Laptop picking friend needs help

Alright so my friend just sold his laptop today for $350 off craigslist....now when it comes to laptops idk really anything about them graphic card wise and stuff and thats what hes looking for and it comes down to 2 laptops that people are selling off craigslist. So can u tell me which one would be the best for him to buy for the price and better performance.]



1st.

M15x alienware ($475)

15 inch screen(of course)

windows vista home premium (capable of running windows 7 which ill update it to)

intel core 2 duo 2.10 ghz processor

3 gigs of ram

160 gig 7200rpm harddrive

NNVIDIA 8700m gt 512 mb



2nd ($500 going to try to lower to $450-475)

Acer Aspire Laptop AS5552G-7641

Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium - 64-bit version

AMD Phenom™ II X4 Quad-Core Processor N970 (2.2GHz - 2MB L2 cache)

4GB DDR3 1066 SDRAM

500GB hard drive

Acer® CineCrystal™ 15.6" display (1366 x 768)

ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 6550M with 1024MB of dedicated DDR3 VRAM

AMD M880G chipset - 8X DVD±RW DL

6-cell battery

1-year limited warranty


Looking for one that plays best in games.

so over all which laptop sounds like a better deal for the price? all this info came off either my texts or the add its self and he wants to buy either one of them by friday after he gets paid.

2nd one, mainly because it has a better GPU. The Intel CPU could be a bit better or worse, as I doubt it'd have an i3 in there. The rest shouldn't need explaining really.