Laptop for College.

JonnyMcNamee

Well lads,
Just wanted to get a bit of advice from all you techies out there. I'm due to start college next year in Maynooth and I'm looking to buy a laptop but don't know really what to get. I'm doing an Arts degree in Music Technology and History hopefully so I would need a laptop with a nice bit of memory, good bit of ram, an i5 processor and I'd like for it to be light to carry around. For the Music course I need to be able to run Recording and Production programs and for the history its just the basics. Any advice on models and stuff would be great, thanks

CasualLiKE

http://www.komplett.ie/Komplett/Site/Catalog/ItemDetail.aspx?ItemNo=80003562

Was looking at this yolk myself, but I'm holding out for the ivy bridge processors in April/May. It's 699, a great price for the specs:

Specifications
Product Description Asus K53SV-SX706V
Display 15.6" Widescreen 16:9 HD (1366x768) LED Backlight
Processor 2nd Generation Intel® CoreT i5 2430 processor
RAM 8GB DDR3 SODIMM
Storage 640GB
Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce GT540M - 2GB
Optical Drive DVD±RW (±R DL) / DVD-RAM
Card Reader 4-in1 card reader - SD/ MS/ MS Pro/ MMC
Network Gigabit LAN, Wireless b/g/n network
Colour Bronze
Connections 3x USB2.0, HDMI, VGA, Gigabit LAN RJ45, Jack in, Jack out
Dimensions 37.8cm x 25.3cm x 3.5cm
Weight 2.6 kg
Battery 6 Cell - 5200mAh/56Whrs
Operating System Windows® 7 Home Premium

JonnyMcNamee

That would be like the dream machine but unfortunately, as a prospective student whos purchase is gonna be self funded, I doubt I'll have that money. My friend showed me this one and said it would be good? Any opinions?
http://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/Lenovo_G570_1123917.html

_AVALANCHE_

JonnyMcNamee wrote: »

That would be like the dream machine but unfortunately, as a prospective student whos purchase is gonna be self funded, I doubt I'll have that money. My friend showed me this one and said it would be good? Any opinions?
http://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/Lenovo_G570_1123917.html

Yea, I do.

The "dream machie" is only €35 more than this one.

JonnyMcNamee

Yeah really should of converted from GBP back to euro :pac: Thanks for the advice anyway guys. Should be buying either one or the other by next week!

kilianmanning

Which laptop is graphically stronger?

cutefainne

If you will be working with pro tools then you will need a mac

kilianmanning

cutefainne wrote: »

If you will be working with pro tools then you will need a mac

i don't really need it, but my friend is going to buy either one or the other so i just want to know which is better because theres not much difference in price?

yoyo

cutefainne wrote: »

If you will be working with pro tools then you will need a mac

Pro Tools works on Windows too

Nick

scotty_irish

cutefainne wrote: »

If you will be working with pro tools then you will need a mac

There's very rarely a situation where you NEED a mac, you may convince yourself that you need one because you want one.