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My budget is around £700 (+-100) and Im looking for a laptop. Things I am looking in here are first and foremost a 17'' screen. The games I am going to play well mostly Broodwar actually, yes Broodwar, however I am sometimes going to visit my Diablo 3 account or play some random game. Diablo most of the time at medium to low-high details, not much more than that. So guessing some kind of dedicated graphic card might be ok. What else to say Im most of the time am a heavy chrome/firefox user with 10+ windows open at all times. Suppose I need a ton of ram. And 2nd do I need a 64 bit system. I am a bit wondering am I going to have an abbility to run anything on it that already runs on a 32 bit. Of course would like to have some HD options as well. I've been away from the PC hardware world for a while so would need some guide of what's on top now. I don't know.
I think HD+SSD combination is what it might be a best solution so.. Any amazon, ebay, just links would be the most welcome. ty ( I Like Dell's )
What I've found lately
http://outlet.euro.dell.com/Online/InventorySearch.aspx?c=uk&cs=ukdfh1&l=en&s=dfh&brandid=1&fid=1508 would I be able to pull a Diablo 3 on this
or this
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lenovo-17-3-inch-Processor-Graphics-Windows/dp/B00FSBF0KQ/ref=sr_1_1?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1413768761&sr=1-1&keywords=Lenovo 17.3 ssd
links most appreciated, ty
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If you get a laptop, just make sure it's not a U model with no graphics card (the laptops in your first link do not meet this requirement). A regular model with no graphics card would be ok for D3 on low-medium graphics, a dedicated card would be better though of course. For your needs (which are very typical) you don't even need 4gb of ram, but most laptops come with at least 4. Yes, you can emulate a 32bit environment on a 64bit os, but you can't do 16bit (you can do 16bit on 32bit windows) without using dosbox or something similar. There is no reason for consumers not to get a 64bit os these days.
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up, ive found something like this as well http://www.dell.com/uk/p/inspiron-2350-aio/pd 23'' i7-4710MQ (up to 3.4Ghz), AMD Radeon HD 8690A with 2GB GDDR5 and 180W adapter, as well as 12 GB ram DDR3 smth smth smth, £899 however
and im just wondering how does it compare to that Lenovo Ive posted as it have a graphic card as well
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That's an all in one? Not a laptop
those graphics are very weak (a fraction of what you could get in a desktop for half of the cost)
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yeah yeah it is AIO however thing is I could travel with it right, maybe take it somewhere, desktop well not so much i believe ; ).
so you're saying Cyro that what, AIO's are much more expensive than desktop's. What about when comparing them to the prizes of laptops. Im Guessing the prize of a laptop and an AIOne is merely the same. As it comes to desktop I would have to count in a 22-24'' monitor as well, which I would like (http://www.amazon.co.uk/DELL-U2412M-UltraSharp-Monitor-1920x1200dpi/dp/B005LNDPPS one I would buy again and which I already have at 2nd home - £200 )
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and how come your posts are in blue mate ; )
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They seem a little awkward to easily move though, i would personally buy a laptop (full portability) or a desktop built in something like this for cost effectiveness (trickier to move but still very doable; box up monitor in a couple minutes, pick it up and go)
It depends what kind of mobility you need, if it's moving it to another place like every month then those small desktop systems are great, if you're trying to use it in a class or on a train then it's hard to use anything aside from a laptop
for a good performance laptop/aio you kinda need to heavily prefer the regular power options for intel cpu's (not like U, T suffix etc) - dual core or quad core, depending on what you want. And for a dedicated GPU, it's best to have one with GDDR5, for nvidia GPU's that starts on the 750m, but there are 750m's sold with slow ddr3 and also different ones sold with fast gddr5 (and it's not always clear which you're getting) so 760m is the lowest "safe" buy for solid gaming performance. For lower performance needs, i'm not sure exactly how much you would be hurt getting cheaper parts. For basic gaming at lower settings it should be doable.. The main goal of weak non-integrated graphics is just to have its own power budget, because if you have 40 watts dedicated to the CPU but 30 watts of that is going to integrated graphics, you only have ~10w for CPU related loads and the CPU/iGPU can't use the very effective turbo boost functions.
With the small desktop option, you have the option of just using a £40 dual core (3ghz of current gen intel) with a pretty cheap motherboard, ~2x8GB of RAM, a gtx750 (they cost like £70 iirc) and total costs are not very high; it's also not a problem to just drop in quad core or whatever you want, with extra money. I don't study laptops with ultra-low-power CPU's or very weak dedicated GPU's really, because i would never be interested in buying one myself due to low performance and high cost
The blue post, i was looking for something to quote on it but it's not really written anywhere obvious. It's to highlight good quality posters and it happens on the tech and strategy forums (separately)
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