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Best Laptop around £400-500?
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waterhouse_melons
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Had my last straw with my current laptop, when I tried to eject the cd, the whole of the back stuff behind it came out! So now looking for a new one...Ive googled and looked around retailers for the best but they all seem dated? What is the best laptop I could get for about £400- 500ish? I just want one that is powerful and centralised around performance. Also, what is the difference between RAM and processors? I do computer science at uni and still don't really know! Trying to find the best ram is easy but the best processor is hard!
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waterhouse_melons wrote: »Also, what is the difference between RAM and processors? I do computer science at uni and still don't really know! Trying to find the best ram is easy but the best processor is hard!
I'd get a refund on the course if I were you. Its not looking good if you don't know that this far into the course.
£400-£500 gets you a low powered one. Look for Core i3 or Phenom x3. Most come with 3GB or more of RAM which is more than enough.0 -
Not sure which is more worrying; doing Computer Science and not knowing the difference or not having the common sense to go to www.google.com, search for define:cpu then search for define:RAM and play spot the difference...waterhouse_melons wrote: »Also, what is the difference between RAM and processors? I do computer science at uni and still don't really know! Trying to find the best ram is easy but the best processor is hard!
Good luck with the degree though! Thought about your 3rd project yet :rotfl:
Back to the original question, how about the following:
Dell, T4500, 4GB, 320GB, Win 7, £379
Lenovo, T4500, 4GB, 500GB, Win7, £399
Dell, i3, 4GB, 500GB, Win7, £499.00 (currently out of stock but may come back in in a week or two)0 -
waterhouse_melons wrote: »HAlso, what is the difference between RAM and processors? I do computer science at uni and still don't really know!
I take it you haven't covered pointer arithmetic or kernel architecture yet.
Or computers.
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I weep for the future if this is indicative of the nature of studying in 2010.0
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A new "back stuff" is much cheaper
http://www.laptop-spares-online.co.uk/acatalog/CD_DVD_DVD_RW_Drive_Drives_For_Advent_QC430_EAA_89_Laptop.html!!
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