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  • Cisco001
    Cisco001 Posts: 4,148 Forumite
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    edited 16 July 2013 at 10:53AM
    Dell Inspiron 15R SE £499
    i5 3230m, 6GB RAM, 2GB AMD Radeon HD 7730M
    http://www.dell.com/uk/p/popular-laptop-deals

    ACER M3-581TG £520
    i5-3317UM, 4GB RAM, 128GB SSD, NVIDIA GT 640M
    http://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/Acer_Aspire_Timeline_Ultra_M3-581TG_1290269.html

    LENOVO Z580 £530
    i5-3230M, 8GB RAM, NVIDIA GT 635M
    http://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/Lenovo_Z580_1336874.html

    Acer Aspire M3-581PTG £570
    i5-3337U, 6GB RAM, 20GB SSD + 500GB HDD, NVIDIA GT 640M, Touch screen
    http://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/Acer_Aspire_M3-581PTG_1362371.html

    Edit: Choose based on spec, not brand.
  • grumpycrab
    grumpycrab Posts: 5,027 Forumite
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    Maddox888 wrote: »
    Yeah thats what I thought.... ;)
    We won't get into that argument :-)
    There was a reliability survey posted here recently but cannot find it. (if that sort of thing interests you?). Personally, Acer is yeuch and I'm not that keen on Dell either (unless its a business unit).

    This is from Feb 2013 (pcmag.com)
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  • Maddox888
    Maddox888 Posts: 26 Forumite
    The links posted by Cisco001, are any those better than the ones reccomended?
  • grumpycrab
    grumpycrab Posts: 5,027 Forumite
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    Maddox888 wrote: »
    The links posted by Cisco001, are any those better than the ones reccomended?
    Cisco will explain but his list includes laptops with non-standard graphics cards. Mine are bog-standard Intel HD Graphics 4000

    I see Football Manger's requirements are

    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.

    ** so will Football Manager work with Intell HD 4000? I guess it will but that list doesn't specifically list Intel HD 4000 - but I guess this is greater than listed Intel chipsets.
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  • onzey
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    I glanced at that (grumpycrabs) Samsung from John Lewis instore the other day thinking the spec looked quite good for the price but was surprised by some of the online reviews.

    Should be easy to take back though if you didn't like it.
  • Maddox888
    Maddox888 Posts: 26 Forumite
    LENOVO Z580 £530
    i5-3230M, 8GB RAM, NVIDIA GT 635M

    Thats the one I'm leaning towards, any good?
  • grumpycrab
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    Maddox888 wrote: »
    LENOVO Z580 £530
    i5-3230M, 8GB RAM, NVIDIA GT 635M

    Thats the one I'm leaning towards, any good?
    Looks good. So trading reduced CPU for bespoke graphics which may, or may not, be an advantage with Football Manager (but I'm sure somebody else will tell us that.)

    If you go for this I recommend the £50 extra 2-year basic warranty that the same place sells.
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  • onzey
    onzey Posts: 830 Forumite
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    edited 16 July 2013 at 1:16PM
    Might be worth reading some reviews on Amazon.

    There are various models so check which one each reviewer is talking about but some things might be common to all. I think some people have issues with the large trackpad. Not sure if all come with glossy screen but is that something you like/dislike? There's a choice of colours too. :)

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B009RGBD2C/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=103612307&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B00829IDN2&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_r=1YS6NZ1Y47YB1HQYXAFZ
  • Maddox888
    Maddox888 Posts: 26 Forumite
    As you probably know FM13 isn't 'graphics heavy' so should I just concentrate on processor and ram? Ideally I would like both but im not spending a ludicrous amount!
  • Cycrow
    Cycrow Posts: 2,639 Forumite
    it depends if you like to watch the 3D matches or not.

    i had a laptop with the Intel HD 3000, and it struggled with the 3d match engine and became annoying to watch it.

    do you plan to play any other games, or likely to in the future ?

    i would go for one with a dedicated gpu in.
    also remember that with a shared graphics, it will also use some of the RAM
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