Laptop for FM10

So i'm going to get Football Manager 2010 for Christmas, but my Uncle said that i'd need a REALLY good laptop to play it on, even though 09 works on my grans and it has higher specs than 10. Coudl anyone recommend any cheaper, but good laptops which FM10 would work on?

You wouldn't need an overly expensive laptop just for FM, a £300 quid one would do the job fine.

But if you wanted to play games with better graphics, (Crysis etc), Your looking top end stuff £600+

I don't use the 3D pitch, is that the main thing for the graphics?

Yeah, that's the only thing on the game that specifically needs a "good" graphics card. Even a shoddy built in integrated graphics card works fine for FM10.

Guys, would this Laptop play FM10?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_Inspiron#Inspiron_1110_.28Inspiron_11z.29

http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/inspiron-11z?c=uk&l=en&s=dhs&cs=ukdhs1&ref=lthp

Look on this site, for the options on this lappy. The one on the far left certainley won't work because it is a 1.3 GHz processor, and you need at least 2 GHz. The ones on the middle and right may or may not - It is also 1.3GHz but the fact they are dual core may make up for this, effectively giving you 2.6GHz, but this depend on how well FM can utilize it, so your best off waiting for another awnser on that. With the graphics, you will most likely be forced into playing in 2D mode. The RAM is fine in both. The advantages of the far right machine over the middle are more RAM, so programs will run faster, including FM, and a bigger hard drive, meaning you can save more things, such as games, music, videos etc. to your PC.

EDIT: You will also have to use a digital download setrvice as it has no disk drive.

if its running Vista or Win 7 then you really want 3gb ram as these operating systems eat RAM

I have found 7 miles better than vista on that front tbh.

Well, if people can put forward some laptops which will be good and not too expensive then i'll be happy. ;D

Probably best to confirm a budget Wiggster first

Maximum £400. Mum is a cheapskate

Same as me, actually. I found this: http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/5082281/c_1/1%7Ccategory_root%7COffice%252C%2BPCs%2Band%2Bphones%7C14418968/c_2/3%7C15701344%7CLaptops%2Band%2Bmini%2Blaptops%7C14419039/c_3/4%7Ccat_14419039%7CLaptops%7C14419040.htm which is a million times better than your link, that was designed for portability, and any lappy designed for portability is most definatly not made for playing games half-decently. It has a dual-core processor at 2 GHz, 4 GB RAM, ati radeon 3200 graphics and a 250GB Hard Drive. In comparison to the 400 pound one you bought up earlier, it has a much, much better processor, double the RAM and a graphics card that should run most/all games, albeit on low settings. Don't think thee other graphics card could run anything tbh. The hard drive is still slightly on the small side, but this is the best lappy you are going to get on your budget.

Thanks mate

So i'm going to get Football Manager 2010 for Christmas, but my Uncle said that i'd need a REALLY good laptop to play it on, even though 09 works on my grans and it has higher specs than 10. Coudl anyone recommend any cheaper, but good laptops which FM10 would work on?

Maximum £400. Mum is a cheapskate

Aren't you 33?

I brought an Acer 5536 from pc world for 379 pounds,upgraded to windows 7 and runs fm10 fantastic with 23 leagues playing no problem

anything with core2duo and a >2giga Ram will run FM10 Smoothly

hell.. my netbook could play FM10 just fine without any lag at all

Aren't you 33?

I'm 13 and hello fellow PNE fan

You from about in Preston?

ive got an acer 5520, and recently bought fm2010, ive had previously had fm2007, 2008 and 2009 and they have all worked fine. Im a little lost when it comes to computers so dont know what is causing the problem im experienceing, but when i am watching the match i prefer to have the classic 2d view and at first it seemed to working fine i set the speed bar quite high and have extended highlights but the game just goes really really slow. Ive tried loads of different things but nothings working, anybody know if my computers up to spec??? please help im tearing my hair out