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making it wireless is no big deal i guess, its fine how it is...just thought while i was going wireless, i might as well do it properly haha, but i guess there's no need when i really think about it!
so would my router go in my set top box? then i can plug the cable (which i already have running from my box to my pc) into it, but still have my lappy wireless?
virgin media
I was thinking of getting but then saw this in Tesco
http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.200-5324.aspx
The processor in it is right at the very top end of what you can get in a Laptop over your budget but very nice and looks cool in white I think.
Plus if it goes wrong you aren't messing about with internet returns..
In terms of customer support Packard Bell are excellent - probably the best website support site of any company - including a freely open website forum for customers to post their questions and help each other out, something I've not really seen with other companies. I know the laptop I have from them was made by NEC.
They won't sluppy with you a router i believe so your need to get one =]
Netgear would be recommendation
http://www.fon.com/en/
I have 3 invites for friends to get a WiFi Router for 20 Euro's
instead of 34.44 euros
yeah i knew that
My advice is not to get a laptop that has Intel graphics, its what most laptops are let down by.
Ive never used MCE before thats all?
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though i might be using it now and again
tho mine would be slightly outside your budget at £649 (but it does have 2mb RAM and 106gb hard drive which i'm very happy with)
i only use mine to play around, on the internet and listen to music
That's the same thing that happened with both of ours. I'd just be surfin the net or whatever and it would just randomly switch off.
I'm pretty sure your Laptop had a lot more then 2mb of RAM maybe it has 2GB of RAM? 106GB is a funny number as well sure it's not 160GB HD?
There was a similar sounding philips at PCWorld for £500 - smaler HD and 1GB RAM.
I find Intel graphics to be pretty decent these days - for one you know if it's an Intel you're not going to have to struggle to get new drivers for it.
My cousin's laptop who I was reinstalling windows for last night has some Unichrome graphics card built in and that was really bad.
Newer Intel laptop graphics cards have a lot of features for playing back DVD's and movies smoothly - they're not the best for 3D Games but not the worst either. And a lot of graphics depends on whether the laptop shares the memory with the rest of the computer or has a dedicated memory (which is usually faster) for it's own use. Also the latest intel graphics also think about other things like saving battery life - for instance by lowering the frames per second on thing like wordprocessing to save battery power.
http://www.trustedreviews.com/notebooks/review/2007/04/17/Intel-Santa-Rosa-Revealed/p4
http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/clear_video/