Looking for a laptop:

[Djinni]

Hi,

Looking for a laptop for my girlfriend.

Budget: £500 inc VAT
Upper Limit: £550 inc VAT

Must Have: At least 4 USB 3.0 or 2.0 ports no need for any 1.1/1.0 ports,
Preferred Screen Size: 15.6" With full size keyboard,
Preferred HDD: Seagate Momentus XT 500GB Hybrid SSD SATA Hard Drive,
Would be nice to have built in webcam + mic,

To be used for:
Online shopping,
WoW - It doesn't have to run WoW on ultra settings, but high-medium (no shadows) would be nice.
Various other non graphics intensive games,
MS Office,
Watching movies. (So an easy way to connect it to the TV without having to go through 3 or 4 different adapters would be great. (TV uses Red, White and Yellow inputs)

Not required: Does not need to have an OS or any pre-installed software. I have the OS and Office key's already.



The competition:

Custom Modified NSPIRE 2410 System
Base System Order Code: NNB-880 Base System Manf. Code: NNB-880
£491.59 inc vat The above price is for the laptop only and does not include any extras such as laptop bags Any extras selected have been added to your basket. Processor: Intel I5 2410M 2.3Ghz Processor Memory: 1 x Novatech 4GB DDR3 PC3-10600 1333Mhz SO DIMM Module Hard Drive: Seagate Momentus XT 500GB Hybrid SATA-II 2.5" 7200RPM 32MB [Upgraded] Optical Drive: SATA DVD Writer Operating System: None

[Poppasan]

Well... It's a laptop... for 500£

[BicycleMafioso]

GPU would be uhm, nice to know!

[Djinni]

GPU would be uhm, nice to know!

Adding a GPU pushes the price up to:

Custom Modified NSPIRE PRO 2410 System
Base System Order Code: NNB-882 Base System Manf. Code: NNB-882
£541.58 inc vat The above price is for the laptop only and does not include any extras such as laptop bags Any extras selected have been added to your basket. Processor: Intel I5 2410M 2.3Ghz Processor Memory: 1 x Novatech 4GB DDR3 PC3-10600 1333Mhz SO DIMM Module Hard Drive: Seagate Momentus XT 500GB Hybrid SATA-II 2.5" 7200RPM 32MB [Upgraded] Optical Drive: SATA DVD Writer Operating System: Graphics Card: None NVIDIA GTS520M

[BicycleMafioso]

Adding a GPU pushes the price up to:

So. You're saying you're expecting medium-border on high without a proper GPU? ô.o I'm just trying to understand.

[Djinni]

So. You're saying you're expecting medium-border on high without a proper GPU? ô.o I'm just trying to understand.

Umm yeah sure why not :-)

I also didn't ask if the machine would run as I hoped, I pointed it out as the main competition i've looked at to compare any other machine to.

---------- Post added 2011-07-05 at 12:09 PM ----------

Thinking about it....

How does the Intel Dual Core i3 2310M 2.1Ghz compare to the Intel I5 2410M 2.3Ghz Processor? As this could easily bring it back into budget, and since she's only going to be running Firefox, WoW and movies/music probably doesn't need a quad core i5