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General => Buy, Sell Or Trade => Topic started by: bigROBOTbill on January 30, 2013, 06:32:33 pm

Title: wtb Laptop
Post by: bigROBOTbill on January 30, 2013, 06:32:33 pm: Any one seen any amazing bargains, able to run win7, Photoshop and internet etc
Don't want to spend too much
Title: wtb Laptop
Post by: Retardobot on January 30, 2013, 06:37:04 pm: I guess you're going to be doing photo manipulation on it, colour correction, cropping etc?

If you want something that's not going to drag its feet then a budget of around $1000 will be a starting point.

Once bought, it would be ideal to rip out the HDD and put an SSD in it and then store data on a USB HDD.

At least 8GB of ram and a dedicated GPU now that CS5+ makes decent use of GPU's.
Title: wtb Laptop
Post by: bigROBOTbill on January 30, 2013, 07:25:14 pm: I know but it will only be a back up thing while we are away from home, so it doesn't have to be too flash.
That's why I'm hoping for a reasonable used one.
Title: wtb Laptop
Post by: Apostrophe Spacemonkey on January 31, 2013, 11:15:39 am: Quote from: bigROBOTbill;1516426
...able to run internet etc
Don't want to spend too much

You'll need a pretty powerful computer to run the entire internet.
Title: wtb Laptop
Post by: Retardobot on January 31, 2013, 11:36:55 am: It's your job to build him such a machine.

TO YOUR MONKEY LAB!
Title: wtb Laptop
Post by: Nostargate on January 31, 2013, 11:59:58 am: Builds machine to run entire internet, still cant run crysis on high
Title: wtb Laptop
Post by: Baldesto on January 31, 2013, 06:06:08 pm: pb tech are having note book specials again
http://pbtech.co.nz/index.php?z=p&p=NBKTOS2309691&name=TOSHIBA-SatPro-C850-i3-2350M-2.3GHz-4GB-500GB-15.6
http://pbtech.co.nz/index.php?z=p&p=NBKASU60974&name=Asus-Ultrabook-X401A-WX074H-Pentium-B970-2.3GHz-4G
Title: wtb Laptop
Post by: bigROBOTbill on January 31, 2013, 06:17:08 pm: Thanks Baldesto, they look amazing for the prices, I was looking at this (http://www.playtech.co.nz/afawcs0139235/CATID=363/ID=19793/SID=858330696/productdetails.html?utm_source=Playtech+List&utm_campaign=b42aa522fd-Playtech_Back_To_School1_31_2013&utm_medium=email) as well. Between the two under $600 which would be best you recon? I guess there may be more specials coming up from other outfits too.
Title: wtb Laptop
Post by: Baldesto on January 31, 2013, 06:43:35 pm: laptops are extremely good value at the moment, stay away from acer and you should be fine ...
Title: wtb Laptop
Post by: bigROBOTbill on January 31, 2013, 07:03:51 pm: Ha, ok, cheers!
Title: wtb Laptop
Post by: bigROBOTbill on February 06, 2013, 04:31:20 pm: Just to let you know (if anyone cares) I settled for this one (http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=559591891) in the end. Only a 14" screen but seems to be fast and handy, I figure it will run my 24" monitor at the shop for photoshop and yet be reasonably portable if needed.
Title: wtb Laptop
Post by: Baldesto on February 06, 2013, 04:45:55 pm: looks fine Bill ....
Title: wtb Laptop
Post by: mycoolcar on February 06, 2013, 05:32:42 pm: Looks good as, decent cpu and good amount of ram.

If you feel its too slow, you can always replace the standard hard drive with and ssd, makes quite the difference.
Title: wtb Laptop
Post by: bigROBOTbill on February 06, 2013, 07:07:45 pm: Ah nice to know, I saw the newer ones had ssd drives. And I can put another 4G of ram if needed.