Laptop (Cont'd from a few months back)

[ScottyB]

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

[ScottyB]

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

Maybe this one instead?

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

[Ian Warren]

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 .

[ScottyB]

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!

[Timmo]

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