WhoWhatWhere wrote: » Gaming laptops aren't a great investment to be honest. For one thing the parts aren't as good as their desktop siblings and are more expensive. Such as, a stick of RAM could be 35 euro for a PC but 70 for a laptop, hard drives and such are the same deal. Upgrading your CPU and Graphics card is probably not happening unless you can solder and the best part of a PC is if a part breaks, you just identify, if in warranty send for repair, if not, buy a new one and move on. If for example your laptop CPU fries it's a very expensive trip to the repair shop if they can even fix it or most likely a new laptop. As well as cooling perfomance desktops are much better so you can push your GPU and CPU a bit harder. And in 3-5 years when your graphics card is getting old and grey you just pick up a new one for a couple hundred and keep going a new laptop would cost 1600+, like you've said. For editing and media you don't need to spend 1300 on your PC anyway. You could go sub 1k and buy a better laptop again for college. With the extra 600 you could buy a laptop that would be reasonably effective for media production if your PC needed repair and you needed some assignments done. Shop around, amazon is okay, but if you can get some used parts on adverts you'd save a fair bit and often people put them up a month or two old which is perfectly good. Oh and if you've got a HD Tv there's no exceptional need for a monitor. And please make sure you account for a copy of Windows, a mouse and keyboard when you're building your PC, it's easy to forget them but it's essential.
tadcan wrote: » What software do you need for college?
andrei.jatariu wrote: » When in college just need Web browsing and microsoft office. When I'm home I need to use AutoCAD, PS, AI and be able to play the latest games and play Microsoft Flight FSX at max settings.
andrei.jatariu wrote: » Thanks for advices. I was aware of all your points made above. For college I probably need something light and portable such as a chromebook as I only do Web browsing and typing in word.
K.O.Kiki wrote: » Go for an i7-6700 + GTX 1060 6Gb / RX 480 8Gb then.
ShadowHearth wrote: » I would not put much faith in black Friday. Its American holiday more then Irish. I always see excitement for black Friday every year and there is always **** all deals to be had. As mentioned above, I would go with suggestion above of splitting it to budget for laptop and pc. 1k eu will buy you a really great 1080p gaming pc and editing machine and 600eu will buy you a very very decent laptop, which will actually be able to do some of the work in collage too. Chrome book is just way too weak for anything, but browsing Internet.
