At your budget, Acer Aspire 5542G will be the best choice for you.This is a very good performer when it comes to day to day's work. The thing is it is also very good for casual gaming. It can play almost all the latest games, even the most demanding ones at lower resolutions. Thanks to its ATI Radeon HD 4570 512 MB DDR3 dedicated card.
The new Turon II 500 is based on new 45nm fabrication and is more power efficient and a good performer. It beats C2D 6600 2.2GHz.
The config is
- Turion-II Dual Core M500 (2.2 Ghz,1 MB L2)
- ATI-Rad 512MB 4570 HD GDDR3
- AMD M880G Chipset
- 3 GB DDR2 RAM
- 15.6" HD-LED
- DVD Writer,
320 GB HDD
- BT, MultiCR
- FPR, Gigabit LAN
- WebCam, 4 x USB Ports,
- Dolby Stereo Speakers
- HDMI, 6 Cell,Linux, 1Yr,CC
Price is around 36k (
www.gadgetsguru.com)
The extra money can be used to get good accessories for this laptop, like upgrading the ram to 4 GB, cooling pad, external mosue etc.