£749 new gaming laptop!

Hello!

Yup, I know, absouletly nothing for a "gaming laptop", but I'm skint and just want something to play games like Battlefield 2 - hopefully at meduim resolution!!

I've looked around and found a HP on comet I like, but a few days ago they decided not to sell it anymore :shocked2: :lol: They have this acer on there, that has a good spec, but I've got an acer now and the build quality is quite bad...

Anyways! Can you reccomend anything for me! I don't know many retailers and don't know what to look for :embarrassed:

Cheers very much!

HP have an ebay shop seling refurbs at http://stores.ebay.co.uk/HP-Renew-Shop-UK [no ebay affiliates link?] if you are still interested they may have the one no longer in sale

The Acer's going to be USELESS. X1300 is NOT a gaming graphics chipset, and it's using the system's RAM. BF2 will demand a gig of RAM at least, and you will need a decent graphics chipset. £749 is way too tight a budget for a gaming laptop. Fujitsu Siemens do some good stuff; THIS has an X700 with 128MB of dedicated graphics memory, which might help.

Have you considered assembling a loptop from a barebones, ebuyer have
http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/104687
which is a case DVD drive x700 128mb for £409, you could kit it out for about £750, not brilliant specs though but passable

talking about medium resolution is rather pointless. with laptops you just run the game ath the screens native respoluton. id look for a laptop with a 7600 built in. should do you fine if its s a 1280 800 or 1024 768 display. (using a ati 9700 mobility at the mo, and plays NFS:U2 fine with everything on high @ 1024x768)

Try checking the Dell outlet, i'd say thats probably your best bet, besides ebay for picking up a laptop bargain. It can be found here Theres a decent one with 1gig ram and a 6800 Go for 775, just search for sub 1k notebooks and look for something with a semi-decent graphics chip, like the 7600 as MadduckUK suggested, or the 6800.

Cheers,
Steve B

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Originally Posted by MadduckUK

talking about medium resolution is rather pointless. with laptops you just run the game ath the screens native respoluton.

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You don't have to. If the game is struggling at the native resolution (1280x800 or whatever it may be), it's perfectly OK to reduce it to something like 800x600.

i dont recommend gaming laptops... sometimes the cards dont come come fully equiped like the desktop versions...

greetings