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Geek Culture / Just a laptop I'm looking at...

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Lonnehart
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Posted: 16th Jun 2010 09:52 Edited at: 16th Jun 2010 09:53
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Acer Aspire 4540-5424

AMD Athlon X2 M500 2.2Ghz
14" WXGA Wide CrystalBrite TFT
3GB DDR2-800 SODIMM
ATI Radeon HD4200 GFX Card with 1919mb HyperMemory and HDMI out
1.3 MP Webcam and Mic (built in)
DVD+/-RW Dual Layer Drive
320GB Sata-II 5400RPM HD
10/100 BaseT Lan/56k Modem
Wireless 802.11b/g/n, 1 RJ45, VGA Out
3x USB 2.0, 5-in-1 Card Reader
6 Cell Battery (8 hours)
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium (64bit)

Price: $759(US)

Soon as I can I'll be going into the store to grab this. What do you all think?

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David R
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Posted: 16th Jun 2010 10:06
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Looks decent, only thing that stands out is the fairly mediocre amount of RAM for the price - you'd expect 4GB DDR3 for the 7 or 8 hundred mark.

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Lonnehart
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Well, I won't be doing any heavy gaming with it. Just drawing stuff using a tablet and such. I guess if I were to try playing The Sims 3 I'd burn the thing out...

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charger bandit
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Posted: 16th Jun 2010 14:17
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Nah Sims 3 would work. It looks decent,also the battery life is good so I guess its a good pick.


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Lonnehart
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Posted: 17th Jun 2010 00:36 Edited at: 17th Jun 2010 00:38
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So someone tell me... what's the difference between DDR2 and DDR3? And how does it affect what a computer can do? Unfortunately, I know almost next to nothing about laptops. I have to depend on what the salesman tells me (and I never trust them completely even if I know them personally)...

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Quik
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Posted: 17th Jun 2010 15:41
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Quote: "Well, I won't be doing any heavy gaming with it. Just drawing stuff using a tablet and such. I guess if I were to try playing The Sims 3 I'd burn the thing out..."


well you need good RAM for basicly everything, so thats a bad excuse for having low RAM
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Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium (64bit)"

it is recommended that you use 4gb ram for Windows 7


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charger bandit
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Posted: 17th Jun 2010 18:50
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DDR3 ram is faster but right now the cheapest and best alternative is DDR2.

Quik: I run Windows 7 on 2gb of ram and works like a dream.


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