Need some help. Laptop comparison.

derekhockey3

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Hey. Well tommorow I'm going to buy a laptop. I'm going to use it to play videogames and go through school. I'm not a hardcore gamer that requires an amazing graphics card, some examples of games are: WoW, Guild Wars, LOTRO. So yea MMORPGS. :D I need some help deciding which of these two are better and suited for my needs.

Toshiba AMD Turion X2 Dual-Core RM-70 2.0GHz Laptop (A300D-013) :
http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?sku_id=0665000FS10108183&logon=&langid=EN&MSCSProfile=3C79F0C7EA3162B2F4DE0859C8631BEACCD77AEABF5591E6420CB018EB4F910AF6248AA2A135ACFFC15E7D4687F6F323FBDC790ECE29AB4F76DABACB131E142E620CDB57E715F995368CEA69869E4AC487C17B108AC3C743B08C2E30389DFF13997D21B02E267B135E571E04A8ED8F62C9AA3812C58B400A311F6502E2AE1A79B22CB75943487B3DDADF29495019B22BE0280B5BE477728A3BF77B5A090F6C42E9363ADF1A5B0060FA808541AFF5BDF4023B5775441AA71A2E95D70AE8858F567B45F9B9F6030676&test%5Fcookie=1#

VS!!!!!!

Gateway 15.4" Laptop featuring Intel Core 2 Duo T5750 2.0GHz (M-6864FX):
http://www.bestbuy.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0926INGFS10107933&catid=25253#

Those are my options. Thats my firm pricerange :lol:
 

theworminator

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Yeah...they're pretty similar, but for a hundred dollar difference, I'd go with the Toshiba. Graphics card is hard to upgrade later, but ram is easy to. I don't like the AMD processor so much though, it's only got 1 Mb of L2. However, it should still be fine. And you can also upgrade the processor too, it's just a little bit more work.

Also, I don't like Gateway's customer support. :p