Guest utternoob Posted November 13, 2012 Report Share Posted November 13, 2012 (edited) Hi all I'm thinking of getting a PC to use mostly for android development, but with a small windows partition for normal use. What would you recommend looking for and what would I get for around £300-400 at the max? Found this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B008HAP9QU/ref=aw_d_detail?pd=1&qid=1352802095&sr=1-26 Is it any good? Cheers Terry Edited November 13, 2012 by utternoob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest omegavesko Posted November 13, 2012 Report Share Posted November 13, 2012 It will be more than enough. Android development really isn't all that resource intensive. Just to clear things up though, do you mean app development or ROM development? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest utternoob Posted November 13, 2012 Report Share Posted November 13, 2012 Rom Development Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tilal6991 Posted November 13, 2012 Report Share Posted November 13, 2012 Buy a core i3/i5 PC. Get a load of ram from another place and a ssd built into the laptop if its in budget. That should be good enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest utternoob Posted November 13, 2012 Report Share Posted November 13, 2012 Good point. Only thing is, I don't have a body or anything to put it in, and large SSD units are really expensive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hugobosslives Posted November 13, 2012 Report Share Posted November 13, 2012 Does it need a graphics card or will it never be used for 3d modeling/games? Can you build it yourself or do you need prebuilt? If your building it yourself get a 3rd gen i5, 16gb ram, 1tb+ HDD and 500W power supply, cheap case etc Or go for something prebuilt like the i5's down this half-built bundles here http://www.novatech.co.uk/barebonebundles/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest utternoob Posted November 13, 2012 Report Share Posted November 13, 2012 Not gonna be graphics heavy, probably preferred pre-built but I could easily put a few things together Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest razzmataz1478 Posted November 13, 2012 Report Share Posted November 13, 2012 Hm, here's my specs: i5-2320 8GB Ram 1.5TB Hard rive (no SSD :( ) 2GB Graphics card all for just under 300 quid prebuilt (refurb advent from the currys/pcworld ebay) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest utternoob Posted November 13, 2012 Report Share Posted November 13, 2012 Not bad. I'll have a look on their store Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest razzmataz1478 Posted November 13, 2012 Report Share Posted November 13, 2012 Not bad. I'll have a look on their store Just looked and there's nothing really value for money there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest utternoob Posted November 13, 2012 Report Share Posted November 13, 2012 Ah right. I may be waiting for a bit, but it doesn't really matter now, just keeping an eye out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest razzmataz1478 Posted November 13, 2012 Report Share Posted November 13, 2012 Ah right. I may be waiting for a bit, but it doesn't really matter now, just keeping an eye out You need to d/load the hukd app, set some alert keywords and see if anything comes up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest utternoob Posted November 13, 2012 Report Share Posted November 13, 2012 I shall do that. Apparently they are quite good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest razzmataz1478 Posted November 13, 2012 Report Share Posted November 13, 2012 I shall do that. Apparently they are quite good They are, use them all the time, it's how I came across my PC! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest utternoob Posted November 13, 2012 Report Share Posted November 13, 2012 (edited) Wow. I think quite a lot of people reccomend them Edit: App is so unintuitive. Can't understand it much Edited November 13, 2012 by utternoob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest razzmataz1478 Posted November 13, 2012 Report Share Posted November 13, 2012 Wow. I think quite a lot of people reccomend them Edit: App is so unintuitive. Can't understand it much Yeah I know, particularly the fact that they left the menu button out annoyed me. Have you set alerts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest utternoob Posted November 13, 2012 Report Share Posted November 13, 2012 Yep. Found one for £239 on eBay only downside is AMD Bulldozer inside Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest razzmataz1478 Posted November 13, 2012 Report Share Posted November 13, 2012 Yep. Found one for £239 on eBay only downside is AMD Bulldozer inside Avoid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest utternoob Posted November 13, 2012 Report Share Posted November 13, 2012 Thought so. Ah well :( might just have to wait until a relative gets a new PC and take apart the old one and spec it up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest C3C0 Posted November 13, 2012 Report Share Posted November 13, 2012 Mine is more than a year old HP ProBook 4520s with i3, 3gb ram and 80 gb linux partition (300 gb total at 7500rpm) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hugobosslives Posted November 13, 2012 Report Share Posted November 13, 2012 the important thing to remember is that the pc doesn't need to be amazing to dev on. unless you will be building alot (say 1+ a day) then its fine getting a mid spec pc. when i used to make cm7 builds on the blade i would do it on my laptop (i5-2410m, 8gb ram) and it could build for 35 mins whilst I cooked my dinner :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest utternoob Posted November 14, 2012 Report Share Posted November 14, 2012 Haha. I'm not going to dev that much, perhaps every few days if anything changes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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