Hello

I am about to buy a laptop. I need some expert's advice right now. Which company is good and reliable?
The main question is this- I want a laptop which had a lot of RAM, good speed, a lot of hard disk space, good video and sound card, bluetooth and a biuld in webcam. The thing, I play Microsoft flight simulator (One of the slowest games you will find). It needs a lot of space, fast computer and a good video card. This is all that I know of it.
Please advice me over this. Which is the best laptop for me?
And please dont advice anything too expensive. I cant afford a lot. I am just 15 and have to stay in my allowances.

Thanx in Advance

If you want to find a good deal within your budget range you will have to do the hard work and start looking at laptops and comparing them with specifications and price. Since we dont know your budget we have no idea what kind of range your after.

There are basically 3 ranges
cheap poor mans laptops 1000 dollars nz newish.
mid range laptop 2000 nz newish (what most people will get)
high end laptops 3000+ nz

when you know your budget go out and look, you'll want something you like in looks and features. I cant really recommend any laptops but thats a guide to finding one. The thing is you have to look at as many as you can if you want to find a good deal. You could end up buying a laptop tomorrow and find out a better one existed but you were too lazy to go do the research and find out yourself.

good luck

Well, I recently bought a laptop from a small(ish) company called M-Tech. It ended up costing around $1600 US. As far as quality/power goes its done quite well so far. If it's any help, I can run Crysis with fairly decent settings. Most older (a couple years) games I've been able to run with full graphics settings.
If you're looking for a computer for gaming, does it need to be a laptop? While I greatly appreciate having a laptop that can run games, I got it for doing schoolwork and to be portable. If you're 15 then I assume you're probably still living at home, which means portability may not be an issue. A desktop is usually much better for gaming, cheaper, and you can upgrade it before it becomes obsolete.

Yes, get a desktop. I know quite a few people who got laptops who thought they just looked 'cool' and so that they can take them to school, friend's houses etc etc... I got my laptop because that I was going to move from new zealand to australia two weeks later so no point in getting desktop.

But if you can get a desktop...

Otherwise. For your requirements, I would recommend getting a computer US$ 1600-2000. And what is your budget by the way?
Get atleast Dual Core (Core 2 Duo, not a Core Duo, and certainly not Pentium Dual Core), get atleast 2GB of ram, try getting 667MHz. Hard drives should be around 200GB, and try getting a decent graphics chip none of that intel made stuff... If you haven't much money to spend try buying it from a local computer store or dell. If you have money to bathe in then go to Falcon Northwest they have the best laptops many times better than alienware, which is a subdivision of dell...

On the subject of hard drives... I think you would probably be better off with a smaller hard drive, but at 10,000 rpm. I've only got a 75 GB hard drive in my laptop, but I use an external hard drive to store all my files. You can pick a 500 GB external for less than $150 US nowadays, and they're really quite handy.

You might want to give us a budget to work off of.

Flight simulators are demanding games, so you may not find the performance you're looking for in a cheaper laptop. Desktops would be the way to go if you want to sacrifice portability, as you can hike up performance specifications without suffering as much of a blow to your wallet as a potential laptop purchase would do.

Have a budget, see what the RECOMMENDED requirements for the game are, and then give us some guidelines.

As for brands, I've gone with HP and Dell so far... no real qualms with either company as of yet. (I've owned a Dell Inspiron 8600 and currently have an HP Pavilion zd8000 and an HP tc1100 tablet PC.)

Man!!! What can i say to you...if you prefer to buy a notebook, because of the mark, like, ACER, HP, TOSHIBA, ASUS or others, i think you should buy , ASUS first, HP, ACER and TOSHIBA, because the computer package is much better, but if you want to buy a computer with quality and low price, you should buy ACER. I have a Acer Aspire 5610, it's a core duo, 1,6 Ghz, with 2Gb RAM, and 120 Gb HD, it's really nice and i paid a good price for this. It have some problems like, the visual, or it isn't strong enough, but he is very good for who whants good price and faster notebook...

I have a friend that just bought an Acer with pretty much exactly what you are asking for for around $800 Cdn, including the Webcam, but without the Bluetooth, ( as far as I know... ).

Check them out.

i think HP laptops are great and affordable to anyone. i really don't know requirements for ms flight simulator, but you should go out and check for HP laptop that meets those requirements. i bought real cheap nx 7300 and i like it a lot. the thing is that same laptop configuration is slightly faster then same Pc one. but if you are already playing ms flight simulator you should really consider buying PC so that you can connect more LCD monitors to it and enjoy the game even much more