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« Reply #30 on: Monday, October 22, 2012, 19:32:36 » |
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You can put dual operating systems on a mac, so you can run windows if needs be. If you know someone with an ac.uk address even better as they get educational discount.
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« Reply #31 on: Monday, October 22, 2012, 19:53:03 » |
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Apple are rumoured to be announcing a 13" Macbook Pro with Retina Display tomorrow.
If so i'd be sorely tempted to upgrade, as mine is almost 3 years old and slowing down by the day.
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« Reply #32 on: Monday, October 22, 2012, 20:01:48 » |
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Only a posing prick would require a new laptop every year though.
Everyone knows Macs are only good for posing though. Shiny, shiny. |
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« Reply #33 on: Monday, October 22, 2012, 20:53:25 » |
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Only a posing prick would require a new laptop every year though.
Buy a cheap Windows laptop and you could buy 4 or 5 of them before spending the same as a mac  |
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« Reply #34 on: Saturday, October 27, 2012, 19:04:18 » |
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Seeing as there was no sure fire winner in the poll i ended up going for a Sony Vaio E Series.
Was quite keep on an ultra book but opted against one as i couldn't find one i liked with a 15inch screen.
Cheers for your help
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« Reply #35 on: Monday, December 31, 2012, 19:16:33 » |
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My Son is looking to buy a new laptop, and I have no clue as to what level we should be looking at. He found this one on the Dell site, but I'm not sure whether its good or not. Fire Red Cover, WLAN Dell New! Inspiron 15z Laptop
3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-3517U Processor (4M Cache, up to 3GHz)
6GB (1x2048 + 1x4096) 1600MHz DDR3
500GB 5400 RPM SATA HDD and 32GB mSATA SSD
Nvidia® GeForce® GT630M 2G
15.6 inch (39.6 cm) High Definition (720p) LED Display with Truelife
Windows 8 64bit, Englishhttp://search.dell.co.uk/1/1/148365-fire-red-cover-wlan-dell-new-inspiron-15z-laptop.htmlI know we have some clever, technically literate, bods on here so any (sensible) advice would be much appreciated. Cheers |
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« Reply #36 on: Monday, December 31, 2012, 20:08:21 » |
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What is he intending to use it for? Might be wrong but the graphics card looks mid range so may not suffice as a games machine.
Like the SSD drive and processor though.
I'm sure Si Pie or JJ will be along to put me right if I'm wrong.
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« Reply #37 on: Monday, December 31, 2012, 20:34:17 » |
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What is he intending to use it for? Might be wrong but the graphics card looks mid range so may not suffice as a games machine.
Like the SSD drive and processor though.
I'm sure Si Pie or JJ will be along to put me right if I'm wrong.
To be fair he doesn't use it a lot for gaming (he plays his xbox for that more). He's just started his first year of 'A' levels and uses it for homework/research. He's not taking any kind of ICT or graphic design, so doesn't need anything top of the range graphics wise. Entertainment wise, he does play football manager as well as playing music & messing about on youtube. He |
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« Reply #38 on: Monday, December 31, 2012, 20:43:41 » |
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Should be fine I would say. Just make sure he stores all his stuff on the 500gb otherwise it will soon fill up
Comes with Windows 8, is he happy with that?
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« Reply #39 on: Monday, December 31, 2012, 21:34:54 » |
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Football Manager is surprisingly demanding in terms of graphics.
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« Reply #40 on: Tuesday, January 1, 2013, 09:50:25 » |
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Sounds a good spec, the graphics are pretty low end but if he only plays FM on the lowest graphics setting it will be fine.
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« Reply #41 on: Wednesday, January 2, 2013, 19:20:16 » |
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Thanks for the info, based on the feedback it appears that the graphics might be an issue.
Just as a question, what would be a decent graphics card?
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« Reply #42 on: Wednesday, January 2, 2013, 19:21:21 » |
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I play Medieval 2 Total War on my laptop on the top settings and it runs relatively smoothly. Would Empire Total War be a step too far?
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« Reply #43 on: Wednesday, January 2, 2013, 19:34:55 » |
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Thanks for the info, based on the feedback it appears that the graphics might be an issue.
Just as a question, what would be a decent graphics card?
