Q. i want to buy a laptop for no more that £400-500 it must be able to run most steam games on medium to high settings and have windows 7:) i don't want a mac book because they are really expensive and i don't have to much money at the moment :P do you have any ideas? ive look for about 2 hours now and cant find any D:
Thanks :)
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You can have help here at http://www.tomshardware.com/ and http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCategory.aspx?SubCategory=32&name=Laptops-Notebooks
I found a post at Tom's hardware , click this link http://www.tomshardware.com/news/weekend-deals-sale-coupon-online,13970.html
if it's not enough, you can find another laptops or find at amazon or eBay.
Laptops? anyone know a good one?
alanna e
I am looking for a good laptop to have but I don't know which one is good? Like dell, gateway and etc.... any of you know a good one?
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I'd like to start off by saying that your question is very "vague." Moreover, we do not know what is your definition of a "good" laptop, and we certainly don't know what you'll be using the laptop for. But no worries, I'll give you some ideas on what to look for in laptops that best suits you.
There are 5 factors a buyer should take into consideration when buying a laptop: style, usability, price, battery, and performance. Let's explore each one.
style- the outer appearance of a laptop, the weight(portability), dimension(how wide, how thick, and how long), the quality of it's exoskeleton(the color, rugged features, shininess, display pixel), and number and variety of ports offered(the placement of ports around the laptop)
usability- keyboard size and style, trackpad and buttons, display options, heat and noise.
price- best bang for your buck, depending on what you use the laptop for, for example, casual computer users who just surf the internet, check e-mails, stream videos, don't need a beefy laptop with heavy graphic capability to play games or encode videos.
battery- battery life, enough said.
performance- how fast the laptop runs applications, how the fast hard drive stores or reads data, how fast dvd/cd burner writes, how smooth graphic is when playing videos or games .
I will give you a generalization of what people do when they buy laptops. Laptops, imo, breaks down to three categories(if budget isn't a major concern): hardcore gamer/media maker, desktop replacement for casual users, and economic laptops for starters with minimum need for performance.
hardcore gamer- a decent choice is the Dell XPS laptop series. Be prepared to shell out big bucks for these. Like the name suggests, it's only for gamers that are concerned with graphic performance while gaming on the road, I personally think it's a waste because for the same amount of money, or less, I am 100% guaranteed a desktop that has greater performance, especially with overclocking. Price ranges from $1200USD to over $5000USD, not kidding.
desktop replacement laptop- something a casual gamer or average computer user would use. Like the name suggests, it's for "replacing" your desktop, so basically anything an average desktop can run, so can this laptop. Price range goes from low $800USD to $1200USD
laptops aimed at starters, tight budget users- by starters I mean people who is buying their first laptop. Tight budget users are not concerned with graphic performance as long as apps run at a tolerable speed. These laptops are at the bottom of food chain, and there is a type of laptop that has recently sprung up and named as "netbooks." To quote a CEO of a computer maker, "it's a crappy version of laptops." It's extremely affordable price, light weight, and long battery power is what makes it so popular. Netbooks ranges from low $200USD to $600USD
Note: I did not categorize mobility laptops that put good performance and light weight together, because in my honest opinion those two things don't and shouldn't go together. Why? That's another question for another day.
To help you choose the right laptop, you can also read articles from PCmagazine.com and Tom's Hardware for laptop reviews, they have really good insight and professional testing/analysis/opinion on various brands. As for which brand to choose, I am biased as a Dell user, but I like their customer service and warranties, not so much the quality of laptops they produce though. The generic brands like HP/Compaq, Lenovo, Asus, Toshiba, Sony, each has their own flaws, but you can filter out one by one based on what you need, and of course, your consumer intuition and logic =P (owait, it's oxymoron to put intuition and logic together lol)
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