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I went with this, it had everything I wanted and appears to be decent enough for Minecraft. HP ENVY - 15t Touch Laptop 15.6-inch diagonal Full HD WLED-backlit Display (1920x1080) Touchscreen •5th generation Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5500U Dual Core Processor + NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M 4GB Discrete...

Thank you! Do you think it is possible to find something in the same price range with the same features but is a Win 8 with touchscreen instead? (And same decent specs for Minecraft?)

Looking for a first laptop for 9 year old. She likes Minecraft only and is currently used to playing on her ipad mini. HP laptop for $730 and it has other features I'd like such as dvd drive, backlit keyboard. 5th generation Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-5200U Dual Core Processor + NVIDIA GeForce 840M...

This one looks powerful enough at $625: Dell Latitude E6410 14.1 LED-backlit WXGA+ 1440x900 Display Windows 7 Professional 64-bit Intel Core i7 620M processor (2.66GHz, 4MB cache) NVIDIA NVS 3100M Dedicated Graphics with 512MB VRAM 4GB DDR3 RAM 250GB 7200RPM hard drive (Western Digital Scorpio...

Hmmm... That does seem like a decent one with resources for Minecraft. But no touchscreen for Windows 8. Might as well get a laptop with Win 7 then. I think I'm going to have to let my daughter think it over and decide: Does she want a 2-in-1 that will probably not play Minecraft very well, or...

1. What is your budget? $300-$500, but after a few days of researching I'm starting to think this is not realistic 2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering? 11" - 15" 3. What screen resolution do you want? Not sure 4. Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop...