help needed!!! ( computer geeks :p )

[DeathStorm1991]

SO!
buying a laptop! and i actuly got 3 laptop specifications on a paper infront of me and i wanna chose the best 1 of them and i need your help.

am gonna post each laptop specifications and you tell me whats the best one
keeping in mind that i`ve no idea what am gonna write, its just like im copying and pasting from the paper so dont ask me anything about them ><

btw i dont care about how much space it has, i dont got much to put on it.

1- Vaio VPCCW17FXB
Processor : Intel Core2Duo T6600 ( 2.20 GHz, 2 MB L2 cache, 800 MHz )
Hard Disk : 500GB 5400 rpm SATA
Graphic card : nVidia GeForce G210M 256MB (up to 2031MB)
Memory : 4GB 1066 MHz DDR3
Optical Drives : Blu-ray SuperMulti DL
Display : 14"WXGA LED
Other : W-Lan + Ethernet + Webcam + Card Reader + bluetooth
OS : Windows Se7en Home Premium 64 Bit Edition.

2- Vaio VPCCW18FXB
Processor : Intel Core2Duo P7450 ( 2.13 GHz, 3 MB L2 cache, 1066 MHz )
Hard Disk : 320GB 5400 rpm SATA
Graphic card : nVidia GeForce GT230M 512MB (up to 2278MB)
Memory : 4GB 1066 MHz DDR3
Optical Drives : SuperMulti DL
Display : 14"WXGA LED
Other : W-Lan + Ethernet + Webcam + Card Reader + bluetooth
OS : Windows Se7en Home Premium 64 Bit Edition.

3- Toshiba A505-S6975
Processor : Intel Core2Duo P7350 ( 2.00 GHz, 3 MB L2 cache, 1066 MHz )
Hard Disk : 500GB 5400 rpm SATA
Graphic card : ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570 512MB ( up to 3323MB)
Memory : 6GB 800 MHz DDR2
Optical Drives : SuperMulti DVD
Display : 16" TrueBrite WXGA
Other : W-Lan + Ethernet + Webcam + Card Reader + bluetooth
OS : Windows Vista Home Premium 64 Bit Edition.
thx in advance.

/REA - malek.

[Interwobble]

None of those machines strike me as amazing. PM me what you will be using your PC for and I can probably beat those machines in both power and price.
If you're not fussed how much space you have, get an internal Solid State drive and use an external for storeage. Put it through an eSATA port and you're talking speedy if only slightly inconvieniant. A 32gig SSD is quite cheap now. You could get an external 7200rpm drive fairly cheap too for storeage.
In the duel core range, I'd always use AMD over Intel, you're never going to get the performance of the i5/6/7 range so why pay out the extra cash for an intel chip in the middle of the road systems?
For graphics the G-Force 'go' series is the best, in my experience.

If I was going to get a laptop, I'd look for something like this:
Processor : AMD Phenom AM3 core.
Hard Disk : 32 or 64 gig SSD + external seagate 500gig 7200rpm drive
Graphic card : nVidia GeForce GT230M/G240 512MB
Memory : 3GB 1066MHz DDR3
Optical Drives : DVD RW
Display : Whatever.
Other : W-Lan + Ethernet + eSATA
OS : Windows Seven 64 Bit Ultimate Edition.

Edit: I just looked at the wholesale prices for SSD's and it's alot more than I expected. But definitly worth it for performance over a crappy 5200rpm drive. Would be about £200 for the 64gig drive alone.
Depends if it's for games or not really. If it's for mir, take the second option on your list.

[Deano285]

I comepletley agree with interwobble, butyour sig makes
me laugh! You said you will always go for and over intel, yet you have intel on you sig! 

[Interwobble]

I said I'd always go for AMD in the DUEL core range. When it comes to the top end chips, (E.g, the Intel i7 Extreme vs AMD Athlon II X4 Black) Intel is expensive but superior. I'm currently running the fastest generally commercial chip on earth, not overclocked though. (yet ).
I've seen people take the i7 920 to 4Ghz but that's got to kill the life span of the chip.

[Deano285]

True true I noticed it it the i9 which is pretty amazing tbh!  lucky ****

[DeathStorm1991]

the second option it is buying it 2night.

[Deano285]

the second option it is buying it 2night.

Nice choice!

[Interwobble]

First thing you should do when you get a laptop is format it and install a clean Windows disk. They always come with a customised virsion with loads of crap you don't need. It'll make it run alot faster and it's dead easy to do.

[Deano285]

First thing you should do when you get a laptop is format it and install a clean Windows disk. They always come with a customised virsion with loads of crap you don't need. It'll make it run alot faster and it's dead easy to do.

Yeah i agree.... just wandering whilst were on the topic.... how would you rate my pc?

here are my specs:

Model: Acer M7300

O/S: Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit

Processor: AMD Phenom II X4810 Quad Core 3.6 GHz

Ram: 6GB DDR3

Hard Disk: Total of 2.2tb Space.. Primary 650gb with 3 seperate HDDs.. All Hitachi

DVD/RW: DVD-Super Multi Drive with Label flash + DVD ROM drive

Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 4870 1024MB

Other Info: Touch - Media control center on tower base front, Windows experience Rating: 7.5

7.1 High Def sound..

Edit: Display: 22" 1080p TFT monitor with 1680x1050 Res

[Interwobble]

Fairly good. Did you overclock your CPU yourself?
You didn't give enough details about the RAM to really judge it, if you know your RAM timings and voltage I could give you a hand to get it a bit faster.
The hard disks are letting you down big time and it's probably what is reducing your Win7 rating. If you can, get a 10,000 RPM RAID setup, would be relatively cheap and improve performance considerably.
The graphics card is pretty bread and butter, I'd not bother upgrading for another few months though. Soon the nVidia 480 will be out, it's going to make your card look like a VooDoo 2.

The main problem I see with your PC is that you're running 32-bit Windows 7.
This means that although it says you are using 6GB of RAM and have 1GB on your graphics card, in reality your PC is only using a TOTAL of 3GB. This means you're probably on about 2GB of RAM and 1GB of graphics RAM.
Upgrade to 64 bit or you're wasting alot of money.
Oh and 1080p is 1920x1080. Your res' is 720p I think.

In practice, once you get 64bit windows. You've got a very good PC for the price you'd have paid.