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The 2012-2013 Gaming Laptop Thread | Read OP before asking questions!
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is it honest to god called the 'razer blade'?
Hey guys I need some help.
My little brother wants a new laptop and I don't really know what is the best choice for him or where to even look!
The laptop is gonna be cheap, around £200-£250 which is around $300-$400. He basically wants to browse the internet, word docs and all the usual stuff but also play his Minecraft and some little gaming here and there, nothing major. He doesn't really need it to go really fast, just enough to play these games here and there without it lagging all the time. Even its low to medium settings. Old games and less demanding games like the old GTA's, the older NFS games, YouTube vids, Facebook, online stuff like Pokemon showdown and what not. Minecraft is the main one.
I was wondering if a integrated HD 4000 would be enough for this kind of performance since I doubt you'd be able to get a laptop with more then that in he graphics performance for that price. The budget is tiny but its all I can work with for him for now!
Thanks for the help in advance!
I have that laptop lol its petty good. Build quality is great and the graphics is pretty decent. I got it for around £500 with a free Xbox 360. The keyboard is not very good imo maybe I'm not used to it. I play most games, even Wii/GCN emulation at 720 and its smooth. Crysis 2 at ulra is around 25 fps.
My little brother wants a new laptop and I don't really know what is the best choice for him or where to even look!
The laptop is gonna be cheap, around £200-£250 which is around $300-$400. He basically wants to browse the internet, word docs and all the usual stuff but also play his Minecraft and some little gaming here and there, nothing major. He doesn't really need it to go really fast, just enough to play these games here and there without it lagging all the time. Even its low to medium settings. Old games and less demanding games like the old GTA's, the older NFS games, YouTube vids, Facebook, online stuff like Pokemon showdown and what not. Minecraft is the main one.
I was wondering if a integrated HD 4000 would be enough for this kind of performance since I doubt you'd be able to get a laptop with more then that in he graphics performance for that price. The budget is tiny but its all I can work with for him for now!
Thanks for the help in advance!
I have that laptop lol its petty good. Build quality is great and the graphics is pretty decent. I got it for around £500 with a free Xbox 360. The keyboard is not very good imo maybe I'm not used to it. I play most games, even Wii/GCN emulation at 720 and its smooth. Crysis 2 at ulra is around 25 fps.
Hey guys I know I'm asking for a lot here, but I am looking for a laptop that would be good for school + be able to handle dota 2 for a cheap price. What price range will I be looking at?
how is this deal?
http://slickdeals.net/f/5962170-Len...0GB-SDRAM-15-6-1920x1080-1TB-HDD-16GB-SSD-839
Can I find something cheaper?
how is this deal?
http://slickdeals.net/f/5962170-Len...0GB-SDRAM-15-6-1920x1080-1TB-HDD-16GB-SSD-839
Can I find something cheaper?
InVinoVeritas
Member
My Asus G74SX died last week- RIP. And I'm in the market for a new gaming laptop. I'm in the US, and my budget is $1700ish. Screen size should be 15.6 or greater. I'll be using it for gaming mainly. GW2, WoW, stuff like that.
This is the one I'm leaning towards now:
Sager NP9150
Is that a pretty good deal for the money? I'm hesitant to go with Asus again, since I've only had my G74SX for a year and 9 months, and I was expecting it to last quite a bit longer than that.
This is the one I'm leaning towards now:
Sager NP9150
Is that a pretty good deal for the money? I'm hesitant to go with Asus again, since I've only had my G74SX for a year and 9 months, and I was expecting it to last quite a bit longer than that.
threetri333
Banned
To anyone who's looking for a laptop, just wait for Haswell. Integrated Graphics that beats Nvidia GT 550, better battery too. Just stating the obvious.
My laptop is the MSI E7405.
Will this 8GB DDR3 memory work with my laptop?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820220545
Also what is newegg's policy on returns if the item doesn't work on my laptop?
Will this 8GB DDR3 memory work with my laptop?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820220545
Also what is newegg's policy on returns if the item doesn't work on my laptop?
sweetvar26
Member
I was just about to post regarding this.
I'm specifically looking at the Retina MBP. I want to see how big of a difference it is.
I did read about how the current on board graphics stutters for their current resolution.
could you give me more detail about this? mostly price
sweetvar26
Member
Not the exact price but you can probably find more information in this thread. Supposed to be available in June/July.
Thanks!
I can't recommend you a specific laptop, but I know the HD 4000 can run Minecraft.
Well you can run DOTA 2 on anything. Set a fixed budget before you start looking.
Yes that's a good deal.
Before you spend that much money, know that the new Sager gaming laptops are coming in June.
