advice on new laptop?

[hscott729]

Hi,

im in the market for a all purpose but strong gaming laptop, for around £600, and i've found this one, from www.pcspecialist.co.uk and was wondering if you guys might take a look at the specs and tell me what you think. the website lets you custom build you laptop/desktop and if i get lots of feed bac in a particulr area i might change what i get

Enigme IV base: 15'6 glossy HD LED backlight screen
CPU: Intel i5 (i5-3210M)2.5GHz 3mb
RAM: 2x4gb ddr3
graphics card: Nvidia Geforce GT 650m
with 500gb hard drive (5,400rpm)

the other stuff like sound cards and card readers im not to fussed about, but i'd like some feedback on the specs :D

thanks

[TheMatrix]

What I learned the hard way:

Make sure you can find replacement parts easily, even before you buy the laptop. That way, when(we're humans, we drop/step on things) you break it, you can know where to look. I, for example, have this wonderful laptop with a cracked screen. And nobody seems to have a replacement screen, which of course broke after the warranty expired earlier this year.
If you intend to run anything besides Windows on it, make sure that there are drivers for your wanted OS. On my Acer Aspire Timeline X, there is no official driver for the "Optimus" that switches between the GPU and integrated graphics for GNU/Linux. nVidia doesn't seem to want to make one, which is unfortunate, because programming on Windoze is a pain.

Otherwise those specifications look "okay" to me, although I play games on consoles, so I know or care very little about all that. What I have in my 2006 desktop and 2010 laptop is more than enough for me.

[MrDaniel2K13]

You should easily be able to play games on your laptop

[hscott729]

thanks for the feedback guys

i get a 3 year parts warrenty on it, and im not planning to install another OS, so it should all be good :D