Notebooks £800 to spend on a laptop HELP!!!!!

Hello, i am looking to buy a laptop that will be not only used for work such as word processing but also gaming. I have seen some second hand xps' but they were a little bit old.
Any ideas?
Looking for a nice dedicated Hard drive
at least 1 gb of ram and 100gb hdd.
Cheers

 

Which games will you want to play, and what sort of size laptop were you looking at?

 

Well all the latest and I am not to fused about the size. Just best for £800
Cheers

 

You can get a Dell Core Duo with 1Gb of RAM, 60Gb HD and ATI X1400 for £796. Thats about the best I can find.

 

There's the Rock Pegasus if you are willing to spend an extra 50 quid it has a geforce go 7600 256mb

Intel Core 2 Duo T5600 1.83GHz 2MB
WXGA (1280 x 800) X-Glass
NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600 256MB
1GB DDR2 667MHz (512MB x2)
80GB 5400rpm SATA
8x +/- Dual Layer DVD Writer
Windows XP Home

 

The Pegasus sounds like a good deal...to be able to run newer games at native res and any sort of detail levels at a respectable frame rate, you'll need at least an X1600/7600. The 7600 in the Rock should do a decent enough job, but a GT would be perfect...will see what I can find.

Actually I cant really find anything better...

 

http://www.rockdirect.com/viewNotebook.php?pName=PEGASUS 665

There is the pegasus there. I am having a bit of a dilema myself. I'm stuck between the pegasus and a macbook...

 

Oh yea because those intergrated ones can be a bitch

Seriously though, have you considered the Acer Aspire 5602? on shoplaptop.co.uk it's got a 120GB hard drive and 1GB of ram, and it's dual core, for £679.

 

Looks good, but it's only got a X1300 ATi card, which compared to a 7600 would be seriously lacking.

Pegasus seems the one to go for so far.

Found another of similar ilk on ebuyer:
http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/110606/rb/21953738149

Toshiba with a NVidia 7600, 17" screen (1440x900), Core Duo, free upgrade to 1GB Ram, 60GB hdd.. £799.99 delivery'll probably be about a tenner.

 

Yeh that seems to be one of the best for money. Aparently the battery dont last long. Still looking

 

See what's available on your budget from the likes of Laptops Direct +/or Laptop Shop?
They both have a pretty good range of notebooks - from a wide range of respected manufacturers (Acer, Asus, Sony, Toshiba etc) - at prices to suit all budgets

You should also consider an HP Pavilion. I've got a Pavilion ZD8228EA, and I honestly can't rate it highly enough
It looks good... it's nippy... it's quiet, it's light... and it's comfortable

 

Dude, do you work for laptops direct? I can point out about 3 posts where you've highlighted and coloured their names. It just seems strange, I mean, you dont highlight or suggest anything else.

 

He always highlights links in a different colout.

 

I can point out the very same number of links to the Laptop Shop as well Bindi! I don't think I've ever linked to one, without including the other in the same post?

And the simple reason I don't suggest other sites, is 'coz I don't know any!
If you know of any other [good] online laptop shops though... I'll be happy to include them as well, next time I'm advising someone where to look for laptops

 

Just wanted to know!

It's just like a load of threads in here and it's always "laptop shop" in bold and coloured like you're jumpinig around (in my mind) like "student deals" or "this one here" makes a little blinking light turn on, on my "mod alert" panel. No stress, twas only a little question and a lot of poking in the side along with a naughty grin You have 600+ posts, you're obviously not just here to pimp.

In hindsight I should have included smilies

 

Like i said it needs to be a 7600 or equal.