ASUS X50R-AP341C

[TurkzZ]

Hi

im looking for a new laptop, arround the £400 - £450 (UK) range.

so far from PC world i have seen the:

ASUS X50R-AP341C which looks impressive:

Intel Core Duo T2250 Processor
(1.73 GHz, 555 MHz FSB, 1 MB Cache)
Genuine WIndows Vista (R) Home Premium
2 GB Memory
160 GB Hard Drive


http/www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/store/pcw_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@1896918880.1203593177@@@@&BV_EngineID=cccladedgegdldkcflgceggdhhmdgmk.0&page=Product&fm=null&sm=null&tm=null&sku=652390&category_oid=

and the:

FUJITSU SIEMENS AMILO PI-2515
Intel Core 2 Duo T5450
(1.67 GHz, 667 MHz FSB, 2 MB Cache)
Memory (RAM): 2048 MB
Storage (hard drive): 160 GB

http/www.comet.co.uk/cometbrowse/product.do?sku=435848&cm_sp=FeatureEnd-_-Laptops-_-position1

out of these two which one is supirior, are there better ones in this price range?

it need to be powerfull enough to run Football Manager games at a good level (game doesnt use any complex graphics)

thanks

 

[theworminator]

Out of the two you mentioned, the Fujitsu one is more powerful. But what do you mean by Football Manager games? Like, the sports games such as Fifa?

 

[Maziar]

They dont have alot of difference the first one has 1.7 CPU + 1MB cache and the second one has 1.6 CPU + 2MB cache, so they dont have alot of difference

yep they will be fine for football manager (to the worminator, yes football manager is a game produced by EA games and yes it looks like fifa and the only difference is that u are the manger not the players )

 

[theworminator]

Well, you have to note that the first one is Core Duo, while the second is Core 2 Duo, so there is an architectural difference that will lead to at least a moderate amount of extra performance in the C2D. Then again, don't ask me to quote a number, because this is only my educated guess.

 

[Maziar]

Yes Core2Duo is better than CoreDuo, it has a newer architecture as u said and i vote for the Coer2Duo one between those but they dont have alot of difference

 

[TurkzZ]

Football manager 2008 is a game by Sega-Sigames, i think in USA its named World Wide Soccer Manager.

so the fijitsu is faster by a little, the Asus has a inbuilt Webcam,

how do the two companies match up on reliability?

is the Asus a good laptop for its price? or should i look for better deals,

basically the only game that will be played is football manager, which only uses 2d graphics, and will be used for office etc, msn,

would it be able to run football manager 2008 and msn as well as internet at same time?

(my pc pn a 1gb ram and AMD 64 4000+ can so the laptop should be able to cope )

thanks for all the help, much appriciated

 

[TurkzZ]

anyone