Laptop advice

[Maladict]

Gf gets to spend 500 euros on a new laptop   
Obviously these kinds of decisions can't be made without turning to Languish for advice. 


Candidate A: 555 euros
Toshiba Satellite A300-29U
Intel Pentium T4200  2 GHz
L2 Cache 1 MB
FSB 667 MHz
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 256/1024MB (dedicated/shared)
Internal memory 4096 DDR2 800 MHz 
HDD 250 GB  5400 rpm SATA

Candidate B: 489 euros
Toshiba Satellite L300D-21M
AMD Turion™ X2 Dual-Core Mobile RM-72 2100 MHz
L2 cache 1 MB 
HDD 5400 rpm Total storage capacity 320 GB
Internal memory 4096 MB DDR2 800 MHz
Graphic adapter ATI Radeon™ 3100 1407 MB shared

Candidate C: 500 euros
Asus K50IJ-SX051C
1800 MHz Intel Celeron Dual-Core Processor T3000
Front-side bus processor 800 MHz Chipset Mobile Intel GL40 Express + ICH9M
Internal memory 4096 DDR2 800 MHz
HDD 250 Gb SATA  5400 RPM
Graphic adapter Intel GMA X4500M

[Grey Fox]

What's the intended use? Work? Movie Watching? Gaming? Screen size important(That's like half the price).

[Maladict]

What's the intended use? Work? Movie Watching? Gaming? Screen size important(That's like half the price).

Needs to be light enough to drag to uni and back daily, so huge screen is not a plus (they're all 15.4-15.6).
Movie watching is a must and I need to be able to play EUIII on it (and maybe HOI3 ).

[Maladict]

Most important is probably that it has to last a couple of years and not be too antiquated.

[PRC]

If you do a lot of numbers work get one with the num pad on the keyboard (these are usually larger screen versions) but it makes a huge difference if you're going to be working in excel or bookkeeping at all.

[Grey Fox]

Have you looked at Lenovo's line?

Apprently finding an european website with euro pricing in English is hard.

I'd get an Acer Timeline. They seem to be closer to 600­€ tho.

[Maladict]

If you do a lot of numbers work get one with the num pad on the keyboard (these are usually larger screen versions) but it makes a huge difference if you're going to be working in excel or bookkeeping at all.

No, that won't matter.

[Maladict]

Have you looked at Lenovo's line?

Apprently finding an european website with euro pricing in English is hard.

I'd get an Acer Timeline. They seem to be closer to 600­€ tho.

This would be what Lenovo has to offer for 500:
2160MHz  Intel Pentium Dual-Core T3400 Front-side bus processor 667MHz
Chipset Mobile Intel GL40 Express  processorcache 1MB
250GB SATA  5400RPM
3072MB  DDR2 SDRAM
Graphic adapter Intel GMA 4500M


Acer Timeline start at 580 with a 13.3" model roughly comparable to the Lenovo above.