A Laptop for my son

chrisco_3

Id like to keep the price to around £400, but obviously the most important thing for me is to buy the right one. I dont want to get him one that wont play his games, cos this is definately a present that wont be put in a draw and not used!!!

Chris

photome

David_B wrote:

Well now is the right time (as well as january sales) because everybody is selling laptops. As advised above PCworld and most others (comet, curry's etc) are selling good spec's and I'm guessing good enough for your son's needs. I don't think you'll go far wrong by taking a visit for PCworld, comet and ask then to meet your spec and then play then off each other if you want a discount. Or of course by online with codes and cash back sites.

Most I've seen better your spec for about £350/450 and even less.

If you can find one with a better spec than above for £350, please share with us all and tell me where to buy it....I have been looking for a while and cannot find one better spec,d for that money

photome

Bumping this up to see if DavidB can let me know where i can get a laptop with those specs for £350

Mizz_Pink

Sweetchuck wrote:

It's the recommended 128MB graphics card which will send the price of this laptop soaring, I'm afraid. Good gaming laptops are hugely expensive, and unless you're prepared to spend £500+ it's unlikely you'll get one which could cope with the latest games.

If you gave us more of an idea about your likely budget, I'm sure we could come up with some decent recommendations.

We run a pc shop and we dont recommend leptops for people who game, they arnt designed for gaming.
A desktop/tower system woudl be much better. Laptops are the big thing for kids this xmas, I dont know why! They are difficult and costly to upgrade. However https://www.acernotebooks.co.uk and Tesco have the best deals at the moment.

mostly

what games does your son want to play? As other posters have said you'd need mucho dosh for a 'gaming' laptop

Mizz_Pink

mostly wrote:

what games does your son want to play? As other posters have said you'd need mucho dosh for a 'gaming' laptop

Hubby has made serious cash by having to upgrading peoples pc's so they can run Simms 2 !!

Mercenary

If it's for recent PC games it'll have to have a really good graphics (ATI or nVidia) card with a large amount of RAM to run them....and if it's for very recent popular big-time PC games, they will require that the graphics cards have T&L (Transform & Lighting) capability.

You'll also need to update to DirectX 9.0c if it comes with anything less.

Lappies aren't the best machine for games, though, unless it's Sudoku or something similar :rotfl: .

mikeperry

have any of you looked in Aldi recently, went in there today and it looks like there having a laptop in for £499.99. just wondered what you all think? the processor is a intel core solo though and i'm not sure what there like as i keep hearing about the intel core duo.
the laptop doesnt seam to be online though yet.
hope this helps
also they have a decent looking ipod nano type mp3 player 2gb for £49

mostly

i think you could find a better spec else where than that aldi one. To OP just found this sadly not duo unless you want to pay for it
My wifes managed to ween me off gaming (haven't told her theres a 360 on its way ) so I'm a bit out of touch with gfx standards at the mo.
You could also try the dell ebay outlet