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Laptop Advice, Mac Vs MS - Uni Related.
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Laptop Advice, Mac vs MS - Uni related.
Gilgamesh.Minusseven said: All the ones that can run ffxiv well are basically $2000 i think people underestimated prices, or maybe english prices. After the help given here i am pretty tempted to go for a much cheaper Vaio if i ditch the ffxiv plan (over a macbook) since ill be saving like $500+ So you want a pc for school and to play? Mac would be nice, and since you are in the U.K the prices are different ;/. A regular pc laptop.... dell I would not recommend. That is pretty much it not out side the xps series. Alienware? you need to understand ones that run ff14 do not have to be "those types" of expensive ones, in matter of fact, I would wait on buying until some time next year, they probably will add the new ati radeon mobile cards in a mobile version. For some reason the nvidia cards on laptop I have had bad situations with. alienware laptops FTW. i have an alienware m9700 aurora 17 inch laptop i play on, and a m11x that i mule on. alienware computers are fairly competetivley priced, and can come with pretty much anything that you could ask for. check them out for sure.
Ramuh.Krizz said: I'm not really sure what to recommend. I don't know what websites would deliver to you. Are you able to order from sites like tigerdirect and newegg? $1.6k USD is a lot of money for a laptop (non-Mac anyway). You should be able to find what you're looking for at no more than the $1k USD mark.
What settings are you looking to play FFXIV on? Gilgamesh.Minusseven said: Ramuh.Krizz said: I'm not really sure what to recommend. I don't know what websites would deliver to you. Are you able to order from sites like tigerdirect and newegg? Nah, good UK websites are http://www.ebuyer.com and http://www.scan.co.uk/ That's where I normally buy from when building or upgrading. Good prices. You could also try Play if you know what you want. Bahamut.Stanflame said: Gilgamesh.Minusseven said: All the ones that can run ffxiv well are basically $2000 i think people underestimated prices, or maybe english prices. After the help given here i am pretty tempted to go for a much cheaper Vaio if i ditch the ffxiv plan (over a macbook) since ill be saving like $500+ So you want a pc for school and to play? Mac would be nice, and since you are in the U.K the prices are different ;/. A regular pc laptop.... dell I would not recommend. That is pretty much it not out side the xps series. Alienware? you need to understand ones that run ff14 do not have to be "those types" of expensive ones, in matter of fact, I would wait on buying until some time next year, they probably will add the new ati radeon mobile cards in a mobile version. For some reason the nvidia cards on laptop I have had bad situations with. Ramuh.Krizz said: $1.6k USD is a lot of money for a laptop (non-Mac anyway). You should be able to find what you're looking for at no more than the $1k USD mark. What settings are you looking to play FFXIV on? I HATE Viao's touchpad.....sony dropped the ball on that ***.
Just remember if you did get a macbook(pro included) you may have to dish out money for Os software . Then realize how small the hdd you have is.
So get a regular laptop that is not apple. It even depends what new settings the macbooks have. What are you looking into for the laptop besides ff14? Shiva.Flionheart said: Gilgamesh.Minusseven said: Ramuh.Krizz said: I'm not really sure what to recommend. I don't know what websites would deliver to you. Are you able to order from sites like tigerdirect and newegg? Nah, good UK websites are http://www.ebuyer.com and http://www.scan.co.uk/ That's where I normally buy from when building or upgrading. Good prices. You could also try Play if you know what you want. Edit: screen size is huge lol would rather have 14 or 15" Bahamut.Stanflame said: Just remember if you did get a macbook(pro included) you may have to dish out money for Os software . Then realize how small the hdd you have is. So get a regular laptop that is not apple. It even depends what new settings the macbooks have. What are you looking into for the laptop besides ff14? What can that vaio's card be upgraded to?
For ebuyer, this one is what I came out with as fitting what you're looking for:
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/231420 I'm still looking at the other two links. Bahamut.Stanflame said: What can that vaio's card be upgraded to? Diabolos.Slanderous said: alienware laptops FTW. i have an alienware m9700 aurora 17 inch laptop i play on, and a m11x that i mule on. alienware computers are fairly competetivley priced, and can come with pretty much anything that you could ask for. check them out for sure. Gilgamesh.Minusseven said: Bahamut.Stanflame said: Just remember if you did get a macbook(pro included) you may have to dish out money for Os software . Then realize how small the hdd you have is. So get a regular laptop that is not apple. It even depends what new settings the macbooks have. What are you looking into for the laptop besides ff14? I do not know what to say >_<. Mac would be good to help you, with all of that but it would need a lot of space, and it would cost an arm and a leg. So forget about it, just get a windows pc with the settings you want. Could always get a Windows PC and load up a crack version of OSX.
>.> <.< That's essentially the same exact thing as dual booting with a Mac computer but it's cheaper. You could always try out the Google OS but from what I can see it's just another deviation of Linux...but I guess most things are. Ramuh.Krizz said: For ebuyer, this one is what I came out with as fitting what you're looking for: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/231420 I'm still looking at the other two links. I was going to recommend toshiba, anyway here you go minusseven that is a good one, and it has a better card than the link up there. Ramuh.Vinvv said: Could always get a Windows PC and load up a crack version of OSX. >.> <.< That's essentially the same exact thing as dual booting with a Mac computer but it's cheaper. Yeah not trying to tell you to pirate minus seven but what vinvi said does have merit.. For that scan site, this looks better (of course costs more). The only thing is I'm not familiar with that series of video cards. I'll have to look it up (NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M). Pretty sure it's a good card.
