So I was thinking about buying a laptop for my studies in information technology and for basic gaming, like WoW and stuff. I was thinking about the Acer Aspire 7740G, since a friend recommended it to me. Here are the specs:
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[*]Intel® Core™ i5 processor 430M (32 nm Dual core, 2.26GHz, 3MB Cache, 1066 MHz FSB)
[*]4 GB DDR3 1066 MHz RAM (2+2 GB modules)
[*]ATI® Mobility Radeon™ HD 5650 1 GB GDDR3 (”Madison-Pro” Graphics Card 1024MB DDR3 VRAM)
[*]17.3 HD+ 1600×900 CineCrystal™ high-brightness (220-nit) TFT, 8ms
[*]640 GB HDD, SATA, 5400 rpm (Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD6400BEVT)
[*]DVD Super Multi DL
[*]5-in-1 card reader (MMC, SD, MS, MS Pro, xD), Acer HD Crystal Eye webcam, Fingerprint reader
[*]10/100/1000 LAN, Wake-on-LAN ready
[*]Integrated Intel® Wireless WiFi Link 5100 (802.11a/b/g/Draft-N), Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™
[*]Battery: 48.8 W 4400 mAh 6-cell Li-ion battery with Acer QuickCharge
[*]4x USB 2.0 ports, HDMI, Consumer infrared (CIR) port, external display (VGA) port, Headphones/speaker/line-out jack with S/PDIF support, Microphone-in jack, Line-in jack, Modem (RJ-11) port, Ethernet (RJ-45) port
[*]Five speaker Dolby surround sound, with Acer Tuba CineBass Subwoofer
[*]103-/104-/107-key keyboard, with inverted “T” cursor layout
[*]Multi-gesture touchpad pointing device with Acer Bio-Protection fingerprint reader,
[*]1x ExpressCard ™ / 54
[*]3.25 kg, 410 x 286 x 35/41.5 mm
[*]Microsoft ® Windows ® 7 Home Premium 64-bit including Acer software package (Acer Arcade ™ Deluxe featuring Cinema, Album, Music, Acer home media, online media, Acer Backup Manager, Acer eRecovery, Acer Power Smart Manager, Acer Bio-Protection, Acer Crystal Eye, Acer GridVista ™, Acer Launch Manager, Acer Game Zone, Acer Game Console, burner software, virus scanners, etc.)
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So what do you think Facepunch? I'm not going to do a lot of photoshopping or video editing so I don't need power for that. A local shop is selling these for 699 euros, and I can't seem to find a cheaper deal around here (Finland), so should I buy it?
You honestly want to do basic gaming on that? Dude, I've got a laptop with that GPU and it runs pretty much anything I throw at it at decent framerates.
Go for it.
I just bought this exact laptop, but with a 500GB HDD. It runs everything minus high end DX10 games very well.
I just bought one of these on ebay for $50 from a guy that said it was broken, it was missing the hard drive and ram. IT works for me.
What happened is he crashed windows and didnt know how to fix it so he bought a new one and was selling this one.
He didnt know anything about fixing it and so on.. I had him send the serial number and had a police friend of mine run it through and all clear
Nothing wrong with it, I say do it.
[QUOTE=Inacio;23244935][url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834115793[/url]
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automerge, you broke it[/QUOTE]
Newegg doesn't ship to Finland (Europa)
[QUOTE=Evilan;23243541]I just bought this exact laptop, but with a 500GB HDD. It runs everything minus high end DX10 games very well.[/QUOTE]
Got the laptop too, but with an I3 330m and a 640 gig HDD. I run ME2 at highest settings (although my sessions can't last very long because the thing will overheat. Maybe because of the temperature outside?) and pretty much anything else I throw at it at highest with stable framerates.
Thanks for the replies everyone, I'll be buying this one then.
[QUOTE=Spool;23248995]Thanks for the replies everyone, I'll be buying this one then.[/QUOTE]
At that price you should definitely get it. I got it for around the same price, worth it.
Was almost about to buy an Inspiron 1545 for 700 when I saw this thread..... Wow. I should probably get this one instead.
Looks like a pretty decent gaming laptop to me.
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