PC question

[riderkid]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883229049

does anyone think this is a good deal. Im hoping for Xmas i cna talk my parents into fronting the extra 350 for it so i can buy it in jan.

Im an AMD fan

[Helegad]

Yep, that's a sweet deal. But an Intel Quad would make it better

[riderkid]

damn i should check if the mobos CPU is upgradable right..and is quad that much better?

[mamock116]

amd rocks! that looks pretty good, i like ATI for graphics though especially since amd and ati merged and share technology

[The Dude]

You can pretty much get a laptop with most those specifications nowadays, but for what it is, I suppose its a decent PC rig.

[riderkid]

thats cool but for nearly the same i can get a rig with an quad core or a intel core 2 duo, whats better a 3.0 intel core 2 duo, a 2.4 quad core intel or a athlon XP2 6000

[mamock116]

i wouldnt get a intel quad core. i heard they are shipping from the factory with flaws to increase sales

[Helegad]

Aren't the sockets for Dual Cores and Quad Cores different?

[doomed]

No they are not.

You shouldn't buy a Dual Core, go for a Quad Core.
And it's not worth buying a intel CPU unless you don't care about upgrading or you plan to buy one of the new Core i7 processors.

[riderkid]

ok i think i'll just get a custom laptop, whose better by the way

dell or HP?

[mamock116]

hp ships with 64bit vista which is much faster and games are now becoming optomized for 64 bit architecture. devil may cry 4 is an example

[The Dude]

I wouldn't have recommended either, but Dell is probably the better of both, if you're into ASUS they do some decent laptop deals too.
Shop around.

[riderkid]

well i dun need one for gaming, i need one for my comic making and to take around conventions, as well as movie watching one the road

[The Dude]

Fair enough, you can get a laptop pretty damn cheap then.
Older Brother picked up an Asus gaming laptop which pretty much runs all the current games on high specs for £670, although theres now an updated laptop for that price nowadays.

[riderkid]

i live in the states, i only have B&M and internet. i dun need a gaming laptop but i need a reliable one with the speed needed to live my life. i game on consoles now so i want a laptop to work on my comics and gamefans. as well as DVD watching on long trips