New laptop possibilities

[rev_olie]

Hey,

Just wanted to ask can anyone recommend a good laptop for me. I'm OK looking for desktops but I'm not so hot with laptop specs.

I need it to be fairly fast and smooth, for vista and anything Uni throws at me.
Ive got a budget of up to £500 and want it to play fairly high spec games.

Ive been looking and for a laptop is it better to have a higher processor clock speed or RAM.

Ive been looking at these 2,

Option 1
Option 2

So what does anyone think? Are there any out there for a similar price with a better spec.

Btw i don't want to go with a Dell or Acer. Ive had a bad run with them and don't get along with them.

Thanks

 

[Technochicken]

I know you said you didn't like dells, but the studio 15 laptop would be better for gaming than either of those, and it's starting at 479 pounds. It has a 4570 video chipset, as opposed to the hp pavilion you chose, which has a 4530, and the hp 550 has an Intel chipset, which basicallly suck for gaming. It also as a 200 mhz faster cpu than the hp 550.

http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/p...tudio-1555?c=uk&cs=ukdhs1&l=en&ref=lthp&s=dhs

 

[rev_olie]

Thanks for that

but are there any similar non dell systens

 

[hellokitty[hk]]

Ive got a budget of up to £500 and want it to play fairly high spec games.

The nearly 500 euro (are those euros O.O) system, definitely for games, though laptops are not good for gaming!

I'm OK looking for desktops but I'm not so hot with laptop specs.

They are almost the same...

 

[rev_olie]

The nearly 500 euro (are those euros O.O) system,

Thanks for that.

500 euro (are those euros O.O)

You mean you don't know the great British pound when you see it. tut tut tut

though laptops are not good for gaming!

I know their not so great and i probably wouldn't do anything to hardcore but just have the ability to if i get board traveling or something

They are almost the same.

And its the Almost bit i don't know much about . No its mainly the processor numbers and relatives and then graphics cards that stump me.