What laptop should I buy ? (Cheers Maziar for the template)

1_What is your budget?
£450 (i live in the UK)
2_What is the size of the notebook that you are considering?
At least 15.6 -17 inch . Weight not a problem .Id rather have a screen with this screen thingy like CrystalBrite (Acer) or TruBrite (Toshiba)

3_What screen resolution do you want?
Any as long as its of at least medium quality.

4_Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop?
As long as it meets other reqiurments i dont care.

5_How much battery life do you need?
Any , at least 1 hour , maybe 2.Not an important factor.

6_Do you want to play games with your laptop? If so then please list the games that you want to with the settings that you want for these games. (Low,Medium or High)?
Fallout 3
Elder scroles oblivion
Medievil total war 2
All on a mixture of medium/low , the higher the better

7_What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop? (Photo / Video editing, surfing the web, playing music, watching movies, Etc.)
surfing the web, playing music, watching movies

8_How much storage (H.D.D Capacity) do you need?
at least 250 , id like 320 or more ,but then its not a gigantic factor only a medium one

9_If you are considering specific sites to buy from, please post the links to them.
Any as long as they are not second hand sites, may consider refurbished but would rather go brand new.
Have to be available to the Uk , without large post and packaging cost.

10_How long do you want to keep your laptop?
As long as possable at least 5 years.

11_If you would like to mention some other things about purchasing your ideal laptop, post them.
At least 3GB af RAM (i seen laptops that can be expanded up to 8GB of RAM , if this is handy for keeping it going in the future when stuff becomes more demanding then i wouldnt mind having it , But only if possiable under my price) Dual core , at least 2.1 GHz want the best as possible.(under my funds)
Graphics card important.Wifi enabled important.


12_Please tell us about the brands that you prefer to buy from them and the brands that you don't like and explain the reasons.
No mac or sony .Mac because of compatability and sony because i heard they were bad.
Dont mind as long as you know they are reliable if not please tell me.
Like acer and toshiba (if you know they are not reliable please tell me)
13_What country do you live in?
England , UK

Basically if it can play the games in question and its in my budget then i dont care.


Cheers and Maziar thanks for the template.All help is highly appreciated.

Could this handle Fallout 3
http://uk.computers.toshiba-europe [...] Shop/true/

Would Fallout 3 work on medium to low graphics and if not if i upgraded the RAM would it work ?
Its has the HD 3200 , are all models of this Hypershare or only the ones stated in the Tech Spec ?
Cheers.

well i maybe able to increse my budget from £450 to £500.Would you be able to find me a laptop able to play fallout 3 on medium ?

I don't agree about only Nvidia card because ATI has good options too.

to kt,i searched a lot and the best option i found was this:
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech [...] x16hd.html

It has a G 105M VGA which still can't play Fallout 3 on medium settings,u have to play on low settings and low resolutions,with that budget its unfortunately impossible to find a laptop that can run Fallout 3 on medium settings.

Now that's good wonder where u found it but a 8600M GS is a lot better than HD 3200/ G 105M,it should be able to play fallout 3 on medium(maybe with some settings on low)

Good deal

Do u have any problems with it ?

No the drivers won't get updated with windows driver,u have to go to nvidia site
What does CPU-Z say about CPU ?

http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php