Thinking about buying..

glenneaux · 18th June 2006, 5:42 PM

Hey guys..

Im thinking about buying a mates old laptop..

Its a compaq presario x1000 with 15.4" wide aspect lcd, 512mb ram, 1.5ghz centrino, radeon 9200 mobility..

Is this a decent lappy? While i dont see it as a killer graphics computer, my machine is only an fx5700 w/ 1.6ghz XP.. How would this stack up against it?

Also i have no idea on price (nor does he..) so does anyone have any suggestions??

SLATYE · 19th June 2006, 1:33 PM

Those are decent specs. The Pentium-M 1.5Ghz will probably beat an XP1600+, but the Radeon Mobility 9200 is really slow (and has no DX9 support). For games like CS, it'll be fine; but in new games it'll have a lot of trouble (especially at the laptop's native resolution).

Since you can get a brand new laptop for around the $800 mark, I'd aim to spend maybe $600 as a maximum on a second-hand one.

18th June 2006, 5:42 PM	#1
glenneaux Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 87	Thinking about buying.. Hey guys.. Im thinking about buying a mates old laptop.. Its a compaq presario x1000 with 15.4" wide aspect lcd, 512mb ram, 1.5ghz centrino, radeon 9200 mobility.. Is this a decent lappy? While i dont see it as a killer graphics computer, my machine is only an fx5700 w/ 1.6ghz XP.. How would this stack up against it? Also i have no idea on price (nor does he..) so does anyone have any suggestions??

19th June 2006, 1:33 PM	#2
SLATYE SLATYE, not SLAYTE Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Canberra Posts: 21,038	Those are decent specs. The Pentium-M 1.5Ghz will probably beat an XP1600+, but the Radeon Mobility 9200 is really slow (and has no DX9 support). For games like CS, it'll be fine; but in new games it'll have a lot of trouble (especially at the laptop's native resolution). Since you can get a brand new laptop for around the $800 mark, I'd aim to spend maybe $600 as a maximum on a second-hand one. __________________ Main system: Pentium-D 805 \| 1GB (2x 512MB) PQI DDR400 \| Gigabyte 8I865GMK-775 \| Xtreama Radeon 9800Pro with Zalman ZM-80HP-D \| 320GB WD SATA HDD \| Antec SmartPower 2.0 500w Laptop: Compal EL80 \| C2D T7200 \| 320GB Fujistu HDD \| 2GB DDR2-667 \| GF Go 7600