• Gaming Laptop under 500$
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Hello I was looking to upgrade my laptop I have approximately 500-550 to spend basically what I need it to do -word processing -internet - run spss ( program behavioral scientists use to do statistics) - Basic Steam Games - Run World of Warcraft
What is a basic Steam game?
When you say Warcraft are you talking about it in DX9 or DX10/11? And what "Basic Steam Games" will you be playing on it?
[url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834246328[/url] AMD A6-3420M 1.5GHz 6GB DDR3 1333MHz AMD Radeon HD 6650M 15.6" 1366x768 500GB 5400rpm "up to" 4.5h battery $550, free shipping [Quote=review] Pros: Bought with the intentions to play SWTOR on the go and to run Adobe Creative Suite CS5. Does both really well. SWTOR runs on medium in between 40-90 fps depending where you at. 40fps in most towns and outdoors on Ilum and 90fps on the Jawa Balloon and indoors. I personally love the styling of Lenovo laptops. The metal finish and the full sized keyboard with a number pad. It's much light and thinner than the Toshiba Satellite it's replacing. Cons: HDD could be better and the CPU isn't even close to the Intel lineup. I knew this when I bought it and is also reflect by the price. Other Thoughts: Overall I think this is a great laptop for the price and really have no doubts about Lenovo's quality. This is the 5th Lenovo I've bought in the past 2 years and they all work just as well today as the first day I used them. [/quote]
[QUOTE=mblunk;34758935][url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834246328[/url] AMD A6-3420M 1.5GHz 6GB DDR3 1333MHz AMD Radeon HD 6650M 15.6" 1366x768 500GB 5400rpm $550, free shipping[/QUOTE] That'll run WoW, but you have to drop the settings a lot. But yeah, it'll run WoW. Just, don't expect to be raiding 25-mans with it.
[QUOTE=nikomo;34758970]That'll run WoW, but you have to drop the settings a lot. But yeah, it'll run WoW. Just, don't expect to be raiding 25-mans with it.[/QUOTE] Best GPU you can get for $550 or less on newegg (plus it comes with 6GB RAM), although the CPU is kinda weak. If you really wanted to step up to Intel/Nvidia, [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834246213[/url] Intel Core i3-2330M 2.2GHz 6GB DDR3 1333MHz NVIDIA Geforce GT 520M 15.6" 1366x768 500GB 5400rpm "up to" 4.5h battery $580, free shipping
do you need a laptop or do you just want a computer and think that laptops are better if you want to play video games then a budget laptop is going to piss you off because you'll be playing two year old games at low settings and then when newer games come out in a year to six months you won't be able to play them at all as opposed to buying a $500 pc and playing brand new games at very high
[QUOTE=Cheesemonkey;34759074]do you need a laptop or do you just want a computer and think that laptops are better if you want to play video games then a budget laptop is going to piss you off because you'll be playing two year old games at low settings and then when newer games come out in a year to six months you won't be able to play them at all as opposed to buying a $500 pc and playing brand new games at very high[/QUOTE] It's surprisingly easy to game at 20-30fps once you get used to it, and these laptops can do better than that on low-medium settings even on modern games. For most people, being able to move the machine around is more important than new games at very high. But I agree, if the laptop is just going to sit on a desk 24/7, then a desktop is a better option.
most people that buy laptops especially on fp say that "mobility is the most important thing" and that they are going to "move the laptop around a lot" but will still keep it plugged in forever well maybe move it around every week or two which is easily capable with a desktop anyways
[QUOTE=Cheesemonkey;34759954]most people that buy laptops especially on fp say that "mobility is the most important thing" and that they are going to "move the laptop around a lot" but will still keep it plugged in forever well maybe move it around every week or two which is easily capable with a desktop anyways[/QUOTE]My laptop mostly sits on my desk, But when I need to take it to a friends house than it leaves. Want me to carry a tower, monitor, mouse and keyboard over? If I just want to spend the night or something?
[QUOTE=thelurker1234;34763761]My laptop mostly sits on my desk, But when I need to take it to a friends house than it leaves. Want me to carry a tower, monitor, mouse and keyboard over? If I just want to spend the night or something?[/QUOTE] not that hard, you could make an matx build - or even mini itx - for less
[QUOTE=mblunk;34758935][url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834246328[/url] AMD A6-3420M 1.5GHz 6GB DDR3 1333MHz AMD Radeon HD 6650M 15.6" 1366x768 500GB 5400rpm "up to" 4.5h battery $550, free shipping[/QUOTE] Should run it fine on low-med at that res. Shit i remember back during WoW: TBC, i got it running (it ran like FUCKING SHIT) on a 733mHz PowerMac G4, with 1GB of SDRAM and an nVidia GeForce 2 MX. On all low at 640x480 it got 8fps like a bawss. That was outside in the middle of Dun Morogh (basically devoid of players. Major cities just would not happen.
