Hi all
My son is off to Uni in a couple of months and for his main Christmas and 18th birthday presents I promised him a Laptop. I want to get it sooner than later so that he gets used to it and everything works etc.
He currently spends most his life on his 360 or his desktop. Most of his gaming is on his 360 but he does play some on his PC.
I cant work out whether I need to spend around £500, £750 or £1000, obviously the less spent the better, however I'd rather spend more and it cope than save a bit and it go like a dog.
He doesn't expect to have his games maxed out, on the other hand he wont want to run them minimized either.
Most PC games he plays are via steam and checking his account, a list of games he's played in the last few months are
World Of Warcraft (hasn't played for a while but does go back to it every 6 months or so)
Portal 2
Counterstrike
Shogun
Bioshock
Halflife2
He says he's happy with how his current desktop handles his games and most of that is now few years old now.
But that said, I want his laptop to still be able to play games in 3 years time.
His current PC spec is
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 LGA775 Conroe 2.40Ghz
Gigabyte GA_P35_DS4 Motherboard
GeIL 4GB (2x2GB) PC6400C5 800MHz Black Dragon DDR2
Nvidia GTX 550
Win 7 64 pro
He isn't interested in windows 8
And apart from gaming, he needs to do the usual student stuff, word, excel, web etc
The more I look the more confused I get.
He MUST have a 17" screen though, he'll hate anything smaller
I realise this is a bit of a how long is a piece of string question but do appreciate the time given in helping me.
Many thanks
Joe
My son is off to Uni in a couple of months and for his main Christmas and 18th birthday presents I promised him a Laptop. I want to get it sooner than later so that he gets used to it and everything works etc.
He currently spends most his life on his 360 or his desktop. Most of his gaming is on his 360 but he does play some on his PC.
I cant work out whether I need to spend around £500, £750 or £1000, obviously the less spent the better, however I'd rather spend more and it cope than save a bit and it go like a dog.
He doesn't expect to have his games maxed out, on the other hand he wont want to run them minimized either.
Most PC games he plays are via steam and checking his account, a list of games he's played in the last few months are
World Of Warcraft (hasn't played for a while but does go back to it every 6 months or so)
Portal 2
Counterstrike
Shogun
Bioshock
Halflife2
He says he's happy with how his current desktop handles his games and most of that is now few years old now.
But that said, I want his laptop to still be able to play games in 3 years time.
His current PC spec is
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 LGA775 Conroe 2.40Ghz
Gigabyte GA_P35_DS4 Motherboard
GeIL 4GB (2x2GB) PC6400C5 800MHz Black Dragon DDR2
Nvidia GTX 550
Win 7 64 pro
He isn't interested in windows 8
And apart from gaming, he needs to do the usual student stuff, word, excel, web etc
The more I look the more confused I get.
He MUST have a 17" screen though, he'll hate anything smaller
I realise this is a bit of a how long is a piece of string question but do appreciate the time given in helping me.
Many thanks
Joe