Laptop advice

paulie8290 · October 2020

Hi guys and girls

Decided to put this on here rather than use the main board.

I am looking at purchasing a laptop at some stage, not right now as I dont have the money, but right now I am looking for advice on which laptop would be best so I can start saving at hopefully get one around January time.

Basically I am bored of playing FM on my phone and want the actual game for a change, so I need a laptop that is good enough to handle FM database at a decent speed, it doesnt have to be mega fast as long as it doesnt take ages to load.

Other than that its just the odd CharltonLife and twitter browsing I will be using it for and maybe download a few songs.

But the main thing is Football Manager

Huskaris · October 2020

Prioritise processor and RAM then, as most of FM is calculations rather than graphics.

Also, if you can get a desktop machine instead of a laptop you will get a lot more value for your money, and generally boxed machines last longer too.

Callumcafc · October 2020

Reddit is a good resource for this!

FYI it says in the comments of the link below it says that the latest generation of processor is 6th/7th/8th. I’m guessing it’s a bit old now because the latest generation is actually 10th.

https://reddit.com/r/footballmanagergames/comments/j8spag/what_laptop_do_you_use_and_how_does_fm_run_on_it/

DoctorCharlton · October 2020

https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing/laptops/laptops/hp-14s-dq1504sa-14-laptop-intel-core-i5-256-gb-ssd-silver-10203705-pdt.html

I bought this laptop around 2 year ago for £500... mostly to play FM.

i use large database, have English league down to national league north/south plus Scottish, French, German, Italian and Spanish top league.

im getting 4.5* performance with that.

Fumbluff · October 2020

Do you want to sell your laptop to @paulie8290? He’ll give you two-Bob extra if you leave your saved games on it too 😉

paulie8290 · October 2020

Thanks for rhe advice @Callumcafc and @Huskaris will bare it in mind when looking.

Thanks for the recommendation @DoctorCharlton but that is way out of my price range anytime soon lol, it will take me a long time to save £520 lol. Was hoping for something under £300 that would still take a few months the save but it would give me a target then lol, and hopefully still be able to play FM at a reasonable speed.

DoctorCharlton · October 2020

paulie8290 said:

Thanks for rhe advice @Callumcafc and @Huskaris will bare it in mind when looking.

Thanks for the recommendation @DoctorCharlton but that is way out of my price range anytime soon lol, it will take me a long time to save £520 lol. Was hoping for something under £300 that would still take a few months the save but it would give me a target then lol, and hopefully still be able to play FM at a reasonable speed.

that's fair enough mate. When shopping just try and go for 8gb ram, should cover you well in the world of football manager.

paulie8290 · November 2020

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Computer-Products-Notebook-Dual-Core-Cortex-A9-White/dp/B07WVV9HH5/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=laptop&nav_sdd=aps&pd_rd_r=b9f5599c-fdc9-4c22-a876-2f77fb8f8b26&pd_rd_w=4pWst&pd_rd_wg=YG7MB&pf_rd_p=b228fe38-29d8-4d34-bd36-d333c5200951&pf_rd_r=3V7X933004TMKCC0ETYF&qid=1605225045&refinements=p_n_feature_browse-bin:1481781031,p_36:9708205031&rnid=9708204031&s=computers&sr=1-2

This one is 8GB @DoctorCharlton do you think that would be able to handle FM21

DoctorCharlton · November 2020

paulie8290 said:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Computer-Products-Notebook-Dual-Core-Cortex-A9-White/dp/B07WVV9HH5/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=laptop&nav_sdd=aps&pd_rd_r=b9f5599c-fdc9-4c22-a876-2f77fb8f8b26&pd_rd_w=4pWst&pd_rd_wg=YG7MB&pf_rd_p=b228fe38-29d8-4d34-bd36-d333c5200951&pf_rd_r=3V7X933004TMKCC0ETYF&qid=1605225045&refinements=p_n_feature_browse-bin:1481781031,p_36:9708205031&rnid=9708204031&s=computers&sr=1-2

This one is 8GB @DoctorCharlton do you think that would be able to handle FM21

Not sure tbh mate, it's a brand I've never heard of and the processor I haven't heard of either. I'm sure theres somebody better qualified to answer your question, but for me it does seem cheap and generally that means its too good to be true.

I noticed the delivery date too, so looks like its coming straight out of China.