generalman
Renowned L&N Fanatic
Upon reading the opening post of this thread, I'm rather sickened at the deal since I just dropped $600. I wanted another laptop in the beginning anyway, but it's all said and done now and I'll be fine.
A couple weeks ago I purchased a new Dell desktop computer, and wanted to post the system specs here to see what some of you all may think.
The computer is a Dell Inspiron 3847 with a Dual-Core Intel i3 processor. Also bundled it with a Dell 23" monitor at 1920x1080 pixels, (which is huge compared to my old 15" laptop at 1366x768). Details below:
It's obviously not a high end gamer computer, but that's not what I wanted anyway. It's also definitely much better than the laptop I had before; it's specs were: 6GB RAM, Intel Pentium @ 2.4 GHz. Shown this info, this system is obviously much better on processor speed alone. However, the big thing to me was not the gaming strength, but the all around usage; i.e. capability for work, school, games, or whatever may be required of it. Given that, I think it's a good system for me.
One thing I have already noticed about this desktop is that it does not get hot like my laptop would. If you didn't have a fan under that laptop it would nearly burn you.
As for the gaming side of things, it's done pretty good so far, I believe. Farming Sim. and American Truck Sim. can run smoothly on medium graphics, whereas my laptop would have lots of lag at that setting on both of those games. Trainz is also an improvement, (or at least a good enough one for me). My laptop would run Trainz at, what I would call medium graphics, around about 15 fps, while this desktop is getting a solid 20-25. Now I know most of you are appalled to here a fps below 30, but given what I was getting before, it's a good improvement.
All in all I enjoy the system, as it's perfectly fine for me. However, I would like to hear from some of you as to what you think about the system.
Thanks everyone,
A couple weeks ago I purchased a new Dell desktop computer, and wanted to post the system specs here to see what some of you all may think.
The computer is a Dell Inspiron 3847 with a Dual-Core Intel i3 processor. Also bundled it with a Dell 23" monitor at 1920x1080 pixels, (which is huge compared to my old 15" laptop at 1366x768). Details below:

It's obviously not a high end gamer computer, but that's not what I wanted anyway. It's also definitely much better than the laptop I had before; it's specs were: 6GB RAM, Intel Pentium @ 2.4 GHz. Shown this info, this system is obviously much better on processor speed alone. However, the big thing to me was not the gaming strength, but the all around usage; i.e. capability for work, school, games, or whatever may be required of it. Given that, I think it's a good system for me.
One thing I have already noticed about this desktop is that it does not get hot like my laptop would. If you didn't have a fan under that laptop it would nearly burn you.
As for the gaming side of things, it's done pretty good so far, I believe. Farming Sim. and American Truck Sim. can run smoothly on medium graphics, whereas my laptop would have lots of lag at that setting on both of those games. Trainz is also an improvement, (or at least a good enough one for me). My laptop would run Trainz at, what I would call medium graphics, around about 15 fps, while this desktop is getting a solid 20-25. Now I know most of you are appalled to here a fps below 30, but given what I was getting before, it's a good improvement.
All in all I enjoy the system, as it's perfectly fine for me. However, I would like to hear from some of you as to what you think about the system.
Thanks everyone,
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