NZFF

Gidday guys,

So my year traveling around Canada and Europe is almost coming to an end. I am back in NZ in mid December, which means back into simming and in need of a new laptop as mine went bust whilst over here. I am going to by a laptop in Canada just before I left, so as I can claim the enormous VAT back (about $20 n B.C!!)

How does this HP look? What are general thoughts of HP's? Would this run FSX with VLC alright?


http://www.bestbuy.ca/en-CA/product/hewlet...a/10172216.aspx

Thanks,
ScottyB

PS: Been out of the forum for a couple of months, but will be back in force soon! Good to see everything is well and the simming is alive and kicking as ever

Oopss, just realized it is single core I think!!!

Maybe this one instead?

http://www.bestbuy.ca/en-CA/product/hewlet...9b2319509fcen02

Scotty , this laptop would run FSX without a problem but with lesser displaying ( running at med/high) i have a HP i5 , about only difference - for FS id still go a desktop tho .

Cheers Ian. Well I think the family will be getting a new desktop soon, so I will probably end up running FSX on that in the long run. But over the summer months this should do a half decent job?

I am starting my pilot training next year and will be needing a laptop for my studies (docs), as well as music, movies, and I do play a bit of Football Manager 2012 too, so this laptop should be a good all-round machine I think.

Thanks again!

Hmm not bad....but I think you can do better for the price- Are you aware of Pricespy.co.nz? I just went there and applied some filters to get laptops around the price you want to spend (i.e. around $1000 NZD) and there are a few i5s coming up....so maybe worth a look?
With FSX and multicores, try to get faster clock speeds on each core (i.e. a fast i3 or i5) rather than more cores as the multicore functionality was only added late in development and isn't that great in splitting the work