CMeds

My life took a turn for the worse some months back when my laptop's motherboard jacked in. I'd only had the computer a year, and up until it's passing it had been running great.

I'm a simple man with simple needs... Football Manager and the internet are my only essentials on a computer, everything else is just an unnecessary distraction.

I'm now in a financial position to make a new purchase but for the purposes of FM, what are the most important specs I need to look for??
I know ram is important, so I'm looking for 2gb of that, but what else does one need?

Advance thanks in anticipation of your help.

SWaRFeGa

She said you can do anything you want.

3GB would be better. Vista is advised too. Basically if you buying a brand new machine - it's good enough. Simple as that.

happy slappy

Does this include porn or not?

But yeah, if you were to buy FM09 as well then I would most probably go with 3GB, I am also considering buying a new laptop seeing as my current one only has 1GB and is a few years old, so an upgrade is needed.

CMeds

Thanks for the advice guys, will 3gb make a lot of difference then? Also- sounds silly again I know- but there is a decent looking sony laptop at currys for 500 at the moment and being a big brand name provides me with a bit of reassurance, but does the manufacturer effect performance?

Cheers

ps, re: the use of the internet, I am unwilling to answer such a question... however, I am currently without a girlfriend, so I'd be lying if I said my desperation to get a laptop is 100% down to FM. Maybe just 98%!

jayahr

3GB should make a remarkable difference.

The manufacturer of a laptop obviously matters, though it's less the brand on the surface than the components used. Sony can be trusted and is nicely designed. However, you can get the same performance at a lower price (or more at the same price) from the likes of Dell, Asus and so on. They are perfectly trustable too.

CMeds

kewl, cheers...

good offer?

Dell Core II Processor...
3gb ram... 1.83ghz... 6mhz... 2MB cache... 250gb hard drive

£599

SWaRFeGa

I think, and this is just my opinion , that £599 is a bit expensive for what it is.

jayahr

In that I would refer you to experts who are more up to date with buying things in England than me...

turn it upto 11

is the 1.83 the processor, because mine is an old machine and has 2.6ghz, its not dual core but still ive been brought up to think the big the number the better (unless its price or golf)

Neji

Dual core at 1.83 will be better than one core at 2.6. Maybe not right now but FM09 should be optimised for dual cores so it would work better. Having said that, I'd look for a bit more than 1.8. Id look for something with 2.2 dual core and 2gb of ram should be fine but obviously 3gb will be better.