Sub £600 laptop challenge

chezzy79

Hi there,

I am not massively computer literate but i am after a laptop around £599 with some good power and a fairly good graphics card for games..

Only real stipulation is that it has to be Intel not AMD...

I'm not a massive games player but would be nice to know it plays the top games playable in 6 months time...

I know it won't play everything full resolution and quality..

Just need a bit of help and guidance really...

Thanks in advance guys

Thanks

Lee

rdpro

My main tip for graphics, go for ATi over Nvidia - I've fixed about 3 burnt out ATi graphics this year, and about a dozen Nvidia every week!

quick shufti at ebuyer, came up with this: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/199174

Decent components (although Acer support is pretty dire if anything goes wrong).

chezzy79

This is the best I have found so far....

Anyone better it ?

Samsung R580 15.6in Laptop

Item 508/3871 in Argos.co.uk

CPU and Memory:
Intel Core i3 350M.
2.26GHz processor speed.
3GB DDR3 RAM memory.
320GB SATA hard drive.

Display features:
15.6in display.
Resolution 1366 x 768 pixels.

DVD optical drives:
Dual layer.

Graphics:
Dedicated nVIDIA GeForce GT 310M graphics card with 512MB memory

DCodd

http://www.dabs.com/products/sony-vaio-eb1s0e-wi-ci3-330m-4gb-500gb-15-5--wxga-w7-h-prem-laptop-silver-with-matt-white-inside-6LJ2.html

Any good?

Never play games, but it has an ATI graphics card and an i3 processor, 4GB RAM, 500GB HD.

Battery not great though.

chezzy79

Any good?

Never play games, but it has an ATI graphics card and an i3 processor, 4GB RAM, 500GB HD.[/QUOTE]

Almost the same really... bigger HD, more RAM... slightly slower graphics and cpu though...

Probably about the same i guess....all in all..

swvillafan

Check out the 4th one along on this page from Dell (Dell Studio 15), £599, 4gb ram, same cpu as the samsung, 500gb hard disk, 1gb ati card, might be worth a look!

chezzy79

Can you believe it, that Dell Studio 15 doesn't have a dual layer DVD..

swvillafan

chezzy79 wrote: »

Can you believe it, that Dell Studio 15 doesn't have a dual layer DVD..

Hi there, its doesn't explicitly say it supports dual layer but if you click the question mark icon next to the optical drive section, a pop up appears and it says in there that you can use dual layer discs up to 8.5gb. Most if not all modern drives will do dual layer so I'd be very surprised if it didnt!

chezzy79

swvillafan wrote: »

Hi there, its doesn't explicitly say it supports dual layer but if you click the question mark icon next to the optical drive section, a pop up appears and it says in there that you can use dual layer discs up to 8.5gb. Most if not all modern drives will do dual layer so I'd be very surprised if it didnt!

Thats what i thought..... but i spoke to a technician on the live chat and she told me its single layer only...

But then that doesn't really say anything either lol

I would be suprised if it doesn't even read DL but i need to write DL

swvillafan

I'd give them a call. Even my 4 year old Advent will read & write dual layer discs!