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New budget laptop for Eve Online (station trading & light scouting mostly)
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Gunther Hlaegus
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#1 - 2012-12-29 03:11:01 UTC
Hi all,

Need some tech help with choosing a budget laptop for light eve activities such as station trading and occasional scouting...here is what I am looking at currently but I am open to suggestions with a close price point (+/- 10%)

Acer A8 refurb

Lenovo A6 new

Thank you for your feedback and advice!!!
Ivy Romanova
State Protectorate
Caldari State
#2 - 2012-12-29 03:35:43 UTC
I don't really recommend AMD unless you're on a REALLY tight budget.
Since on midrange to low range performance, Nvidia has much better hardware integration and relationship between game developers. Which means in the long run, you'll get much better gameplay fluidity as the games are often optimised for such.
Same goes for Intel.
PS:There are rumors of Intel trynig to M&A Nvidia... so.... thats another thing to consider.

Well... lets say you have a budget of $500 USD
I recommend a computer with.
Ivy Bridge
8GB ram
Nvidia card
64bit

You can't go wrong with DELL and HP imo.
But acer and asus is cool too.

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Some Rando
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2012-12-29 05:49:20 UTC
I picked up a refurb Dell N4110 with an AMD HD7450 and it runs two clients at mid settings just right. Little under $700.

CCP has no sense of humour.
Patrick Yaa
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#4 - 2012-12-29 15:19:22 UTC  |  Edited by: Patrick Yaa
Ivy Romanova wrote:

You can't go wrong with DELL and HP imo.
But acer and asus is cool too.




Say whaaaat?
DELL is the last crap, and i won't ever buy one, here is why:
A friend of my dad is a Computer expert, got his own company and all, and he ordered, just for fun, ten laptops from DELL, which were supposed to be all the same... What did he get? ten completly different systems, different Graphic Cards, different Motherboards, different Processors, different RAM Types and Mannufacturers... You simply cannot build on DELL, because they won't give you what you ordered, so you can't be sure if the system works together in itself...

My advice: Go the Computer Store of your trust, See to it that the owner looks nerdlike, name him your budget and ask for a few suggestions!

EDIT: HP is crap, too. My Mom as well as another friend of mine got one and the laptop killed itslef because of inefficient and wrong placed cooling...
If you can, go for Asus, Alienware, Acer or Lenovo!
Ivy Romanova
State Protectorate
Caldari State
#5 - 2012-12-29 17:03:16 UTC
Patrick Yaa wrote:
Ivy Romanova wrote:

You can't go wrong with DELL and HP imo.
But acer and asus is cool too.




Say whaaaat?
DELL is the last crap, and i won't ever buy one, here is why:
A friend of my dad is a Computer expert, got his own company and all, and he ordered, just for fun, ten laptops from DELL, which were supposed to be all the same... What did he get? ten completly different systems, different Graphic Cards, different Motherboards, different Processors, different RAM Types and Mannufacturers... You simply cannot build on DELL, because they won't give you what you ordered, so you can't be sure if the system works together in itself...

My advice: Go the Computer Store of your trust, See to it that the owner looks nerdlike, name him your budget and ask for a few suggestions!

EDIT: HP is crap, too. My Mom as well as another friend of mine got one and the laptop killed itslef because of inefficient and wrong placed cooling...
If you can, go for Asus, Alienware, Acer or Lenovo!



Never happened to me before , maybe you weren't specific enough on your voice order or messed up your internet order.

PS: When you say " A friend of mine" that pretty much destroyed your credibility.

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Some Rando
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2012-12-29 17:37:56 UTC  |  Edited by: Some Rando
Patrick Yaa wrote:
A friend of my dad is a Computer expert

Obviously not or he would have ordered what he wanted correctly.

Patrick Yaa wrote:
Alienware

Which is now Dell.

CCP has no sense of humour.
Steve Ronuken
Fuzzwork Enterprises
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#7 - 2012-12-29 17:45:26 UTC
Take a look at the Dell Outlet. It'sd pretty much useless if you want to buy multiple machines of the same spec, but it's handy for a single machine. Single year warrenty, and you can't pick and choose components, but the price tends to be reasonable.

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Patrick Yaa
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#8 - 2012-12-29 18:38:23 UTC
Quote:
PS: When you say " A friend of mine" that pretty much destroyed your credibility.

If you want his Name/ mail adress, PN me :D

Quote:
Obviously not or he would have ordered what he wanted correctly.

As I recall it, if you specify one machine (as stated in an Order, where the System Details are specified) and Say "I want that 10 times", I don't really know where that order is "not specific"...

Quote:
Which is now Dell.

I know, but they still have a higher standard and a Name as a Brand, I would still trust them...

But nevertheless... I wouldn't buy Dell(excluded Alienware), which is the essence of my post^^
Gunther Hlaegus
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#9 - 2012-12-29 20:25:51 UTC
Thanks for all the info and suggestions so far.

Currently looking at this one:

Lenovo Core i5 with 1g nvidia

Though I don't really want to spend more than 500 on a laptop---i did check out the dell outlet but even the cheapest refurbs with similar specs cost around 700$ US

Any other ideas? please keeping mind that the unit will NOT have to fly in space much at all...mostly log into a station and do trading stuff (no captains quarters either) - I might use an alt parked near a choke point gate to check for camps but won't fly around much...

Thanks again all!!! Big smile
NEONOVUS
Mindstar Technology
Goonswarm Federation
#10 - 2012-12-29 22:31:08 UTC
You can run EVE on a 1.5 GHZ dual core AMD with integrated Intel video graphics and 2 gigs of RAM at max settings.
Acquirable for under 300 USD at Best Buy, Amazon, and other major online retailers.
It also works great to heat the ramen your peasant budget restricts you to.
Gunther Hlaegus
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#11 - 2012-12-29 22:41:55 UTC
Lol...ouch...the main reason for not wanting to spend massive piles o'cash is two-fold: 1) the tech in laptops seems to go out of date the minute I buy it...meaning I will just need to buy another 1 year from now...and 2) I am a poor (peasant) recently-returned to super expensive college student so money is a little tight(read nigh non-existent)

That being said...do you think I could realistically get 2 years out of the the laptop I linked in my last post?
cheese monkey
NuKeDD
NuKeDD.
#12 - 2012-12-29 23:08:13 UTC  |  Edited by: cheese monkey
Mine

I did my research for a while and matching budget and EVE gameplay I would HIGHLY suggest this machine.

Do try some discount codes or something, £800 is a bit much, i paid £570 for that exact machine brand new.

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