@jedikevin2 said:
What games are you trying to play?
I bought my fiancee a cheap Acer. Plays a ton of games just fine on it while also pushing 7-8 hours of battery life.
Acer Aspire V3-572G-54S6 $549
I would go with something like this and then spend the excess money on building a desktop. This way, you can play together, give her something that can actually play a game, and be a good laptop backup for you to play something and take around.
THIS IS THE BEST answer.. It depends entirely on what your going to play.. We have people who have been playing games like Xcom Enemy Unknown, Shogun 2 etc etc games that can be played well on modern mid range hardware that have been doing it for years..
I facepalm from the majority of responses in these type of threads because they usually boil down to responses like "Don't get a laptop get a desktop, laptops aren't meant for "serious" gaming".. This statement always makes me facepalm because some of the best games on the platform are extremely low demanding games.. It depends entirely on what genres your into and what kinds of games your going to play.. This "hardware" elitism I have seen lately is quite hilarious because it basically has people suggesting that the only big games that matter are the most graphically intensive games, which all too often are the most shallow and dumbed down messes out there..
And I love these type of laptops.. One of my favorite laptops I have ever owned was a similiar Asus one with a 1366 x 768 display and a 540m nvidia video card.. It was surprising what I could play at great performance on that display to go with at a price range around there.. Furthermore I am absolutely baffled of the sudden push for LAPTOPS of all things for the 1080p to 1440p and beyond displays.. Resolutions is still one of the biggest hits on performance, and with current LCD technology you cannot turn down resolution due to TREMENDOUS screen and color degradation due to pixel stretching.. So you basically are getting a very high resolution (and unneccesary imo for a display that is usually 17 inches to 14 inches) that you have to have on in a piece of tech that CAN'T be upgraded... I miss the days in which laptops shipped with either 1366 x 768 to 1650 x 1080... Because if your laptop has the horse power to go far beyond, nothing is stopping you from cranking up things like AA to smooth out edges.. Meanwhile when it comes to that day when it struggles you can turn off AA.. When if you have that 1440p or 4k display (gl to even getting acceptable fps with more demanding games to begin with) if you turn that down it will look like absolute ass..
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