Recent content by Tommy_B

Hi people, So, brief backstory - I'm currently working in France but returning frequently to the UK - I have a SIM for both countries, (Orange pay-as-you-go in UK, a cheap contract with Free in France). I have been surviving with a great little old-school Nokia phone that I picked up for £18...

Cool. Lenovo it is then! To be honest, even if the 520m is faster in single-thread performance, any new chip will be so much faster than what I'm currently running that the problem is academic... Cubase'll run fine plus I'll get to slaughter zombies... if that doesn't sell a laptop, I don't know...

Ok, thanks a lot for your help. All this talk of cores and numbers is pretty confusing at first glance... It's tempting to just let Apple spoon-feed me... but I will resist... One final point, I've been hunting around for more details about that particular laptop - and I think it's running the...

Oh - also - I see that the AMD processor in the Lenovo is apparently Quad-core, whereas the i5 in the Dell is (depending on generation) probably 2 cores. Does this mean that, despite the nominally weaker 1.9Ghz, the AMD would perform better in terms of multitasking? I'm a bit ignorant when it...

Links didn't work for some reason: http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/Lenovo_IdeaPad_Z585_8GB_1TB_Windows_8_Laptop__MAD6BUK/version.asp#top...

Hello. My last post was very wordy, jumbled and useless so quite rightly nobody replied. Will try to do better this time: Two laptops I'm considering: 1) 2) My budget is £400 MAX. I need a laptop for these tasks: - General office bull**** - Cubase 5 (or more recent) music...