Yeah that's the proper RAM.
Depends on what you specifically need the laptop to do. For what are you looking?
K.Jack, opinions on this? I almost jumped and bit at the GX60 mentioned in the OP a few times, but hearing that this next one is supposed to have a better CPU (A-5750?) and the next flagship mobile GPU from AMD (8970M) on top of a bigger screen (17") makes me wonder if I should just wait it out.
Haven't seen benchmarks, but I'll bet that the 8970M is severely bottlenecked by that AMD CPU, just as was the case with the GX60. I recommend that you wait for an Intel i7 quad and 8970M combo.
InVinoVeritas
Member
Thanks K.Jack. Holy crap there is no way I could wait until June. I'm having a hard enough time after 2 weeks of being without my computer... It looks like I can get the 9170 for about $30 more, and it comes with an extra hard drive slot built in, so I think I'm going to do that.
threetri333
Banned
Integrated Graphics that nearly rivals Nvidia GT 650M
Less Heat than Ivy Bridge
Longer Battery " "
10% more Computational Power " "
Worth waiting for a much more appropriate laptop.
It's yet to be seen, which of Intel's mobile CPUs will ship with the GT3e graphics, so it's unwise to promise people that they'll see that level of performance.
It definitely won't be in all of them, especially since it's only going to be in soldered configurations.
The rest of the pack (GT1, GT2, GT3) are less thrilling.
60_gig_PS3
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would the 11" sager be a good option for a gaming PC if hooked up to an external display?
Erebus
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Guess I'm reposting this from the other thread:
I'm looking for a decent laptop at an affordable price (under 600).
I will mostly use it for web surfing, HD movie playback (so I'd rather it didn't stutter while streaming HD videos on Youtube or other sites) and maybe some lightweight gaming, thus a dedicated GPU would be nice.
So far I've found the ASUS K55VJ-SX018H 15.6'' (comes with an i3-3110M, 4GB DDR3 and an nVIDIA GT635M 2GB) priced at 500 on a local e-store. Anyone heard of it? Any other suggestions?
I'm looking for a decent laptop at an affordable price (under 600).
I will mostly use it for web surfing, HD movie playback (so I'd rather it didn't stutter while streaming HD videos on Youtube or other sites) and maybe some lightweight gaming, thus a dedicated GPU would be nice.
So far I've found the ASUS K55VJ-SX018H 15.6'' (comes with an i3-3110M, 4GB DDR3 and an nVIDIA GT635M 2GB) priced at 500 on a local e-store. Anyone heard of it? Any other suggestions?
Doczu
Member
So, for starters let's use the template from the first post:
Poland
$1100
17 inches is oky with me
Mostly used for gaming (i play a variety of games, from indie to AAA), movies and emulation (would be great if it could play PS2 and Wii/GCN games).
Not so noisy, not so power hungry (well, i know that is difficult to achieve when hunting for power).
My questions is: Is there still a difference between radeon and nvidia cards when it comes to power/price? Which are better?
And will it be a big jump forward from my old laptop (MSI GE600, 5730M, 4GB, i5)?
EDIT: I'm a big fan of S.T.A.L.K.E.R and the Fallout games, so it would be great if the machine could play them on max details (graphic mods would be a great + if they work!).
Poland
$1100
17 inches is oky with me
Mostly used for gaming (i play a variety of games, from indie to AAA), movies and emulation (would be great if it could play PS2 and Wii/GCN games).
Not so noisy, not so power hungry (well, i know that is difficult to achieve when hunting for power).
My questions is: Is there still a difference between radeon and nvidia cards when it comes to power/price? Which are better?
And will it be a big jump forward from my old laptop (MSI GE600, 5730M, 4GB, i5)?
EDIT: I'm a big fan of S.T.A.L.K.E.R and the Fallout games, so it would be great if the machine could play them on max details (graphic mods would be a great + if they work!).
Ledgehanger
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I would like to know if this laptop gaming capabilities. It will mostly be used school work, but if it could play games decently it would be a nice bonus.
Dell Inspiron 15
Processor: Intel Core i5-3337U (Up to 2.7 GHz)
Operating system : Windows 8 64-bit
RAM: 6GB DDR3 @ 1600Mhz
Hard Drive: 750GB
Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 7670M 1GB
Price: £450
If there are any other laptop that are better than this in the UK for around the same price, please recommend them instead
Dell Inspiron 15
Processor: Intel Core i5-3337U (Up to 2.7 GHz)
Operating system : Windows 8 64-bit
RAM: 6GB DDR3 @ 1600Mhz
Hard Drive: 750GB
Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 7670M 1GB
Price: £450
If there are any other laptop that are better than this in the UK for around the same price, please recommend them instead
Erebus
Member
this is disappointing. Was hoping that Haswell might finally bring reasonable gaming to the kind of mass market laptop you'd just pick up at the local high street store, but that seems to need the high end chip which is likely to be restricted to higher end laptops.
