Buying a laptop

[Our Nail Loney]

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all depends on what you are looking the laptop to do

i bought one of the sony vaios there yesterday from argos, all i would use mine for is football manager, internet and itunes...

[mountainboii]

Which one did you end up getting ONL? I'm gonna get a new laptop over the next month or so and, like yourself, the most demanding thing I'd be looking it to do is run Football Manager. Hows the game running on your new machine?

[Our Nail Loney]

Which one did you end up getting ONL? I'm gonna get a new laptop over the next month or so and, like yourself, the most demanding thing I'd be looking it to do is run Football Manager. Hows the game running on your new machine?

Ended up getting one of those Sony Vaio ones, one of the cheaper ones, think it was £345 quid or so bt that was after my couins discount was taken off it

It as 1.87 Ghz processor, the game says that the optimum is 2.00 Ghz but it i running fine enough, I have the game running with my itunes in the background, and it seems to go fine, though there are somtimes I would want it to go a bit faster but that is the way I have always had it on FM. I don't watch the games in the 3d or anything, just the commentary, and it goes well.

[Our Nail Loney]

By the way, just getting everything loaded up here, its amazing how much stuff you need on the computer before it is ready to go... Spent ages getting things like itunes, Firefox, winrar, adobe, acrobat etc...

What is everyones essential software they think any laptop/computer should have?? Free preferably

Edit: removing the word preferentially, as it isn't a word!

[rosnarun]

any one use a netbook is there any point to them?
longer battery life ? being very small?
they still have xp which a lots of people seem to want or are they just luddites
my pc is 6 years old and can do all the things people seem to be looking for . im just waiting for it not to do someting so i can buy a new one.

[The Watcher Pat]

That would probably tip it then. Is you cousin Marc Wilson?

Must be! Everyone from around my way seems to be these days!

As i said on Sunday we have quite a lot of cousins....

[J70]

any one use a netbook is there any point to them?
longer battery life ? being very small?
they still have xp which a lots of people seem to want or are they just luddites
my pc is 6 years old and can do all the things people seem to be looking for . im just waiting for it not to do someting so i can buy a new one.

XP (or Linux on some) is basically because, with the very low specs, most netbooks wouldn't be fit to run Vista properly and do anything else. Its early days yet, but a lot of them seem to be basically set up to do one or two non-demanding things (in terms of resources) at a time. Some of them even use flash memory in place of a regular hard disk drive. I'd wait a year or two for the next generation before trying them out. You can get a nicely specked 13 or 14" regular laptop for not a big pile more cash.

[Our Nail Loney]

Question for all you techies, just wondering if I ever wanted to update my spec on my laptop, a better processor or something... Is that possible without getting a brand new laptop??

[mylestheslasher]

Question for all you techies, just wondering if I ever wanted to update my spec on my laptop, a better processor or something... Is that possible without getting a brand new laptop??

Handy enough to update RAM, might not be so easy to update processor. Laptops are getting so cheap now that you would be better looking for a new one.

[bigfrank]

What laptop or computer do u recommend at the minute maybe in the january sales???

[bigfrank]

Im the heart and sole of this board lol:)well i help anyway :DMite treat myself if i can find a good deal!

[mountainboii]

Im the heart and sole of this board lol:)well i help anyway :DMite treat myself if i can find a good deal!

[downgirl]

Starting to look for a new laptop cus the one I have is nearly 3 years old and getting really slow which is getting on my nerves, I think theres only 34.1GB on the disc, had to get an external hard drive ages ago for itunes and other downloads but now that is playing up too!! 

So anyway was having a wee look there, are the Sony Vaio worth the money??  All I use it for would be internet, photos, music, videos etc, have to download a few programmes for college work but nothing major...can anybody recommend anything?

[Gunnergael]

Lads, thinking of going fo a HP Laptop, here's the spec:

Intel Core 2 Duo T5800 Processor
(2GHZ, 800MHz FSB, 2MB Cache)
Genuine Windows Vista(R) Home Premium
3GB Memory
160GB Hard Drive
17" Widescreen Display
Blu-ray with DVD ReWriter
Nvidia Graphics 9200 (256MB dedicated)
Wireless Enabled
Built in Webcam

Any thoughts/comments on the make or spec would be appreciated.....

[mylestheslasher]

How much. I bought something similar from pc world for £550 recently. Its a good deal