Laptop Requirements

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tony
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Laptop Requirements

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Following on from the coffee I hope to get a laptop to facilitate eventual purchase of JKDAC.
I did a bit of searching and this is the current favourite

http://www.pixmania.ie/ie/uk/xx/1698/xx ... eresn.html

Packard Bell Easynote TK87 with 6GB Ram, 750G Hard drive and Intel Pentium dual core P6100

Anybody use this or aware of issues. I am working on the assumption it will run Jplay fine. I only want a cheap laptop to do some surfing and predominantly use as a music player.
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Ken Moreland
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Tony , I think your choice would be fine it has W7 and 6Gb of RAM, an unknown is how noisy is it but there's no real way of knowing. It has a 32bit Operating System and to get a 64bit OS(supposed to be better sound quality) maybe something like this http://www.elara.ie/productdetail.aspx? ... ME01G00KEN but somebody is bound to have a cheaper suggestion.
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tony
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Thanks Ken I will verify that but cant see where it says 32 bit rather than 64bit. I checked on a different site and it specifies 64bit. Pixmania doesnt seem to show the bit version. It is coming in at circa €450 with 3yr warranty which is really all I want to pay.
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Tony , you're right , it is 64bit , apologies all round. Should be perfect.
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