New Laptop

[paladin]

To start off if anyone goes off because its a Dell, fuck you. I got it for 45% the actual cost. ($1879 = me pay ~850)

Dell Inspiron 1525
Intel Core 2 Duo T8300 @ 2.4ghz
32-bit Vista Home Premium
4 Gb RAM
Intel Graphics Accelerator
230 Gb HDD @ 7200rpm
Wireless N nextgen
Built-in Bluetooth
3 mp Camera

Its not the best but its for college. I can use my desktop for gaming and hardcore usage.

[Mr Buckshot]

The full price was $1879? Very very bad, I can get a much better-equipped ASUS G1 laptop for $1500. I thought Dell was supposed to have good deals.

But at $850, this laptop you bought is quite well equipped despite its poor video card (then again, you have your desktop for games). I could find ASUS laptops with better video cards for the same price, but such laptops would have slower processors (maybe C2D T5500 or something) and far less RAM than what you've configured there.

Enjoy blazing fast startup and very brief application-loading time, and shit battery life (don't expect more than 2 hours unless you have a 9-cell). Despite having an integrated video card, your laptop still has high enough specs to really suck down the battery, the greatest culprit being the 7200rpm hard drive.

Good job on getting the internal bluetooth and webcam though. I can't live without them, especially the latter.

[Terin]

Don't you mean 320GB hard drive? And a Blu-Ray writer?

For $850, that's pretty worth it.

[kenney001]

I'm happy with my $100 laptop.

15.1" widescreen
Intel dual-core 1.86ghz
2gb ram
160gb 7200rpm hdd - upgraded after replacing the standard 120gb that broke
dvd+rw

used only for all risky downloading and virus' i dont want on my desktop and internet surfing while watching scifi.

purchased from a relative who smashed it in airplane baggage.

of course....you have blu-ray

[beele]

To start off if anyone goes off because its a Dell, fuck you. I got it for 45% the actual cost. ($1879 = me pay ~850)

Dell Inspiron 1525
Intel Core 2 Duo T8300 @ 2.4ghz
32-bit Vista Home Premium
4 Gb RAM
Intel Graphics Accelerator
230 Gb HDD @ 7200rpm
Wireless N nextgen
Built-in Bluetooth
3 mp Camera

Its not the best but its for college. I can use my desktop for gaming and hardcore usage.

Even though it's not for gaming, I would never ever recommend an intel integrated card for a laptop. Other then that it are pretty good specs for that price.

[kenney001]

I have an intel graphics accelerator in mine, and it wont run anything past halo and need for speed most wanted on low.

It wont even start up BF2, HL2, GRID, CRYSIS, or any other newer game.

[Cortexian]

Intel Graphics Accelerator :pervert:!

[kenney001]

:suicide: :suicide: :suicide: :suicide: :suicide: :suicide: :suicide: :suicide:

[klange]

... an IGA? They still make chipsets that they label "IGA"? That doesn't sound right.
GMA x3100 or > will play modern games - it has all the shader capabilities.
And if you ever plan on using Linux, GMA > all.

[paladin]

I played halo fine, on medium settings and swbf2 on good settings. I dont have any other games to install on this computer. Its kind pointless when I have a fantastic desktop. but thanks guy.

[DrunkenSamus]

I have an intel graphics accelerator in mine, and it wont run anything past halo and need for speed most wanted on low.

It wont even start up BF2, HL2, GRID, CRYSIS, or any other newer game.

For me, it HL2 worked until the opening scene where G-Man is all like "Rise and shine, Mr. Doucheman, rise and...shine". Right then and there, my Intel graphics just shat bricks.