My Laptop is pretty old and battered now (full stop and B won't work for a start lol) so I'm needing a new one. I haven't got a lot of money to spend on it (the most will be about £230 to £250) in terms of uses for it will be the usual most everyday stuff like emails, internet and connection to printers etc. I also want to play some games on it (Hearthstone especially) obviously I'm not looking to play Crysis 3 on Ultra setting. But I want to play some games that aren't on PlayStation like Bastion, Gone Home and Gunpoint. Can anyone tell me what make might be best and minimum specs for said requirements? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Well getting something worth your while in that pricerange, new, will be a bit tricky. But I'd recommend the LENOVO range of laptops, as they usually have great design, absolutely awesome keyboard and quite a bang for your buck. Still, your budget is quite low. I'd also look into Asus.
As for the specs for those requirements you said, I'd definitely try to get:
- a dedicated graphics card and no intel HD onboard thing (this is going to be toughest in that pricerange) - at least 4 GB of ram, best would be 8 GB if you're planning to run the abomination that is win8 as your OS - hard drive as you see fit/need the space
as for the processor, for your uses I'd recommend LESS cores and higher GHz over MORE cores with LESS GHz. For example: I'd prefer a DUALCORE 2,00 GHz over a QUADCORE 1,3 GHz. Many applications STILL don't know how to resourcefully manage multiple cores and pure speed is pure speed.
Good luck my friend.
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Well getting something worth your while in that pricerange, new, will be a bit tricky. But I'd recommend the LENOVO range of laptops, as they usually have great design, absolutely awesome keyboard and quite a bang for your buck. Still, your budget is quite low. I'd also look into Asus.
As for the specs for those requirements you said, I'd definitely try to get:
- a dedicated graphics card and no intel HD onboard thing (this is going to be toughest in that pricerange) - at least 4 GB of ram, best would be 8 GB if you're planning to run the abomination that is win8 as your OS - hard drive as you see fit/need the space
as for the processor, for your uses I'd recommend LESS cores and higher GHz over MORE cores with LESS GHz. For example: I'd prefer a DUALCORE 2,00 GHz over a QUADCORE 1,3 GHz. Many applications STILL don't know how to resourcefully manage multiple cores and pure speed is pure speed.
Good luck my friend.
Thank you sir, that gives me something to go. I know the price range is on the low side, hopefully there's some deals to be had. Yes glad you mentioned windows 8 since most I've talked to say it's garbage. I'm currently looking at a Lenovo G50-30, are you familiar with it?
Windows 8 isn't bad per say unless you have a touchscreen. The best one IMO is still Windows 7.
I hear mate, problem is that windows 7's been phased out now & most places I've looked carry windows 8.1 as the OS for most laptops.
If you go to a site like iBUYPOWER.com you can have a laptop built and select Windows 7 for the OS rather then 8 Even if you buy a prebuilt one from say Walmart or Bestbuy you can still get a copy of Windows 7 and install it yourself.
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Windows 8 isn't bad per say unless you have a touchscreen. The best one IMO is still Windows 7.
I hear mate, problem is that windows 7's been phased out now & most places I've looked carry windows 8.1 as the OS for most laptops.
If you go to a site like iBUYPOWER.com you can have a laptop built and select Windows 7 for the OS rather then 8 Even if you buy a prebuilt one from say Walmart or Bestbuy you can still get a copy of Windows 7 and install it yourself.
iBUYPOWER.com is nice but they are a tad on the expensive side but they are pure gaming PCs. They do have crazy sales aloth though. But I have had a desktop from them and a laptop from them and they both have been the best PCs I have ever had.
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Thanks guys for your advice, I've decided to use PCSpecialist.com & have them build my own laptop cos finding one with the system requirements I would need out of the box proved either too hard to find or too expensive. Once again thank you for your time, be lucky.
Windows 8 is terrible even with a touchscreen Laptop. The home screen full of stupid tile apps is ridiculous, I want a laptop is not a tablet/ smartphone nonsense.
Windows 8 is terrible even with a touchscreen Laptop. The home screen full of stupid tile apps is ridiculous, I want a laptop is not a tablet/ smartphone nonsense.
I can understand that, I'm going to go with a site that can build my own laptop to my requirements. Just need to find who's the best to go with for the UK
ASUS or Lenovo are the best imo (and hardly the more expensive ones)
And no, windows 8 its far from terrible, Win 8.1 solved A LOT of problems, the Metro UI its comoletely customizable and yes, you can even makes the system to launch on desktop version and not on Metro, so if you want you dont need to see Metro UI ever again
I use both in my desktop PC and i used to had it on my laptop, changed it for the Win10 tech preview (which has a touchscreen)
To be fair, if you want to save money you can use Windows 10 technical preview, im using it, and its great, reall fast and the UI of the OS its quite great
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