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Hendrix Posted December 15, 2008 Report Share Posted December 15, 2008 If I re-call, it can be pretty tedious working on laptops if you have no prior knowledge..But I know nothing other than that, so I shall get my coat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonMack Posted December 15, 2008 Report Share Posted December 15, 2008 Nothing, you can upgrade the ram, and that's it really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Greetings Posted December 15, 2008 Report Share Posted December 15, 2008 (edited) Wouldnt mind being able to play a few light games such as GTA 4 or a few racing games!I can only comment on that part.GTA 4 is a bit out of the question, when I run it on my PC the memory usage goes over 6gb. And with a 280 GTX graphics card the details only hit medium without it crashing due to some out of gfx memory error.If you want to run other games you need to start off with a fairly decent graphics card. I have a 8600 GT in my laptop, it allows to run NFS Pro Street in full details in 720p quite smoothly. However, graphics cards for laptops are very expensive and upgrading them is often impossible. Save up for a new laptop and get a VBI platform which allows various components to be changed in the future. There's no point in upgrading your laptop if you want to play good games on it. Edited December 15, 2008 by Inur Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Greetings Posted December 15, 2008 Report Share Posted December 15, 2008 Saying you'd only get a Vaio when short on cash won't get you far.You need to reconsider that, there are loads of laptops out there which are better performance wise and cheaper.With a Vaio, you're paying mainly for the build quality of the casing and display. What's inside is exactly the same stuff you get in Asus/Acer/Dell/whatever laptops. I was thinking the same way as you when getting mine and decided to sacrifice good looks and build quality for superior performance. Was definitely worth it. What's the point of having a nice and shiny laptop when you can't run certain apps on it because it's not powerful enough? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Harrison Posted December 15, 2008 Report Share Posted December 15, 2008 To limit yourself to Sony, isn't that a bit blinkered? Most of the people I work with use HP, Dell, IBM and Acer laptops on a daily basis, and their peformance is nothing to be sniffed at.For the price of the Vaio, you could probably buy a desktop and a cheap laptop - that's assuming you actually need a laptop. I don't think my personal one (which was given to me, thankfully) has left it's bag in six months. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Krisboats Posted December 15, 2008 Report Share Posted December 15, 2008 For the same price as the vaio laptop you could get a very modest pc like this. Please bear in mind its 3 in the morning and i've just whacked it all together quickly with very little thought behind it. Money can be saved almost everywhere if you choose to and its missing a dvd drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 15, 2008 Report Share Posted December 15, 2008 I very much doubt you NEED a laptop for a course at school.You might want to have one to make things easier, but you won't need it, and I bet what you do want it for, your current laptop would do fine.Very silly to say you will buy only sony, there is so much better out there for the money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrDoom Posted December 15, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2008 (edited) http://jforjustice.co.uk/banksters Edited December 15, 2008 by Full Monty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted December 15, 2008 Report Share Posted December 15, 2008 Vaio's are way overpriced too. You could probably get a laptop the same spec as a £600 vaio for like £500 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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