Laptops

yankcitizen76 said:
Almost all the ones I'm looking for now are 8 gigs! WTF Do you have to do to find a decent laptop for under a grand?!
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The PC manufacturers con people with RAM because they bump prices up and advertise it as though it is this massive thing when it is often the cheapest and most insignificant part. You can buy 16GB of laptop memory for something like £40 depending on the quality/speed...

Ultimately people buy 16GB+ and never have any use for it. I would ignore the RAM specs and go for extra things like SSD's or dedicated graphics cards, they will boost performance infinitely more. If you need a laptop for Word or general use then there is no reason to spend anymore than £500 to be honest. If you are thinking of gaming or anything else then a desktop is miles cheaper and gives 1000x more performance.

I can't think of a single application that anyone would use a laptop for which would need 8GB or more, if there is then it would still probably run like an absolute pig.
 
inbetween said:
The PC manufacturers con people with RAM because they bump prices up and advertise it as though it is this massive thing when it is often the cheapest and most insignificant part. You can buy 16GB of laptop memory for something like £40 depending on the quality/speed...

Ultimately people buy 16GB+ and never have any use for it. I would ignore the RAM specs and go for extra things like SSD's or dedicated graphics cards, they will boost performance infinitely more. If you need a laptop for Word or general use then there is no reason to spend anymore than £500 to be honest. If you are thinking of gaming or anything else then a desktop is miles cheaper and gives 1000x more performance.

I can't think of a single application that anyone would use a laptop for which would need 8GB or more, if there is then it would still probably run like an absolute pig.
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Thanks for the advice. This helps me a lot.
 
inbetween said:
The PC manufacturers con people with RAM because they bump prices up and advertise it as though it is this massive thing when it is often the cheapest and most insignificant part. You can buy 16GB of laptop memory for something like £40 depending on the quality/speed...

Ultimately people buy 16GB+ and never have any use for it. I would ignore the RAM specs and go for extra things like SSD's or dedicated graphics cards, they will boost performance infinitely more. If you need a laptop for Word or general use then there is no reason to spend anymore than £500 to be honest. If you are thinking of gaming or anything else then a desktop is miles cheaper and gives 1000x more performance.

I can't think of a single application that anyone would use a laptop for which would need 8GB or more, if there is then it would still probably run like an absolute pig.
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I have to agree. A grand is ridiculous.
 
I wouldn't ignore RAM at all, that's what makes a machine 'fast', I suppose it's horses for courses and all that, for example, graphics capability is quite low on my desirability list.

What I was attempting to say earlier is that a machine with expansion capabilities would be higher on my list than one that says you get 8GB, and that's it.

The manufacturers are probably also offloading 1TB HDD when they know that their factories no longer manufacture such things, they are full on manufacturing SSDs
 
"The PC manufacturers con people with RAM because they bump prices up and advertise it as though it is this massive thing when it is often the cheapest and most insignificant part. You can buy 16GB of laptop memory for something like £40 depending on the quality/speed..."

Which is fine if the machine has the slots to plug the RAM in to
 
Dalian Blue said:
I wouldn't ignore RAM at all, that's what makes a machine 'fast', I suppose it's horses for courses and all that, for example, graphics capability is quite low on my desirability list.

What I was attempting to say earlier is that a machine with expansion capabilities would be higher on my list than one that says you get 8GB, and that's it.

The manufacturers are probably also offloading 1TB HDD when they know that their factories no longer manufacture such things, they are full on manufacturing SSDs
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Its very dependent on what you want to do with it, 8 gig of ram should be plenty if you have a decent SSD.... If it was the choice of SSD or more than 8Gig of RAM I would personally say SSD. But got a grand you should easily get both.
 
aguerrrroooooooooooo said:
Wash your mouth out boy ;)
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Lol, The fact im starting to like MacOS is making me feel dirty, believe me. But i need to use it for xCode.

With regards to the OP, does anyone know if CS courses use specific software ( Visual Studio for example ).

That could direct the laptop.
 
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