e-buyer.com

sebastianj

Any codes for e-buyer around? want to purchase a good laptop.
thanks in anticipation
sebastian.

-TangleFoot-

Probably not. Where'd the hyphen come from?

pcombo

When ebuyer do release codes its only for specific products i.e buy a Case and a PSU and save £££.

Ebuyer is probably the best company about for buying computer equipment.

sebastianj

Well, it seems i will have to pay the full asking price, thanks a lot for your help.
seb

-TangleFoot-

Are you looking for anything in particular?

sebastianj

Yes, something with a big RAM 6-8 gig, preferably, a dedicated graphic card.
Something that can be used in graphic design. I have seen a Samsung,

• Intel Core i3 TM processor.
• 2.26GHz processor speed.
• 4GB memory.
• 320GB hard drive.
• Dedicated graphics.
• NVIDIA GeForce 310M graphics card with 512MB memory.

Which i fancy, another one is,

Intel Pentium B960 2.2GHz
- 8GB RAM + 500GB HDD
- 15.6" HD + DVD RW
- Webcam
- Windows 7 Home Premium 64

I am struggling between specs, the second one does not have a dedicated graphic card though.
sebastian

-TangleFoot-

Does graphic design require colour accuracy? If so you'll be after something with an IPS panel.

fwor

sebastianj wrote: »

something with a big RAM 6-8 gig

Are you sure that you really need this much RAM?

My experience is that makers pack their PCs with unnecessarily large amounts of RAM because it's cheap, and people seem to think that 8GB of RAM is better than 4GB. In truth, if your applications never use more than 4GB (and very, very few use anywhere near that much) it's just a waste of money.

poppellerant

Graphic designing software can require a lot of RAM. Often is the case that the computer doesn't have enough RAM.

mgarl10024

In the absence of vouchers, have you considered cashback?

fwor

poppellerant wrote: »

Graphic designing software can require a lot of RAM. Often is the case that the computer doesn't have enough RAM.

I'm honestly not questioning the fact that graphics s/w can require a lot of RAM. But the fact is that 4GB is a ~lot~ of RAM.

My point is that I have never actually observed a PC with more than 4GB in use at any one time, and I doubt anyone else here has either.

The only way I can cause it to happen on mine is to set up multiple virtual machines in Virtualbox, each with 1GB of reserved RAM, and then run them all at the same time - but that's not actually ~using~ that much memory, just preventing other apps from using it.