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My spending limit is $1500

I am looking for a laptop to play games with but also perform college work.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6834115458
Acer Aspire AS5920-6574 NoteBook Intel Core 2 Duo T8100(2.10GHz) 15.4" Wide XGA 3GB Memory DDR2 667 250GB HDD 5400rpm DVD Super Multi NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT - Retail
Equipped with NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

OR

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6834114459
TOSHIBA Satellite A305-S6844 NoteBook Intel Core 2 Duo T8100(2.10GHz) 15.4" Wide XGA 4GB Memory DDR2 667 320GB HDD 5400rpm DVD Super Multi ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650 - Retail
Equipped with ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650

I am really stuck on this decision.

The benchmarks ive seen have the ATI card above by I believe 2%.....

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Both of those laptops will be barely able to play solitaire. In order to have a LAPTOP that will also be a good gaming machine look into spending about 3k.

1 to 2 percent on a laptop still sucks..get whichever laptop is more to your liking, your not gonna notice 2 percent or even 5 !

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I dont expect this laptop to perform over the top or play top games at high settings. I expect having to lower the settings significantly just to run them.

Looking at the specs is there anything between the 2 that makes 1 stand out over the other?

Reply to boylehatesu

i'd go for the 3650 ati one, it has more ram, hd, and hdmi port with audio. i doubt that the 8600 has audio through hdmi. the toshiba seems to be more bang for the buck.

Reply to godless

I agree with godless, go with the toshiba, esp if your going to use it at school for a while, toshibas hold up pretty well, as far as the graphics the 8600's are a complete dissapointment compared to their 8800 counterparts(which rock) normally the '6' line is almost as good as a high end card and a great buy for someone on a budget, but they messed up this time, they were barely better than the 7600's

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I thank you guys for your responses.

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boylehatesu wrote :

I thank you guys for your responses.

They are both class 2 cards you can compare them here http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel [...] 176.0.html
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Gateway® P-172S FX Edition.

It's $1350 with a Core 2 Duo, 3 GB RAM, and a 512MB 8800GTS.

http://www.gateway.com/systems/product/529668033.php

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Angry_ducky's deal looks much better than the other 2. The other option you have is to go to http://www.extremeoverclocking.com/deals/ and check out the deals they have on dells. I was pricing some machines a few days ago and managed to fine much better deals than the 2 at newegg. I love them for components but I think Dell will beat them on full systems. Definitely try to get the 8800 GPU, it gives you more than double the 8600's performance.

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Hi Boyle,

1) What games are you planning to play?

2) Although Dell is running some deals ... but I think other companies might be running some good deals too ... like Sony Vaio's ... and others

@ angry_ducky ... A Q ... will the T5750 in the "Gateway" be fast enough!?!? Just curious!!!

Thanks,

G!

Message edited by gonwk on 06-07-2008 at 02:09:08 AM

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