes you have the bare minimum really


but i think you can get more for your money elsewhere

its very mediocre for the budget

what other games do you want to play

and when do i get my brownie

4743hudsonj

4743hudsonj wrote: »

yes it should be enough

sims 3 requires 2gb of ram on vista plus 0.5gb graphics memory(intergrated)

so yes you have the bare minimum really


but i think you can get more for your money elsewhere

its very mediocre for the budget

what other games do you want to play

and when do i get my brownie

i had a look

http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/laptops_great_deals?c=uk&l=en&s=dhs&cid=HDLaptop&cs=ukdhs1&dgc=IR&lid=NHP_BB1

it has much better specs than the toshiba and a good graphics card with 512 dedicated

the one on the far right

Neelie

Lol - well you can have it recorded delivery once you give me a clue as to how much better I could find for my budget

Oh, and the only game would be the sims really - the rest will be used for photos, music surfing etc .... just the normal stuff! Thanks for your reply!

Neelie

I have heard horror stories about Dell - other that that I know nothing about them! Are they pretty reliable etc?

4743hudsonj

Neelie wrote: »

Lol - well you can have it recorded delivery once you give me a clue as to how much better I could find for my budget

Oh, and the only game would be the sims really - the rest will be used for photos, music surfing etc .... just the normal stuff! Thanks for your reply!

well my second example has a much better processor, more hdd memory

an extra gig of ram despite most of it being useless lol (unless you plan to use 64 bit...if you know what it is)

anyways lol

like i said the toshiba has integrated graphics, this means that in games etc it borrows and shares the ram of the system slowing both sides down

the dell has dedicated which means they keep their own memory and its much faster. The dell can run pretty much any modern game i should think. Also its free colour upgrade atm which means you can have the case whatever colour you want without buying!

4743hudsonj

Neelie wrote: »

I have heard horror stories about Dell - other that that I know nothing about them! Are they pretty reliable etc?

yes they are

i mean all brands have laptops that go wrong

its insane to think otherwise

but the reliable ones like dell, toshiba, sony and apple, when they do go wrong they do go very wrong, thats why you hear about them

but brands that go wrong all of the time and are crap seem to get missed and ignored

so yes dell is a very good make

good customer services too:)

Psychofly

Dell are not my favourite, I really dislike their desktop machines however their laptops are very good. Well worth looking at.

4743hudsonj

Psychofly wrote: »

Dell are not my favourite, I really dislike their desktop machines however their laptops are very good. Well worth looking at.

mine neither but for good price performance, reliability and good CS its a very good option

i only wish they didnt look like laptops from 4-5 years ago