going to be in the market for a new laptop in the next few months. i was thinking of just getting a standard dell - nice and straight forward website, order it and it turns up, plug it in and you're good to go.
however, i then thought, well why not ask any techies out there for some advice. now, all i need it to do is turn on, have word processing, and connect to the internet. although not essential, it would be good to have some kind of game playing capability. i'm not talkin top end games like bf2, more like age of empires games, stuff like that. so, maybe a 256mb graphics card, perhaps.
my budget, and the top of my budget, is 700 english pounds.
if someone would be so kind to post me a good spec for around this price so i know what to look for.
an example, that i have seen on dell's website it:
Intel® CoreTM 2 Duo Processor T5200 (1.60 GHz, 2 MB L2 cache, 533 MHz FSB
1024MB 533MHz DDR2 SDRAM (2 x 512MB)
80GB (5,400rpm) Hard Drive
256MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 7300 Turbocache graphics card
this would cost around 700 english pounds. is this a good spec, or bad?
any advice would be greatly received. thanks in advance.
p.s. i wouldn't be playing bf2 on this, i've got a desktop for that. thanks again.
however, i then thought, well why not ask any techies out there for some advice. now, all i need it to do is turn on, have word processing, and connect to the internet. although not essential, it would be good to have some kind of game playing capability. i'm not talkin top end games like bf2, more like age of empires games, stuff like that. so, maybe a 256mb graphics card, perhaps.
my budget, and the top of my budget, is 700 english pounds.
if someone would be so kind to post me a good spec for around this price so i know what to look for.
an example, that i have seen on dell's website it:
Intel® CoreTM 2 Duo Processor T5200 (1.60 GHz, 2 MB L2 cache, 533 MHz FSB
1024MB 533MHz DDR2 SDRAM (2 x 512MB)
80GB (5,400rpm) Hard Drive
256MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 7300 Turbocache graphics card
this would cost around 700 english pounds. is this a good spec, or bad?
any advice would be greatly received. thanks in advance.
p.s. i wouldn't be playing bf2 on this, i've got a desktop for that. thanks again.