Hello, I am looking for a laptop that can run Minecraft at far and fancy/normal and fancy, and skyrim on medium. My price range is about 500$-700$. Catch is that I'm having to save up to get this laptop, and may be many months down the road before I get it. I'm am making this thread now to see what I should shoot for hardware wise. I know the obvious things like "avoid Alienware" and stuff.
if it will be in a few months, AMD's Trinity will be out and will be great for laptops, much better battery life and higher performance over Llano and the current APUs, and the GPU will be much better inside
Try newegg.com and look for asus, msi, or lenovo, and avoid dell, hp, and acer.
Also, don't expect any advice given on specific hardware to be accurate even in a couple months, although generally, amd apus are the best for low-budget graphics performance in laptops (really, this and multithreaded applications on a budget are the only things amd does well with cpus).
Also, only get a laptop if portability is essential. If not, build your own desktop. You will get a ton more performance for the same price.
Try newegg.com and look for asus, msi, or lenovo, and avoid dell, hp, and acer.
Also, don't expect any advice given on specific hardware to be accurate even in a couple months, although generally, amd apus are the best for low-budget graphics performance in laptops (really, this and multithreaded applications on a budget are the only things amd does well with cpus).
Also, only get a laptop if portability is essential. If not, build your own desktop. You will get a ton more performance for the same price.
I've already got a desktop, a nice one in fact. I only want a laptop so I can game on vacations, or surf the web, or watch DVD's.
i5-4690K @4.6GHz ~ ASRock Z97X Fatal1ty Killer ~ EKWB Supremacy MX ~ Watercooled SLI STRIX 970s
Project RedShift
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Also, don't expect any advice given on specific hardware to be accurate even in a couple months, although generally, amd apus are the best for low-budget graphics performance in laptops (really, this and multithreaded applications on a budget are the only things amd does well with cpus).
Also, only get a laptop if portability is essential. If not, build your own desktop. You will get a ton more performance for the same price.
I've already got a desktop, a nice one in fact. I only want a laptop so I can game on vacations, or surf the web, or watch DVD's.
Price and Gaming..
Then you're getting a desktop