Buying Laptop Need Advice

tomboy42

Hey all,

Hoping to get some advice. Need to get a new laptop asap as my current one is dying. I only really use it for the internet and also football manager. But I would like it to have the capability to run football manager fully (current laptop overheats and crashes when playing).

Current laptop is a Dell Inspiron 1545 - 4gig RAM - Pentium Dual core processor. So I would like to improve on that.

Budget is low, hopefully €500 or less, at most €600.

In Limerick, was thinking of getting one in Argos (is that a good idea??) and was looking at these two:

HP Pavilion 15-n221sa Core i3 15.6 Inch 8GB 1TB Laptop
HP J1R16EA Core i3 15.6 Inch 8GB 1TB Laptop

But don't know anything about them.

Hoping to get some advice on a) what laptop or brand would be best and b) where to get the laptop.

Any help would be hugely appreciated!!

looking_around

argos is fine, just about the brand, stay away from HP, when I was repairing pc's they were the most common to have hardware faults. within the 1-3 year mark.

almost anything at your budget will play football manager. (it has very basic requirements)

I dont know best prices at the moment so I cant advise there. Shop around, check out pc world etc. and stay away from HP, (or packerd bells,) they're just shoddy.

if you do go HP, buy the insurance.

tomboy42

Hey, thanks for the quick reply! Do you know offhand what brands are solid? Argos also had some Acer laptops and Toshiba, would those be alright?

looking_around

acer, toshiba, asus, samsung, dell, are all decent brands, ime. Cant think of others atm.

PropJoe10

To echo what the other person said, stay away from HP. Not only are they dodgy hardware-wise, they come with some much bloatware and pre-packaged software that they are slowed to a crawl. Acer, Dell, Toshiba are all solid and do the job, plus have decent customer support from what I've seen.