The laptop I use to control my layout is old and knackered and definitely needs to be replaced, so I'm looking for ideas of what settup others use for computer control of their layouts. (In terms of laptops, monitors etc rather that software.)

My current laptop to a 40cm (15.5 inch) screen. I dont really want a screen any smaller then this, but it doesn't look like many laptops come in this size anymore. I'm therefore wondering about remote screens and weather to put them on the front of the layout or on the wall behind. I currently sit my laptop on a saw horse just under but level with the front of the layout.

What settup do others use?

Thanks

All the major suppliers of laptops offer a product with a 15" screen.

I am using an old desktop standing upright on floor with a 24" Iiyama Prolite screen.

 no connection to them   but  look  at   ao .com  plenty of  15.5"   available  and  bigger   starting  at  £199  but  check  processors

  paul

I bought an Acer last week. It works OK.

Before that I had a Hewlet Pacard that looked elegant and had a better keyboard but after 2 years use the screen spontaneously parted company with the body of the laptop.

Common problem that Joe, I have seen plenty videos of the hinges being replaced, but if was old it might be worth updating anyway. You have to take care there are a lot of rubbish computers and laptops out there with old processors in them, so slow, just because it's new does not mean it's any good.
Chris H.

Quote from: zuzahafty on December 02, 2024, 12:56:10 PMI'm currently looking for a powerful laptop for video editing and gaming. I need something that's not too expensive.

Not too expensive means different things to different people!

I recently purchased

£549

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Acer-Aspire-A315-59-Laptop-Integrated/dp/B0CW1N5WP5

and


£118


https://tinyurl.com/4rd6cj36


Hope this helps.

GE

Quote from: GlenEglise on December 02, 2024, 08:11:51 PMHope this helps.

What doesn't help, is the long link with all the tracking garbage left in...

Trashed the page, and you're replying to a bot. Full marks! 

The Aspire series are awful for gaming though, most laptops are due to integrated graphics cards. They're ok machines. That's about the best I can say (I had one the wife now uses it). 

Quote from: PLD on December 02, 2024, 09:47:35 PM

Quote from: GlenEglise on December 02, 2024, 08:11:51 PMHope this helps.

What doesn't help, is the long link with all the tracking garbage left in...

Not really sure what you mean but hey ho!

Quote from: GlenEglise on December 04, 2024, 07:23:17 PM

Quote from: PLD on December 02, 2024, 09:47:35 PM

Quote from: GlenEglise on December 02, 2024, 08:11:51 PMHope this helps.

What doesn't help, is the long link with all the tracking garbage left in...

Not really sure what you mean but hey ho!

The original ver-r-r-r-r-y long link you posted (before a moderator amended it) which included a lot of superfluous junk after the actual hyperlink that only serves to allow sites to track you and messes up the display of the page in many browsers... Generally if there is a "?" in the hyperlink, anything after is unnecessary...

Quote from: GlenEglise on December 04, 2024, 07:23:17 PM

Quote from: PLD on December 02, 2024, 09:47:35 PM

Quote from: GlenEglise on December 02, 2024, 08:11:51 PMHope this helps.

What doesn't help, is the long link with all the tracking garbage left in...

Not really sure what you mean but hey ho!

If you check your reply #7 you can see the reason for it being amended by me. Your original URL was about 3 lines long!! Not quite so much here, but it really messes up pages on mobile phones

Post number 6 has been edited by the poster and now includes a link. I am now very suspicious...

Cheers,

Chris

Quote from: Papyrus on December 05, 2024, 10:31:16 AMPost number 6 has been edited by the poster and now includes a link. I am now very suspicious...

Cheers,

Chris

Their first 'generic' post about other hobbies also had a more subtle link. This pretty much proves my theory

Quote from: Papyrus on December 05, 2024, 10:31:16 AMPost number 6 has been edited by the poster and now includes a link. I am now very suspicious...

Curious that none of their post history is n gauge modelling related.