- Jul 28, 2013
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Whenever I've seen questions answered on TH, I notice that a lot of people tend to say that getting a custom built laptop is much cheaper than buying one direct, even when they have the same specs. I've tried this out on many different laptop building sites but I can never match the same specs or price as another one I might have seen on Amazon and the like. It maybe that I'm looking at all the wrong places but it would be helpful if someone could point me out a decent site that will build me more or less what I need. So this is what I need:
1. What is your budget? £500-£700 ($750-$1050)
2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering? 15" to 16"
3. What screen resolution do you want? Not really sure, anything that's not considered awful.
4. Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop? I'd say desktop replacement, power>portability
5. How much battery life do you need? Not really an issue
6. Do you want to play games with your laptop? If so then please list the games that you want to with the settings that you want for these games. (Low,Medium or High)? Yes I'd like to play games like BF3 and SimCity on medium setting with a good FPS rate
7. What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop? (Photo/Video editing, Etc.) Just general browsing, listening to music, document writing, multitasking is quite important
8. How much storage (Hard Drive capacity) do you need? 500GB?
9. If you are considering specific sites to buy from, please post their links. Anthing that isn't dodgy, maybe avoid Ebay
10. How long do you want to keep your laptop? 5 years
11. What kind of Optical drive do you need? DVD ROM/Writer,Bluray ROM/Writer,Etc ? Standard DVD ROM
12. Please tell us about the brands that you prefer to buy from them and the brands that you don't like and explain the reasons. Acer, Dell, HP + the usual bunch. I'm not really fussed about brand also as it has a decent reputation
13. What country do you live in? UK
+If possible I'd like 4/6GB RAM and dedicated graphics if possible.
Many thanks for all contributions!
1. What is your budget? £500-£700 ($750-$1050)
2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering? 15" to 16"
3. What screen resolution do you want? Not really sure, anything that's not considered awful.
4. Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop? I'd say desktop replacement, power>portability
5. How much battery life do you need? Not really an issue
6. Do you want to play games with your laptop? If so then please list the games that you want to with the settings that you want for these games. (Low,Medium or High)? Yes I'd like to play games like BF3 and SimCity on medium setting with a good FPS rate
7. What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop? (Photo/Video editing, Etc.) Just general browsing, listening to music, document writing, multitasking is quite important
8. How much storage (Hard Drive capacity) do you need? 500GB?
9. If you are considering specific sites to buy from, please post their links. Anthing that isn't dodgy, maybe avoid Ebay
10. How long do you want to keep your laptop? 5 years
11. What kind of Optical drive do you need? DVD ROM/Writer,Bluray ROM/Writer,Etc ? Standard DVD ROM
12. Please tell us about the brands that you prefer to buy from them and the brands that you don't like and explain the reasons. Acer, Dell, HP + the usual bunch. I'm not really fussed about brand also as it has a decent reputation
13. What country do you live in? UK
+If possible I'd like 4/6GB RAM and dedicated graphics if possible.
Many thanks for all contributions!
/www.amazon.co.uk/Lenovo-Ideapad-Laptop-Gunmetal-Graphics-Windows/dp/B00AXYAUL2
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