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AnthonyRob91

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Hi everyone I'm new to the forum and I'm not sure this is even in the right section of the forum, sorry if not. I am in need of a new laptop, mainly to play football manager for long hours and also download and store lots of films and music with a budget of about £1,600.

Whilst playing around with the creation pages I've decided I want a nice 17" matte screen (skyfireIII/optimusV) with at least 8GB RAM and an i7 processor. Also I've been told for my hard drive(s) I should pay extra for a solid state drive or two because they're better apparently?

Any input and help would be much appreciated!

Thanks.
 
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keynes

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You can get a decent laptop for your needs for less than £1600, the optimus V would be a good choice. An SSD is not essential and I wouldn't recommend having 2 SSDs since they are expensive and provide limited storage.
 
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AnthonyRob91

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yeah the Optimus V was my first choice really, my current hard drive is 160GB and its near enough full after about 5 years and il be transferring all my music and films across to my new laptop so a lot of memory will already be reserved on it. So I'm hoping I can get about 500GB storage. Also can anyone help with what RAID and mSATA SSD storage is? I've read the info and it means nothing to me :/
 
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megatron123

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for under £1500 you can get the review version of the vortex iv.. its a beast and can play pretty much any current game and future games on ultra settings and has plenty of memory and ram.. would destroy most mid to high range pc's out there too..
 
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keynes

Multiverse Poster
megatron123 said:
for under £1500 you can get the review version of the vortex iv.. its a beast and can play pretty much any current game and future games on ultra settings and has plenty of memory and ram.. would destroy most mid to high range pc's out there too..
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For mainly football manager it seems overkill to go for a vortex IV.
 
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mdwh

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SSDs are faster - in my opinion, they're the best thing one can do to a computer to improve the overall experience of using it, outside of doing CPU or GPU intensive things. The downside is the cost, but at that budget it shouldn't be an issue.

To have more space, the usual method is to buy a smaller SSD, and a second larger non-SSD hard disk. Things like films and music are perfect for going on a non-SSD hard disk - don't need fast access, and take up lots of space. (I have a 240GB SSD and 1TB hard disk, and had no trouble getting that on a Vortex 3 last year at under £1500.)
 
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AnthonyRob91

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ok maybe it may be overkill but I want the laptop to last a few years like so I don't mind spending abit on a decent one, I don't wanna like get a low budget gaming laptop that may only last like a year or two at its top speed.

What's the score with the wireless antenna inside the laptop? How much difference do they make etc?
 
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