Well, as the title so helpfully suggests, I'll be hopefully buying a laptop sometime soon, for college and whatnot.
It doesn't need to be a gaming laptop that's more powerful than my desktop with the ability to cook eggs if flipped upside-down, oh no:
What I would like is for it to be able to do basic word processing and all that jazz, but also run SourceSdk. As a result, if it could run Half life 2 on minimum or above that would be brilliant. Given that the game's almost 8 years old now, I shouldn't imagine that being [I]too[/I] far fetched.
As for the screen size, the larger it is the more comfortable I'd be in using it. Obviously this would add weight and size though, however;
I don't do an absolute shed-load of traveling, so it being really light isn't massively important. A lot of my traveling involves sitting down anyways, and I've fostered a back not unlike a mule after several years of carrying school books around. I'd be happy with a ghastly brick of a thing as long as it's on the reasonable performance, well priced side.
Most importantly,the budget. I'd love it if it came out at around £400 give or take. In the UK evidently.
This of course moves onto what this thread is about. I know nothing specific about Laptops.
All I know if that Alienware is overpriced and snap when you open them and apple is just plain expensive.
I've looked around some in real life, and one in particular was interesting, a HP Pavillion G6. Which for 400 seemed pretty good considering it had an i5 and 6GB of ram. I decided not to buy it there and then, and found that it wasn't considered a terribly good laptop review wise.
TL;DR:
Does anyone know any Laptops for around £400 for the specs I'd really like? (Hl2 on minimum or above. Possibly some light 3DSMax)
I would help but I don't know any UK websites for laptops haha
you pretty much just need to buy any laptop made within the last 5 years.
and buy a portable laptop, for christ's sake. why buy a laptop if it's going to be a hassle taking it everywhere. i thought that laptops were cool and portable (you know, the 5 pound laptops my family keeps buying) but then i used a macbook air and it's pretty fucking amazing how worthless laptops are once you've used an ultraportable computer. you're never going to play games on your laptop and you're probably never going to use it
and even if you don't listen to my advice because your mobile computer has to perform well instead of stay mobile,you should at least stick to good brands. never ever ever buy toshiba, hp, or dell because they are shit. lenovo and asus are good brands, dont remember if acer is good or not
[editline]1st January 2012[/editline]
in fact just buy a thinkpad. thinkpads are the best windows computers by far.
Hp....... Nope.
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In other words Asus, Toshiba or Sony.
I have 3 HP laptops and they are still working fine after 7 years.
Nothing is wrong with HP's. As long as you don't use it as a hammer to beat poles into the ground you'll be fine.
So one person presents real data collected for various manufacturers, and the response is that it's wrong because your personal experiences have been favourable. This makes no sense at all.
I'm using a Sager 8130 and I absolutely love it.
Great alternative to a desktop.
560M
i5 2450m 2.5-3.3ghz
8gb ddr3
500gb hard drive
[QUOTE=Chubbs;34019173]Nothing is wrong with HP's. As long as you don't use it as a hammer to beat poles into the ground you'll be fine.[/QUOTE]
You could bake cookies on a fucking HP.
[QUOTE=Zerokateo;34032525]You could bake cookies on a fucking HP.[/QUOTE]
It also extends to their Compaq laptops now. I've had a couple die due to components getting too hot.
[QUOTE=garrynohome;34032922]It also extends to their Compaq laptops now. I've had a couple die due to components getting too hot.[/QUOTE]
Some HP laptops are ok though, its mainly their pavillion and compaq series but 98% of them usually run hotter than most laptops.
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