hi all guys.

it has been a while since my last post at those forums

I was wondering if you can help me to choose a new lappy.

well, when talking about buying a laptop , one of the first questions someone will ask is the max money you can put on it.

due some reasons, including I'm not working atm, and I will not get extra money until some months, 600€ is the MAX ammount of money I can put at this (included shipping and extra costs)


I know for 600€ I cant aim for any ultra specs laptop, but there are some decent laptops avalible to buy.

another important question is the ussage I will give to the laptop.

to be honest I enjoy gamming , thats one of the most important features I would like for the laptop.

I know for 600€ I cant pick a "laptop" gamming machine capable to run crysis at full specs/speed.

but I checked some stuff and I saw some interesting offers:


#OPTION 1#



DELL XPS 15
Price: 599,00 €

SPECS

CPU: Intel® Core™ i3-2310M 2,1 GHz
RAM:3Gb 1333MHz DDR3 (2gb + 1 Gb) Dual Channel (not sure about dual channel due the different memory sizes.)
GRAPHICS: NVIDIA ® GeForce ® 525m 1GB
DISPLAY: 15.6 HD WLED TL (1366x768) 720p
HDD: SATA 320 GB (7.200 rpm)



#OPTION 2#



Ahtec Sense CNBLB5

Price: 599,00 €

SPECS

CPU: Intel® Core™ Core i3-380M 2,1 GHz
RAM: 4GB DDR3 1333MHz
GRAPHICS: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650 con 1GB GDDR3
DISPLAY: 15.6 HD LED (1366x768) 720p
HDD: SATA 320 GB (5.400 rpm)


#OPTION 3#



PACKARD BELL EasyNote TK85-JO-481SP

Price: 574,90 €

SPECS

CPU: Intel Core i5-480M 2,66 GHz
RAM: 4GB DDR3 1066 MHz 2x SO-DIMM
GRAPHICS: NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M 1Gb
DISPLAY: 15.6 HD LED (1366x768) 720p
HDD: SATA 500 GB (5.400 rpm)



# option 4 #

you can add another options ^_^










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for the moment, I think I'm going for the dell xps 15

edit: the option 3 (easy note) looks to have better specs, but the ram speed and hdd speed make me doubt, my brother also have an older easy note and he dont like it at all. so Idk


anyway, do you know about any other options?

thanks guys

Look at business class 13"-or-so laptops, because hauling a 15.6" creaky plastic grocery store laptop around all day gets old fast.

I really like Lenovo (the x100e fits my portable computing needs perfectly) and Dell's business grade laptops. Most of the consumer grade laptops on the market are rubbish.

Asus makes just about the best laptops for the money right now.

thx guys,Ill give a look

I almost sold a Leveno, Ibms are the quiet winners in the graphic arts. I mean if your into really dicking with your computer. or if dicking with a really nice machine is in your needs.

I think they still have a quarto convertible tablet. Check the Ibm machines out.

Asus is a good reliable one too.

Mostly look for GPUs (Graphics cards) most note books like to use shared Graphics, some coming out are dedicated with the option to share, which is a bonus on a note book. Really pay attention to the GPU you can get ram any ware but the day you bought your laptop, is the day your stuck with that GPU.

yes, that was what I did, every laptop I see with "Intel integrated graphics" I basically discard it before I poke on it.

atm for that price I can see only decent laptops wearing nvidia chips, like Geforce GT 535m (1GB dedicated memory) or a GT 540m(up to 2 GB dedicated memory), there are some ATI alternatives to those GPUs, but I gave a read to some comparatives and seems those nvidia chips are better than the most of current mobile ATI chips on non ultra-expensive laptops. (and I allways got preference for ati cards for my desktop computers since I got my first computer )


edit: lol 600 posts xD

yeah big posts

tonight I'm actually going to go to a computer club, never gone. there was a guy who plugged me into one of the better deals of a notebook, I'll try and post what it was after 9pmPST when he goes off at me for miles about the dam thing.

thanks

waiting for your input ^^