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Help with laptops
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19-11-2006 12:29am#1
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If you shop around wisely you will probably get a laptop capable of decent gaming for that budget. It depends on what you want to play though, older games work relatively fine on integrated hardware these days, so a good graphics card should be only necessary if you really want to play new titles, as it drives the price pretty high.
I use my laptop for playing games all the time, and it's relatively ok if you don't mind keeping things to medium settings, even high settings on last years titles like Doom 3 and Half Life 2. It's a Geforce 7400, and it does feature in quite alot of mid range 900-1,300 laptops, or the X1400 from Ati which is pretty similar.
I find Dells new AMD are superb so far as that even though they they are cheap if you aim at the base models, they still have excellent graphics capabilities in their integrated, the Radeon X1150. Its a cut down version of the X300 core so its capable of playing even the latest games on low settings. This is pretty good considering previous to this the only integrated option from DELL in the Intel line was the GMA hardware, hideously ineffective for gaming. So now at least gamers on a budget do have a cheap option
In fact I would nearly go as far as to recommend a Dell AMD system - for about 600 quid, you'll get a Sempron Processor - far better then the equivilent Celeron and in fact close if not better then most Pentium 4s - and a decent graphics solution in the X1150. All you need to add is more ram and you could be playing Battlefield 2, Far Cry and Half Life 2 without issues on a 700 euro notebook if you include allowance for another gig of ram.
Not the most asthetically pleasing machines are Dell, though.
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