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Hinchlt
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May 18, 2013, 01:16:17 PM »
I'm going to be acquiring a new laptop next month.
I tend to split my time between my flat, girlfriends and parents so buying a desktop is not an option.
Looking at building a 17 inch Vaio E (education discount and 0% on a 12 month finance deal ftw)
Needs to be able to run a pretty large pt4 db, spotify, and around 8-10 tables
Wondering what impact the difference between i5 and i7 will have, and the difference between 500gb and 1tb hdd will have on performance?
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May 18, 2013, 01:37:29 PM »
If you can afford i7 get i7. Definite performance advantage although the i5 is not bad. 500Gb or 1Tb will not make a dif to performance. For performance improvements get an SSD.
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May 18, 2013, 01:44:49 PM »
ssd's cost a bomb!
In that case the 60 quid difference between the 500gb and Tb aint worth it then?
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May 18, 2013, 02:28:19 PM »
You can get hybrid drives now with performance close to a full SSD but the capacity and cost nearly as good as a regular hard drive.
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May 22, 2013, 03:59:14 AM »
The cost of SSDs is justified and has gone down a lot. You should prefer to spring for an SSD over an i7, for sure.
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theprawnidentity
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May 22, 2013, 06:22:45 PM »
As someone who bought an extremely high spec laptop (Alienware), I really wish I had paid a bit more money for the SSD. The standard hard drive really lets the rest of the system down, ESPECIALLY when it comes to running a large PT4 database.
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May 22, 2013, 06:29:40 PM »
honestly you can't consider not getting an ssd.
that would be so -ev it hurts.
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May 22, 2013, 09:07:47 PM »
+lots for the SDD as well.
Makes such a difference.
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