What kind of improvement over HD4000 are the other models (GT1/GT2) - eg the ones likely to be in low-mid range i5s? The kind you'd buy as a family laptop for instance?
Link me to some Polish computer sites.
It's a decent 720p capable gaming machine, with current-gen titles.
The one you chose is the best buy at that price. The next step up would be this.
I could be wrong, but I think all laptop CPUs are shipping with no less than the GT3, but not the even faster GT3e, which has its own embedded DRAM.
Erebus
Member
First of all, thanks for taking the time to check out the site and the laptop I've linked you to.
I realize that for that price you cannot ask for too much but do you think the Asus K55VJ would be able to handle HD video playback without missing frames?
Oh definitely! It's way overkill for HD video.
Doczu
Member
http://www.x-kom.pl/p/116515-notebook-laptop-15,6-lenovo-ibm-y580-i7-3630qm-8gb-1000-dvd-rw.html
http://www.x-kom.pl/p/125527-notebook-laptop-15,6-msi-ge60-0nd-i7-3630qm-8gb-750-gtx660m-qck-diablo-iii.html
http://www.x-kom.pl/p/116507-notebook-laptop-15,6-lenovo-ibm-y580-i5-3210m-8gb-1000-dvd-rw-fhd.html
(the same as the first one, but with an i5 CPU instead)
As i wrote before. Gaming (mostly open world rpg's: fallout, TES, bit of S.T.A.L.K.E.R and maybe DayZ), emulation PS2 and Wii, movies.
Should i consider looking for a rig with a radeon?
Is it worth getting an i7 processor?
Erebus
Member
OK will probably go for this then. Thanks for the help.
tomei
Member
Lenovo Y400 & Y500 have the new 750m available. The Y500 even has 750m sli.
You think you've got it bad?! My laptop is from 2005. Intel Pentium M processor at 1.86GHz, geforce 6600 go, 1.5 gigs of sd ram, 1280x800 monitor. Pretty good at the time, and I'm glad I splurged on a decent computer since it's lasted so long, but it's old. Some of the keys stopped working the second time I replaced my computer keyboard, the volume control doesn't really work, the wifi is screwy and I'm pretty sure it's possessed.
Will the wait really be worth it?
state_vector_collapse
Member
Some people in the states have had luck in returning theirs and getting the GT750M model according to the Lenovo forums.
I do wonder when/if that model will make its way to the U.K seeing as they don't seem to be arsed with this country at all. But a GT750M model would be appealing despite what I think of their customer service.
thx. Any idea how much i'm gaining going through the trouble to get the 750m? I know it has gddr5 instead of ddr3, but it's the same 28nm core, so I guess I just don't know if it's worth it.
FWIW, i have yet to deal with lenovo service, and the 650m y500 i have has run like a dream so far. I'm more worried about future-proofing.
state_vector_collapse
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Not sure what the gains are to be honest. I just figured that a newer graphics card has to be a good thing to aid longevity. Plus it seems, from what I had read, that Lenovo had swapped them for new customers relatively easily. They just called support - who seem to be better in the states than here.
60_gig_PS3
Banned
is that a sale price on the Y500 with the 750m? should I rush to get one or is $850 the normal price?
OmegaTreeFish
Banned
I have been thinking about getting a gaming laptop at the end of this year. I used to play a lot on my desktop PC but as my life has progressed (wife, kid on the way etc etc) I find I barely ever have time to sit at a TV or monitor to play games anymore.
This has led me to a more portable gaming life where I can play while something the wife watches something on TV or we are in bed and she is asleep etc etc. For now I have been doing this via Vita, Nexus 7 and a non gaming laptop.
My options are really going to be either PS4 and stream to Vita but I have my doubts this will be ideal (Im better it will have annoying lag) or get a gaming laptop.
I think I would be able to spend about £800-£900 at the end of the year. Its been a while since I looked into PC parts and normally I would be fine with most things for that price but the new consoles will up the specs needed for a lot of games. What I see currently available at that price range is stuff like
i5 or i7 cpu
6 gig DDR3 (sometimes DDR5) ram
GT650 or at a push HD 7770M.
Also some with touch screens.
Do you guys here who have been following the trends of laptop costs and power think that by the end of the year something closer to:
i7
6-8gig DDR5
HD88xx range card (or there abouts)
touchscreen
would be likely in my price range?
