Originally posted by FredBun:

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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Well, I don't have a singular answer, otherwise I would gladly have given it to you. I have used a fair few laptops belonging to clients, friends etc. but never actually owned one for personal use, so as far as 'what it's like to live with' I'm not too qualified to say. As I say, I'd avoid the obvious cheap nasties like Acer, Asus should go without saying by now, and in all honesty I'm not too wowed by the quality of Vaio laptops either. I know people that have had good experience with Toshiba Satellite laptops - we've had a Dell Vostro in the family and it really isn't that well made. It all works after 5 years, but if it weren't for how slow it was out of the box I'd assume it faulty for how slow it is now :P It was very cheap though, and it was given Vista :/

Best laptop we've had is a Compaq nx6110 which is almost 8 years old, has lived in a workshop environment caked in filth for 5 of those years, and apart from having memory added to it to improve performance, hasn't had anything done to it at all. Seriously solid equipment those were, but unfortunately I think the days of HP producing stuff like that are over.

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OK Finally, it was like pulling teeth there for a while getting your answer LOL, don't take it to heart I'm pulling your leg, ok now I have something to go by, I was not exaggerating when I said many people ask me about this, I'm not an expert like most of you but most people that ask me know nothing about computers I always try to answer the best I can and most of my knowledge came from here.

It's funny you mentioned Toshiba, Boris has a nice looking 17incher for sale, has almost everything except no hdmi inputs, it's about a year and a half old I don't remember the model number but it looked good and ran good, he want's 200 bucks, I'm gonna take another look at it when I do I'll post more info. Thanks sammy.

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Well, hello there.
An internet friend recommended me to ask around on forums for help with building my new PC, he mentioned this place, so here I am.

I have a budget of around 450? (which if I'm lucky will rise to 500-550 max) which I'd like to use to buy myself a new desktop.
I need to buy pretty much all the peripherals new since I don't have them :/
So, I'd be using it mostly for internet surfing, videos and some light gaming, games like Portal 2 and Fallout New Vegas, and maybe later on Skyrim, too.
Unfortunately, as the title says :P, I'm not too up to date with what the current CPUs and graphic cards are (I believe we are at the 6xx series for geforce). I know what part does what etc, but I have never build a PC for myself yet and I need help.
I have a vague picture in my mind that would tell me that for my money I might be able to get an i3 and a geforce 640 or the ati equivalent, but if this is completely wrong correct me.
Then there's the entire rest of the hardware where, unfortunately, I have no clue, sorry.
I'd like my monitor to be at least 1360x768, have at least 500GB HDD and 4GB of RAM.
About the OS, since I'll want to play a little bit of games on it I'd like to have windows 7, I guess I can just copy the whole partition of the family desktop over?

Last thing is that I just moved to Norway and I'm not sure which sites deliver here and which not, would you happen to know any good sites for here? (By the way I don't speak norwegian yet, so I won't be able to read norwegian-only websites)

Thank you in advance for your help!
Or not help :P

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Originally posted by skydreamer:

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It does indeed use krones, but my money is currently in Euro, and my brain is still wired to that.
Also it's more like 4400kr :/ Assuming I get my parents to give me an exchange rate of 8 and not 7.5, which is the actual one. (yeah I'm 16)
But seriously thank you for your help, I'll look into that right away!

EDIT: Ok, I'll have to cut out a few parts a bit, since else it won't fit.
I have decided to ignore the DVD Drive since I a) have an external one and b) my games are currently on steam and I don't use the DVD drive for much else anyway.
Then I decided to cut the RAM down to 4GB, opting for https://www.amentio.no/amentio/default....MZ4GX3M1A1600C9 instead.
It won't be amazing, but I can still play games with it, right? Also please tell me if there's something wrong with the ones I choose.

Then maybe I should trim the 1TB to 500GB, since I'll also have to still get a mouse and keyboard.
I could also wait a while, but with only 5? (40kr) pocket money a week it will take longer than I'd like to, although in 3 months I could afford it.

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