Laptop Advice [Budget - Around £650]

Fajita

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Sep 22, 2013
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Hi, I'm looking to buy a laptop for under £650 specs required are below -

Basic Information;

Country of purchase: UK

Budget range: <£650

Purpose: Web-browsing, Word Processing, Photoshop (Not deadly important), mild gaming. Has to be portable.

Screen size preference: None

OS preference: Windows (7/8.1)

Gaming requirements: Loadout, Minecraft, Garry's Mod, Sleeping Dogs. Needs to be able to run at native resolution on low graphical fidelity (or higher) settings at ABOVE 30fps.

Other Preference;

Long battery life -vs- Low weight: Long battery life

Build quality -vs- Low price: Build Quality

Low noise/heat -vs- High performance: High performance

Would you pay a premium for something that has;

High resolution screen: Nope (So long as it's not 720p or lower)

A great keyboard: Yes

A great touch-pad/mouse buttons: YES I ABSOLUTELY HATE TOUCH-PADS THAT DON'T SEPARATE THE BUTTONS FROM THE TOUCH (My old Acer Aspire 5332 had a nice touch-pad, so something similar)

Great audio: Nope, however would like separate mic and headphone jack 3.5mm ports

List any features that are critical: (Optical drive, USB 3.0, ethernet port, HDMI port, VGA port, removable battery)


Thanks in advance :) D'Arcy