frosty Posted June 10, 2014 Content Count: 3401 Joined: 07/25/11 Status: Offline Share Posted June 10, 2014 (edited) Need a laptop for Uni never ever owned one, so no idea what I'm looking for Want one that can browse internet, use office, programming stuff such as visual basic, most likely has windows 8.1 64 bit maybe run some games? nothing big, games like cs:s, gmod etc... thanks pretty much what I found http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing/laptops/laptops/hp-pavilion-15-n297sa-15-6-laptop-21921792-pdt.html http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing/laptops/laptops/hp-pavilion-15-n266sa-15-6-laptop-black-21862438-pdt.html or http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing/laptops/laptops/hp-pavilion-15-n268sa-15-6-laptop-black-silver-21862441-pdt.html Edited June 10, 2014 by frosty Link to comment https://forums.steam-gamers.net/topic/52165-laptop/
Banana Joe Posted June 10, 2014 Content Count: 3056 Joined: 01/25/10 Status: Offline Share Posted June 10, 2014 stay away from acer also hp comes with a lot of pre-installed crap, but besides that I remember them being OK Link to comment https://forums.steam-gamers.net/topic/52165-laptop/#findComment-657972
Labarr Posted June 10, 2014 Content Count: 3052 Joined: 08/30/09 Status: Offline Share Posted June 10, 2014 Banana Joe said: stay away from acer also hp comes with a lot of pre-installed crap, but besides that I remember them being OK I vouch for HP. But imo the prices for those laptops seem high for what u get.. Link to comment https://forums.steam-gamers.net/topic/52165-laptop/#findComment-657973
frosty Posted June 10, 2014 Content Count: 3401 Joined: 07/25/11 Status: Offline Share Posted June 10, 2014 Banana Joe said: stay away from acer also hp comes with a lot of pre-installed crap, but besides that I remember them being OK I'm guessing you can get rid of it? Link to comment https://forums.steam-gamers.net/topic/52165-laptop/#findComment-657975
Banana Joe Posted June 10, 2014 Content Count: 3056 Joined: 01/25/10 Status: Offline Share Posted June 10, 2014 Frosty said: I'm guessing you can get rid of it? Yeah of course you can, some people might see it as a downside though. Link to comment https://forums.steam-gamers.net/topic/52165-laptop/#findComment-657976
Sleggie Posted June 10, 2014 Content Count: 940 Joined: 12/22/12 Status: Offline Share Posted June 10, 2014 Dell is great. Link to comment https://forums.steam-gamers.net/topic/52165-laptop/#findComment-657996
frosty Posted June 12, 2014 Content Count: 3401 Joined: 07/25/11 Status: Offline Share Posted June 12, 2014 Sleggie said: Dell is great. thanks Link to comment https://forums.steam-gamers.net/topic/52165-laptop/#findComment-658164
u egg Posted June 13, 2014 Content Count: 393 Joined: 05/14/08 Status: Offline Share Posted June 13, 2014 Acer is crap. HP is meh, they don't seem to have been built with quality (cheap plastics...) and a lot of people complain about their HP overheating after some years. Samsung has the same quality cheapness as HP. AlienWare is good but way overpriced for what they offer. Dell seems great, according to the internet. Asus is great. I've had one since last year and damn it is good. Good quality build, made of aluminium, last long, don't overheat even while playing video games (unfortunately some Asus software crap is pre-installed...). The Internet says it's one of the most reliable with dell. Unfortunately their costumer support is so shit even shit tastes better. Lenovo is apparently pretty good too. Now every laptop serie is different, but this seems to be the general consensus. If you need one for uni I suggest you to buy a light one (if you need to bring it to lectures and travel a lot with it like I do). An ultrabook is really awesome for uni tasking. Ultrabooks are usually 21 mm thick (0.8inch), have an SSD with Windows installed on it for quick startups and weight 1.3kg (2.90 lb) or more, usually the maximum is 1.8kg (4 lb), battery included. Battery life is 4-5 hours minimum and a maximum of 9 hours (depending on what you do with it), mine used to last 5 hours on plane mode while using Word. Mine can run CSS, Gmod, L4D2, TF2, Warthunder... on high quality with just an i5 1.7gh (can go up to 2.5 something when needed) and a nvidia 635m. I suggest you not to buy an i7 as it eats your battery more and maybe a slighty better graphic card. But eh, that depends on how much you want to put in your laptop. Mine costed 950 dollars (700 euros, 560 pounds) a bit more than a year ago. Link to comment https://forums.steam-gamers.net/topic/52165-laptop/#findComment-658241
mapper Posted June 13, 2014 Content Count: 1563 Joined: 08/03/09 Status: Offline Share Posted June 13, 2014 In our school HP was the biggest garbage laptop you could buy. REALLY BAD laptops/hardware(overheating issues, bluescreens, programs didnt work as they should), after seeing that, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. Link to comment https://forums.steam-gamers.net/topic/52165-laptop/#findComment-658243
Wawa Posted June 13, 2014 Content Count: 3740 Joined: 05/21/12 Status: Offline Share Posted June 13, 2014 ASUS is the only other brand I can think of who builds quality laptops on the same level as Apple's MacBooks. Link to comment https://forums.steam-gamers.net/topic/52165-laptop/#findComment-658249
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