Buying a laptop this week-any suggestions

[RobC (Rob)]

Chris,

Go to Grays On Line. There is always a lot of laptops and desktops up for auction from the big name manufactures with full 12 months warrantry. Also there is no monetary risk with Grays on line.

Suggest you go for an Intel based I7 ( quad core ) with 8GB of memory running at a clock speed equal to or greater than 2.5 GHZ. Also ensure there are a few USB 3.0 ports.

Regards

Rob

[hotspur (Chris)]

Thanks Rob,and all others.

I ended up ordering a new one that has third generation i7(four cores) and 2GB dedicated Nvida graphics card and has 3 3.0 USB ports and some 2.0 USB ports.It has 6GB of RAM,I felt that was a bit odd-it was 4 and 2,so will be able to take 2 out and replace with another 4-although I am only a basic users-not sure if I'll need that extra,It should be a bit quicker than my 4 1/2 year old Toshy Tecra A9 centrino laptop.

So hopefully,I'll be able to use this new lappy for astro imaging very soon.