I feel something like that would be both viable and able to last a while (and I have never been fussed about turning the settings down to get better frame rates).
I have a gaming desktop hooked up to the TV that barely gets used because of time constraints. It has i5 (e8400), 4 gig ram and a HD4870 and is about 4 years old maybe. Its a bit long in the tooth but still runs pretty much everything just fine (like I said im happy to turn settings down). But with the new consoles hitting and my need to be free from a monitor or TV I think a gaming laptop is the way forward for me.
Any thoughts?
Also how are the integrated gpu's on i3/5/7 cpus coming on. I was surprised what my current laptop could play with the i5 integrated graphics it has (the first HD intel graphics - as in before HD2000). It runs touchlight 2 and LoL pretty well, albeit in low.
This has led me to a more portable gaming life where I can play while something the wife watches something on TV or we are in bed and she is asleep etc etc. For now I have been doing this via Vita, Nexus 7 and a non gaming laptop.
My options are really going to be either PS4 and stream to Vita but I have my doubts this will be ideal (Im better it will have annoying lag) or get a gaming laptop.
I think I would be able to spend about £800-£900 at the end of the year. Its been a while since I looked into PC parts and normally I would be fine with most things for that price but the new consoles will up the specs needed for a lot of games. What I see currently available at that price range is stuff like
i5 or i7 cpu
6 gig DDR3 (sometimes DDR5) ram
GT650 or at a push HD 7770M.
Also some with touch screens.
Do you guys here who have been following the trends of laptop costs and power think that by the end of the year something closer to:
i7
6-8gig DDR5
HD88xx range card (or there abouts)
touchscreen
would be likely in my price range?
I feel something like that would be both viable and able to last a while (and I have never been fussed about turning the settings down to get better frame rates).
I have a gaming desktop hooked up to the TV that barely gets used because of time constraints. It has i5 (e8400), 4 gig ram and a HD4870 and is about 4 years old maybe. Its a bit long in the tooth but still runs pretty much everything just fine (like I said im happy to turn settings down). But with the new consoles hitting and my need to be free from a monitor or TV I think a gaming laptop is the way forward for me.
Any thoughts?
Also how are the integrated gpu's on i3/5/7 cpus coming on. I was surprised what my current laptop could play with the i5 integrated graphics it has (the first HD intel graphics - as in before HD2000). It runs touchlight 2 and LoL pretty well, albeit in low.
Those don't seem to be available in the UK in that configuration. Also Lenovo doesn't seem to do anything bigger than a 15" screen.
state_vector_collapse
Member
According to someone on the Lenovo forums, they have no plans to release the GT750M Y500 in the U.K. Incredible....charge us more for the hardware, and it be old stock as well.
Now to search around again for something close price wise. PC specialist was looking good, but does start to shoot up in price pretty quickly once you add a few bells and whistles sadly.
Now to search around again for something close price wise. PC specialist was looking good, but does start to shoot up in price pretty quickly once you add a few bells and whistles sadly.
twinturbo2
butthurt Heat fan
Is the Nvidia 750M any good for gaming?
Is the Lenovo Y500 a decent laptop if I'm interested in live streaming (console). My current laptop won't stream HD (doesn't have the horsepower) so I'm wondering if this will work better. Thanks for any input guys!
Also: Hoping I can have the option to get Windows 7...is that a pipe dream?
Also: Hoping I can have the option to get Windows 7...is that a pipe dream?
what's your ship date?
I haven't checked to be honest. I've heard the shipping can be kind of a gong show, so we'll see. Pretty happy, though. Compared to ANYTHING else I could find that had similar specs, the Y500 was at least $200-$300 cheaper.
yeah those sales they're having are insane, I got a y500 with a 650m a few weeks ago, I was curious because I'm drying to return it for the 750m, but their post-sales dept doesn't pick up the phone :/
Yeah, I got lucky. Almost pulled the trigger when it was the 650M (had it in my cart and everything). Decided to wait.
My order status page doesn't show an estimated ship date yet.
state_vector_collapse
Member
Pretty much given up on entertaining a Lenovo Y500 now, so wondered if anyone here owned the Samsung NP770Z5E-S01? Or failing that the NP780Z5E-S01 which is the same machine but with a touch screen.
Is there really any benefit to having a laptop with a touch screen, as it strikes me it might be more of a gimmick and would feel a little awkward to use?
It used the AMD HD8870M which should be not bad for a lot of games? Cheers
Is there really any benefit to having a laptop with a touch screen, as it strikes me it might be more of a gimmick and would feel a little awkward to use?
It used the AMD HD8870M which should be not bad for a lot of games? Cheers
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