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Offline FX1

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New laptop
« on: October 08, 2013, 01:36:20 PM »
What would yall recommend for a new low end gaming laptop?
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Offline gyrene81

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Re: New laptop
« Reply #1 on: October 08, 2013, 02:48:05 PM »
what are you going to play sid meier's pirates?
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Offline Bizman

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Re: New laptop
« Reply #2 on: October 09, 2013, 10:13:31 AM »
Low end gaming laptop? Yikes!!!

Seriously, gaming laptops are equipped with a four digit price tag. Calling something below 1k a gaming laptop is marketing jargon for a multimedia computer, capable of running full-HD videos. Alongside with Tetris and PacMan.
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Offline Gman

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Re: New laptop
« Reply #3 on: October 09, 2013, 12:00:02 PM »
MSI makes a 1000$ laptop with a 17" screen and a decent gaming video card.  For 1500$ you can get a really good 17" current vid card with SSD drive laptop from either Asus or MSI.  I've seen the odd 15" laptop with a decent enough gaming video card in the high 6 to low 700$ range if you look around.
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Offline Bizman

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Re: New laptop
« Reply #4 on: October 09, 2013, 12:27:18 PM »
A side note: Some laptops seem to have both a 15" and a 17" model using the same resolution and with a price difference of only about $50. The bigger screen might be easier on the eye and the larger case a little cooler. With similar resolution the bigger one wouldn't even suffer from lack of resources compared to the smaller, since the amount of pixels would be equal. The bigger single pixel size doesn't affect the video card at all. Bigger amount of pixels does.
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Offline MrRiplEy[H]

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Re: New laptop
« Reply #5 on: October 09, 2013, 12:48:13 PM »
My wife used to use cheap laptops for gaming. The end result was that they were slow, noisy and blew hot air like hair dryers most of the time. Then they died prematurely. Yes that was plural.

Now we invested to an Asus ROG gaming laptop that has 4x the price tag of the old laptops. It runs cool and quiet and hasn't so far died. Of course for the 4x price tag you'd hope it actually lasts more than the 1,5 years the cheap ones did.
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Offline Max

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Re: New laptop
« Reply #6 on: October 10, 2013, 07:35:54 AM »
My roadie laptop is an Asus G73J, from Best Buy. Paid about $1,100 for it and have been very happy with it. The Radeon card does an admiral job with AH. It also has very good cooling fans as laptops go.

The current Best Buy version is a G750JW listed at $1,299.

Only downside is the weight (9lbs)

« Last Edit: October 10, 2013, 07:42:47 AM by Max »
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