Would this be a good laptop to play games/listen to music and watch DVD’s and whatnot while i’m deployed?
by admin on Sep.19, 2009, under Laptops & Notebooks
hahnmr asked:
SYSTEM COLORTuxedo Black
PROCESSORIntel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T8300 (2.4GHz/800Mhz FSB, 3MB Cache)
OPERATING SYSTEMGenuine Windows Vista® Home Premium Edition SP1
LCD AND CAMERAGlossy, widescreen 15.4 inch LCD (1280×800) & 2.0 MP Camera
MEMORY4GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz (2 Dimms)
HARD DRIVESpeed: 320GB SATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) with Free Fall Sensor
INTERNAL OPTICAL DRIVESlot Load DVD+/-RW (DVD/CD read/write)
VIDEO CARD256MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8600M GT
WIRELESS CARDSIntel Next-Gen Wireless-N Mini-card
MOBILE BROADBANDVerizon Wireless built-in cellular mobile broadband (EVDO Rev A)
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SOUND OPTIONSIntegrated Sound Blaster Audigy HD Software Edition
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Florence
SYSTEM COLORTuxedo Black
PROCESSORIntel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T8300 (2.4GHz/800Mhz FSB, 3MB Cache)
OPERATING SYSTEMGenuine Windows Vista® Home Premium Edition SP1
LCD AND CAMERAGlossy, widescreen 15.4 inch LCD (1280×800) & 2.0 MP Camera
MEMORY4GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz (2 Dimms)
HARD DRIVESpeed: 320GB SATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) with Free Fall Sensor
INTERNAL OPTICAL DRIVESlot Load DVD+/-RW (DVD/CD read/write)
VIDEO CARD256MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8600M GT
WIRELESS CARDSIntel Next-Gen Wireless-N Mini-card
MOBILE BROADBANDVerizon Wireless built-in cellular mobile broadband (EVDO Rev A)
BLUETOOTH AND WIRELESS USBDell Wireless 355 Bluetooth Internal (2.0+Enhanced Data Rate)
BATTERY OPTIONS85 WHr 9-cell Lithium Ion Primary Battery
SOUND OPTIONSIntegrated Sound Blaster Audigy HD Software Edition
FINGERPRINT SCANNERFinger Print Reader XPS M1530
My Software & Accessories
ANTIVIRUS SOFTWAREMcAfee SecurityCenter with anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewall, 36-months
PRODUCTIVITY SOFTWARENo Microsoft Office
PHOTO, VIDEO & BURN SOFTWAREAdobe Photoshop Elements + Adobe Premiere Elementsedit
My Service
WARRANTY AND SERVICE2Yr Ltd Hardware Warranty, InHome Service after Remote Diagnosis
ACCIDENT AND THEFT PROTECTIONLoJack for Laptops Theft Protection
DATASAFE ONLINE BACKUPDell Online Backup 50GB for 1 yearedit
DIAL-UP INTERNET ACCESSNo ISP requested
ENVIRONMENTAL OPTIONSRecycling Kit and Plant a Tree for Me
ALSO INCLUDED WITH YOUR SYSTEM
Dell Printer DriverWindows Vista™ Premium
Software – AdobeAdobe® Acrobat® Reader 9.0
Processor BrandingIntel Centrino Core Duo Processor
Doms Camera and ColorBlack Glossy, widescreen 15.4 inch LCD (1280×800) & 2.0 MP Camera
Florence
September 20th, 2009 on 5:38 pm
Leon
It’s perfect! Although some higher end games like Crysis will have trouble playing, but anything else no problems…
September 21st, 2009 on 7:31 am
Vivian
It’s great for listening music and watching DVD’s, but I don’t reccommend it for playing games. Most games are Vista-incompatible, mostly the games that are not designed by Microsoft Windows. Games like Crysis, The Sims 2, World of Warcraft, Ragnarok, Flyff, Command and Conquer, are simply giving you errors while playing the game with Windows Vista.
September 22nd, 2009 on 8:23 am
Melanie
The 15 inch monitor is going to totally suck, especially in a wide screen you should look at something with as large a screen as possible.
The system is a Dell, which means it’s all integrated components, which means while they may make it sound good, it’s not as good as it sounds.
What you should be looking for is specifically a gaming laptop. If it’s a gaming laptop then it is called a gaming laptop. All the stuff you want to do is very graphic intense and will require a great deal of system resources, so the way to go will be a gaming machine, which is more likely a Mac or a Sony, not a Dell, but that’s just my personal opinion.
The difference between gaming machines and regular machines is that the components are not integrated, they are stand-alone hardware components, which means they are significantly stronger/faster/better than their integrated versions.
Hope this helps, and good luck on a safe journey.