I want to know if its good for watching DVDS, downloading songs, playing the odd few games like Championship manager 2007 also willl flight simulator X work on this i know its a game which demands! Also are the shared 224mb graphics card good?
Brand ACER
Processor Intel Celeron Mobile
Processor model number 420
Processor speed 1.6 GHz
Processor bus 533 MHz
Processor cache 1 MB
Memory (RAM) 1024 MB
Storage (hard drive) 60 GB
SATA storage Not featured
Screen size 15.4 inches
Screen type Bright widescreen
Built-in wireless networking Yes
Wired networking Yes
Gigabit LAN Not featured
Optical drive Plays & records CDs and DVDs
Lightscribe technology Not featured
Operating system Windows XP Media Center
Application software Not featured
Shared graphics 224MB
Dynamic graphics Not featured
Dedicated graphics Not featured
USB 2.0 slots 4
Firewire Not featured
Speakers Stereobuilt-in
Battery life (maximum) 2:00 hours
2006-11-05 08:53:46 · 8 answers · asked by TurionJM 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
"Shared graphics 224MB " doesn't actually mean anything, it doesn't tell us what make/model the gfx card actually is so it's impossible to make a call on it's game playing ability. The fact that it's using shared memory is a bad idea straight off the bat though, it means the machine doesn't actually have 1GB of RAM because the gfx card is 'stealing' a chunk of the RAM to use for itself. If you really must play games on a laptop, and it's a bad idea in general because only the most expensive laptops are any good for games, then you need one that's got a proper branded (i.e. nVidia or ATI) card that's got it's own onboard RAM and doesn't share memory with the system.
2006-11-05 09:04:13 · answer #1 · answered by Bamba 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You don't say how much it is, so it's impossible to tell if it's a good deal!
I would expect this to be about £400-500 though.
"Shared graphics" means that it uses the computer's own memory instead of dedicated graphics memory - so this wouldn't be good for playing anything other than fairly basic games.
2006-11-05 16:58:53 · answer #2 · answered by Daniel R 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is not worth more than $500 in my opinion. That is bad battery life, that is an old and slow processor, and you will NOT be able to play any good games on it. If you have a price range in mind, email it to me and hopefully I can find something better, because I think you will be disappointed with this one.
2006-11-05 17:15:27 · answer #3 · answered by mysticman44 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you want to play high end games then its no good, you need decent graphics and 2GB of ram. I would also want an AMD proccessor.
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2006-11-05 17:08:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
mobile centrio could be slower than other processors but faster than celeron. 1gb ram is good you may want to look for higher hard drive.
2006-11-05 16:55:28 · answer #5 · answered by jay s 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dont like celeron. good memory small hard drive though.
2006-11-05 16:57:31 · answer #6 · answered by Jacob S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it should be fine for dvds, downloading song but don't think it will be to good for newish/new game
2006-11-05 16:59:25 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
bad processor on it not future proff
2006-11-06 08:32:06 · answer #8 · answered by ammar345 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