29-08-2014, 08:39 AM
hello!
Right. I built an awesome PC but now that I am more mobile I can actually now see the point of a laptop. Couldnt see it before as they were slow and couldnt play decent games but recent advances mean they are just as good. Ive seen some deals on tv recently and laptop prices seem to be fairly low.
As for building your own PC there isnt too much in it. If you build your own system then you get the spec you want and you avoid any proprietry parts and you know you can upgrade it in the future but actually it wont save you too much money and you wont have any support. Worth considering if youre not willing to spend a few hours troubleshooting drivers and connections etc.
On a budget of £450 and those specs (which are f*ck all) i would recommend getting a decent laptop and spending the remainder on some decent equipment like rob posted. i doubt you will be able to find a laptop that does it without some specialist hardware.
Spec wise on a laptop... at least 4GB of ram, windows 7 if you can, an i5 processor, 500GB HDD or whatever and decent graphics. you'll have to google the graphics. Also google the i5. Its not as as straight cut as it seems. the i3 is mostly dual core, the i5 is dual or quad core and the i7 is quad core. So for the i5 youll need to find a quad core one. Remember that a slow quad core is probably going to be better than a fast dual core!
Right. I built an awesome PC but now that I am more mobile I can actually now see the point of a laptop. Couldnt see it before as they were slow and couldnt play decent games but recent advances mean they are just as good. Ive seen some deals on tv recently and laptop prices seem to be fairly low.
As for building your own PC there isnt too much in it. If you build your own system then you get the spec you want and you avoid any proprietry parts and you know you can upgrade it in the future but actually it wont save you too much money and you wont have any support. Worth considering if youre not willing to spend a few hours troubleshooting drivers and connections etc.
On a budget of £450 and those specs (which are f*ck all) i would recommend getting a decent laptop and spending the remainder on some decent equipment like rob posted. i doubt you will be able to find a laptop that does it without some specialist hardware.
Spec wise on a laptop... at least 4GB of ram, windows 7 if you can, an i5 processor, 500GB HDD or whatever and decent graphics. you'll have to google the graphics. Also google the i5. Its not as as straight cut as it seems. the i3 is mostly dual core, the i5 is dual or quad core and the i7 is quad core. So for the i5 youll need to find a quad core one. Remember that a slow quad core is probably going to be better than a fast dual core!