In need of buying a laptop

[barfownz]

Hey guys. I need your freedback.

I'm interested in buying this laptop;

HP Pavilion dv9548us Notebook with a NVIDIA GeForce® 8600M graphics card.

I'd like to use it on webdesign, DVD watching, Internet, gaming and school work?

What do you guys think? Would Battlefield 2 run on this computer? Will it be good on running current games made from 2001-2007?

[BarTopDancer]

How much RAM?
What OS (XP or Vista)?

[barfownz]

Vista

Not sure on the RAM.

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

How much RAM?
What OS (XP or Vista)?

Vista sux - I hate it.

Originally Posted by barfownz

Not sure on the RAM.

Lots. Max out the machine. RAM is your friend. Your cheap friend.

[barfownz]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

Vista sux - I hate it.

Lots. Max out the machine. RAM is your friend. Your cheap friend.

Why do you hate Vista? Anything upgrade from Windows has to be better. XP was good, though.

So, the more RAM the better? What exactly is RAM?

[figment1986]

Originally Posted by barfownz

Why do you hate Vista? Anything upgrade from Windows has to be better. XP was good, though.

So, the more RAM the better? What exactly is RAM?

Vista is too bugged for my preference... downgrade the OS to Xp... it will be safer for the time being.

Also, Ram is needed to operate the amount of programs. Ram is your memory... the more memory the more you can do. many programs require a certain amount of memory, 1gig is slowly becoming the norm.

most "new" laptops are upgradable to 4 gigs, some even more. I would start off at 1 and go from there... help offset the cost.

[Morrigoon]

Originally Posted by barfownz

So, the more RAM the better? What exactly is RAM?

Only THE most important piece of information to consider when buying a computer! Modern machines you should strive for 2gb or more unless you're buying a budget machine, but you say you want to do gaming, so like a nympho at a nunnery, you need MORE RAM!

[barfownz]

Originally Posted by Morrigoon

Only THE most important piece of information to consider when buying a computer! Modern machines you should strive for 2gb or more unless you're buying a budget machine, but you say you want to do gaming, so like a nympho at a nunnery, you need MORE RAM!

This PC has 2g RAM.

I posted what graphics card this notebook has. Is it good for running Battlefield 2 at a good quality level? Or Battlefield 1942? or even Counter-Strike? What about Call of duty 4? The most recent PC game to hit the market.

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by barfownz

Why do you hate Vista? Anything upgrade from Windows has to be better. XP was good, though.

So, the more RAM the better? What exactly is RAM?

RAM = Random Access Memory

It's where all your applications (word, anti-virus, windows interface,etc...) live when they are being run. When you start an application like Word, your computer pulls the code from the (relatively) slow hard drive and loads it into RAM.

[blueerica]

Vista is the biggest memory hog short of Alzheimer's. I'm trying to put at least a couple of gigs on my laptop (which would be now, if my car would stop getting hit...) and honestly, I'd prefer 4. On the other hand, the boyfriend says that he thinks Vista sees his four and raises. I think he's just making that up, but he thinks Vista has it out for him.

On another note: you play Battlefield 2? I played that, once upon a time. I was too into WOW to really get into it then, and now I'm just too busy to spend any amount of time playing a PC game.