Good buy for what I need?

[gsnfl]

Looking for a decent laptop with on board graphics. A little multimedia and some gaming (D3/Fallen Earth and such). I found this in the dell outlet and with coupons it comes to $930. Opinions?

Operating Systeme Windows 7 Home Premium
Base Studio XPS 16 (1640) Laptop: Intel Core 2 Duo T9800 (6MB cache/2.93GHz/1066Mhz FSB) w/2.0MP Integrated Webcam
Hard Disk Drive 500 GB SATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) with Free Fall Sensor
Memory 8 GB DDR3 SDRAM 1066MHz (2 DIMMs)
Media Bay 4X Slot Load Bluray (BDRW) Rewritable Drive (BD Read & Write)
Video 1GB ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4670
System Color Obsidian Black with Leather Accent
Laptop Screen 16 inch Edge-to-Edge HD Widescreen WLED LCD (1366x768) Black Color
Laptop Battery 9 Cell, 85 WHr Lithium Ion Primary Battery
Network Interface Card Intel WiFi Link 5300 802.11a/g/n Draft Mini Card
Hardware Upgrade 90W AC Adapter
125V Power Cord
Software Upgrade Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit Operating System DVD
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit Operating System DV

 

[WR2]

Hello snfl;

Not liking that used XPS Studio 16 @ $930.

Have you checked out the deals on the new XPS 15?

 

[WR2]

Dell XPS 17 ~$899
Core i5-2450M 2.50 GHz (Turbo 3.10 GHz) CPU, 6GB RAM, 750GB 7200rpm HDD, 1600x900 LCD w/ Geforce GT 550M Graphics
upgraded optical drive to BluRay combo drive

HP Pavilion dv6 Select Edition 15.6" Core i5 Laptop ~$775
Core i5-2430M Processor 2.4 GHz CPU, 8GB RAM, 750GB HDD, 15.6" 1366x768 LCD w/ Radeon HD 7690M graphics. Blu-Ray combo drive.

 

[gsnfl]

I'm liking that HP upgrated to 2gb on the video card! Thanks

 

[WR2]

For gaming performance it's more about the number of shaders/pipelines and core clock speeds than the amount of VRAM.

Compare Battlefield: Bad Company 2 benchmark with HD 4670 and HD 6770M
HD 7690M is a bit faster than HD 6770M

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4670

AMD Radeon HD 6770M review

AMD Radeon HD 7690M review