Buying a new laptop

[parthbehl]

i am buying a new laptop. mainly for gaming and coz 'll need it in college.. My budget is around $1300

Brand ASUS
Series F3 Series
Model F3JP-AP035C-A
Price $1298

Operating System Windows Vista Home Premium
CPU Type Intel Core 2 Duo T7200 2.0G
Screen 15.4" WXGA
Memory Size 1GB DDR2
Hard Disk 120GB
Optical Drive DVD Super Multi
Graphics Card ATI Mobility Radeon X1700
Video Memory 256MB VRAM, up to 512MB Hyper Memory
Communication Modem, Gigabit LAN and WLAN
Card slot 1 x Express Card
Battery Life 4 hours
Dimensions 14.4" x 10.7" x 1.1-1.6"
Weight 6.5 lbs.
Other Features Splendid Video Enhancement
Color Shine
Audio DJ
Touch Pad Lock
Power 4 Gear+
Battery Re-Callibration
30days Zero Bright Dot LCD
Carry bag/mouse

tell me wat u think guyz and plz let me no if u recommend something better at this price.

 

[jpeyton]

Buying a laptop for gaming :thumbsdown: That X1700 is already outdated.

You're better off spending $600 on a gaming PC and $700 on a nice laptop for school (even the $400 Sunday Special laptops are more than enough for school work).

You can build a PC with an X1950GT for dirt cheap right now.

 

[F1shF4t]

i got the same laptop, except only the T5500 cpu and 80gig hdd.

games run alright, the performance of the card is somewhere from 6600gt to 6800ultra depending on the game. (memory is slow ddr2 so some games run worse than they should), 2 gig would help a lot if ur planing to play lots of games.

battery life is ok, i get 3+ hours out of it just using net and word and stuff, thats with the gfx card in low performance mode in powerplay... playing games on battery at high performance mode u might get 40 min out of it lol... i undervolted my cpu to 0.95 volts so that proly helps battery life somewhat, and especially the temps, the cooling is not that great, my cpu was reaching 80C, now it only gets to 69 max.

At this price i havent seen anything with better specs. (especially with same performance gfx card)

 

[parthbehl]

thanks alot guys,
i am thinking of buying 2 sticks of corsair 1x2=2gb 667mhz ram... so i guess that will solve the problem of slow ram..

 

[F1shF4t]

Originally posted by: parthbehl
thanks alot guys,
i am thinking of buying 2 sticks of corsair 1x2=2gb 667mhz ram... so i guess that will solve the problem of slow ram..

i was talking about the graphics ram, its ddr2 clocked at 400mhz (or 12.3 GB/s), the laptop itself has 1 gig ddr667, the way i said it before makes it seem like its the main memory... but 2 gig will make a big difference if you play games, especially new ones. I play bf2142 on it and get lots of loading lag (when get on a new map, area etc cause the game uses up a gig of ram by itself)

wait till you get it before buying the ram, i think some models do come with 1gig stick instead of 2 * 512.

 

[parthbehl]

oh thanks!!
yeh the version i am talking about does have 1 stick of 1 gb ram!
anywayz i needed the extra stick of ram coz of vista..