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Is it worth getting a laptop for gaming on a fairly low budget?

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holcar   05-21-2008 at 03:31:57 PM

Well I'm planning to buy myself my first laptop. Got a price range of around £600-£700

Is it worth buying a laptop capable of playing games on this budget? I'm pretty into gaming, but it seems like most new games will run horribly on anything less than a £1000 laptop with a decent video card.

Could anyone reccomend a good laptop for gaming around £700? I'm thinking of just sacrificing the ability to play games for something lighter and with better battery life. In which case I still wouldn't know what to look at getting.

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Bronze Laptops badge Maziar   05-21-2008 at 04:18:03 PM
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Dell VOSTRO 1500 and XPS M1530 are very good for that range
they have 8600M GT which can play games good on medium settings

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drfelip   05-22-2008 at 07:45:27 PM
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Maziar wrote :

Dell VOSTRO 1500 and XPS M1530 are very good for that range
they have 8600M GT which can play games good on medium settings



I agree. XPS M1530 sports the DDR3 version of the card, it's the best card you can get in this price range. And it's good at OC, too.

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holcar   05-23-2008 at 07:15:41 PM
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Had a quick look and it seems pretty good from the benchmarks and reviews.

If I was to go down a different route and go with something with better battery life, is there anything you could reccomend?

Looks like the M1530 could handle something less than 2 hours playing games. But it seems most performance laptops have similar short battery life.

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drfelip   05-23-2008 at 07:21:49 PM
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More power > less battery life. An XPS M1530 with 9-cell battery is a good bet.

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darcy   10-19-2009 at 09:26:21 AM
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6 cell replacement Dell XPS M1530 Battery is OK !

http://www.laptop-battery-replacement.com/notebook-battery-images/dell-xps-m1530-battery.jpg

relation:http://www.laptop-battery-replacement.com/dell/xps-m1530-battery.html


Message edited by darcy on 10-19-2009 at 09:28:39 AM
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