Laptops

[Ja5on]

Show us yer laptops. IN the market for a new one.

15" max screen size. Was looking at the Asus ones which are getting good write ups.

Dell is the obvious choice but what other options are there

 

[Griff]

what other options are there

What are you going to use it for?

 

[Ja5on]

Pretty much everything, need to have excel/word/power point. watching films occasional game playing.

Basically its gona be coming with me offshore. Just really needing to know which manufactuers to go with/ stay away from.

 

[MDT48]

Depends on how much you want to spend.

The Lenovo ThinkPad X300 is the best laptop on the market right now, in my opinion at least. But it doesn't come cheap...

http://www.trustedreviews.com/notebooks/review/2008/04/22/Lenovo-ThinkPad-X300/p1

I was so impressed after reviewing it, that I'm actually using one as my personal laptop now. Typing this on it in fact

The only thing you'll have trouble with is playing games. But then any thin and light notebook isn't really going to play games. Gaming notebooks require masses of power to drive those mobile graphics chipsets. They also need to be big, since those power hungry GPUs create a lot of heat.

Personally I wouldn't bother looking at a notebook for playing games. Unless you're talking about stuff like World of Warcraft or Spore.

 

[Gumby]

Mine's not bad for playing games tbh. It's a 17" Dell Vostro (1710) at 1900x1200 with an nVidia 8600m GS. Cheap and does the job

 

[MickM]

Certainly can't go wrong with a Thinkpad, you as T60p myself. well built bits of kit

 

[Andi-B]

Running a Compaq Presario R3000 (HP PP2210) here,

Couple of years old but still runs strong, as most Compaq's / HP's do, only upgrades I've done to is RAM/HD, runs everything I need it for.

Would recommend HP Compaq all day if you have the money to throw.

 

[winko]

Get an Asus, good make and ebuyer for laptops, you cant go wrong. I use a Toshiba Satellite pro its ok but not good for games! but any laptops arent great for games anyway. Lenovo's are very nice and built probably the best but I dont think they have the best graphics card, more for business use.

 

[Ja5on]

if its gone play a game its more likely to be FM2008 or similar. Nothing extravagent

 

[MDT48]

Pretty much anything will run FM2008, so you've got no worries there.

Although FM2008 is a sore point in my house at the moment, since my wife is getting more and more stressed trying to get the game ready for launch next month!

 

[duncansharp]

Ive got a Sony BX51VN

Very good laptop, if you've got about £500 to spend i would highly recommend one.