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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.0 -
Yeah thats what I thought....
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)If you put your general location in your Profile, somebody here may be able to come and help you.0 -
The links posted by Cisco001, are any those better than the ones reccomended?0
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The links posted by Cisco001, are any those better than the ones reccomended?
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.If you put your general location in your Profile, somebody here may be able to come and help you.0 -
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.0 -
LENOVO Z580 £530
i5-3230M, 8GB RAM, NVIDIA GT 635M
Thats the one I'm leaning towards, any good?0 -
LENOVO Z580 £530
i5-3230M, 8GB RAM, NVIDIA GT 635M
Thats the one I'm leaning towards, any good?
If you go for this I recommend the £50 extra 2-year basic warranty that the same place sells.If you put your general location in your Profile, somebody here may be able to come and help you.0 -
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=1YS6NZ1Y47YB1HQYXAFZ0 -
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!0
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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 RAM0
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