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New Laptop Advice


John Cierpial 1008209
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John Cierpial 1008209
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Ok guys, Christmas time is coming soon and I'm planning to give myself the gift of a new laptop to finally fly FSX! I know, PCs are better but due to other reasons, I need to get a laptop (Mac or Windows I don't care). Ideally, I would want to spend around $1000 for it. Any tips, hints, do's, don'ts, specific manufacturers to go to/avoid, anything really would be great!

 

For example, will a 2.2GHz quadcore i7 with 8GB RAM and a 1GB NVIDIA card run FSX just fine? I plan to fly addon plane's with ActiveSky and REX so I'm trying to get the biggest bang for my buck.

 

Thanks in advance!

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Brian Fuller 973577
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Only tip I can give is make sure the graphics are Nvidia and not ATI.

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Charan Kumar
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Make sure you get a good cooling pad or atleast have a good airflow going below, you should also be able to do better than your config for $1000, if you can wait around for the Black Friday, Cyber Monday or Uber cool Wednesdays (ok I made the last one up) to come around.

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