Is there any laptops out there that suit me? (or others)

[MrSmith]

I've been looking for some 6 months, and nothing really has turned up.

I'm looking for a laptop, under $1500 (around the 1200 mark is nice) that has dedicated graphics.

Theres some around on ebay and whatnot that have like, 6200 cards, but then have a celeron 1.4 or something, I'd like something half decent cpu wise.. Is there anything like this out there?

~1.8Ghz cpu (Dual core would probably be too much to ask)
~Dedicated graphics (X700 mark would be fine)
~512-1gb ram
~Widescreen (Non square screen)
~Under $1500, Ideally around the $1200-1400 mark

Anything?

[SLATYE]

Dell Inspiron 6400.

Currently:

Inspiron 6400
Core Duo T2250 (1.73Ghz)
XP Home
WXGA screen
1GB RAM
Radeon X1300
8x DVDRW
65w AC adaptor
6-cell battery
802.11a/g wireless networking
802.11g wireless router*
MS Works 8.5
McAfee Security Center*

That's $1441.00.

*These are probably worthless to you. Call Dell and see if you can have them removed in return for a ~$150 discount. It's worth calling Dell anyway because they'll often take quite a substantial amount off the price if you ask for it.

[MrSmith]

I looked at that briefly, It's not bad.. It's one of few that i'm genuinly interested in.. The X1300, Is that any good for casual games every now and again, maybe some FIFA, maybe some CSS?

On the other side, went to Rick harts today, and they've got awsome specials on two compaqs, EX075PA for $1299 (from $1499 I think) and EH099PA for $1399 (from $1899), That's pretty awsome pricing, I'm really tempted in the first one, with an ML-32, to upgrade it to 1 or 2gb of ram, It's a real nice lappy, nice screen too.

[McbLt]

Originally Posted by MrSmith

I looked at that briefly, It's not bad.. It's one of few that i'm genuinly interested in.. The X1300, Is that any good for casual games every now and again, maybe some FIFA, maybe some CSS?

The X1300 should be ok for CSS, just turn down the graphic details and try playing at 1024x768 (make sure you set the CP to maintain the aspect ratio).

I have an X1400 in my lappie and it plays widescreen 1280x800 pretty comfortably, around 60 fps or so.

[MrSmith]

ok cool, thanks

[Gierke]

http://online.infinitycomputer.com.a...=190&cat=___cp

Those first few might suit you, all you need to add is a cpu, ram and hdd. You could maybe even squeeze in dualcore


Shortly i'm getting the S62J. Can't wait.

[MrSmith]

Originally Posted by Gierke

http://online.infinitycomputer.com.a...=190&cat=___cp

Those first few might suit you, all you need to add is a cpu, ram and hdd. You could maybe even squeeze in dualcore


Shortly i'm getting the S62J. Can't wait.

Are all the components on that site for notebooks? Or have they got desktop stuff too?

[MrSmith]

Just a check if this will work, someone here might be a bit more knowledgable about the barebones that myself.

512MB PC2-5300 CL5 DDR2 SDRAM SODIMM

S62J,14.1"WXGA(GLARE),945PM,SATA,G72-128M,SMULTI,CAM,BARE NB

CORE DUO 1.83GHZ,32BIT,667FSB,2MB CACHE,FCPGA6

2.5inch SATA/60GB/5400RPM/8MB CACHE

Anything there that won't work in the barebones?

If it works together, I might look at getting that.
For A$1,544.46

1.83Ghz core duo, 60gb, 512mb (probably upgrade in couple of weeks), 7200 go, 14.1" screen.

[SLATYE]

Originally Posted by MrSmith

I looked at that briefly, It's not bad.. It's one of few that i'm genuinly interested in.. The X1300, Is that any good for casual games every now and again, maybe some FIFA, maybe some CSS?

It's probably worth getting the X1400 for that. There's only ~$50 price difference, and the X1400 is quite a lot faster.

Originally Posted by MrSmith

Are all the components on that site for notebooks? Or have they got desktop stuff too?

They have desktop stuff too. That link just goes to the notebook section. If you go here, that's got just about all the barebone notebooks and parts for them.

The S62J system you designed looks good - but I don't think it includes WLAN. You might want to consider this instead (very similar, but with the system already built, WLAN, and a T2300E instead of the T2400).