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"I got my new laptop"

And it's absolutely fantastic. So far I've played Rome:Total War and it an in super high with no issues at all and it looked lovely. Next on the agenda is installing Half Life 2 and seeing how well I can play it with a touchpad. Oh yes. I really need a USB mouse. After that I'm going to buy Battlefield 2 and whip all you cads into shape.

Anyway I got an Acer travelmate 8104WLMi, and it's absolutely superb. The widescreen is fantastic and Acer GridVista is a great tool for managing lots of windows at once. So I'm very happy indeed! Anyone looking for a great laptop I reccommend this. It was 1400 squids which is quite a lot but I reckon it's worth it.

You can buy laptop RAM for not too much - about £90 per Gig. I contacted the company I'm planning to buy from about changing the HDD as well, and they said I could, but it would invalidate the warranty. I'd rather just have an external HDD for the stuff I don't need but like to have - e.g. films etc.

How does the X600 compare to the 9xxx range? My bro's got a 9600SE and I've got a 9800XT - is it somewhere in the middle of those two?

Nimco wrote:
> I've been looking at the Acer 4601WLMi at £789.

That's a great spec laptop for the price. The reason mine is so expensive is because 1GB of RAM costs BUCKETLOADS in laptops (about £300), and the difference in price between an X600 and an X700 is about £200. The only reason it's so high is because you can't build it yourself, so they can charge you way over the price.

Memorandum! wrote:
> I know it's top spec for a laptop, but in the grand scheme of things I
> just couldn't justify spending £1400 on something that's only
> going to have an X700 graphics chip.

It's a laptop merm. A laptop. It's more expensive than a desktop. A 7800GTX with 2GB RAM isn't going to do you much use if it's sitting in your house while you're on a plane to Sweden, is it?

I've been looking at the Acer 4601WLMi at £789.

# Mobile Intel® Centrino™ 2 Sonoma technology
# Intel® Pentium-M 730 1.6GHz
# 15.4" WXGA WideScreen TFT
# ATI Mobility Radeon X600 64MB
# 512MB DDR333 Memory (2*256MB)
# 60GB Hard Disk Drive
# DVD±RW & CD-RW Drive
# LAN/Wireless LAN 802.11g Intel® PRO/Wireless 2200BG
# Microsoft Windows XP Professional

Should suffice for what I need, althought I'm going to get a USB2 portable 100GB hard drive because 60GB just isn't enough.

Spot on.

Well, it's just as well you aren't us, isn't it?

I know it's top spec for a laptop, but in the grand scheme of things I just couldn't justify spending £1400 on something that's only going to have an X700 graphics chip.

find me a laptop with the same spec for that price and we'll see.

SHEEPY wrote:
> Oh and maybe you could something close to this if you built your own
> for £500 but I'm stupid so couldn't.

if by "close" you mean "better", then yes.
I'm sorry gerrid, but £1400 for that spec just seems like a massive rip-off to me.

To be fair, I've spent one year at Uni with my 50kg beast of a desktop, and I'm getting myself a laptop for next year. It's just got so many advantages (although admittedly it does have it's disadvantages as well).