Help deciding on a laptop.

[Concept]

I've been looking for a while now for a laptop for school in the near future. I have around $500 to spend, and I'm looking to get one capable of running WoW and other lower end games comfortably. I plan on getting a refurbished one to save money.

I have these two computers in mind at this moment:

Gateway T-1625 Refurbished Notebook PC - AMD Turion™ 64 X2 Dual-Core Mobile TL-60 2.0GHz, 802.11g Wireless, 2GB DDR2, 250GB HDD, DL DVDRW, 14.1" WXGA, Webcam, Windows Vista Home Premium RB-T1625 at TigerDirect.com

and

System Specification

The x1270 graphics appears to be about the best I can get for my price range. I understand that it should outperform the Intel x3100 (which seems to be in most of the laptops in my price range) by a little bit. If anyone has a better idea for me, I'm all ears. I'd be willing to sacrifice something such as hard drive space for better video, but I'm not finding much else.

Thanks.

 

[sabashuali]

Hi

You'll be pushed to find anything with these specs for this price.
I was looking for refurbed XPS laptops and for this price all I found was laptops with lower specs.

I am no expert on laptops so my concerns with this product:
CPU - never worked with one, have no idea how it performs.
Screen - 14" is very small in any context.
Make - very popular in the UK a while back. These days - nowhere to be found. Not sure if this is an indication that the they gave up on the UK market or vice versa. ;)
OS - blah..... :D
No firewire?

What I do like:
Optical Drive
HDD size
HDMI output
(if I understood correctly) Built in card reader
Overall value for money

My Bottom line - if you are happy to spend $500, as I said before, I do not think you would find better for the price.

Check warranty carefully! Good Luck! Good find!

 

[Concept]

Hi

You'll be pushed to find anything with these specs for this price.
I was looking for refurbed XPS laptops and for this price all I found was laptops with lower specs.

I am no expert on laptops so my concerns with this product:
CPU - never worked with one, have no idea how it performs.
Screen - 14" is very small in any context.
Make - very popular in the UK a while back. These days - nowhere to be found. Not sure if this is an indication that the they gave up on the UK market or vice versa. ;)
OS - blah..... :D
No firewire?

What I do like:
Optical Drive
HDD size
HDMI output
(if I understood correctly) Built in card reader
Overall value for money

My Bottom line - if you are happy to spend $500, as I said before, I do not think you would find better for the price.

Check warranty carefully! Good Luck! Good find!

I ended up with the gateway.

250gb hdd
2.0ghz dual core
2gb ram
x1270 graphics
HDMI port

all for $499.99. I'm happy with what I get.

Thanks for the reply.