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Title: What's a good laptop for 300-400ish?
Post by: GeneralGrant on July 20, 2012, 07:08:44 pm
i'm looking to use it mainly to play minecraft and watch youtube vids. link me some good laptops in my price range or some specs i should be paying attention to (i don't know much about computers). thanks  O0


Title: Re: What's a good laptop for 300-400ish?
Post by: Alumar on July 20, 2012, 07:27:15 pm
Does it have to be a laptop?


Title: Re: What's a good laptop for 300-400ish?
Post by: GeneralGrant on July 20, 2012, 07:37:00 pm
preferably. i could put a computer downstairs and i already have a monitor i use for my xbox which is compatible with pc but i would like to be able to play anywhere. if a cpu would be a better deal i'd be open to it


Title: Re: What's a good laptop for 300-400ish?
Post by: Alumar on July 20, 2012, 07:49:45 pm
Thing is, for that budget you could not find a laptop with a graphics card. You could find one with a good onboard graphics, but it's CPU would bottleneck you in games.

If you really only care about minecraft, I would recommend you a laptop with Intel HD 3000 or with AMD integrated graphics.

Examples:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834246633

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834215397

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834215371


Title: Re: What's a good laptop for 300-400ish?
Post by: GeneralGrant on July 20, 2012, 07:56:25 pm
those look pretty nice. what is a graphics card? lol. i would also like to be able to run pandora while playing minecraft and have that go smoothly and if not that's alright. anyways i don't know how much of it would be from my router but i wanna make sure i'm buying a computer that wont need a minute to buffer every time i watch a youtube vid in 720p


Title: Re: What's a good laptop for 300-400ish?
Post by: Alumar on July 20, 2012, 08:03:18 pm
That really depends on your internet connection. :P

To be honest, minecraft runs on pretty much anything. Just look for one that you like and doesn't get too hot.
I had a reasonably fast HP, but it got so hot I ended up trading it for a slightly slower Macbook.


Title: Re: What's a good laptop for 300-400ish?
Post by: GeneralGrant on July 20, 2012, 08:13:12 pm
That really depends on your internet connection. :P

To be honest, minecraft runs on pretty much anything. Just look for one that you like and doesn't get too hot.
I had a reasonably fast HP, but it got so hot I ended up trading it for a slightly slower Macbook.
i mean i know it'll run on pretty much anything but this macbook is getting kinda old and has a bunch of worthless files that are my family's on it that I CAN'T get rid of since they said and basically i play on "short" render settings on minecraft. i wanna be able to play on normal and maybe run optifine so i can even fine tune the render settings. i also want something other than a mac so downloads will be easier etc. and i figured it was mostly internet. recently it's been really slow but most of the time i don't have to wait a min for it to buffer in hd. anyways thanks for the suggestions and not being like "well i know it's a bit over your price range but it's worth it" and showing me a $460 computer that i don't want


Title: Re: What's a good laptop for 300-400ish?
Post by: GeneralGrant on July 20, 2012, 08:13:42 pm
if it comes to it i can wait an extra couple of weeks and get something in the 400 to 450 range though


Title: Re: What's a good laptop for 300-400ish?
Post by: Zero254 on July 24, 2012, 01:19:51 am
This is a topic for me.

I'll come back here with a good laptop with a workable gpu and a good price.

I'll delete this post and make a new one or edit this when I find it.


*EDIT*

This is a decent choice

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834215371

This might be your best bet.

I recommend grabbing a cooling pad along with it.

This would run some stuff, but not too much huge.

You can get away at low settings or medium depending on the game.

If you had 100$ more you would have access to a ton.

However that isn't bad for the price.


Title: Re: What's a good laptop for 300-400ish?
Post by: GeneralGrant on July 24, 2012, 01:25:18 am
well i dunno, i'm considering not buying one and just sticking it out with this one which i only have limited access to but it's enough. i'll def look into whatever you post though because it would just be a matter of a month or two i guess if i decided not to buy one yet


Title: Re: What's a good laptop for 300-400ish?
Post by: Alumar on July 24, 2012, 02:23:15 am
I got rid of my i5 laptop because of how hot it got. Even under normal loads like web browsing it got insanely hot and I couldn't be bothered to carry a cooling pad everywhere. You should have that in mind if you do decide to get one. :P


Title: Re: What's a good laptop for 300-400ish?
Post by: GeneralGrant on July 24, 2012, 02:50:25 am
I got rid of my i5 laptop because of how hot it got. Even under normal loads like web browsing it got insanely hot and I couldn't be bothered to carry a cooling pad everywhere. You should have that in mind if you do decide to get one. :P
will do so my nuts don't catch fire  O0


Title: Re: What's a good laptop for 300-400ish?
Post by: Alumar on July 24, 2012, 03:36:47 am
And the fan was loud as ****. My macbook's fan has reached 5000 rpm and it is SILENT even at those speeds.


Title: Re: What's a good laptop for 300-400ish?
Post by: Zero254 on July 24, 2012, 02:37:53 pm
Make sure you have a fan that moves good cfms it's about the design, not how much air it pushes.

If it can tightly move things better, it is a better fan.


Title: Re: What's a good laptop for 300-400ish?
Post by: GeneralGrant on July 24, 2012, 06:58:13 pm
good to keep in mind  O0