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#1
Nailer91

Posted 01 December 2011 - 05:24 PM

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Hi,
Just wondering if anyone had any recommendations for
a new laptop ? My budget would be just under a €1000 , I'm a first
Year CS student so my main uses would be writing , compiling & running
Programs + browsing. Would obviously be looking for the best within
that budget and preferably not any sort of MAC.
Any suggestions would be welcome !
Thanks,
Nailer

#2
Alexander

Posted 01 December 2011 - 05:35 PM

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Hello Nailer,

Modern, low/mid end laptops should be more than sufficient for compiling or web browsing. For example, especially if you are not compiling extremely large projects, the compilers will not even utilize fully other cores. If you can get a fair priced dual core laptop, with integrated graphics (Intel, however Nvidia/ATi would be a plus in performance) and more than two gigabytes of RAM is all I can suggest - I've no clue any specific laptops, if you could post some of a local store that would be great to judge upon.

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#3
isuru

Posted 01 December 2011 - 07:36 PM

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I bought a HP 430 laptop(intel i3) for $740 and I loving it. Please decide and check on review sites on website. I found out that Toshiba Satellite laptops are not good from bunch of review sites. Dell and HP great. Check about after-service.

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#4
lethalwire

Posted 01 December 2011 - 08:21 PM

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Also check the daily deals and christmas deals at newegg.com. You can nab some decent laptops (for what you're wanting to do) for roughly $300~400 USD.

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For instance, the daily deal right now is this quad-core laptop for less than $400:
Newegg.com - Acer Aspire AS5552-7677 Notebook AMD Phenom II Quad-Core N970(2.2GHz) 15.6" 4GB Memory DDR3 1066 320GB HDD 5400rpm DVD Super Multi ATI Radeon HD 4250

Err... I'm not sure how newegg handles out-of-country deals though.

#5
isuru

Posted 01 December 2011 - 08:24 PM

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lethalwire said:

Yeah, I heard newegg is pretty popular in computer parts and stuff. But before you buy contact them on how returning fees occur.

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#6
Nailer91

Posted 02 December 2011 - 03:03 AM

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Hi all,
Thanks for all the feedback will take it all into account.

#7
Alexander

Posted 02 December 2011 - 05:58 PM

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An i3 with 4 Gbs of DDR3 RAM, for compiling something?!

Retailers may not hold lower specs than that however, it just seems a little silly.

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#8
wim DC

Posted 03 December 2011 - 03:00 AM

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Well, in a semi-big web project my IDE alone will go over 500MB, then an instance of some kind of database viewer, mysql workbench, squirrel or any the like as well as running a local application server to deploy the thing would probably bring me over 1GB of ram just for the programming. Add windows to that, a dozen of browser tabs, some music playing, and all the basic stuff (anti virus etc) ... I would never go with 2 gyg myself ^^