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Hi, a little advice if you will 
Currently have the 17" Samsung R710 intel core 2 duo P8600 2.4ghz 4 gig ram
I am looking for a new laptop for browsing the web and some gaming along the lines of football manager, Anno, Sim City, Civilisation etc.
Have a max of around £800 to spend, looking to get an i7 processor. Would like a 17inch screen again but if i have to downgrade to 15.6 then it shouldnt be an issue.
What sort of card should I be looking at to play these games, is 6gb of ram the minimum i should be looking for, what minimum resolution should i go for, what is the difference between windows 8 and 64 bit? any advice about hard drive? Will there be much of a difference between a new laptop running i7 processor and my current lappy?
I have seen the below for £830. Is this the sort of thing i should be looking for and is it good value for money?
Acer Aspire V3-771
Processor Intel® Core™ i7 3632QM processor (2.2 GHz, up to 3.2 GHz with Turbo Boost; 3 MB Cache)
Operating System Windows 8
RAM 8 GB DDR3 (upgradable to 32 GB)
Graphics card NVIDIA® 1 GB GeForce® 710 M
Screen type Widescreen LED-Backlit TFT LCD
Screen resolution 1920 x 1080 p
Screen size 17.3"
thanks very much for any advice provided. cheers,
Currently have the 17" Samsung R710 intel core 2 duo P8600 2.4ghz 4 gig ram
I am looking for a new laptop for browsing the web and some gaming along the lines of football manager, Anno, Sim City, Civilisation etc.
Have a max of around £800 to spend, looking to get an i7 processor. Would like a 17inch screen again but if i have to downgrade to 15.6 then it shouldnt be an issue.
What sort of card should I be looking at to play these games, is 6gb of ram the minimum i should be looking for, what minimum resolution should i go for, what is the difference between windows 8 and 64 bit? any advice about hard drive? Will there be much of a difference between a new laptop running i7 processor and my current lappy?
I have seen the below for £830. Is this the sort of thing i should be looking for and is it good value for money?
Acer Aspire V3-771
Processor Intel® Core™ i7 3632QM processor (2.2 GHz, up to 3.2 GHz with Turbo Boost; 3 MB Cache)
Operating System Windows 8
RAM 8 GB DDR3 (upgradable to 32 GB)
Graphics card NVIDIA® 1 GB GeForce® 710 M
Screen type Widescreen LED-Backlit TFT LCD
Screen resolution 1920 x 1080 p
Screen size 17.3"
thanks very much for any advice provided. cheers,