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    £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 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

    Cheers very much!

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    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

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    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.

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    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

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    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)

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MadduckUK
    talking about medium resolution is rather pointless. with laptops you just run the game ath the screens native respoluton.
    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.

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

    greetings

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