Hello you beautiful people! I’m currently looking for a laptop for my step daughter, she’s just finishing up her GCSEs and probably time she had a computer of her own for sixth form and Uni. I’m thinking of a budget around £1000, she’s not a gamer although she does sometimes play Roblox but I’m sure anything can run that. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you!
#Laptop for a student
mighty basalt
stable kite
I don't think she is going to need too much in terms of spec in that case since Roblox is not a deal breaker, it seems.
Not many people here use laptops so I would recommend a mid range pre built from PCS would be a good choice.
Thinking about it some more, it will also depend on what she plans to study.
mighty basalt
Thinking about it some more, it will also depend on what she plans to study.
She wants to study law so I don’t think the pc is going to have a hard time, just something that’ll last a few years. I don’t want to get something cheap but I don’t want to overspend also
stable kite
I would go with this: https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/computers-for-next-day-delivery/1799/ just remove the anti-virus but someone else may have a better idea.
and a carry case for the rough and ready life of uni.
mighty basalt
Bit of a switch up, I’ve spoken to her and she does seem to want to do some form of gaming on it, nothing heavy though. She will also be doing some movie creation stuff so I’ve gone ahead and made the following specs, could anyone let me know if this seems good?
mighty basalt
I would go with this: https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/computers-for-next-day-deli...
My apologies, I forgot to thank you for your time in helping me yesterday, appreciate you!
pearl linden
https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/defiance-II-16/
I'd recommend this, 8p and 8e cores, still plenty of grunt for most folks on the CPU side of things
mighty basalt
I was looking at this one! But she doesn’t want a 16” 😫
proud bronze
*TWSS
mighty basalt
I know I know, she seems to want thin and sleek whilst being able to do some gaming on it and kind of content creation things in terms of her film making course
Along with law, I don’t get it
proud bronze
mighty basalt
Ahahahahaha
proud bronze
Thin and sleek doesn't go together with gaming when talking about laptops
mighty basalt
That’s what iiiiiiii said
That Ionico seemed to fit the bill, I was happy until you guys fill me with doubt ahaha
pearl linden
pretty minimal increase in size, but lets the cooling system work better, and with the CPU being less overkill not generate as much heat
mighty basalt
Maybe dumb but will there be limitations on what she plans to use it for going for the laptop? I just though the better the CPU the better overall, the Ionico comes with the CPU so assumed it should be sweet and safe if it’s built that way
But I’m dumb and know nothing ahaha
pearl linden
the Ionico CPU has a faster CPU sure, but it runs much hotter with the extra and rather useless e-cores, so due to the heat practically it won't be much if any faster since the coolers gotta work that much harder
stable kite
What content creation are we talking about btw?
pearl linden
both still have 8 performance cores, and the top boost speed is slower with the defiance, but the cooler has less to cool
here's the Ionico, the p and e cores base speed is still the same, it just in theory can reach higher speeds
plus, you can make, an admittedly weak, argument that with the bigger screen video editing easier and general eyestrain is lessened
stable kite
Have you made it run even hotter or am I mistaken? :D
pearl linden
you can save a couple quid if you went with
of have extra space for a few quid more with this
mighty basalt
Nevermind guys, I’m on FaceTime to her, she’s wearing a Man United kit, I ain’t buying her anything
mighty basalt
Have you made it run even hotter or am I mistaken? :D
I upgraded the RAM and the made the screen 240Hz
mighty basalt
you can save a couple quid if you went with
Yeah I might have to
silk otter
This is the finished spec, does that look okay?
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mighty basalt
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Is that correct? Thank you!
silk otter
yep others can see it now
pearl linden
I'd go with the standard BT/Wifi you won't see much benefit
pearl linden
the killer comes with some features/software of dubious usefulness
the Killer Prioritization Engine, it puts priority on games/discord when it think it needs it
pearl linden
down the line maybe she can get a llano Cooling Pad for at home, it does really massive help cool, and reduces the actual volume of noise a little, but the perceived noise goes down a lot
they are kinda pricy, but they do help a lot
mighty basalt
Ahh okay, just searched it, I’ll add it to the wish list for later on, thanks for the tip
stable kite
My apologies, I forgot to thank you for your time in helping me yesterday, appre...
Unrelated, but, thank you for at least acknowledging, even if, perhaps I wasn't very helpful. Rare thing in Discord sometimes.