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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.

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

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.

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

Spot on.

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.

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?

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.

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?

As for price/spec/performance

Myself and gerrid have picked the best laptop around at the present time.
So ner ner ner

It is a good laptop, but out of my budget, and I don't need it for gaming - I only want it for web development, music, films, TV, etc.