Fola
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Which one is best for football manager? With all of the facepacks downloaded and everything. Will they all run OK?
Jason
17 years ago
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Theres not enough performance to price difference between the lowest priced one and the highest priced one for FM .

That should tell you everything you need to know
Franck
17 years ago
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I'd pick the middle one if I were you, unless you already have an external harddrive that you can store stuff on. 128GB will get filled up *really* quickly.
Carroll.
15 years ago
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Damn I never knew how shit spec'd Mac's are. You dead set on one? You could pick up a much better laptop for half the price
Ipswich Knights
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u want 3.0htz or more IMO
Fola
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I only ask because they have a good finance option at the moment. Please could people send me links or info regarding other laptops and spec etc for Football Manager? I want to use it for video editing too.

Thanks.
Ipswich Knights
9 years ago
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very simple buy a proper gaming pc from any one on ebay
VP.
13 years ago
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He needs one that he can buy on finance.
One Night In Grimsby
17 years ago
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I have the first one on that list, 128GB. Runs great for everything I do (general uni work etc.). Haven't got FM on it (yet) but hoping to give it a go after Xmas.
Ninja
14 years ago
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I've got an Macbook Air.

I don't know what the deal is with finance but because you don't got a 'retina display' you can spec them out a lot better for the money you put down. You also get an i7 vs i5 and the portability and weight of the Air is great for me.

There's no doubt that the retina displays are good looking but I don't think your missing out on much not having one, my advice would be to go in to an Apple Store and have a look and see what you think.

There's no doubt though that if you're primarily concerned with getting the best laptop for FM you're going to get a better spec'd Windows laptop for cheaper. But if you've got your heart set on a Macbook (and they're great) they'll all run FM fine.
Carroll.
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http://www.littlewoods.com/lenovo-z51-intelreg-coretrade-i5-processor-8gb-ram-1tb-8gb-hybrid-storage-156-inch-full-hd-laptop-with-amd-meso-xt-2gb-graphics-includes-mcafee-livesafe-and-optional-microsoft-office-365-personal-white/1600022423.prd

I got one like this about a year ago (well it was the Z50 which I guess was last year's model and slightly shitter) and can't fault it. Littlewoods are intrest free (well they're not 'actually' interest free cause they basically charge a higher price then other stores to make up for that interest) so you should be all right. You can probably find something better on there if you look around
Fola
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Thank you for all the comments. They've been a massive help.

Fola
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Right, I decided to keep with the Macbook I have for the time being. It is now starting to go extremely slow and is probably on it's way out.

I am not too fussed about getting another Macbook as tbh, I only really use my laptop for FM. Please can people recommend a good Laptop or Macbook which can hold a shit load of leagues on FM and still work fine? On my laptop, I can only load up England and it's still slow. I can't even watch YouTube videos or anything when FM is running in the background.

In terms of budget, I'd say I have about £700-800 absolute tops.

Thanks.
Eric Portapotty
14 years ago
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On a similar note, which specification(s) of a laptop is most important to play FM? RAM, CPU, etc.?
.verse
12 years ago
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Personally, I'd stick with another Macbook. The build quality is far superior, as is the smoothness the trackpad etc. You could no doubt get a higher performance Window based laptop for less, but I think the extra you pay for a Macbook is worth it.

I run a Late 2013 13" Retina and it loads up FM fine (I do untick the Retina display option in FM settings for this, having it ticked bogs everything else down and prevents multi-tasking).
.verse
12 years ago
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On a similar note, which specification(s) of a laptop is most important to play FM? RAM, CPU, etc.?

CPU, as that gives you the processing power.
Hard Drive speed is also important, as if you have a slower HDD then it means read/write times are impacted, somewhat making a top quality CPU being under cut. SSD will give you a performance increase and I imagine laptops will come with these more commonly now?
RAM is important, but only to a degree. You're not going to see any sort of significant performance increase in having 16GB over 8GB, which would be more than enough for FM in general. However, it depends how you play the game as well; i.e. loading all leagues etc. The biggest factor with RAM will be it's speed, similar to that of a HDD. You're better off with say 8GB of RAM that is quicker than 16GB of RAM which is slower, if you want performance.
Fola
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MSI Laptop

What do people think?
Shedender
17 years ago
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Sorry to bump an old thread but I was eventually contemplating getting this before Football Manager 2018 comes out? How well will it run with all the facepacks, logos, kits etc and with a few leagues running & is the price "too good to be true"? I think the price is quite the steal.

The current laptop I have isn't the quickest for FM (half a star ffs with usually one league loaded) and runs quite slow.

https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/7214z9mDnbBX79eyoJfuJ2t1pd80lpFxWcI4BHXv.jpg
https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/XhF3uRZmmAWXexniKJ9dgRcZQAYAZR7zVAYJk8Jj.jpg
https://sortitoutsi.net/uploads/mirrored_images/q1kLoe41avn5QJms7qkxvDpvwePS0tsf9vWbDfgf.jpg

They had another one which was £459 (16GB, 1TB) but I missed out on it.

Yes I'm well aware it's Windows 8, should I be looking for a Windows 10 or it doesn't matter too much?
Eric Portapotty
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Shedender
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No I don't think so - how important is SSD for FM?
Eric Portapotty
14 years ago
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No I don't think so - how important is SSD for FM?

It's more expensive than a hard disk drive for the space you're getting but it makes everything so much faster really.

Shedender
17 years ago
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It's more expensive than a hard disk drive for the space you're getting but it makes everything so much faster really.



I've also been taking a little nosey at this one as well.
Obtuse
15 years ago
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That one on 'Tesco' is okayish but you will need a graphics card for it, at the very least. The second one one is better but again the need for a graphics card. Bizarrely both are being sold really weird given the language being used to sell it.

You get what you pay for really and that bundle is really cheap and the seller may not be completely reputable. If you have access to finance then give PC Specialist a visit and play around on the configurators.
Shedender
17 years ago
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Cheers @Obtuse.

This was another one I had been looking at from Argos but again, I'm not hundred percent.
Obtuse
15 years ago
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Zoostorm use inflated stats and Argos are a company to never trust
Jan.
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Definitely go with PC Specialist, and look at their reviews sections. Definitely get a cheap powerhouse there they update that section quite frequently too.

Edit look at the ones at around 6 ton, and edit the fancy towers etc from them, it does knock the price down quite a bit.
Carroll.
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PC specialist are rip of merchants
Jan.
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For someone that doesn't have the time/patience/even want to know how all the components of a PC work, they're ideal.
Carroll.
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For someone that doesn't have the time/patience/even want to know how all the components of a PC work, they're ideal.


I'd say that's even worse cause they won't even know what the spec mean and just trust their 'gaming pc' tag or something without knowing what they're getting.

They're an easy option if you can pick out good components as they build it for you and offer finance but you can get much better / cheaper somewhere else.
Obtuse
15 years ago
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PC specialist are rip of merchants


[citation needed]

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