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Laptop wanted

Kido
Kido Posts: 473 Forumite
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I'm looking for a laptop in the sales. I want to edit photos and videos (as well as play music of which I have around 13gbs) on the move as well as hook it up via the LAN at home. A friend suggested looking for one with a 100gb HDD, 1GB Memory, Wi-Fi, a dual core processor and possibly I might be better off with Windows Media Centre operating system. Does anyone have any thoughts/recomendations please. I don't want to spend anymore than I really have to but want want that's not going to be needing upgarding too fast.

Thanks,

Kido

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  • magyar
    magyar Posts: 18,909 Forumite
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    Do you really want to edit videos? That would be the bit which requires more grunt.

    You don't need Windows Media Centre - it's pretty poor and only relevant if you have a TV card.

    What your friend suggested is a little OTT, but is about par for the course. Suggest a Dell myself, but that's partly because I quite like Dells.
    Says James, in my opinion, there's nothing in this world
    Beats a '52 Vincent and a red headed girl
  • Kido
    Kido Posts: 473 Forumite
    Ok then maybe I'll just use my desktop to to edit videos.

    Thanks for the advise.
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