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/154-MSI-GT640-Core-i7-28-640Gb-4Gb-Blu-ray-1Gb-Nv-250M-GTS-Webcam-N-Wifi-W7HP Bahamut.Stanflame said: Ramuh.Krizz said: For ebuyer, this one is what I came out with as fitting what you're looking for: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/231420 I'm still looking at the other two links. I was going to recommend toshiba, anyway here you go minusseven that is a good one, and it has a better card than the link up there. Ramuh.Krizz said: For that scan site, this looks better (of course costs more). The only thing is I'm not familiar with that series of video cards. I'll have to look it up (NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M). Pretty sure it's a good card. http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/154-MSI-GT640-Core-i7-28-640Gb-4Gb-Blu-ray-1Gb-Nv-250M-GTS-Webcam-N-Wifi-W7HP Ramuh.Vinvv said: Could always get a Windows PC and load up a crack version of OSX. >.> <.< That's essentially the same exact thing as dual booting with a Mac computer but it's cheaper. You could always try out the Google OS but from what I can see it's just another deviation of Linux...but I guess most things are. ew ew ew, why would you ever.....ew i need to go shower. Gilgamesh.Minusseven said: Ramuh.Krizz said: For that scan site, this looks better (of course costs more). The only thing is I'm not familiar with that series of video cards. I'll have to look it up (NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M). Pretty sure it's a good card. http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/154-MSI-GT640-Core-i7-28-640Gb-4Gb-Blu-ray-1Gb-Nv-250M-GTS-Webcam-N-Wifi-W7HP Doing more research. Ramuh.Vinvv said: Diabolos.Slanderous said: alienware laptops FTW. i have an alienware m9700 aurora 17 inch laptop i play on, and a m11x that i mule on. alienware computers are fairly competetivley priced, and can come with pretty much anything that you could ask for. check them out for sure. The GTS 250M shows as slightly ahead of the 5650 from what I'm looking at. That combined with the processor makes the MSI laptop look like the better option.
I really don't like the lack of options on those sites. Any others I can take a look at? Ramuh.Krizz said: The GTS 250M shows as slightly ahead of the 5650 from what I'm looking at. That combined with the processor makes the MSI laptop look like the better option. I really don't like the lack of options on those sites. Any others I can take a look at? lololol. Ramuh.Krizz said: Gilgamesh.Minusseven said: Ramuh.Krizz said: For that scan site, this looks better (of course costs more). The only thing is I'm not familiar with that series of video cards. I'll have to look it up (NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M). Pretty sure it's a good card. http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/154-MSI-GT640-Core-i7-28-640Gb-4Gb-Blu-ray-1Gb-Nv-250M-GTS-Webcam-N-Wifi-W7HP Doing more research. But yeh so long as people can back up makes then i dont really have a problem with it, i guess the big companies have got me with their brand loyalty schemes lol Hmm ima check if any other computer manufacturers come under the list for discount on this NUS student card (crazy how many things there is, even like 5% off all amazon stuff). Gilgamesh.Minusseven said: Ramuh.Krizz said: Gilgamesh.Minusseven said: Ramuh.Krizz said: For that scan site, this looks better (of course costs more). The only thing is I'm not familiar with that series of video cards. I'll have to look it up (NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M). Pretty sure it's a good card. http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/154-MSI-GT640-Core-i7-28-640Gb-4Gb-Blu-ray-1Gb-Nv-250M-GTS-Webcam-N-Wifi-W7HP Doing more research. But yeh so long as people can back up makes then i dont really have a problem with it, i guess the big companies have got me with their brand loyalty schemes lol Hmm ima check if any other computer manufacturers come under the list for discount on this NUS student card (crazy how many things there is, even like 5% off all amazon stuff). I'm pretty sure you could at least play with a few options bumped up to high(est) with little to no lag. Not sure how Depth of Field and things like that would do. Oh, and here's what Scan says about MSI on one of the laptop's pages" Quote: MSI specialises in the design and manufacture of mainboards, VGA cards, OSD and barbone systems. Entering a challenging industry environment, MSI are now ranked within Taiwan's Top Three and the world's Top Five mainboard manufacturers. Gilgamesh.Minusseven said: Bahamut.Stanflame said: Just remember if you did get a macbook(pro included) you may have to dish out money for Os software . Then realize how small the hdd you have is. So get a regular laptop that is not apple. It even depends what new settings the macbooks have. What are you looking into for the laptop besides ff14? Coming from a MAc owner, and PC owner - I will tell you this. Depending on your college courses that you are taking/college you are at - you could get a student discount for Mac - not only for the OS - but a variety of programs through the apple site - and from most student stores. Like me - I got windows 7 for my Mac for about $50, I got all of the software programs for editing audio and video that I needed, for about $75. You can split the HD space to what you need if you have a Mac, it gives you the option. So you could have all your editing on one side, and all your gaming on the other. Or all of it on one side if you so wished. As for playing games on PC and Mac, I have no issue running Crisis or FFXIV on my Mac. WIthout any sacrificing. One thing I notice when I use my PC after using my Mac, pop-ups. |
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