[Gortef]

I've been thinking of upgrading my laptop. Selling the one I have and then buying a new one.

The one I have is an Acer Travelmate 5520G. It's performace is... well, getting a bit under my level of need so an upgrade could be nice. Especially now that there's actually one person interested in buying my Acer AND there is a good sounding offer for HP G62-b21EO. One gets 100€ back from HP if the laptop is bought and registered into the HP site before November 15. So a 699€ laptop for 599€.

This Acer of mine has AMD Turion 64 X2 T52 and Mobility Radeon HD2400XT when the HP has a better Turion II P540 and Mobility Radeon HD5470. Also the Hp has 4G or ram and a 7200rpm HD (which is nice).
SO, in a nutshell the HP is much better that the Acer I have now but I don't really have any personal experience from HP machines. This Acer has been nice.

And what messes up my head even more is the fact that if I'd cough up 90€ more I'd get an Acer Aspire 5741G with i3 Processor and GT320M GPU, but the usual 5400rpm HD only (same size though, 500G).

90€ is quite a big sum of cash... but would it be worth it.... I really dunno. The i3 and GT320M have more "unf" that Turion and HD5470 that's for sure. But the difference should not be THAT huge I guess.
Also I'd like to try a laptop with a 7200rpm HD (to make search times a bit better).

I'd propably play Aion, WoT and Frets of Fire with it (among other normal PC use). Those games run with my current one, but not that great of course.

[Black Wolf]

I can't say too much about the performance of a heavy duty machine, but I have a HP netbook (bought around 3-4 months ago, so current gen), and I'm very happy. Battery life is awesome, 7200 rpm drive isn't a SSD, but it''s definitely noticeable vs a 5400. Also, it's very sturdily built, cool aluminium case - so yeah... I guess I can't comment on your particular machine, but from a brand experience PoV, they score points from me.

[Gortef]

Ok that's good to know, thanks.
If they can get at least one of their machines right then there is a strong possibility that the other ones are also sturdy and well build.

[Gortef]

I bought the HP G62-b21EO and so far it's been good.

[Wobble73]

The wife has an Acer Aspire 2930z, not in the same league as the one your looking at obviously, but I have been impressed by it's performance, depsite its Mobile Intel® GL40 Express motherboard Chipset. Of course she's not much of a gamer, so that's alright!

However, if your want to game I'd go for the HP, merely for the ATI chip! 

[achtung]

I've went through two laptops from HP since 2003, the first one had the mobo fail, and the second one had the mobo fail twice. HP's response has been excellent though. Every time they promptly fixed the things and sent them back. Otherwise, nice little machines.

[Admiral LSD]

The trick with HP seems to be to stay the hell away from their consumer oriented machines and head straight for the business class ones. The 5102 netbook BW is talking about is such a machine and it has an attention to detail you barely see on full-size notebooks, so to see it in the "cheap and nasty" netbook segment is mind blowing. Even the entry level variant retains the 1366x768 LED screen, six cell battery, 7200rpm drive and awesome chassis (it's such a pity HP waste it on an Atom machine, it deserves so much more) of the near-top-of-the-range model BW has while still costing the same AUD$300-400 as most other netbooks here.