Upgrade existing laptop or get a new one?

[RichieLee]

I was just wondering, whether there'd be any point in upgrading an existing laptop or just screw it and buy a new one? I've got a hp laptop that's about 3yrs old maybe and it cant run any games and cant run photoshop. I've got a desktop set up which can but I'm not home all the time so I'd like to have a laptop that can run the occasional game of Dawn of War as that's all I play at the moment and also CS3 for my uni work. Any suggestions would be great, I'll update with my current laptop specs later as I dont have the details with me right now.

Cheers

Rich

[staffsMike]

The only easy upgrades are RAM and HDD usually. Other than that you are fairly limited.

I would sell it off and get a new one.

What sort of budget? For about £400 the dell studio 15 is pretty awesome.

Dual core (various flavours), 2GB RAM, 250GB HDD, dedicated HD3450 graphics and a nice screen

[RichieLee]

Thanks Mike that sounds about right £400 would be pretty sweet. All those dell laptops seem to come with Vista, I rather have XP myself, I wonder if they do one with xp. Oh yeah my computer is the nx6125 by the way if that helps.

The dell looks promising I'll have to look into it, although I did think about getting a mac this time round I still quite like the pc ways of doing things, it also lets me play the odd game

[staffsMike]

I hated vista on my laptop until this week. I did a frest install with SP1 and dear lord does it make a difference. Everything works now!!! It's stupidly quicker now, easily matching or bettering XP which is hasn't done until now.. whatever anyone wanted to believe.. you wern't using my laptop lol.

Dead pleased with vista now actually