Hiya,
I'm going to uni in spetember and would like to take a laptop, rather than lugging a full desktop setup a few hundred miles there and back every semester. It also means that I can take it to lectures and get better notes etc.
Basicaly I am trying to figure out what laptop to get, I did originaly want an Asus one with a 17" screen, but realisticly thats too big and too costly. I'm into gaming and so would like a machine that is capable of playing Battlefield 2 decently (currently my pc runs it ok, but not very well so most laptops will probably be an improvment ). I'm not after something that will be far more powerful than my pc, but something that will be able to run games well and also be able to run demanding computer programs. I'm going to be doing a course in computing covering all aspects of it and so will most likely be running lots of different prgrams all of which would be fairly demanding. I will also be using it for videos/films/dvds, music.
I'm looking at spending ideally upto £1000 on one, but if it has to go slightly over then I'll have to go over, like £1200 max price, ideally staying as low as possible.
Ideally a 15" screen, wifi, bluetooth (not hugely important), ATi/Nvida graphics, 1GB ram (although if only 512mb I don't mind personally upgrading to 1GB/2GB). something like 1.5-2.0ghz cpu, dual core or single I don't know, not something I know much about. Ideally with a DVD±RW DL (so a dual layer writer).
Hoefully you guys here could be of some help, as there are loads of them out there, but it's hard to know what is good, especially when you've only really used PCs for many years.
The HDD size doesn't matter too much as I plan on getting an external 300GB SATA to USB2/Firewire HDD and can easily organise that. The speaker's sound quality also does't matter hugley as I will most likely be getting a speaker system and also some headphones.
I have been looking at Asus laptops and they seem really good, but don't know, I've also been pointed in the direction of Dell laptops, but am unsure as dell are a company I don't particuly like, but if it turns out they are going to be the best then fine, the problem I have with them is they make you 'build' the laptops and choose what you have in them, I just want a set spesification ideally....over to you guys.
Cheers,
FInalD