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My PC's reaching its 4th birthday rather soon and im reaching my 18th so I thought id treat myself to a laptop.

Been searching on the web + in a few shops around my area.
A couple that caught my eye were..


HP Pavilion 3000+

-AMD Sempron 3000+ Mobile processor
-512MB DDR RAM
-ATi Radeon IGP 128MB graphics
-DVD-RW
-40GB hard drive
-Wi-Fi wireless

£599


OR...


Tiny Powerlite CM3400 PRO

Pretty much the same but with..

-Intel Celeron M processor 340
-128MB Ati Mobility Radeon 9700 Pro (M11) Graphics

at £799


My budget is £800.
Are Sempron processors any good? and how much difference are there between the two Radeon graphics cards?
Im no expert but I know the basics so any opinions or suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

gerrid wrote:
>
> The Dell 510m is a pretty damn good laptop range, although I believe
> they come with integrated graphics as standard, so you might want to
> change that


Can they be changed when you order then? like customise and buy? They look rather nice but I would want some Radeon or GeForce graphics

gerrid wrote:
> My advice is to go for a Pentium M (Centrino, not Celeron)


Someone linked me to an ADVENT 7074 which seemed to have very good specs but its got a Pentium 4.


This is what it is..
Intel Pentium 4 processor 3.20GHz

533 MHz FSB

1 Mb cache

512 Mb

60 Gb Hard Drive

DVD-RW Optical Drive

15" TFT display

Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition

64Mb ATi Mobility Radeon 9100 Graphics

and aIntel Pentium 4 processor 3.20GHz

533 MHz FSB

1 Mb cache

512 Mb

60 Gb Hard Drive

DVD-RW Optical Drive

15" TFT display

Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition

64Mb ATi Mobility Radeon 9100 Graphics

and a years warranty


for £749. I really cant go much over that

I can vouch for the pentium M, get one with the dothan core too if you want to go down that road.

If you're willing to splurge a little bit more money this is the laptop I'd probably be getting: [URL]http://www.rockdirect.com/rockshop/shophome.php?itemprcd=PTI-2.0[/URL]

mmm nice, huh?

My advice is to go for a Pentium M (Centrino, not Celeron) processor every time. They're the most efficient and powerful laptop processors you can get. Be wary of anything that has a P4 or an Athlon processor in it, because they're designed for tower PCs and will overheat your laptop like a badboy, cutting their performance in half.

The Dell 510m is a pretty damn good laptop range, although I believe they come with integrated graphics as standard, so you might want to change that

Thanks. They look rather fine for what im after.

Wont be buying til mid early-mid June so I got a little while to keep looking.

Wot about a advent laptop. I have got 1 and it has been fine.

There is a really good 1 on www.currys.co.uk for £750

[URL]http://www.currys.co.uk/martprd/store/cur_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@1309188500.1116959648@@@@&BV_EngineID=cceiaddejkmkedjcflgceggdhhmdgmh.0&page=Product&sku=658021&category_oid=-21154&fm=null&sm=null&tm=null[/URL]

JC941* wrote:
> Fair do's.
> Sorry never had a lappie before.
>
> What about HP? Its not a Pentium. It's a AMD SEMPRON 3000+ but 512
> RAM and 128 ATi graphics

I'd avoid DELL like the plague too. Just recently bought a couple of notebooks for various people including myself, Can highly recomend:

ACER AS1682WLMI @ £749.99 [URL]http://www.comet.co.uk/comet/html/cache/320_237922.html[/URL]


FUJITSU SIEMENS AMILO A 7640 32 @ £699.99 (Gen Athlon 64 NOT Semperon) [URL]http://www.comet.co.uk/comet/html/cache/320_239046.html[/URL]

The spec on both of them are awesome for the price point, though Iprefer the ACER myself for the awesome quality of the screen and it being a wide screen too.

Fair do's.
Sorry never had a lappie before.

What about HP? Its not a Pentium. It's a AMD SEMPRON 3000+ but 512 RAM and 128 ATi graphics

Please stay away from the Tiny brand, they are utterly useless if you ever require support. They are been on watchdog several times and I have had a major ordeal with them in the past.

Dell or Tosh do a decent range at reasonable prices, good all round laptops with efficient support.