Gabbie
So I'm going to college in the fall, and even though I've read through forum after forum, I can't decide on a good gaming/college laptop. I've seen that Alienware M18x is great, as well as the M17/15x, but the M18x is about 3500, way out of my budget. I'm not very technologically savvy, so don't bother going over the specs of it because I won't understand a word of it. Basically I need something that I can play Guild Wars 2 on, and other such high graphics games, as if I was playing on a desktop, but at the same time, can be lugged around from class room to room for notes. I'm not partial to either Apple or Windows, all I'm really concerned about is price and quality. Please and thank you.
Answer
First off, if you want to game, for the love of god don't get a Mac. They are atrocious for support in most games.
With Alienware, they sell medium range parts for high prices because it's under the brand name, so it looks cool but it blows your budget. :)
You probably want something like
http://www.ple.com.au/ViewItem.aspx?InventoryItemID=611073&CategoryID=312
(Ignore the price, I'm from Australia and everything is jacked up over here).
This one will be cheap, attend to your needs, and probably the same as an alienware. If you're not sure, your local computer shop will also help you as best as you can.
First off, if you want to game, for the love of god don't get a Mac. They are atrocious for support in most games.
With Alienware, they sell medium range parts for high prices because it's under the brand name, so it looks cool but it blows your budget. :)
You probably want something like
http://www.ple.com.au/ViewItem.aspx?InventoryItemID=611073&CategoryID=312
(Ignore the price, I'm from Australia and everything is jacked up over here).
This one will be cheap, attend to your needs, and probably the same as an alienware. If you're not sure, your local computer shop will also help you as best as you can.
Does this site have good laptops?
Tyreese
I've been looking for a cheap laptop in Australia that would be good with games and I finally found a site, could anyone please tell me if there are any good laptops on here: http://www.centrecom.com.au/laptops
I want to play games like
Minecraft
Sims 3
And more
Answer
Our Unknown answerer, ? who answered first is correct. Cheap, Gaming, and Laptop don't go together at all. No, it's not about you WANTING to buy one, or only having a limited budget... it is about an unreal expectation that you should be ABLE to purchase one that will handle the heavy resource drain, for a low price.
Let's put this another way. Over 80% of all laptop owners and users don't play games on their laptops... and if they do, they are flash-based games they play in their browsers. This is why over 80% of all laptops you see are not capable of playing games other than what would run in a web browser with flash. So... you see all these laptops out there on the market going for low prices and you think... "Hmm... there's got to be one at those prices that will play games!". Your correlation is not based on fact, however. It is based on your desire. You WANT one to be cheap.
Why do the vast majority of laptop owners purchase a laptop? Because they want a light-weight computer they can move around, that will provide them with enough battery power to do the things they need to do. What do the vast majority of laptop owners need to do? Surf the web, social network, check their email, work on office documents, and look at pictures of cats. They want to do these things for 4-8 hours before they need to recharge their laptops. They want to do this on a laptop that isn't going to exhaust them because it is so heavy.
Look at the Google Chromebook. http://www.walmart.com/ip/25863246?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=3&adid=22222222227018267988&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=c&wl3=25820999196&wl4=&wl5=pla&wl6=51044925636&veh=sem#Specifications there is one at an American retailer, for $229 USD (that's $241 AUD) It is a classic example of a device built to meet the needs of the majority. A tiny battery, no optical drive... it doesn't even have Windows. It has the Google ChromeOS, which runs completely from a web browser. However, just about everyone out there who uses a laptop (I mean a majority, or more than 50%) would easily make due with one of these little devices.
So, what are your options then? Well... first, you have to do some work on your own. Yes. You need to learn a nifty catch-phrase. "System Requirements". Now.... you take that catch-phrase, and you look up the System Requirements for each of the games that you want to play. You compile all of those system requirements into a single set of specifications... and THEN you start looking at laptops. Once you know the minimum processor speed, and video card model, and amount of Ram, and amount of hard drive space, and whether you will need an optical drive... and any thing else... THEN you can start examining laptops to see which will meet your needs. Once you have a list of laptops that will meet your needs, you can find the least expensive one and buy it. We can't do this for you, for two important reasons. One... it's lazy of you to expect us to do the work for you. Two, we don't know all the games you want to play. We could look up the system requirements for minecraft and sims 3, and give you some laptop choices. But at that point, you'd say "Ok, Oh... and I want to play COD too"... at which point our laptop choices wouldn't fit any more. And then, we'd have to give you others, but you'd say "So... will it play WoW with all the expansions?" Only you know what you intend to play with the laptop. And yes, I get it... you want a laptop that would handle games that you haven't seen yet. Which means you don't want to purchase the minimum laptop necessary to play these games... you want something more powerful that can play newer stuff.... which is why you just knocked any semblance of Cheap right out of the ballpark.
