New or Upgrade?

[Tethys]

Ok before you vote, here is my dilemma...

I bought this Laptop about 1 year ago, so its a year old, and Im wondering to get a brand new one for about 500-600 bucks or just upgrade this one. Stock products on left, what I want to upgrade to is on the right:

Windows Vista Home Premium : Windows 7 Professional (i have school copy)
2 GB of Ram : 4 GM Ram
256 MB Video Memory (Nvidia 8200M G) : Would like 9000+ Nvidia
160 GB HDD : 500 GB HDD
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core : AMD Turion II Ultra Dual-Core (if upgradeable)

SO... New or Upgrade?

[ruthlessferengi]

i you spend more than 500 bucks on a laptop to play botf, you are paying too much... get one for 500 and it will last you 2 or 3 years... a 1500 one will last your just as long...

[MrD]

i you spend more than 500 bucks on a laptop to play botf, you are paying too much... get one for 500 and it will last you 2 or 3 years... a 1500 one will last your just as long...

Well I have one that is six years old by now and it still works perfectly, not the slightest problem.
It's a Pentium 4 with 2.53 GHz, 512 MB RAM, a GeForce Go 420, 40 Gig HD and Win XP.
Not really stellar, but BOTF runs just fine, so do Office, Photoship, Milkshape, Unwrap.
It's portable, it runs the game, what I need to mod it and it's ancient by modern standards.
I must admit those might have been the best 1600 € I ever spent.
Divide by six and I spent some 266 bucks per year.
If I were in the same situation, I'd buy it again.

[Lathon]

Tethys, did you get it off of Elms through your school? (windows 7)

[Tethys]

Through school. I am in a class for Hardware and Software, so I was playing around with Win7 about 2 weeks before the open beta to the world. I feel so privileged

I can install this copy of Win7 on up to 5 different PCs \

And best of all, I GOT IT FREE!

[ruthlessferengi]

ahhh.... greeed ... nothing like it... sweet:)

[garek]

If u have the space, maybe u might want to set up computer for dual boot etc and install 7 as second os and see if all works like u want. I can remember all the free xp to vista upgrades and a lot of people had a lot of problems with the upgrade.

[Tethys]

I was considering that, But I have Desktop with Win7 on it, and I do like the way it quickly boots and shuts down (which is the main reason I wanted it to begin with)

Its ease of use echoes of XP and its features Vista, very large is the only thing (11-15 Gigs rly? I hear it varies... mine is 12GB)

One concern I do have is its compatibility with XP hardware, which I cant get my Desktop to recognize a wireless card which worked fine in XP, despite several attempts to install software first, connect hardware... uninstall- connect hardware install software... uninstall- try the first way again... although it could just be Microsofts ***kboy routine again

Other then that I am very well happy with the way 7 PERFORMS, just a bit discontented with its compatibility (which comes with time, I suppose)