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Buying a laptop for younger boys to use. No serious gaming, just stuff like Minecraft.

Don't want to spend loads. Looked up the performance figures of all the chips in the bargain bucket price range and this seems to be one of the best:

E2-3800
4GB
500GB
15.6
8.1 64 Bit
AMD HD8280

£220.

http://www.ebuyer.com/636132-hp-255-g2-laptop-f7x83ea-abu

Any thoughts before I go wild and push the ATB button?

Don't want to get a reputation for being a ditherer, now, do I?;)
 
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There was an advert on telly last night. PC World are doing a Toshiba laptop for £199. I think it's a short term offer.
 
Thanks.

I saw that. The processor in ebuyers one is better, apparently. I thought I might as well go for it for the extra £20.
 
I'd avoid PC World like the plague, for computers or laptops. All they'll be interested in is selling you the extended warranty/service agreements/etc. A friend went there last year to buy a lappy for her husband (Xmas pressie) Picked one and went to pay. Told the sales assistant, she didn't want any extended warranty etc. After the fourth attempt by the sales assistant to sell the extended warranty, she told him to stick it where the sun doesn't shine and walked out. Ordered one from Scan Computers online, which was cheaper than PC World, but same specs.
 
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Thank you, jock.

I know all about the warranty tactics. I bought Mrs Secure a lappy in '12 that was recommended by Which and found one at a good price in PCW. They did the same, push, push, push.

In the end I had to ask the bloke how many times somebody has to say no before he would accept it.

We only stuck with them because of the price.
 
In regards to the processor I would recommend getting a decent dual core, rather than a poor quad core. The one you linked to only has 1.3ghz cores.

Lots of games (including mine-craft) don't actually support multi-threading, so only run on a single core, that is when only having 1.3ghz cores will hurt you.
 
Buy apple, always always buy apple. But can you just wait a day or so, so I can buy some apple shares, with the amount of computers, tablets and phones you buy I reckon I'll be a millionaire by the end of next week!!
 
Wishful thinking Ed!

AS: have you an example in mind, please, spending as little as possible?

Thanks.
 
just think going by your previous dealings with the phone you were thinking of buying.
IT will be out of date when you actually make your mind up, :LOL: :LOL:

have you thought about buying 2nd hand?
take a looksie in your local friday ad.
 
Ho, ho!

I'm getting much better, I promise!

I did look at used, but I feel for only a bit more, I could get a brand spanker. Maybe looking in the wring place.

I have looked at two chips in laptops around £300, one Intel, the other AMD and the both beat the E2 3800 performance-wise.

A4 5000M and

3217U.

The suggestion is the i3 chip is the better performer of the two.
 
Ok.

£230 odd pounds gets you.....

500 CPU score (recommended mine-craft minimum CPU Score), 250 GPU score

http://www.ebuyer.com/636132-hp-255-g2-laptop-f7x83ea-abu
http://www.ebuyer.com/655101-acer-aspire-e3-111-laptop-nx-mntek-027

£300 pounds gets you.....

1200 CPU score(recommended mine craft CPU Score), 450 graphics score

http://www.ebuyer.com/582338-toshiba-satellite-pro-c50-a-1e2-laptop-pscg7e-02c041en

370 pounds gets you.... (your link)

850 CPU score 520 graphics score

http://www.ebuyer.com/630026-hp-pavilion-15-laptop-f5c21ea-abu



CPU SCORES ABOVE ARE BASED ON SINGLE CORE MARKS, which is why the more expensive one has a lower CPU benchmark, because whilst it is quad core, the individual cores are worse.

However, overall the dual core i3 processor is a very strong choice, because its overall benchmark is 3000 compared to 2500 for the quad core AMD.

Minecraft is more CPU intensive than GPU, so the 300 pound laptop will perform better than the 370 pounds laptop (for mine-craft).

For actual 3d games, neither are great, and the difference of 70 GPU points is not worth £70 more pounds IMO.
 
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