Time for an upgrade...

Recently my desktop motherboard fried. Since then I have been looking for a moderately priced laptop to play CoH on.

Here's the issue; due to a small budget, I'm looking for a laptop somewhere along the lines of $500-$800 which can make it difficult.

As for tech specs, I would only require a few things:
3GB RAM
Core 2 Duo or above CPU
Dedicated video card
Numpad on the keyboard (keybinds are a must for most of my characters, and a numpad is the easiest thing to use.

Anyone know of a particularly good PC with those specs in that price range?

Thanks!

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Check this thread: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=207468

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Good news, bad news.

Bad News, those restrictions, price, Core 2, dedicated video, does limit the selection a lot.

Good News, now that the mobile Core i3, i5 have hit the market, the mobile Core 2 laptops are discounted to clear out stock.

NewEgg spat out these as possibilities. NewEgg has a nice viewer that allows you to zoom in and take a look at the keyboard layout (6-12 pictures for each, usually one is a look at the keyboard layout). Just select one and then click on the big picture, that will bring up the viewer.

General differences of the three in stock.
T6600 - 2.2GHz, 2MB cache, 800MHz FSB.
P7350 - 2.0GHz, 3MB cache, 1066MHz FSB, lower power.

I'm going to say it's a toss up between the two in performance, trading clock speed advantage for a faster memory subsystem.

nVidia 130M - A fare sight better than integrated.

Random points. First, a larger diagonal screen generally means there is space for a larger keyboard spread, sometimes. The two Acers appear to use the same keyboard, the larger screen just means there is more space to the left and right of the keyboard. Second, you may want to go with the screen with less resolution than more for gaming because of the modest power of the GPU.

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