• Should I upgrade my PC or buy a Laptop?
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Well I'm going away to University at the end of the year, so I've been hoping to buy a laptop. However, I'm having trouble finding a Job as I live in a rural area. The Laptop I was going to go for was a custom built one from PC Specialist that came to about £800 Specs: Lowest spec quad-core I7 8GB kingston RAM 500gb 7200rpm hardrive NVidea 650M 1080p gamut screen I'm going into either Interactive Media Design or computer games Art & Animation, hence the editing focused specs on the laptop. The dilemma of upgrading or buying this Laptop is always coming to my mind. My current specs: [t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/34938612/specs.JPG[/t] Could you guys help me ease this dilemma? I currently have £360 saved up - £100 more in cash on reserve for Festival costs, I'm away to Rockness after my exams. [editline]3rd May 2013[/editline] As well as being editing orientated I would like to be able to play new games at decent FPS and detail levels. Leading me to thinking about a new PSW and GPU if I were to upgrade.
If you're going to university wouldn't it be nice to have a laptop instead? Also, your desktop just needs a new GPU as a good start. Otherwise you almost need a completely new one.
[QUOTE=Killervalon;40514022]If you're going to university wouldn't it be nice to have a laptop instead? Also, your desktop just needs a new GPU as a good start. Otherwise you almost need a completely new one.[/QUOTE] Yeah that's why I first considered getting a Laptop in the first place. So my computer is pretty useless by today's standards?
[QUOTE=Wickerman123;40514216]Yeah that's why I first considered getting a Laptop in the first place. So my computer is pretty useless by today's standards?[/QUOTE] Your GPU is. For a even better computer you also need a new Motherboard, CPU, RAM & possibly a power supply too.
So basically the answer is yes.
The new Haswell + 7xxm are coming out in a month or two, it's probably worth waiting for the extra battery life.
[QUOTE=rhx123;40514583]The new Haswell + 7xxm are coming out in a month or two, it's probably worth waiting for the extra battery life.[/QUOTE] The what now? I'm not familiar with Laptops and their specs/accessories. Also, it's going to be at least 5-6 months before I can afford this damn laptop anyway.
[QUOTE=Wickerman123;40516748]The what now? I'm not familiar with Laptops and their specs/accessories. Also, it's going to be at least 5-6 months before I can afford this damn laptop anyway.[/QUOTE] Well if its going to be that long then you will not have to worry about what I said, because everything will be out by then.
[QUOTE=Wickerman123;40516748]The what now? I'm not familiar with Laptops and their specs/accessories. Also, it's going to be at least 5-6 months before I can afford this damn laptop anyway.[/QUOTE] New series of intel processors, and new series of Nvidia graphics cards.
The new intel processors (Haswell) will be coming out very soon and this iteration is geared towards power efficiency, so it'll definitely help with battery life like rhx said. Just make sure that whenever you're picking out your laptop that it has Haswell
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