A 660M nvidia or 7970M ATI. Both are pretty pricey though. A full list of pretty good laptop graphics are.....and this is the actual order of speed so top to bottom. GeForce GTX 680M SLI Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire GeForce GTX 590 GeForce GTX 680 Radeon HD 7970 GeForce GTX 660 Ti GeForce GTX 680MX Radeon HD 7870 GeForce GTX 580 Radeon HD 6970 GeForce GTX 675M SLI GeForce GTX 670MX SLI GeForce GTX 680M Radeon HD 7970M Quadro K5000M GeForce GTX 570 GeForce GTX 480 GeForce GTX 580M SLI Radeon HD 6990M Crossfire GeForce GTX 485M SLI Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire GeForce GTX 675MX Radeon HD 7950M * GeForce GTX 560 Ti Radeon HD 6870 GeForce GTX 470 GeForce GTX 470M SLI GeForce GTX 480M SLI GeForce GTX 560M SLI Quadro K4000M Radeon HD 5850 GeForce GTX 675M GeForce GTX 580M Radeon HD 6990M Radeon HD 7770 GeForce GTX 460M SLI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire GeForce GTX 485M GeForce GTX 460 768MB Radeon HD 6790 GeForce GTX 285M SLI Radeon HD 6970M GeForce GTX 670MX Quadro 5010M GeForce GTX 670M GeForce GT 650M SLI FirePro M8900 Radeon HD 7870M Quadro K3000M GeForce GTX 570M FirePro M6000 Radeon HD 8870M Radeon HD 5770 GeForce GTX 550 Ti GeForce GTX 280M SLI Radeon HD 6950M GeForce GTX 660M Radeon HD 7850M Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 Quadro 4000M GeForce GTX 470M GeForce GTX 480M GeForce GT 650M Radeon HD 7770M GeForce GTX 560M Quadro K2000M GeForce GTS 450 GeForce GTX 260M SLI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Quadro 5000M FirePro M4000 Radeon HD 7750M * FirePro M7820 Radeon HD 6870M Radeon HD 4850 GeForce 9800M GTX SLI GeForce GTX 460M Lesser spec that will not play games at good settings but can cope with most in top to bottom order are..... GeForce GT 730M * GeForce GT 645M * Quadro 3000M Quadro FX 3800M GeForce GTX 285M Mobility Radeon HD 4870 GeForce GT 640M Radeon HD 8790M * Radeon HD 7730M GeForce GTX 280M GeForce 9800M GT SLI GeForce 9800M GTS SLI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2 GeForce 8800M GTX SLI Mobility Radeon HD 3850 X2 Quadro FX 3700M Mobility Radeon HD 4860 FirePro M7740 Mobility Radeon HD 4850 GeForce GTX 260M GeForce 9800M GTX Quadro FX 2800M Radeon HD 6775G2 * Radeon HD 7690M XT FirePro M5950 Radeon HD 6770M GeForce GT 635M GeForce GT 555M Radeon HD 5670 Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Radeon HD 6850M Quadro 2000M GeForce 9800M GT GeForce 8800M GTX Quadro FX 3600M GeForce GT 445M GeForce GTS 360M GeForce GT 240 Radeon HD 6755G2 * Radeon HD 8770M * Radeon HD 7690M Radeon HD 6750M GeForce GT 640M LE Quadro K1000M GeForce GT 550M GeForce GTS 260M GeForce GTS 160M GeForce 9800M GTS GeForce GT 430 Radeon HD 6830M Mobility Radeon HD 5830 Radeon HD 6760G2 * Radeon HD 6740G2 * Radeon HD 6730M * GeForce 9800M GS Mobility Radeon HD 4830 Mobility Radeon HD 5770 Radeon HD 6570M Radeon HD 7660G + HD 7670M Dual Graphics * Radeon HD 7640G + HD 7670M Dual Graphics * Radeon HD 7520G + HD 7670M Dual Graphics * Radeon HD 7670M GeForce GTS 150M * Quadro 1000M GeForce 8800M GTS Mobility Radeon HD 5750 * Radeon HD 6720G2 * GeForce GT 630MGeForce GT 540M Radeon HD 6690G2 * Radeon HD 6650M Radeon HD 8690M * Mobility Radeon HD 5730 FirePro M5800 NVS 5400M GeForce GT 435M Radeon HD 6680G2 * Radeon HD 5570 Radeon HD 6550M Radeon HD 7590M * GeForce GTS 350M GeForce GTS 250M Radeon HD 6630M Radeon HD 7650M FirePro M2000 Radeon HD 7570M |
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« Reply #44 on: Wednesday, January 2, 2013, 19:43:25 » |
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Cheers
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