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Topic: New Laptop?

I'm currently looking about for a new laptop, as my last one kaputt'd last month. I've got the advantage of the Dollars to Euro conversion without Tax (for various reasons). So excluding shipping + VAT etc. what laptops would you advise under $380? Also, will there be any problems with the disk drive because I'd be using european disks? Or any other regional problems? Many thanks!

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Drifter (THAC 11) - Here
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Re: New Laptop?

Okay, getting it from america isn't an option anymore, but I'm still open to ideas. Anybody got any?

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Drifter (THAC 11) - Here
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Re: New Laptop?

What do you want your main purpose of your laptop to be? Gaming? Filming? etc.

  • Joined: May 12, 2010

Re: New Laptop?

Mainly animation purposes, although being able to run post-production items would be a plus.

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Re: New Laptop?

Under $380?
There won't be anything too powerful in that range.

This is a tad on the expensive side, but it looks like it could do just about anything.
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Re: New Laptop?

If your using any Adobe tools, you might want an i5 or i7 with 4-8 gigs of ram. You'll want all the ram possible. It will be pretty expensive to get lots of ram in a laptop, but if you use a tower(desktop) computer, you could put more in it probably.

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Re: New Laptop?

I agree with ZP, a laptop under 380$ won't be the best. I got my laptop for 550$, it has 4GB of RAM.

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Re: New Laptop?

I think something 500$ is best and pretty cheap for this.

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Re: New Laptop?

Today I got one great computer with Windows 7. Acer Aspire 5750G. It's pretty cheap actually. 600 euros and it is pretty fast. I love the Windows 7 design on it. Then I'll buy Adobe Premiere Elements 10 and after that I can really make good movies. I am making that Jesse the Ninja, but I need special effects and program with it, so I have AE2 and I will buy Premiere Elements 10 so then, kaboom! I'm ninja yeah.

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