Please recommend me a good gaming laptop (with a max budget of £800)
May 18, 2012 10:21 AM Subscribe
Can I be recommended a decent laptop that is fast, has good graphics and is overall good quality please. My maximum budget for this is £800.
So... I live in the UK and have been using my current laptop (made by Hi-Grade) for the last 4 years. It has 2 GB of memory, an ATI Radeon graphics card and a double hard drive (one drive with 32GB and the other with 192GB).
It's now very glitchy and is slow enough that I can't do much online gaming as it isn't fast enough to keep up with the internet. I've been meaning to get a new one for a couple of months now but just haven't got round to it. I just bought a new game (Diablo 3), which won't install on my laptop because it's so crap.
I'd like my new laptop to be primarily for gaming as I don't use it for much else (just a bit of streaming videos and surfing the internet). I'm capable with computers, but know little when it comes to terminology of software or what parts make for a good gaming laptop. All I know so far is that I'd like it to have at least 4GB of memory, a good enough graphics card to play my new game/other new enhanced graphical games and a fast processor so I can play games with no glitches/smoothly.
Also, I don't know why anyone would want to have two hard drives instead of just the one... but I've found having two drives is infuriating; so my new laptop would have to have just the one.
Sorry for the lengthy explanation, but buying a laptop is not something I do every year, so I'm willing to look into it quite a bit to find the right one.
Thanks in advance.
So... I live in the UK and have been using my current laptop (made by Hi-Grade) for the last 4 years. It has 2 GB of memory, an ATI Radeon graphics card and a double hard drive (one drive with 32GB and the other with 192GB).
It's now very glitchy and is slow enough that I can't do much online gaming as it isn't fast enough to keep up with the internet. I've been meaning to get a new one for a couple of months now but just haven't got round to it. I just bought a new game (Diablo 3), which won't install on my laptop because it's so crap.
I'd like my new laptop to be primarily for gaming as I don't use it for much else (just a bit of streaming videos and surfing the internet). I'm capable with computers, but know little when it comes to terminology of software or what parts make for a good gaming laptop. All I know so far is that I'd like it to have at least 4GB of memory, a good enough graphics card to play my new game/other new enhanced graphical games and a fast processor so I can play games with no glitches/smoothly.
Also, I don't know why anyone would want to have two hard drives instead of just the one... but I've found having two drives is infuriating; so my new laptop would have to have just the one.
Sorry for the lengthy explanation, but buying a laptop is not something I do every year, so I'm willing to look into it quite a bit to find the right one.
Thanks in advance.
That Acer doesn't look like it has discrete graphics. If that's the case and you want to play modern games on the built-in HD3000 with the i7 series, you're gonna have a bad time.
I'm not in the UK, so not sure of the best place to buy something online, but I found this with a Geforce 525m for under 700.
posted by barc0001 at 11:06 AM on May 18, 2012
I'm not in the UK, so not sure of the best place to buy something online, but I found this with a Geforce 525m for under 700.
posted by barc0001 at 11:06 AM on May 18, 2012
I believe it has a GeForce GT640M in it with 2GB of graphics RAM. Should be good enough.
posted by flabdablet at 11:21 AM on May 18, 2012
posted by flabdablet at 11:21 AM on May 18, 2012
You probably want to wait a month or two for the Ivy Bridge chipset laptops to come out.
posted by mhoye at 11:40 AM on May 18, 2012
posted by mhoye at 11:40 AM on May 18, 2012
Ah, apologies flabdablet. I couldn't see that on Acer's site. That would make a world of difference yes.
On the Acer topic though, I know anecdotes aren't evidence, but 75% of the Acers we bought for our company eventually had to be sent back for service or repaired after the repair warranty ran out, such to the point we stopped buying Acer laptops completely. YMMV and all that.
posted by barc0001 at 11:50 AM on May 18, 2012
On the Acer topic though, I know anecdotes aren't evidence, but 75% of the Acers we bought for our company eventually had to be sent back for service or repaired after the repair warranty ran out, such to the point we stopped buying Acer laptops completely. YMMV and all that.
posted by barc0001 at 11:50 AM on May 18, 2012
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posted by flabdablet at 10:39 AM on May 18, 2012