hello, this is my 1st time buying laptop. so i want to avoid buying unreliable brands or models. could anyone point me in the right direction of what i should avoid.
i will be getting one purely for gaming and internet, so WIFI and 1GB RAM is essential. a decent HD size 60GB+ wih celeron processor.
looking to spend between £400 - £600 tops
this is a lot of money for me hence the request for advise.
look forward to hearing some answers.
thanks
matt
2007-02-12 21:10:45 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
I can tell you right from the start that you better be prepared to pay out the bum for a gamer laptop then! There are only a couple on the market that will play hi end graphics intense games! Laptops DONT make good gamer PCs! You might also keep in mind that a laptop is harder and more expensive to upgrade as the new games come out!
John, shutup! He wants a PC that will run gaming software not a Fisher Price wanna be!
2007-02-12 21:17:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Dr. House is absolutely correct. If you are a big time gamer, you are wasting your money buying a laptop because you will need to customize it and spend more money than you probably want to. You are better off with a desktop.
Gaming Laptop Computer GPU versus Desktop GPU - nVIDIA 6800 mobile card and a desktop ATI Radeon 9800 PRO Off the shelf laptops generally do not have separate video cards that have their own memory on board. Rather, they use the laptop computer's shared resources (the central processing unit - CPU - and the random access memory - RAM) to supply the video and graphics to the screen output. This type of system will not make the best gaming laptop computer. To obtain the frame rates necessary to run today's games without frustration and lag, a gaming laptop must have a separate video card that has its own resources. The makers of mobile video cards are nVIDIA and ATI.
Gaming laptop shoppers need to find the perfect balance of the newest and fastest components and the price point that they can afford. The bottom line: Gaming laptops are all about speed.
2007-02-12 21:27:43 · answer #2 · answered by Orion777 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are bettter off using a desktop system for your games. The best quality laptop is IBM/Lenovo. They have the highest resale values of any laptop on the market. Even the fruity one. IBM/Lenovo also has the best online tech support, they can automatically update all of your drivers while online.
2007-02-12 21:21:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get the Apple MacBook and be done with it.
2007-02-12 21:15:12 · answer #4 · answered by johndeereman 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