Hi, I have approx £700 to buy a new laptop, I have seen the below HP (for £699)which looks kind of good but not sure about the GPU. Ive had a dell dimension for 2 years with 2gb of ram and a Galaxy 6600GT GPU which was great for all games butI have recentley moved into a smaller house and wanting to buy a laptop, and advice would be great. Processor type AMD Turion™ 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-56 Internal audio 3D Sound Blaster Pro compatible sound 16 bit integrated Speakers and microphone Altec Lansing® speakers Battery type 6-cell Lithium-Ion (Li-Ion) battery Cache Level 2 cache 512 KB + 512 KB Display resolution 1280 x 800 Display size 15.4" WXGA High Definition BrightView Widescreen Expansion slots One ExpressCard/54 slot (also supports ExpressCard/34) Video adapter, bus PCI Express® Hard disk controller SATA Hard Disk Drive Internal hard disk drive 120 GB Hard disk drive speed 5400 rpm Memory card device 5-in-1 integrated Digital Media Reader for Secure Digital cards, MultiMedia cards, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, or xD Picture cards Memory layout (2 x 1024 MB) Memory type DDR2 667 MHz Standard memory 2048 MB Power supply type 65 W AC Power Adapter Video adapter NVIDIA® GeForce™ Go 7200
It's not bad, but remember onboard graphics cards aren't nearly quite as powerful as its named equivalent in the world of standalone GPU's. Try and find one with a 7600 go. Also try and find one with its own RAM allocation rather than leeching off your regular RAM. The rest of the laptop is decent but if you're a gamer then definitely go for a better graphics card model. AMD all the way too, I've had a P3 and a P4 both die on me... Hope this helps in your decision, Mike
But at the moment, Intel Core 2 Duo latest processor from Intel has taken over the top place.. But those will not be cheap...
I think an Intel-based laptop would suit you better, AMD (while still good) just don't really compete with Intel at the minute. Just because someone's had 2 Intel-based CPU's die doesn't mean they're all bad. The new Core 2 Duo CPU's are based on a new archetecture and as such are more efficient and draw less power than previous generations. I really think that Intel is the way to go for your needs. For gaming the 7200 won't cut it, like stated above go with at least a 7600 or if you can an X1600 (from ATI) with some dedicated memory. Not only will that leave you with more RAM for games but the card may have faster video memory than your system memory meaning greater performance.
