Hi guys, I need some advice. My work has just told me I have a £700 budget to buy a laptop. (I have to spend all the £700, so a little over is okay). The only other proviso is its bought from a UK vendor, and probably directly from the manufacturer.
I been doing a little research, but I’m pushed for time. Anyone got any suggestions what I should get? (If someone knows of an i7 and a good Radeon graphics card for that price I will be ecstatic lol)
It looks good, I am also open to AMD or i5 based laptops, just wondering what the best I can get for the money is.
I use a laptop every day, my advice is think about weight! (Unless you never have to move it, in which case go nuts)
Also, nice one on the £700 
Yup academic research budgets are win!
Just a thought, if you’re a fellow scientist, do you not have an IT department who will make suggestions (i.e. very strong ones) as to what you should be buying? We do.
Lol, our IT for our dept consists of a guy who’s supposed to be the IT guy for another dept, and he’s a bit creepy. My main desktop has all the power I really need in honesty, it a has dual intel xeon processors (4 cores per processor) and 16GB of ram, and some high-end graphics card, this laptop is so I don’t lose my budget allocation this year. So I’m fairly free on what I spend it on, but I might as well get something I can game on. Plus the IT dept will attempt to purchase from Dell, but I don’t have to as I have special computational needs.
And my supervisor wants me to spec it. lol.
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