sti-04!!

Hello there!

I'm due to upgrade my laptop & being pretty clueless about these things i need some help!

I quite fancy the imac air ? All i use it for is surfing the web, a bit of video watching, listening to music & mainly for playing Football Manager 2013.

Budget is £1200

TIA for your help.

S

Orangio

Spending £1200 on a laptop for what you're going to be using it for is a wate of money IMO

I've got a macbook pro as I used to do alot of photography and the mac was perfect. Now that I dont do any photography I only use for web surfing and videos and cant help but think I've got an expensive latop sat there not being used to it's full potential

I keep on thinking about selling and getting an iPad

Ant

MacBook Air or pro will fit the bill nicely. Easy to use no endless updates .

Jimbob

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As above, for what you need a £500 laptop would do the job nicely.

Galifrey

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If you want a decent laptop for Football Manager 2013 then you wont get better than this for £1k

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/156-m...oogle+shopping

People telling you to get a cheap laptop for the game don't understand how crap £500 laptops are for anything other than surfing.

Markus

If you want to go the Mac route, check out the Refurbished section on Apple's website. You could save 100 - 300 + quid on machines.

Nic1911

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I have a 5 year old macbook still going strong and if i was to wipe it clean and sell it i could do for maybe £200 ish yet if I had a windows based laptop would get naf all for it.

Plus the major upsides are that you get no virus' or update this and that every bloody week. Plus its been super reliable.

Do you need a laptop? You can get much better spec if you go mac mini for example or imac

Gear Head

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But that justify spending £700-£800 more in the first place does it?

Honestly fellow, you are spunking money up the wall spending £1200 on a basically a web browser. Football manager games are hardly graphic heavy are they?

Get a Sony Vaio for £700 and be done with it.
(A £500 Toshiba/Samsung will also fit the bill nicely )

dpb

If you have to spend more than 500 quid on a movable computer to do anything other than browse the net, them I'm out lol

Ant

I got given the advice to buy a vaio over a MacBook . It was **** in under a year. Hard drive failing , ram faulty, cd drive replacing.

sti-04!!

Thanks guys. I'll have a mooch about the apple store tomorrow & then decide.

Thanks

Littleted

been an avid PC users for 20 years in fact its my Job, I got given a new retina Mac Book, and after a month or 3 of use my view is as follows.

if you want to surf email, and play music, then the Macs are great, the new retina is so fast at booting its like an IPAD.

BUT

Want to do anything remotely PC like and you'll struggle, I can play Warcraft on it as that's made for the MAC too, but unless you boot camp it I personally find it pretty uselss, and always go back to my PC.

But if you generally do what you've suggested above then the AIR will be perfect.

If it was my money id probably suggest an IBM x230T tablet, I got one of these given and I absolutely love it for business apps, and work, Love the Touch or Pen effect on the screen, and it will play your football manager, but nothing powerful.

batt life is long, Its small Light and fun. Great and ready for Windows 8 also