Laptop Graphics Advice
Guys,
I'm looking at buying a (fairly) decent laptop to take to uni in September. The spending limit is about £1,300 though.
I've been looking through the Dell Outlet today and have seen some surprisingly good deals, such as:
Inspiron M170 Pentium M 780 ( 2.26GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 533MHz FSB)
1024MB 533MHz DDR2 SDRAM (2x512)
120GB (5, 400 rpm) Hard Drive
17 UltraSharp Wide Screen WUXGA (1920 x 1200) Display with TrueLife
8X DVD+/-RW
NVIDIA Geforce Go 6800 ULTRA with 256MB DDR video memory
That'd be £1,231.51 inc VAT, excl. del.
The graphics card is what I need advice on. Some of the laptops in the Dell outlet have GeForce Go 7800GTX cards installed as opposed the the 6800 Ultra. When it comes to graphics cards I know relatively little, but am aware that not all 7 series cards are necessarily better than some 6 series, for instance.
Which would give greater performance?
And while I'm here I may as well ask - is that a good deal or could I find a better spec elsewhere? I've always been a Dell fan but I try to keep an open mind!
Thanks in advance.
Tom
Guys,
I'm looking at buying a (fairly) decent laptop to take to uni in September. The spending limit is about £1,300 though.
I've been looking through the Dell Outlet today and have seen some surprisingly good deals, such as:
Inspiron M170 Pentium M 780 ( 2.26GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 533MHz FSB)
1024MB 533MHz DDR2 SDRAM (2x512)
120GB (5, 400 rpm) Hard Drive
17 UltraSharp Wide Screen WUXGA (1920 x 1200) Display with TrueLife
8X DVD+/-RW
NVIDIA Geforce Go 6800 ULTRA with 256MB DDR video memory
That'd be £1,231.51 inc VAT, excl. del.
The graphics card is what I need advice on. Some of the laptops in the Dell outlet have GeForce Go 7800GTX cards installed as opposed the the 6800 Ultra. When it comes to graphics cards I know relatively little, but am aware that not all 7 series cards are necessarily better than some 6 series, for instance.
Which would give greater performance?
And while I'm here I may as well ask - is that a good deal or could I find a better spec elsewhere? I've always been a Dell fan but I try to keep an open mind!
Thanks in advance.
Tom