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Offline SuperCoolAl

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Laptop, £1500, What Can I Get?
on: May 24, 2005, 12:59:53 pm
^^ See the title!

Oh and don't tell me to get a desktop, I definitely need portability.

UK links please.
 

Offline kasperl

Laptop, £1500, What Can I Get?
Reply #1 on: May 24, 2005, 01:04:12 pm
Portability, or gaming power?

Battery time important?
Durabilty?
Strength?
DVD/CD burner?

Think of that kind of stuff before you spend your money.
just another newbie without any modding, FREDding or real programming experience

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Offline SuperCoolAl

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Laptop, £1500, What Can I Get?
Reply #2 on: May 24, 2005, 03:03:38 pm
Battery isn't that important, it just need to be transported easily.

Gaming power + DVD burner :D
  

Offline Liberator

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Laptop, £1500, What Can I Get?
Reply #3 on: May 24, 2005, 08:52:58 pm
1500 lbs sterling(I don't have that key on my keyboard) is roughly $3000.

Hmmm...that's not a lot for a top end good brand laptop...but have at it
So as through a glass, and darkly
The age long strife I see
Where I fought in many guises,
Many names, but always me.

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Offline SuperCoolAl

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Laptop, £1500, What Can I Get?
Reply #4 on: May 25, 2005, 01:05:28 am
Ouch!

1. 512MB RAM

2. 40Gb Hard Drive

3. No DVD Burner
 

Offline WMCoolmon

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Laptop, £1500, What Can I Get?
Reply #5 on: May 25, 2005, 01:15:38 am
Although it does have a GeForce 6800 Go
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Offline SuperCoolAl

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Laptop, £1500, What Can I Get?
Reply #6 on: May 25, 2005, 01:30:04 am
Yea i suppose, but it'll still only be able to run HL2 at medium settings smoothly.

RAM is very important really to me. Run out and all hell breaks loose. I have 512 on this desktop and I know how bad it is, especially as laptops can't be upgraded easily.

I also think it should be 64-bit so its ready for the future. I know I'm asking for a lot here but it should be possible to be found. Just askin my buddies to help ;)

I guess the 6800 go is better than the X800 then? PS 3.0 and all that.
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Offline Kosh

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Reply #7 on: May 25, 2005, 02:44:29 am
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I guess the 6800 go is better than the X800 then


I thought they were about the same.....
"The reason for this is that the original Fortran got so convoluted and extensive (10's of millions of lines of code) that no-one can actually figure out how it works, there's a massive project going on to decode the original Fortran and write a more modern system, but until then, the UK communication network is actually relying heavily on 35 year old Fortran that nobody understands." - Flipside

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Offline Grey Wolf

Laptop, £1500, What Can I Get?
Reply #8 on: May 26, 2005, 07:21:57 pm
The 6800 has a sllight edge, mainly in standards compliance and OpenGL.
You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?" -George Bernard Shaw
 

Offline SuperCoolAl

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Laptop, £1500, What Can I Get?
Reply #9 on: May 28, 2005, 04:13:50 pm
OK I've had a look around and I've found a decent Dell (yes I know...)

Intel ®Pentium ®M Processor 740 (1.73 GHz, 2 MB L2 cache, 533 MHz FSB)
1024MB 533MHz DDR2 SDRAM (2x512)
256MB NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Go graphics card, PCI-Express x16
60GB (7.200rpm) IDE Hard Drive
Fixed Internal 8X DVD+/-RW Drive with Software
17" UltraSharp™ Wide Screen WUXGA (1920 x 1200) Display with TrueLife™
Optional USB 3.5" 1.44MB floppy drive
Internal 56K v.92 Capable Fax Modem (won't be using this lol)
Intel® ProWireless 2200 802.11b/g Mini PCI Wireless LAN Card
Microsoft® Windows® XP Home SP2
Primary 6 Cell 53 WHr battery
9300 second 9-cell , 80 Whr Li-Ion primary battery (optional)
Microsoft® Works 7.0
Nylon Black/Grey Carry Case X-Large
1 Year European Collect and Return Service

£1491 inc VAT inc shipping

Main concern of course is the CPU
 

Offline Grey Wolf

Laptop, £1500, What Can I Get?
Reply #10 on: May 28, 2005, 04:19:50 pm
It's a Pentium M, so that's not bad at all for a laptop CPU. I'd put it roughly equal to a 2.6 or 2.8GHz Intel processor, or a 1.8GHz AMD.
You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?" -George Bernard Shaw
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