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Laptop recommendations
29-03-2010 2:12 PM
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Can anyone recommend a really laptop.
It needs to have as big a Hard Drive as possible.
Thanks
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29-03-2010 2:50 PM
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They are cheaper and you can put much bigger disks in them!
"In The Beginning Was The Word, And The Word Was Aardvark."
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29-03-2010 2:55 PM
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i tend to go to dell for my sisters laptops as she needs auto cad and 3d max to run pretty good on them so i like to be able to add the right graphics cards ect to them.
But they are not the cheapest and there is alot of better small companys that offer custom built laptops
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29-03-2010 3:12 PM
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29-03-2010 3:35 PM
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You can get them as ready built units in PC world now.... but you are limited to what they have in stock....
Dell take about 2-3 weeks from order date to delivery on your doorstep, by courier... You are given a tracking number so you can log on to the site and see what the progress is....
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29-03-2010 3:42 PM
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Of course if you want to play games then go for it
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29-03-2010 4:37 PM
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It is generally wise to budget for a backup drive, so I'd go along with Matt's recommendation and not worry too much about the drive in the laptop, and budget for a big external drive instead.
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29-03-2010 5:56 PM
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Quote from: Asbo evil. is that reply really called for when the topic is laptops.
Well yes
Requirements:-
A limited budget
Really big disk(s)
Laptop
You can't have all three of these options & since most laptops spend their lives sitting on a table, plugged into a mains socket.
A desktop will give you a faster CPU (for money spent) too.
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Re: Laptop recommendations
29-03-2010 6:20 PM
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I have a 1.5Tb external HD that cost less then £100 and even works on my small Linux EEE Netbook and SWMBO' Win XP Netbook
Re: Laptop recommendations
26-04-2010 10:49 AM
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26-04-2010 2:04 PM
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Quote from: A
Requirements:-
A limited budget
Really big disk(s)
Laptop
You can't have all three of these options & since most laptops spend their lives sitting on a table, plugged into a mains socket.
A desktop will give you a faster CPU (for money spent) too.
EEE PC 1001P £259.99
1 TB 2.5" HDD £152.74
Depending on what is required of the machine, this seems like it would fit the bill?
Having cake AND eating it!
B.
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26-04-2010 4:39 PM
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26-04-2010 5:32 PM
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26-04-2010 5:49 PM
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Yes, it could probably benefit from 2GB, (£32 direct from Crucial as the Eee only has 1 x SoDIMM slot), but in all honesty for every day use (and bear in mind this laptop easily gets used for 12 hours a day) 1GB is perfectly adequate.
B.
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26-04-2010 7:23 PM
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Quote from: Barry I dunno what sort of memory your Ubuntu install requires, but I'm running Win7 Ultimate on an 1000H with 1GB of memory and it's actually perfectly fine.
I'm running Ubuntu on a 64bit, dual-processor 1GB memory - but it rarely makes use of more than 600MB.
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