• Sister wants a gaming laptop, what should she get?
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Not really an expert on this particular subject, so I'd like to throw it out there for the folks more savvy at this sort of thing. My sister likes playing TF2 and was using a desktop PC for gaming before but had to give it away. (circumstances which will not be revealed.) She's been busy a lot with work and life in general in the past few months and only recently started to have some proper downtime, and wants to get back into playing TF2. Thing is, her computer that she has now can't run it. She's now interested in getting a gaming laptop so that she can play her games again. She's got a tight budget though, is there a good one she can get for around $500 or less?
[QUOTE=Ryu-Gi;48586959]Not really an expert on this particular subject, so I'd like to throw it out there for the folks more savvy at this sort of thing. My sister likes playing TF2 and was using a desktop PC for gaming before but had to give it away. (circumstances which will not be revealed.) She's been busy a lot with work and life in general in the past few months and only recently started to have some proper downtime, and wants to get back into playing TF2. Thing is, her computer that she has now can't run it. She's now interested in getting a gaming laptop so that she can play her games again. She's got a tight budget though, is there a good one she can get for around $500 or less?[/QUOTE] You might find something that'll run TF2 fine for under $500, don't count on any modern, graphically intensive games.
Okay, then what kind of laptop can she get that can at least run TF2 well that won't break her bank account? EDIT: Right, she also plays CS:GO. It should be able to run that, too.
I think she wants a laptop so she can play between shifts at work, not sure though, I'd have to check with her again. I'll let her know about the $700+ pricetag for the laptops as well and see what she thinks.
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;48586974]at acceptable frame rates with a large amount of effects and players? $500 probably isn't going to cut it[/QUOTE] team fortress 2 is far from intensive at all though A refurbished Y40 is around $500 and I bet anything that has newer Iris graphics could run it fine [editline]31st August 2015[/editline] i'm becoming too predictable aren't i
yeah, just checked with her, $700 is too much for her budget. I guess she'll have to check Craigslist or something and get one secondhand.
I think one of these at $492 / $550 should roughly fit what you're looking for then [url]http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lenovo-Y40-70-14-Laptop-i5-8GB-500GB-Windows-8-1-Y40-70-/371409908935?hash=item5679c174c7[/url] [url]http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lenovo-Y40-80-14-1080P-i7-5500U-8GB-500GB-8GB-SSHD-Radeon-R9-M275-Gaming-Laptop-/161761849585?hash=item25a9c1f0f1[/url] Mediocre screen and roughly half the performance of the above MSI (as kiwi said, spending a few hundred more gets you a few times more performance as you get into the sweet spot), but it has really long battery life and games alright. The top seller has 98.8% feedback and the bottom one has 100% and it's the model with a newer CPU, so I'd recommend the bottom link but the top link works too.
Maybe a low end Alienware and use the external graphics card dock solution they offer?
[url]http://www.amazon.com/Asus-Q502LA-BBI5T12-Touch-Screen-Laptop-Convertible/dp/B00S8ISOW2/ref=cm_cd_ql_qh_dp_t[/url] I have one of these and they're amazing. It can play TF2/CS:GO with little issue.
You can play TF2 on any old craptop with performance configs.
[QUOTE=Mort Stroodle;48615090]You can play TF2 on any old craptop with performance configs.[/QUOTE] I played it on a medium on a fucking 2012 mac mini with 4 gigs of ram and Intel HD Graphics 4000 and it ran smoothly near 100% of the time
A gaming notebook and a notebook to play CS:GO & TF2 with is something completely different. Any laptop with a decent I5 and a GT(x) above the 555 series will do just fine, really. Just look for a secondhand Asus, MSI, Lenovo, or something a like. CS:GO & TF2 could even run on desktops we used for virtual workspaces at my old job, so almost anything can cut it.
[QUOTE=Siemz;48620913]A gaming notebook and a notebook to play CS:GO & TF2 with is something completely different. Any laptop with a decent I5 and a GT(x) above the 555 series will do just fine, really. Just look for a secondhand Asus, MSI, Lenovo, or something a like. CS:GO & TF2 could even run on desktops we used for virtual workspaces at my old job, so almost anything can cut it.[/QUOTE] Source games are usually hyper-optimized and pretty much run on anything
Hell my brother can run CG:GO on his freaking Core M
you can always grab her an alienware alpha, the cheapest model. It's actually quite the competent machine for the price.
I can run tf2 very comfortably on a 2012 hp elitebook, a laptop meant for business and not much else.
[QUOTE=Levelog;48621041]Hell my brother can run CG:GO on his freaking Core M[/QUOTE] I can run CS:GO on my monitor
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