Help on choosing a laptop

epz_2

imagia wrote: »

The integrated card would be fine for older games I think. New games would be too much for it. For example, Crysis.
Bear in mind that even with the 1720's graphics card you wouldn't be able to run new, high detail, heavy graphics games on it.

Nothing runs Crysis properly, EA made the developers ship it 5 weeks early so its basicly beta code unoptomized properly.

that and even 2k rock systems with new 8800 gpus can only really get upto 1080x780 playably.

that said its much preferable to have external graphics to integrated, a low end card with its own memory really does improve over integrated a lot.

imagia

epz wrote: »

that said its much preferable to have external graphics to integrated, a low end card with its own memory really does improve over integrated a lot.

Yes, though for the OP's purposes I don't think he's playing up-to-date titles, and not nearly enough to warrant the extra cost.

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Just buy the Dell. The spec for that price (£530) is very good. The graphics should be fine for most things. If in doubt just spend £40 more on the nVidia® GeForce™ Go 8600M GT with 256MB DDR2.

Spudnik_2

I spent too long dithering over the 1520 and the 1720, so missed the 10% off. Luckily, they've just launched another one that lasts until the 9th so I have a little bit longer to decide.

By the way, Spud's a she.

BMcN

Spudnik wrote: »

I spent too long dithering over the 1520 and the 1720, so missed the 10% off. Luckily, they've just launched another one that lasts until the 9th so I have a little bit longer to decide.

By the way, Spud's a she.

Whats the other one that lasts till the 9th?

epz_2

10% off if you spend over £599, luckly i also get a 15% works discount on top of that but im waiting for the penryn cpus and an 8800 gpu.

i really would advise the 8600gt upgrade, it really isnt that much more for genuinly double the perfomance,

Spudnik_2

You work for Dell?

XPS looks nice - very light - but more expensive.

epz_2

nah, my company is massive and buys a lot of it stuff so they negociate a volume discount and have it as an employee perk, i think we get special offers for apple etc as well.

the xps 1730 is good but about £300 too much, it puts it up agains stuff like the clevo c901 which you can customise the hell out of, 3 hard disk bays, quad cpus and 2 sli'ed 8800's. i dint really care about weight as it woulnt travel anywhere, hell i would even seriously consider the hp HDX 20.1" monster if they haddnt crippled the gpu by givng it a 8800gs rather than gtx in a £1500+ laptop !!!!!!

unfortunalty the only dealer who sells the c901 in this country is rock and they make you take stuff like hddvd drives so i would need to get a barebones system shiped over from the states.