[QUOTE=AugustBurnsRed;34764786]Should run it fine on low-med at that res. Shit i remember back during WoW: TBC, i got it running (it ran like FUCKING SHIT) on a 733mHz PowerMac G4, with 1GB of SDRAM and an nVidia GeForce 2 MX. On all low at 640x480 it got 8fps like a bawss. That was outside in the middle of Dun Morogh (basically devoid of players. Major cities just would not happen.[/QUOTE] Let me tell you about the time I had a P4 dell at like 1.4GHz that lagged in Orgrimmar. I was young enough to blame it on the internet. :v:
[QUOTE=thelurker1234;34763761]My laptop mostly sits on my desk, But when I need to take it to a friends house than it leaves. Want me to carry a tower, monitor, mouse and keyboard over? If I just want to spend the night or something?[/QUOTE]Once in awhile isn't that bad. I do that when I go to my friends.
500$ =/= Gaming Laptop
[QUOTE=Se1f_Distruct;34766815]500$ =/= Gaming Laptop[/QUOTE] Ofcourse not, you'd need to use that $500 to buy a laptop capable of gaming first.
[QUOTE=David Tennant;34766880]Ofcourse not, you'd need to use that $500 to buy a laptop capable of gaming first.[/QUOTE] You know what? Nevermind... -_-
[URL="http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1306296&Sku=M975-156305"]HP Pavilion dv6-6135dx[/URL] Crossfires dedicated AMD Radeon HD 6750M and integrated a8-3500m Refurbished laptops will save you a lot of money
Except that HP is awful and horribly unreliable
Proof? edit: You can't judge a single laptop off an entire brand of computers
[QUOTE=thelurker1234;34763761]My laptop mostly sits on my desk, But when I need to take it to a friends house than it leaves. Want me to carry a tower, monitor, mouse and keyboard over? If I just want to spend the night or something?[/QUOTE] i do this with a full atx case. frequently. put everything in a bag, carry tower out the door unless you are a literal child you can carry a 30 pound computer to your car
no, you're right. But you'd be fucking crazy to buy a refurbished model of a laptop that's notoriously unreliable.
if your computer cant even play wow right you should not try to play video games with it because it wont be able to
dunno if you were replying to me but I was replying to the guy above you
Have fun on your steaming pile of shit laptop :D
[QUOTE=Protocol7;34764816]Let me tell you about the time I had a P4 dell at like 1.4GHz that lagged in Orgrimmar. I was young enough to blame it on the internet. :v:[/QUOTE] I know someone that gets like 5fps everywhere and literally 1fps in 25man raids. The guild he is in is so awesome that they are helping him get a new computer with an i5 and a 6670. It's not the best but shit he'll be happy.
[QUOTE=Delrainn;34768495]Have fun on your steaming pile of shit laptop :D[/QUOTE] Have fun with your soon to be fucked laptop.
[QUOTE='[EG] Pepper;34770747']Have fun with your soon to be fucked laptop.[/QUOTE] I don't have a laptop. Also as I was saying, just because a laptop has manufactured by Hewlett Packard doesn't mean that it's gonna die instantly [IMG]http://cdn.macnn.com/news/0911/squaretradenov2009-lg3.jpg[/IMG] This is in years. Don't suggest things that are equally prone to malfunctioning.
[QUOTE=Delrainn;34768031]Proof? edit: You can't judge a single laptop off an entire brand of computers[/QUOTE] Actually it's the opposite. I can't assume all Logitech products are bad because one of my mice failed. But I can logically assume that one certain HP laptop will be more prone to failure than others based on the average failure rate of all HP laptops, which happens to be the highest of any manufacturer.
[QUOTE=Delrainn;34775795]I don't have a laptop. Also as I was saying, just because a laptop has manufactured by Hewlett Packard doesn't mean that it's gonna die instantly[/QUOTE] The only laptops that HP make that are half decent are the business laptops (like the one i'm posting from right now) because if they half arsed those then they would lose ALOT of money Their consumer end laptops are FUBAR. I'm CONSTANTLY having to replace the motherboards in them because HP simply refuse to give them proper cooling.
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