Best price laptop with 2Ghz speed, 2 GB ram, and a dual processer?

craigblade

Does anyone know of any bargain laptops with a speed of 2GHZ and 2GB ram, and a dual processer?

thanks,
craig.

isofa

Have a look at the deals at https://www.dell.co.uk or this site which lists all the deals directly: http://www.dmxdimension.com/

Conor_3

Do you really need a 2GHz processor?

Amalea

Conor wrote: »

Do you really need a 2GHz processor?

I'll second that, why do you need 2Ghz? Especially in a laptop processors GHz is not the only important part when it comes to speed and performance.

banger9365

yes before you say any thing pc world do a philips for £550 that meets that spec put what i have seen is when you get in to the 2ghz + range prices go up a lot

baby_bronagh

if you go for a dell one don't forget quidco!!

craigblade

Hi,
Thanks for your replies. The laptop I currently have (which is now broke!!) is a 1.5Ghz, 256MB ram, 40GB hard drive Intel Pentium II laptop. This is exceedingly slow though, and I only have 25GB of programs on. Seen as it's broke, I need to get a new one, and I want a fast one. I use photoshop a lot, and on my old laptop it took ages to load files, etc, whereas on my desktop it would take a fraction of a second. I therefore thought that a 2GB, 2GHZ laptop would be good to get. Tell you truth, if it's a little below 2GHZ it would probably be ok, say 1.7-1.8.

I don't know much about processors, only that Intel are supposed to be quicker than AMD and have a better battery life.

Anyway, if anyone knows of a laptop with (around) 2GHZ speed and 2GB memory I would really appreciate it if you could tell me. I have looked on dell and a few on there have caught my eye. If anyone knows of any others then please let me know....

cheers,
craig.

Conor_3

It's exceedingly slow because it's only got 256MB RAM which is the main reason. Windows XP wants at least 512MB to be reasonably usable. Any less and the hard drive is thrashing its guts out paging RAM to disk which also results in slow loading times etc.

Amalea

Aye its not the processor purely at fault in that system, its the overall system. Its old and showing it. Stop looking at purely GHz-some laptop ones have lower as they need to keep heat down and have a longer battery life.

mjr600

Laptop memory is really cheap at the moment, before spending £300 plus give your old laptop 1gig of memory and reinstall windows. £30 tops for the memory, windows should be free.

You will be amazed at the difference these two simple steps make.

flokie

With Dual Core CPUs, their frequency doesn't matter quite as much. Ebuyer have several laptops with Intel Core Duos and 2GB of RAM for under £500.

256MB RAM is definitely not enough for XP + several apps running if you want decent performance.
The other thing that can be a bottleneck is the hard drive. Most laptops a few years back came with 4200 rpm IDE drives. If you get a new laptop, make sure it has a SATA drive, 5400 rpm at least. (Only really cheap laptops should still have 4200 rpm drives so that shouldn't be a problem)