Current laptop is 5 years old and starting to struggle especially since upgrading to HM2. I had though about upgrading to a solid state drive and upping the ram to 8g but have instead opted for a new set-up
Which is prob going to be a 15 inch laptop + 24 inch Monitor
Holdem manager recommended specs Holdem manager reccomend an i5 or i7 processor and a Solid state harddrive
Ideally i would like to get something with a decent sized solid state and 8g of ram but that would likely push the price over my budget. want to get a decent setup but dont really want to spend more than €1,000 on laptop + monitor. to keep the price down i am looking laptops with Hybrid drives such as this
lenovo Z50 + Acer 24 inch Monitor
Has anyone experience with solid state or Hybrid Harddrives?
The other thing i am wondering about is the processor, as most new windows laptops have i3,i5 and i7 processors in them and after a bit of researching i3 doesn't seem good enough for multi tabling + HM2 + others. While the i7 is the better option doesn't seem to be worth spending the extra couple of hundred for. The confusing part is there seems to be a huge number of different i5 and i7 models and some are duo core with others being quad core.
For example the laptop above has an i5 (duo core) with a speed of 1.7 GHz / 2.7 GHz with TurboBoost ( 5 year old laptop had a 2.2GHz duo core)
So is this processor only slightly better than whats in my old laptop or are the new processors a lot more advanced and not just rated by the GHz speed?
Will there be a significant difference between duo core and quad core i5 processors?
Another option i had thought of was buying a cheaper laptop with 8g of ram and buying my own solid state, a 120g SSD on amazon starts at £42 and 240g SSD is about £70 sterling. I have been told that putting windows won't be a problem but may run into trouble configuring and setting up the solid state and would be better going for a laptop with 1 already on it. Can anyone confirm this or advise on installing solid state drives.
Appreciate any advice on this or any other suggestions
Which is prob going to be a 15 inch laptop + 24 inch Monitor
Holdem manager recommended specs Holdem manager reccomend an i5 or i7 processor and a Solid state harddrive
Ideally i would like to get something with a decent sized solid state and 8g of ram but that would likely push the price over my budget. want to get a decent setup but dont really want to spend more than €1,000 on laptop + monitor. to keep the price down i am looking laptops with Hybrid drives such as this
lenovo Z50 + Acer 24 inch Monitor
Has anyone experience with solid state or Hybrid Harddrives?
The other thing i am wondering about is the processor, as most new windows laptops have i3,i5 and i7 processors in them and after a bit of researching i3 doesn't seem good enough for multi tabling + HM2 + others. While the i7 is the better option doesn't seem to be worth spending the extra couple of hundred for. The confusing part is there seems to be a huge number of different i5 and i7 models and some are duo core with others being quad core.
For example the laptop above has an i5 (duo core) with a speed of 1.7 GHz / 2.7 GHz with TurboBoost ( 5 year old laptop had a 2.2GHz duo core)
So is this processor only slightly better than whats in my old laptop or are the new processors a lot more advanced and not just rated by the GHz speed?
Will there be a significant difference between duo core and quad core i5 processors?
Another option i had thought of was buying a cheaper laptop with 8g of ram and buying my own solid state, a 120g SSD on amazon starts at £42 and 240g SSD is about £70 sterling. I have been told that putting windows won't be a problem but may run into trouble configuring and setting up the solid state and would be better going for a laptop with 1 already on it. Can anyone confirm this or advise on installing solid state drives.
Appreciate any advice on this or any other suggestions
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