| Re: Since I got hosed last time -- Computer advice! [message #229880 is a reply to message #229856] |
Fri, 10 November 2006 01:08   |
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Goztow
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Registered: March 2005
Location: Belgium
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General (5 Stars)
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Do NOT, I repeat, NOT take a Dell laptop.
I would advice you to go for an Acer laptop: I am very pleased of mine.
I can't give you exact parts but you need to look at two things:
- video card
- RAM
Why? The video card can never be replaced and is what will be out of date fastest. So buy a decent one, even though it seems terribly overpriced to you.
RAM: it costs a lot to buy extra laptop-RAM, so you may as well pay enough for it now. I remember buying a 512 MB RAM module for 139 € almost a year ago... Desktop would have cost me something like 30 €?
I personally don't understand why everyone wants to go dual core. Are you planning to do video editing on it or something similar? You need to understand that most games don't even support dual cores yet. It might be better to get one fast core than two medium cores for the same price? People might correct me on this, my knowledge of cpu's is pretty limited.
You can find me in The KOSs2 (TK2) discord while I'm playing. Feel free to come and say hi! TK2 discord
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