[Charismatic]

Topic renamed.

Well while on vacation a TOILETTE NINJA! came out of no wheres and put a knife through my laptop!

no really, my toilette flooded my apartment and killed my laptop that was on the ground, which was sitting in a half inch of water.

So while looking for a new laptop i need some explanations and advice between how many processors (dual , triple, quad core) and the type (Intel etc), and how much ram is good (DDR3) and VID CARDS, all that good stuff.

What I need: I want good fast performance and it will run some decent programs (visual basic, microsoft office, etc)
                      Id like a minimum of 3 core but if a 2 core outshadows it let me know.
                      Watching DVD and using Cd's so i guess entertainment geared.
                      Id love for it to be able to run FSO/scp in all its glory!
                      500 GIG HDD minimum
                      ~ 15inch screen
What I want: To be able to run C&C4 and possibly other modern games.

On Tiger Direct: www.tigerdirect.com I'm looking for LAPTOP in the 200-499$ price range.

Any help would be appreciated.
BTW, good to be back.

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[The E]

A decent Laptop today costs about 500-600€, has a dual- or quad core CPU, 4 to 8 GB of RAM, a halfway decent graphics chip (Meaning anything not made by Intel), and 320 to 500 GB worth of HDD space, and a 15.4 or 17" screen with resolutions of 1440x900 or upwards.

All models that fall within this range should be more than sufficient for the purposes you mentioned, and should be able to provide a halfway decent gaming experience too.

[Charismatic]

Hold on guys. I didnt post this yet. I finnished the post and spell checked and ti said i already did but it lies. Hold on..

[The E]

I didnt post this yet.

I think you did

[Charismatic]

I never hit "post" so i dont know how that happened lol. But yeah first post is Close to the origional so, lets start again.

EDIT: Anyways, anyone else have any advice for what will work and run FSO?