Laptop

[apollothelion]

So I need a laptop. 

 

I was going to use it for some videogames, and obviously college shit. And eventually work shit. And just as a laptop that won't make me hate it and I can use it for a few years.

 

This is the one I was looking at. Keep in mind I haven't had a laptop in a while, so I'm a nub.

Summon McAwesome

 

https://www.costco.com/Dell-Inspiron-15-5000-Series-Gaming-Laptop---Intel-Core-i5---1080p---4GB-NVIDIA-Graphics.product.100339965.html

 

Thanks friends. If you can suggest something better, then please do let me know, but I don't want to go over 750$ preferably since moneys.

[Wokath]

Buy a cheap laptop that is light for all your school needs.  Then buy yourself a desktop with all your remaining money just for gaming.

[AwesomeMcCoolName]

I can't really help very much in terms of laptop suggestions -- I can recommend what kind of specs you should aim for (if you list what games/other demanding tasks), but that's about all I can help with in terms of specifics. 

8 minutes ago, Wokath said:

Buy a cheap laptop that is light for all your school needs.  Then buy yourself a desktop with all your remaining money just for gaming.

If this is an option then I would highly consider it (depending on the budget and the games you want to play), but I also (personally) can't stand using a cheap/low end laptop (especially since I'm on my laptop 90% of the time). 

[apollothelion]

1 hour ago, AwesomeMcCoolName said:

I can't really help very much in terms of laptop suggestions -- I can recommend what kind of specs you should aim for (if you list what games/other demanding tasks), but that's about all I can help with in terms of specifics. 

If this is an option then I would highly consider it (depending on the budget and the games you want to play), but I also (personally) can't stand using a cheap/low end laptop (especially since I'm on my laptop 90% of the time). 

I already have a desktop, but I don't plan to take it with me to school. So I wanted a laptop for school, that I could play like some game if I so wanted to.

[Kevin the Chicken God]

I recently made a thread with needs similar to this: https://forums.backpack.tf/index.php?/topic/60362-choosing-a-laptop/

ended up getting this one: https://www.amazon.com/K501UW-AB78-15-6-inch-Full-HD-Gaming-Glacier/dp/B01DT49XN8/ , it has been able to do whatever I've needed of it and can run games as demanding as pubg decently

[apollothelion]

1 hour ago, Kevin the Chicken God said:

I recently made a thread with needs similar to this: https://forums.backpack.tf/index.php?/topic/60362-choosing-a-laptop/

ended up getting this one: https://www.amazon.com/K501UW-AB78-15-6-inch-Full-HD-Gaming-Glacier/dp/B01DT49XN8/ , it has been able to do whatever I've needed of it and can run games as demanding as pubg decently

Interesting, I guess I don't expect to be able to run pubg on this. More like shitty quality overwatch. Since I do have the desktop that I can come back to in the future. 

So basically I am looking for like

 

Shitty quality overwatch, shitty quality tf2, discord, word stuff for like typing essays for school, and browsing twitch and other websites. I don't really want to spend around 1000$ because I'd just come back to my desktop, so looking for on the lowest range possible because at the end of the day, I would probably just buy a shitty 300$ laptop and get netflix for entertainment purposes.

 

That is just my train of thought. Not looking for high quality, or able to run pubg. 

[Kevin the Chicken God]

9 hours ago, ApolloTheLion said:

Interesting, I guess I don't expect to be able to run pubg on this. More like shitty quality overwatch. Since I do have the desktop that I can come back to in the future. 

So basically I am looking for like

 

Shitty quality overwatch, shitty quality tf2, discord, word stuff for like typing essays for school, and browsing twitch and other websites. I don't really want to spend around 1000$ because I'd just come back to my desktop, so looking for on the lowest range possible because at the end of the day, I would probably just buy a shitty 300$ laptop and get netflix for entertainment purposes.

 

That is just my train of thought. Not looking for high quality, or able to run pubg. 

if you're looking for something cheaper I found this: https://www.amazon.com/Acer-Flagship-Performance-i5-7200U-Dual-Core/dp/B01M5G7EQ3/

feel free to do your own searching since I didn't go very far to find it. For doing stuff like running overwatch you should narrow your search down to laptops with i5 cpus (i3 would work but I wouldn't recommend it) and at least 8 gb ram. I would highly recommend getting a laptop with a SSD if you plan on keeping it, however you can get laptops which met the previous marks for ~$100-$200 cheaper if you replace the SSD with HDD.

If you're really on a budget you can get laptops with i3 for ~$350 though

[apollothelion]

5 hours ago, Kevin the Chicken God said:

if you're looking for something cheaper I found this: https://www.amazon.com/Acer-Flagship-Performance-i5-7200U-Dual-Core/dp/B01M5G7EQ3/

feel free to do your own searching since I didn't go very far to find it. For doing stuff like running overwatch you should narrow your search down to laptops with i5 cpus (i3 would work but I wouldn't recommend it) and at least 8 gb ram. I would highly recommend getting a laptop with a SSD if you plan on keeping it, however you can get laptops which met the previous marks for ~$100-$200 cheaper if you replace the SSD with HDD.

If you're really on a budget you can get laptops with i3 for ~$350 though

Thanks Kevin that is what I was thinking along the lines of.  I appreciate it!

[Shining]

Not sure if you're aware of this website, but its very useful for looking at the kind of performance you can expect out of the GPU: https://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-1050-Notebook.178614.0.html

 

[KeRRR]

7 hours ago, Shining said:

Not sure if you're aware of this website, but its very useful for looking at the kind of performance you can expect out of the GPU: https://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-1050-Notebook.178614.0.html

 

Thanks for the link, it is useful.