I Need advice on which laptop to buy

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    hey,im gonna buy a laptop within the next few days mainly for email,web browsing, bebo, etc. but as i am a gaming fan i figure I may as well get a laptop thats good for gaming as well as the above.I have up to about 700euro to spend and the game i want it to support is Call of duty 4. also dell is not an option as i wont have time to wait for it to be delivered unless someone knows a way of getting them quicker,
    cheers paul, dublin
     
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    I don't know what you'll find in Ireland, or what you'l necessarily get for 700 euros, but try and find a laptop with Go8600 graphics and 2GB of RAM.
     
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    im looking at a sony vaio NR seies, could someone have a look and see if it would be ok,
    thanks
     
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    They (with the exception of the 21M/S, 21J/S, 32M/S, 32L/S, don't buy those) have an 8400M GT GPU. Acceptable, but hardly gaming pedigree.
     
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    ok thanks, what would be the problem with those graphics? would it lag or something?
    cheeers
     
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    Yes, graphics card too slow would cause graphical slowdown.
     
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    oK what about the vaio AR61E
     
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    Same again. I've told you what to look for...
     
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    DO NOT get a laptop with the 8400 or 8600 mobile GPUs. They are known to fail and even Nvidia admits to it.
     
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    Ooh cripes, yeah I'd forgotten about that, well remembered. Um, what would you get then? I haven't spotted any half decent mobility radeon laptops for a while now...
     
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