Help with buying a laptop

Mund

Hi, i was hoping someone could help me with what laptop to buy.

I have a budget of around £460 and the main thing i want with the laptop is it to run Football Manager with ease, so in other words really really fast.

Ive looked around websites at laptops but if im honest im totally clueless when it comes to the spec and what is needed and honestly what is actually good.

I dont need it to be an amazing gaming machine just to be an amazing Football Manager machine, and of course i want it to be a pretty decent laptop.

I know the budget i have is enough to get me what i want as friends have laptops that are cheaper than that and the game runs great on them. But and its a huge but, i just dont know what to look for!!!

Can anyone please help and guide me somebody who knows what to look for and knows what they are talking about, i would greatly appreciate it.

distinctd

Does this help?

The System Requirements necessary to run Football Manager™ 2013 are as follows:

PC Requirements
OS:
Windows XP/Vista/W7/W8

Processor:
XP : 1.6GHz or Faster
Vista/W7/W8 : 2.2GHz or Faster
*Supported Processors: Intel Pentium 4, Intel Core Family, AMD Athlon

Memory:
1GB RAM

Hard Drive Space:
2GB

DVD-Drive:
4x Speed

Video Card:
128MB**
**Supported Chipsets - Nvidia FX 5900 Ultra or greater; ATI Radeon 9800 or greater; Intel 82915G/82910GL or greater.
A fully DirectX 9 compliant graphics card is required.
Earlier cards may only display 2D Match Viewer mode and are not supported.
Earlier cards may require the DirectX 9.0 SDK is installed to run the game. This can be downloaded from the following url:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5493F76A-6D37-478D-BA17-28B1CCA4865A&displaylang=en
Laptop versions of these chipsets may work but are not supported.

Sound Card:
DirectX 9.0c compatible

Directx:
Version 9.0c (included)

LAN:
TCP/IP compliant

Input:
Keyboard, Mouse

Mac Requirements
Intel Processor, OS X 10.6.8/10.7.x/10.8.x or higher, Nvidia Geforce 7300 GT or greater; ATI Radeon X1600 or greater.

Note: The game's performance and/or graphical quality may differ according to your computer's hardware and/or video card. Computers with high-performance hardware will provide the best game performance.





Got any examples of things you're considering?

Mund

Thanks for reply but i did check the spec requirements out aswell but all that is like a foreign language to me lol

The digging ive been doing is telling me i need good amount of RAM and a good processor, with a decent graphics card.

Again all that loses me, and i was hoping someone had an idea of what laptop i would need and i could go from there.

Sorry for the noobish but when it comes down to spec's and stuff im as lost as an eskimo in a desert storm.

distinctd

Pretty much anything these days should meet those requirements, the only thing you'll have to take special notice of is graphics with it being a laptop that you're looking for.

All you need to do is look at the specs and make sure they match or preferably are higher than the ones listed for Football Manager.


Let's reduce it down to what really matters:

Vista/W7/W8 : 2.2GHz or Faster
*Supported Processors: Intel Pentium 4, Intel Core Family, AMD Athlon

Any Windows laptop you get now will be W7/8 so you need a processor 2.2GHz or faster, this will be listed in specs, they'll probably be multi-core on the laptops you're looking at too

Memory:
1GB RAM

I haven't looked at laptops for a while but I'm pretty sure most will have 4GB+ now

Hard Drive Space:
2GB

Most will have masses of disk space that will easily cover this

Video Card:
128MB**
**Supported Chipsets - Nvidia FX 5900 Ultra or greater; ATI Radeon 9800 or greater; Intel 82915G/82910GL or greater.
A fully DirectX 9 compliant graphics card is required.

macman

Absolutely any modern laptop can run that with ease. You'll have a minimum of 4GB RAM installed, or should do, as standard, for a machine running W8.

Mund

Thanks very much for ure help i really appreciate it, i understand alot more now and know what i have to look out for.

Hopefully now when i get back on the sites i understand a little more what im looking at hehe.

Thanks again for taking ure time and helping me.

distinctd

macman is right, anything modern should run it

For future reference, you only really need to worry about CPU/RAM/Graphics Card in system specs, hard disk if you don't have loads of it available.

When I used to use Windows and played games, I never looked at system specs and I could run everything that I wanted to and I've never been into keeping up with the latest hardware, probably upgraded a bit every 3 years. You'll be fine, have fun

Mund

Thanks ill remember that as i browse. So many different spec's and stuff that you see, its so easy to get confused when not knowing what it means, but im comfortable now with what i need to look for.

Cheers lads appreciate ure help