laptop recommendation for my bro

[dumdum]

Hi. My family will buy my older brother a laptop since he is in 10th grade. He'll use a laptop usually for school stuff and games. My brother likes games so I don't think he will like internal graphic cards. He is not a person who is going to play crysis and oblivion and all that stuff. Just normal range like world of warcraft and gta san andreas ( just an example) .Also, i think cpu should be intel, ram 2 or 1gb (which u recomend?), graphic card ( recommendation?), hard disk? (please recommend) ,brand (this too)? It would be better if you guys could just pick a brand an make a nice specification or pick a good model depending on what i wrote.


Thank you!

[Miker]

*sigh* "I don't think he will like internal graphic cards"

All laptop's graphic are on-board AKA internal...

['Amp!']

I think he meant INTEGRATED graphics.

or IGP. Yes those are crap for gaming on. There are plenty of laptops with high end graphics and Nvidia just announced it is bringing the 8800 series to laptops. That is some serious Graphic power!

As for recommendations, I am sorry since I do not get involved with laptops I can not give you any advice.

[Xero (1)ne]

Any Toshiba.

[sushrukh]

Dell Inspiron 1520 ( $799 ) :-

Link :- http://www1.ca.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/inspnnb_152x?c=ca&cs=cadhs1&l=en&s=dhs


1. Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T5250 (2MB cache/1.5GHz/667Mhz FSB).

2. Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium Edition, English

3. Jet Black Color with Matte Finish

4. 2 GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz, 2 Dimm

5. Glossy, widescreen 15.4 inch display (1280 x 800).

6. Integrated 2.0M Pixel Webcam.

7. 160G 5400RPM SATA HDD.

8. Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator X3100.

( if you wanna game a bit,add $100 for 128MB Nvidia GeForce™ 8400M GS or add $200 for 256MB NVIDIA GeForce™ 8600M GT ) .

I prefer even though he won't be playing games but you add this $100 for GeForce™ 8400M GS.

9. 8X CD/DVD Burner (DVD+/-RW) with double-layer DVD+R write .

You can configure this as per your own likings too as it's a Dell.I think this config matches with what you are looking for.Price is not also high.Keep us updated. :)

[Xero (1)ne]

Mmmmm I personally don't like dells. The only ones I like from them are XPS's and those are damn overpriced.

[PP Mguire]

My best friend Jerry just bought an Alienware lol. Its his Christmas, Birthday, and graduation present all in one from his grandma and step dad.

Id say any cheap Dell with an Nvidia chip, Toshiba with same configuration, or Acer. If you had the dough id say get a Macbook Pro. Those things are hella nice. Heard you can put XP on them too.

[Xero (1)ne]

If you had the dough id say get a Macbook Pro. Those things are hella nice. Heard you can put XP on them too.

Or get a cheap laptop and put OSX86 on it. :wink:

Honestly, whenever I get a laptop it's going to be running linux.

[tyle6]

I got a buddy selling an XPS i think.... your not from canada are you??? its a M1710 with a Go 7900gtx
in it.
I heard the same thing about the mac books too:)

[PP Mguire]

Yea to bad they are over 2gs. I played with one at Frys :D

[dumdum]

We ordered from dell . Thank You!