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The university off campus access won't make a huge difference to the running of it. It's more limited by the network than anything else.

I'd recommend sticking things like anti virus and productivity suites on (office, adobe etc)

Other than that just make sure you don't defrag it and it should work fine. There are other more in depth tweaks you can make, but that should have you running well

I can't wait to get myself one. Only reason I'm holding off is the prices have been plummeting recently and I'd like a 256gb at least. Not to mention the current lack of fundsk

There's a Kingston 256GB once on ebuyer for 99.99 just now. Just depends what you think of Kingston

I reckon prices will fall much more yet so I might hold off until Christmas time.

http://www.comet.co.uk/p/Laptops/buy-ACER-V3-771G-7361161-Laptop/337326?cm_mmc=AW-_-PC+Checker-_-feed-_-337326_ACER&_$ja=tsid:8361|prd:73276&awc=157_1345477912_572f01501eef37f8966cfe967bc3bc10

Hi, could someone check and let me know if this is worth the money and if it has good spec..
I'm going to be doing civil engineering and i don't know what kind of softwares I would need to use..
I would prob want to play games life bf3..

JUST NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO and from Comet as well


http://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/Samsung_700Z5C_1217865.html
And you'll save yourself about £200 from a better maker, you should also check up your course and modules and the software use.

http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/Samsung_Series_5_550P7C_17.3_Core_i7_Blu-Ray_Laptop__NP550P7C-S02UK/version.asp
cheaper but larger screen.

Lol...yh i'm not good with computers...could you please be able to search for me any more under £1500 if you have time ?

thanks a lot!

Hey guys I'm back again.
My laptop looks like it's pretty dead now.

Budget: £500-£700

I need something that's going to last the entire 3 years of university, preferably more.
It needs to run the following with ease:

Photoshop CS6
Flash CS6

+ being able to run a graphics tablet at the same time.

I'm going to be casual gaming, programming, and using a variety of professional multimedia software.
I want Windows 7, not 8.

I am VERY appreciative of anyone's help.

Those are the best ones I could find, with a high end processor along with a high end gpu like the GT650M, unless your willing to settle for something less like an 3rd gen i5 and gt650m for a bit less?






http://www.ebuyer.com/350096-samsung-550p5c-laptop-np550p5c-s03uk

This one should be smooth, and be very good graphically, but you could do better if you look at a i7 in terms of speed if your planning on doing loads of high end editing and multimedi software.

what kind of casual gaming?
http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/Lenovo_Z580_Windows_7_Laptop__M81D2UK/version.asp
more powerful processor, weaker gpu tho.

autocad for engineering..bf3 for gaming

Hey guys

Okay guys, I'm not the most computer literate. Only really know the basics.

I need a new PC, will be editing AVCHD using Adobe Premiere Pro + After Effects CS6. Videos will be uploaded to YouTube.

From what I understand, AVCHD is really CPU intensive. Basically I only know that I need an i7 with a minimum of 16GB of RAM. Also need minimum of two 7200rpm hard-drives. I could also do with making sure that it's an Nvidia graphics card due to the Mercury Playback Engine in CS6. There's a list of graphics cards on this link. Reading Adobe forums for recommendations etc they also talk about RAID configurations.

http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/mercury-playback-engine.html

The main problem is that I'm not sure about cases, motherboards, CPU coolers, which type of RAM etc etc.

Ideal budget would be around £1000. I have a feeling this will need to be increased, so if it does then that's okay as long as it's not loads!

Thanks!

http://www.ebuyer.com/350096-samsung-550p5c-laptop-np550p5c-s03uk

This one should be smooth, and be very good graphically, but you could do better if you look at a i7 in terms of speed if your planning on doing loads of high end editing and multimedi software.

what kind of casual gaming?
http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/Lenovo_Z580_Windows_7_Laptop__M81D2UK/version.asp
more powerful processor, weaker gpu tho.

Thanks for your reply!

Never mind the gaming, I need this to be totally for my university work more than anything else, plus being on image-heavy websites.

I quite like the Samsung, are there any particular downsides to having that in regards to the high usage it's going to get with multimedia software?

From what i've heard some people have noticed lagging, but on games after an hour or so, caused by ventilation issues and overheating of the gpu.

So if I don't play any games that are demanding on the GPU and such, it'll run smoothly when I'm creating/editing on the multimedia software?

yeah it should run fine, but anyone else will tell you that you should get a cooling pad, especially when your doing such things, all laptops get hot over long use, but with i7's and dedicated graphics card even more so cos they produce a lot of heat.

Thanks a lot for your help, it looks like I'll be looking to get something like this.