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Re: Best Laptop for Poker?
« Reply #15 on: September 09, 2011, 10:58:44 AM »


Bit beside the point though as 4GB is WAY more than you"d need just to play poker. 1 will be plenty.


I have 2GB and run Win7, and my laptop runs pretty slow when I have 2/3 clients open with 4+ tables in play, and PokerTracker importing, chrome, livemail, etc etc etc....  am considering upgrading to 4gb




What processor has it got? Have you looked at how much memory you"re actually using? None of those should be hogging it so upgrading may make little difference. I run pretty much the same with 2gb and it"s more than enough. Depends what the etc"s are!

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Re: Best Laptop for Poker?
« Reply #16 on: September 09, 2011, 11:32:11 AM »



Bit beside the point though as 4GB is WAY more than you"d need just to play poker. 1 will be plenty.


I have 2GB and run Win7, and my laptop runs pretty slow when I have 2/3 clients open with 4+ tables in play, and PokerTracker importing, chrome, livemail, etc etc etc....  am considering upgrading to 4gb





What processor has it got? Have you looked at how much memory you"re actually using? None of those should be hogging it so upgrading may make little difference. I run pretty much the same with 2gb and it"s more than enough. Depends what the etc"s are!



I have a Celeron Dual Core 1.8Ghz....
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Re: Best Laptop for Poker?
« Reply #17 on: September 09, 2011, 12:09:45 PM »
Just buy as cheap as possible so you can replace it when you smash it against the wall in frustration
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« Reply #18 on: September 09, 2011, 12:32:45 PM »

Just buy as cheap as possible so you can replace it when you smash it against the wall in frustration


I don"t do that.....

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Re: Best Laptop for Poker?
« Reply #19 on: September 09, 2011, 12:44:31 PM »


Just buy as cheap as possible so you can replace it when you smash it against the wall in frustration


I don"t do that.....

I kick the cat ;)


Or the wife ,  :D :D

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Re: Best Laptop for Poker?
« Reply #20 on: September 09, 2011, 14:37:29 PM »
I use a commodor 64 as my main pc never been able to fathom a laptop.. I have a back up Sinclair spectrum just in case I"m multi tabling and my 64 can"t cope dunno what the hell or this RAM Ghz monitor speak is all about!! Gl with your shiny new buttoned thingumajig x
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Re: Best Laptop for Poker?
« Reply #21 on: September 09, 2011, 14:44:21 PM »

I use a commodor 64 as my main pc never been able to fathom a laptop.. I have a back up Sinclair spectrum just in case I"m multi tabling and my 64 can"t cope dunno what the hell or this RAM Ghz monitor speak is all about!! Gl with your shiny new buttoned thingumajig x


LOL you were obviously way more advanced than me back in the day.... Sinclair Spectrum indeed..... I had a ZX81!!

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« Reply #22 on: September 09, 2011, 14:49:58 PM »


I use a commodor 64 as my main pc never been able to fathom a laptop.. I have a back up Sinclair spectrum just in case I"m multi tabling and my 64 can"t cope dunno what the hell or this RAM Ghz monitor speak is all about!! Gl with your shiny new buttoned thingumajig x


LOL you were obviously way more advanced than me back in the day.... Sinclair Spectrum indeed..... I had a ZX81!!


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Re: Best Laptop for Poker?
« Reply #23 on: September 09, 2011, 15:20:45 PM »
Seeing as this is turning into a bragging thread:

I went through 2 Sinclair Spectrum 48K (the rubber buttons stopped working through playing too much "Track & Field")
Then I upgraded to a second hand Spectrum 128K (with built in cassette player)

I once stayed up all night playing a motorbike game on my dads Amega once too!!
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Re: Best Laptop for Poker?
« Reply #24 on: September 09, 2011, 16:30:53 PM »
One of these 2 - difference in price is the memory really...

http://search.laptopsdirect.co.uk/search?w=l770

Steve, dont be a minge bag, get some more memory ...  LOL
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« Reply #25 on: September 09, 2011, 16:32:38 PM »
By the way, i STILL have an Atari 800XL and cartridge games.  I aalso still have an Amiga, Atari 520ST and a BBC Model B..  Oh and still have a speccy 48k... :)  Maybe its time I flogged em on ebay..
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Re: Best Laptop for Poker?
« Reply #26 on: September 09, 2011, 16:55:47 PM »


Bit beside the point though as 4GB is WAY more than you"d need just to play poker. 1 will be plenty.


I have 2GB and run Win7, and my laptop runs pretty slow when I have 2/3 clients open with 4+ tables in play, and PokerTracker importing, chrome, livemail, etc etc etc....  am considering upgrading to 4gb




More memory cant go wrong , check out this site to scan for type and it gives you a price too

http://www.crucial.com/uk/index.aspx?gclid=CKab7YbDkKsCFVBlfAodCg72uw&cpe=pd_google_uk&ef_id=AdJOTV2lYAsAAENB:20110909155422:s

would look at whats running in background as well though cntrl-alt-del , and start task manager performance tab, see whats happening if CPU is 100% all the time this could be malware there
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Re: Best Laptop for Poker?
« Reply #27 on: September 09, 2011, 17:25:01 PM »

Seeing as this is turning into a bragging thread:

I went through 2 Sinclair Spectrum 48K (the rubber buttons stopped working through playing too much "Track & Field")
Then I upgraded to a second hand Spectrum 128K (with built in cassette player)

I once stayed up all night playing a motorbike game on my dads Amega once too!!


Pah, cassette player!  I had a Sinclair Microdrive! And the Specdrum which allowed you to do sampling. Super hi-tech!  :)

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Re: Best Laptop for Poker?
« Reply #28 on: September 09, 2011, 17:40:41 PM »
Only thing to say IMO "Once you"ve had a MAC there"s no going back"... to windows that is. If your fav site insists on the Windows stuff install Parallels and it still runs faster than most average PC"s.

I know they are more dosh but everything just works trust me.... Oh if you know anyone at Uni they can get upto 20% discount through those nice apple peeps Education arrangement (must be ordered off UNI Intranet).

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Re: Best Laptop for Poker?
« Reply #29 on: September 09, 2011, 21:07:51 PM »

By the way, i STILL have an Atari 800XL and cartridge games.  I aalso still have an Amiga, Atari 520ST and a BBC Model B..  Oh and still have a speccy 48k... :)  Maybe its time I flogged em on ebay..


I still have my Speccy 48k, plus my first computer, an Ohio Superboard II... http://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk/Museum/ohio/index.php this was my first introduction to 6502 assembly...