You will PROBABLY end up looking at used laptops in the end however, since you can likely find something with more bang for your buck if it's got a few years on it and someone owned it previously. Like, an Asus G53 series... http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Asus-A53SJ-/121204140416?pt=AU_comp_laptop&hash=item1c38546980&_uhb=1 there's one on Ebay. Not a bad laptop, and it's made for gaming (to a degree) and the price is better than the new ones you are looking at.
But hey... what do I know, right?
Our Unknown answerer, ? who answered first is correct. Cheap, Gaming, and Laptop don't go together at all. No, it's not about you WANTING to buy one, or only having a limited budget... it is about an unreal expectation that you should be ABLE to purchase one that will handle the heavy resource drain, for a low price.
Let's put this another way. Over 80% of all laptop owners and users don't play games on their laptops... and if they do, they are flash-based games they play in their browsers. This is why over 80% of all laptops you see are not capable of playing games other than what would run in a web browser with flash. So... you see all these laptops out there on the market going for low prices and you think... "Hmm... there's got to be one at those prices that will play games!". Your correlation is not based on fact, however. It is based on your desire. You WANT one to be cheap.
Why do the vast majority of laptop owners purchase a laptop? Because they want a light-weight computer they can move around, that will provide them with enough battery power to do the things they need to do. What do the vast majority of laptop owners need to do? Surf the web, social network, check their email, work on office documents, and look at pictures of cats. They want to do these things for 4-8 hours before they need to recharge their laptops. They want to do this on a laptop that isn't going to exhaust them because it is so heavy.
Look at the Google Chromebook. http://www.walmart.com/ip/25863246?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=3&adid=22222222227018267988&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=c&wl3=25820999196&wl4=&wl5=pla&wl6=51044925636&veh=sem#Specifications there is one at an American retailer, for $229 USD (that's $241 AUD) It is a classic example of a device built to meet the needs of the majority. A tiny battery, no optical drive... it doesn't even have Windows. It has the Google ChromeOS, which runs completely from a web browser. However, just about everyone out there who uses a laptop (I mean a majority, or more than 50%) would easily make due with one of these little devices.
So, what are your options then? Well... first, you have to do some work on your own. Yes. You need to learn a nifty catch-phrase. "System Requirements". Now.... you take that catch-phrase, and you look up the System Requirements for each of the games that you want to play. You compile all of those system requirements into a single set of specifications... and THEN you start looking at laptops. Once you know the minimum processor speed, and video card model, and amount of Ram, and amount of hard drive space, and whether you will need an optical drive... and any thing else... THEN you can start examining laptops to see which will meet your needs. Once you have a list of laptops that will meet your needs, you can find the least expensive one and buy it. We can't do this for you, for two important reasons. One... it's lazy of you to expect us to do the work for you. Two, we don't know all the games you want to play. We could look up the system requirements for minecraft and sims 3, and give you some laptop choices. But at that point, you'd say "Ok, Oh... and I want to play COD too"... at which point our laptop choices wouldn't fit any more. And then, we'd have to give you others, but you'd say "So... will it play WoW with all the expansions?" Only you know what you intend to play with the laptop. And yes, I get it... you want a laptop that would handle games that you haven't seen yet. Which means you don't want to purchase the minimum laptop necessary to play these games... you want something more powerful that can play newer stuff.... which is why you just knocked any semblance of Cheap right out of the ballpark.
You will PROBABLY end up looking at used laptops in the end however, since you can likely find something with more bang for your buck if it's got a few years on it and someone owned it previously. Like, an Asus G53 series... http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Asus-A53SJ-/121204140416?pt=AU_comp_laptop&hash=item1c38546980&_uhb=1 there's one on Ebay. Not a bad laptop, and it's made for gaming (to a degree) and the price is better than the new ones you are looking at.
But hey... what do I know, right?
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