oliver1234 Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Hi all, I currently fly FSX a lot. I mean a lot. Most days. It’s come to the point where my laptop is running FSX too slow. EG, Aerosoft Airbus out of Manchester EGCC, no add-on scenery, scenery very sparse and autogen very sparse. Every single setting on the lowest. Including traffic. I get around 8fps with this Specs: • Acer Aspire 5742Z • Intel Pentinum CPU @ 2.13ghz. • RAM of 5.68GB usable • Windows 7 x64 Therefore I need a new laptop but don’t know what type to get. I have a budget of around £300 to spend, preferably windows 7. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS616 Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I looked though amazon uk in your price range. I doubt that any of them are going to be enough of an improvement to justify to justify the cost. If you can save up another 150-200 pounds you could do a lot better. This is typical of what I see in your price range: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lenovo-G50-30-15-6-Inch-Notebook-Black/dp/B00S6DPKFS/ref=sr_1_21?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1428878419&sr=1-21 Also Windows 7 was discontinued some time ago any new model laptop is going to have windows 8.1...it's got faster boot speeds if that's a consolation. I gave in and went with 8.1 in my newest build, you can get used to it (or use a shell that makes it more like Win7). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViperPilot2 Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 I would agree with the previous poster that, in your price range, the Laptops available would be about the same as the one you currently have, and would not give you a 'better' FS experience. For FSX, one needs CPU power... the more, the better. A stand alone Graphics Card with at least 1Gb of RAM would also help. Unfortunately, to get that type of capability out of a Laptop, you will be looking at ones in the upper price ranges... at least $1K. I'm sure more will chime in with their suggestions. I have an i5 2.4GHz Laptop, 1Gb Graphics card, with 8Gb of RAM; FSX looks like a very slow slideshow! That's why I use Nine dot One. :p "I created the Little Black Book to keep myself from getting killed..." -- Captain Elrey Borge Jeppesen AMD 1.9GB/8GB RAM/AMD VISION 1GB GPU/500 GB HDD/WIN 7 PRO 64/FS9 CFS CFS2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oliver1234 Posted April 16, 2015 Author Share Posted April 16, 2015 Thanks guys. Do you think that upgrading my RAM and CPU would help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torkermax Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 Its rare you can upgrade a CPU on a laptop. Specially to newer generations. CPU: I7 4790K @ 4.5 ghz, GPU and CPU water cooled GPU: Gigabyte GTX 970 MEM: Gskill Rippjaw 1866 17900 MB: Gigabyte Gaming 5 Z97X Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Double J Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 Forget the laptop. Save your money and get a desk top. If you fly everyday you will be glad you did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walker4 Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 Acer Aspire E5-571pg-50d3 Touchscreen Notebook Windows 8.1 Intel® CoreTM i5-4210U 1.7GHz | Turbo Speed 2.7GH 500GB hard drive, 4GB DDR3L memory Up to 7 hours of battery life 15.6" HD widescreen multi-touch display, NVIDIA® GeForce® 840M w/ 2GB DDR3 VRAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walker4 Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 Lenovo Z50 AMD A10-7300 Quad-Core 1.9 GHz Processor 8 GB DDR3 RAM 1 TB 5400 rpm Hard Drive 15.6-Inch Screen Windows 8.1, 5-hour battery life More similar models, check it out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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