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Getting a New Laptop!
8 years ago
Got told by my dad today that he will be getting me a new laptop for my birthday.
I say, it's about time I got a new one aye?!
Not sure which brand I should be looking at though. The laptop I've have now, which I've been using for the last 5 years is an Acer. i know Acer is not the majority of people's ideal brand of laptop, but it's mostly done well for me. The issues I've had with it is for the last 1.5-2 years it's had it's times where it had been constantly crashing. I think it was due a kernel error or something from what I was reading on the blue screen errors. But it seemed to have happened mostly after I have picked it up and physically moved or carried it around. So it could've been a hardware issue that was causing it.
A few weeks ago I got a huge scare. It crashed a couple of times. After the second time, when the computer tried to start up again, it was failing to read the boot or the system. Tried again, did the same thing. Then i waited a few mins, did a few things and gave it little shake just in case it was something to do with the hardware. Thankfully it worked on the third attempt. I think the fact that I mentioned this to dad may have given him the idea to help get me a new one.
I'm very happy though my little warrior has battled on and survived for five years so far. Very much appreciated his service and loyalty to guarantee me the fullest of satisfaction it could give.
So back to deciding what laptop to get. I have looked at a couple of Acers. But people have also told to look at ones from Asus and Lenovo. I saw one particular Lenovo laptop that was pretty good. HP has caught my eye a bit. It won't be a REALLY top of the notch laptop, but something between $800-$1000 (maybe even $1100/1200)AUD.
One brand I am not getting is the Apple Macs. I can't stand them at all. I had to use Macs in the Mac labs for my course at the university I go to. They have a mind of it's own, it's cursor moves every now and then without you touch in the mouse or touchpad, and that is the least of my problems with them. I just think Windows runs way better, you can fix issues easier, you can do way more things.
Maybe some of you tech people out there can help me pick one out that's good for me. Something that runs smoothly and can run some of the art and design programs (Like Adobe, SAI) that I want to use fully, with as little amount of lagging as possible. Even with games if I decide to play them on the occasion here and there.
Some of the specs I'm looking at. The ideal laptop I'm looking at has about 8GB RAM, 1 TB hardrive, Intel I5/I7 or AMD 9 and a good graphics card.
Speaking of that, would you think it would be advisable to get a custom graphics card put in, or would it depend on what the laptop is or what graphics card it originally comes with? Because I have heard some cases of the original built in cards that feed from the laptop's memory (which isn't uncommon apparently), and it actually slows the laptop or computer down.
But any advice out there would be fantastic. Because I'm not a huge IT know-it-all, and I wouldn't really fully know what laptop would be best for what I'm using it for.
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devion-56
~devion-56
That's cool! My mom says she'll get me a hp laptop when she gets paid.
gangstaguru
~gangstaguru
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Nice
fencydregin
~fencydregin
Not sure if you're big on the touch-screen laptops but Best Buy has some pretty good laptops there. HP is a brand I generally like to stick with. I saw one on Best Buy that was priced at $829 USD. It's touch screen, has 16GB RAM, 1TB hard drive, and a 7th-gen Intel i7 processor. The graphics card is an Intel HD graphics 620. The screen size is also 15.6". With that kind of RAM and processor you should be more than fine when running apps like Photoshop and SAI. They're very lightweight on the processor.
gangstaguru
~gangstaguru
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Don't think there were any HP computers like that with the stores I'm looking at purchasing from. But ones like that by others brands are at least around $1200 AUD. Maybe a little bit out of my range of affordability.
As far as getting one with a graphics chip, depends entirely if you game more than lightly. The integrated graphics on Intel chips is good enough for light games, stuff like overwatch, or older thinges. If you get something g with an amd processor, it's better for games, but slightly slower at everything else. All of these use system ram, and that should have zero effect unless you have a game running. Getting a laptop with a dedicated gpu (Nvidia usualy) will make it exceptional better at gaming, but much more pricey. As long as you dont want to play anything more intensive than MMO'S, Intel integrated is fine. My surface tablet has no issues running warframe and it's only got Intel hd 520. Though integrated chips absolutely cannot run things like newer battlefield games. Feel free to ask me stuff about this if you want
gangstaguru
~gangstaguru
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There is one really nice one that's caught my eye that has the 2GB Nvidia card. A couple of people I've talked to who are quite smart with computers have said Nvidia is pretty good to go with.
decadencewolf
~decadencewolf
why dont you get a samsung laptop? they're quite good, mine cost me $1000 and it had only crashed 1 time in 4 years, havent get slow, boots fast and it has 4 cores and 8 Gb of ram ^^ I guess you could buy a better one today for more or less the same price
gangstaguru
~gangstaguru
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Many people have actually told me to stick clear of Samsung laptops. Apparently they have some other issues, which I've forgotten what it was that they said already XD I can understand if they haven't caused you many problems at all, but a fair few other people have mentioned otherwise. So I don't think I'll be getting a Samsung. Thanks anyway ^.^
decadencewolf
~decadencewolf
Really?? O.o wow thanks for telling me buddy, also stay away from Toshiba, their screens are so fragile they will shatter if you look at them in a mean way xD
gangstaguru
~gangstaguru
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Yeah I've been warned about Toshiba as well. Although my dad has one, which he's had for almost 9 years and it's still fairly good. But most other people who've had a Toshiba had not so nice things to say about them.
