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[Kafri]

Hi

Please can someone 'in the know' tell me if the following specs of a laptop will play Football Manager for the DH

Processor 3rd Generation Intel® Core? i5-3337U processor (3M Cache, up to 2.70 GHz)
Operating System Windows 8 64bit, English
Display 15.6in High Definition (1366X768)WLED
Memory1 6GB2 DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz
Hard Drive 750GB 5400 RPM
Optical Drive 8x DVD+/-RW Optical Drive
Video Card AMD Radeon? HD 7670M 1G DDR3
Advertised System Weight 2.25 kg

Thanks

I am not a geek but had a quick look.
I presume you are talking about Football Manager 2013?

The min spec for this game is:
OS: Windows XP/Vista/W7/W8
Processor: XP: 1.6GHz or Faster. Vista/W7/W8: 2.2GHz or Faster
Memory: XP/Vista/W7/W8: 1.0GB RAM
Graphics: 128MB

To me, sounds like your spec is enough to play this game?

Hi
Thanks for looking.

Yeah its FM13

He is looking to replace his desktop which now sounds like it's going to take off with a new laptop. We don't want to spend a fortune on it as we have a 6m old son to spend on now, but I do want to make sure it will do what he wants to do on it, otherwise it's a bit of a waste.

All he does really is internet, including streaming trailers, home office stuff and FM - he updates to new FM each year.
That's pretty much it, he has xbox for other games.

You can pretty much run FM2013 on a typewriter, it's really not very demanding. The spec you listed above will eat it for breakfast. That specification in a laptop can't be cheap! Are you sure you'd not rather replace it with an equivalent desktop? It'd be a lot cheaper, most likely.

That one is £450 from Dell website! it seemed reasonable to me???

He has a desktop now but we could really do to free up the space in the living room now we have toys to accommodate, lol

DH has always had a desktop so this will be his first laptop. Just didn't want to end up buying summat that will start off not doing what little he does on it. I know computers are are rather quickly out of date and there's a better one one the market very quickly.

Oh that actually sounds like a decent deal for the spec, so don't worry about it and enjoy the new techy shiny toy :) (And the space in the living room!) The only thing I'd criticise about the spec is the graphics card which has DDR3 memory rather than the currently standard DDR5. (Note that I'm only talking about the graphics card memory here, not the laptop's 16GB DD3 RAM, which is current standard and just fine). It'll still be better than having only onboard graphics, but if you could find a similar spec with a more modern version of a graphics card it'd be better. It should still run FM2013, though.

So what would I be looking for exactly where the graphics card is concerned.
Honestly it strikes me that they could make this whole process a lot clearer by telling people exactly what a machine will do rather than a bunch of letters and numbers that mean nothing to a novice.

The games themselves don't help matters. They just say xxxx or later! Well I have no bloody idea if one graphics card is later than another.

His Xbox is simple - if the box says Xbox 360 on it, it'll play in his Xbox. If of says PS3, it won't!!

I sound as thick as 2 short planks don't I? Actually, I'm generally pretty good with technology. Even computers I can use pretty well (bit out of practice with windows as I have mac) but the spec really baffles me beyond the hard drive. Like I said, I don't wanna waste money if it won't play his beloved fm and survive a few years in the tech world.
I'm lucky he's not bothered about playing Alan the high spec games on pc, otherwise it'd cost us the earth.

To be honest, for what you want you should be alright with that. As you say, your DP doesn't want to play the high end games so there's no need to get a high end card. There is a DDR5 version of that same card according toYou're right that it just isn't very clear at all if you're not keeping up with the various model numbers, although if you're comparing a specific card with a specific game's requirements you can at least google and see when the cards mentioned were released to get an idea. I'd stop worrying about it and just buy it, because it's fine for what you want :)

Bah, my kingdom for an edit function. Ignore the half-sentence starting with 'there is a...' there, confusing myself and forgot to delete.