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grandmasterbo... Scooby Slapper
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Posted: 13:16 - 04 Sep 2017 Post subject: about to buy a laptop need some help decideing |
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okay so like the title says laptop
buying soon cant decide whats better ihave narrowed it down to 2 i like
ill be doing minimal gameing on them if i do use it for that itll be more of a take to a mates house to do low end co-op games if i do
HP 15-ay078na VS HP 15-bw024na
heres a CPU comparason
https://technical.city/en/cpu/A9-9420-vs-Pentium-N3710
and the intergrated GPU
https://technical.city/en/video/Radeon-R5-Stoney-Ridge-vs-HD-Graphics-405-Braswell
the price diffence is £100 from the intel to AMD
im steering more towards the AMD setup because of the high ghz and the R5 but the intel does have 4 cores but is half the ghz
basically peoples thoughts if you would please also i know there not made for games but i have a proper rig at home this is more pop to a mates and play something like diablo 3 on low settings ____________________ suzuki CS50 roadie (exploded) Gilerea Runner VX 125 (sold)
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Posted: 15:48 - 04 Sep 2017 Post subject: |
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You'll get way more performance for the money if you get something off ebay for that money i.e i5 or i7.
As for those two, AMD laptop processors are crap. Prior to Ryzen AMD chips were really only any good as desktop CPUs where they could achieve performance through brute force of high CPU clocks, lots of power, and lots of integer cores, but with the benefit of being much cheaper. Intel chips are way more efficient per clock and per watt, pre-Ryzen.
But yeah I'd suggest a used i5 or i7 laptop off ebay, not a new Pentium N. An ebay laptop costing ~£100 would have about double the CPU score of either |
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Posted: 16:08 - 04 Sep 2017 Post subject: |
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got one of these recently for a friend
https://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/lenovo-v110-15isk-80tl-core-i5-6200u-2.3ghz-4gb-128gb-ssd-dvd-rw-15.6-inch-80tl0010uk/version.asp
it was marked down to £369 last week, but seems to have gone back up to £399, chucked in another 4GB RAM and replaced the disk with a 256GB SSD and still came in just under £500.
It's not the prettiest or most stylish, it's only got 2 usb ports and the sound quality of the on board speakers is terrible, but it's lightning quick for the price.
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hellkat wrote: | Might as well tag my query onto the end of this.
Thinking about finally giving in and buying a laptop instead of PC (which takes up too much room, still runs Vista and is starting to fail my requirements rather badly nowadays).
So I'm going to Cyprus in October, which uses the same power system as the UK, would it be worth my while to wait and buy one in the duty free, or shall I not wait, and just go get one from (I dunno, where?) in the UK before then.
I don't play high spec games on it but I'd still like something quick(ish) cos I am an impatient bastard. |
ebay is pretty much best for most people. I know I keep banging on about it but laptop specs have been pretty static for the past few years so a new laptop doesn't offer much unless you have a specific requirement for a 2k screen, a touchscreen, or a very long battery life [and are willing to spend the low thousands for that]. The ebay stuff is cheap because corporate IT goes through loads of laptops which are fairly good spec and surplus to requirements. If you are impatient, make sure you have an SSD drive for the operating system. Most of the lag you experience on a computer is due to loading times from spinning disks.
As for power supplies, the only thing you need to change with a laptop is the power supply brick which converts mains to low voltage DC.
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51WwewIfBnL._SL500_AC_SS350_.jpg |
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Wow, that was the most understandable piece of IT writing I've read in a long time.
I actually understood all of it, on the first read-through.
Im-a-Ridah wrote: |
ebay is pretty much best for most people. I know I keep banging on about it but laptop specs have been pretty static for the past few years so a new laptop doesn't offer much unless you have a specific requirement for a 2k screen, a touchscreen, or a very long battery life [and are willing to spend the low thousands for that]. The ebay stuff is cheap because corporate IT goes through loads of laptops which are fairly good spec and surplus to requirements. If you are impatient, make sure you have an SSD drive for the operating system. Most of the lag you experience on a computer is due to loading times from spinning disks.
As for power supplies, the only thing you need to change with a laptop is the power supply brick which converts mains to low voltage DC.
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51WwewIfBnL._SL500_AC_SS350_.jpg |
I hadn't actually considered laptops much before now because, in the past, working on them tended to give me headaches. But now that they are much more standard and reasonably priced, and I do a lot less close-reading work on them than I used to do, I just don't see the need to have a bulging great desktop cluttering up my living room.
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chris-red Have you considered a TDM?
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 6 years, 205 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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