I'm buying a new laptop

[qaisjp]

I'm buying a new laptop and I'm wondering, what will be the best for playing mta and scripting shit. I'm choosing an Acer one @ pcworld.co.uk

I have these on my list: http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/acer-aspi ... 0-pdt.html

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/acer-aspi ... 5-pdt.html

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/acer-aspi ... 8-pdt.html

what do you think?

[zerb]

You could have picked something better then PC World! I’ve never liked their products and the prices are punching above the weight considering you can get better quality machines elsewhere with higher specifications then the ones being shown here.

Personally there isn’t a huge difference between the 3, considering they’re £30 apart. I’ve run MTA smooth with 512MB (DDR2) in the past so with each containing 3GB (DDR3) of RAM you certainly wouldn’t stumble across any problems with performance. The £249 comes with a fair dual core, whilst the integrated graphics by Radeon will provide stable performance to run SA.

[will briggs]

Im going to give a little advice here.

I really dont suggest using a laptop for playing MTA. I suggest a custom built PC. Make it suite you, I have a very company building them, But i do do free quotes for any type of machine, From Servers to Client PC's.

But if your really looking for a little PC for scripting and MTA. MTA is out of the option straight away. But scripting, I suggest the acer one. Nice little Laptop. Run Windows 7 Pro (Buy an Upgrade) and it would be perfect... I use a macbook air 11¨ ( Yes expensive, But i use it for Uni too so its brill ) I run parallels on it with Windows 7. I also RDP into My servers and My main PC.

If your looking to play MTA on a laptop good, Your going to have to spend about £1100

PS. NEVER BUY FROM PC WORLD (Worste Company Ever)

Heres a nice website for it. http://www.ebuyer.co.uk Brilliant site for PC parts and Accesories and even laptops.

[AeroXbird]

The Intel Dual-core Celeron series is terrible.

If you want a decent laptop, get the sandy bridge i series, they have much better performance.

Altough, if you want to play something else other than MTA only.

Get a desktop, build your own pc, its

A. Good for your experience with computers

B. A crapton cheaper.

But if you want to go for a laptop, get either ASUS, DELL, or ACER.

And the Sandy bridge ones, because the sandy bridge CPU's are very reliable, and super-fast.

[will briggs]

The Intel Dual-core Celeron series is terrible.

But if you want to go for a laptop, get either ASUS, DELL, or ACER.

And the Sandy bridge ones, because the sandy bridge CPU's are very reliable, and super-fast.

I still think, if ur gunna go for a sandy bridge chip, at least go for one in a desktop pc. Alot better performance...

[zerb]

I take it you live in the UK too judging from you’re location (skipton). I brought my PC from the site below. I’m not sure if they sell laptops but you can purchase some high tech gaming computers for the same price you would pay for junk from PC World.

http://www.dinopc.com/

[will briggs]

Another reason why PC world is crap.

They tried to sell me a macbook without a batery????? I mean WTF?

Anyways your better making the PC yourself. You choose what goes into it, How you make it, and then the satisfaction of turning it on and it working is amazing

[qaisjp]

Thank you everyone, I will definitely look into these websites and I will let you know about the newest updates

(lol, mac without a battery O_o)

[will briggs]

Ye i know

[diegofkda]

HP computer, 2 GB DDR2 RAM, AMD Athlon x64 CPU & Windows XP and an Intel Graphics Media vcard (that vcard is really bad by the way), that's what I use while in school for play MTA .

[Faw[Ful]]

The mod work on win 7 32 or 64 bit also.

[zerb]

PC World is a disease. I really do believe that the company is run by a few students who got a basic BTEC or Diploma in “Computer Technology” and think they're experts. All the adverts you see on the TV are misleading to those who don’t know anything about computers. People’s money really goes to waste.

[will briggs]

PC World is a disease. I really do believe that the company is run by a few students who got a basic BTEC or Diploma in “Computer Technology” and think they're experts. All the adverts you see on the TV are misleading to those who don’t know anything about computers. People’s money really goes to waste.

I really agree. All the adverts really oversell PC World. To be honest the only thing i got good out of them was a HP Vivera Printer about 7 years ago.

But NEVER buy from PC World

[karlis]

just fyi laptop like mine, bought it this june:

CPU: AMD Turion II X2 P540 2.4ghz dual core, 1.8ghz HyperTransport, 2MB L2 chache

RAM: 3gb DDR3 1066mhz

GPU: ATI Mobility Radeon HD5650, 25.6gb/s DDR3-VRAM 800mhz 1gb memory, 450-650mhz core clock, shader model5/dx11

HDD: 500gb 5400rpm

OS: WIN7 HP 64bit (came with laptop)

+ wifi b/g/n, 1.3mpx web cam, DVD super multi DL drive, 1366x786 16:9 15.6inch LED screen

costed me 285Ls(401.97Euro)

runs very smoothly, with highes graphics still solid 50-80fps if not very much ppl around.

runs almost any game on mid or midhigh graphics.

my advice is: if u go for cheap, go for AMD/ATI, yes theyre bit worse then intel and/or nvidia, but bang for the buck is much better.for example for the ~same cost i could get this cpu in my pc, or like 4-5year old pentium dual core with just 2.0ghz, guess which is better?