Any good laptop for 800$....

[Chandan Sondhi]

I am going to buy a laptop for myself and i will be using it for my studies/gaming and also i would be learning coding and photoshop.... Currently i have this laptop in my mind- http/h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&docname=c04031379
I would be upgrading its ram to 8gb.
Also I have this laptop in my mind-http/www.buyingiq.com/Asus-X550LC-XX160D-Laptop-4th-Gen-Ci7-8GB-1TB-DOS-2GB-Graphics-66666

Now which one is better for gaming, I am really confused- One has a better cpu, the other has a better gpu. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[CraigN]

http/www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GT-740M.89900.0.html

Scroll down about a third of the way and you'll see gaming benchmarks. It'll run BF3/BF4 at about 40 fps with everything on low. Check out the Lenovo Ideapad Y510P. It goes on sale fairly often for close to $800 with a 750M or 755M.

 

[Chandan Sondhi]

http/www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GT-740M.89900.0.html

Scroll down about a third of the way and you'll see gaming benchmarks. It'll run BF3/BF4 at about 40 fps with everything on low. Check out the Lenovo Ideapad Y510P. It goes on sale fairly often for close to $800 with a 750M or 755M.

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Please check the thread again. I have another laptop in my mind. How do you think the asus one would be for gaming, music and battery backup? I really appreciate that you replied!! 🙂

 

[CraigN]

Whoops. Didn't see the second link 😉

The second laptop would be even worse for gaming, but will do music and other stuff just fine.

 

[Chandan Sondhi]

Whoops. Didn't see the second link 😉

The second laptop would be even worse for gaming, but will do music and other stuff just fine.

http/shopping.hp.com/en_US/home-office/-/products/Laptops/HP-ENVY/G1L49AV?HP-ENVY-15t-j100-Quad-Edition-Notebook-PC-with-Windows-7-ENERGY-STAR-
Now this laptop has made me make up my mind. I think I will be buying this one. What do you think?

 

[CraigN]

Better processor, but will have the same graphics performance as the first one you posted. Might have better performance since it has a 4700MQ, but not drastically better. Definitely a better laptop than the first two though.

 

[Chandan Sondhi]

Better processor, but will have the same graphics performance as the first one you posted. Might have better performance since it has a 4700MQ, but not drastically better. Definitely a better laptop than the first two though.

I have one doubt in my mind. What is an ssd? I know it stands to solid statte drive. WIll it read my dvd for me like my dvd writer(pre-installed) would do or is it a hard drive? And can i keep both, a hdd and an ssd? And why should I? And how much?

 

[CraigN]

It's like a hard drive, but there are no spinning disks, it uses electrical signals and memory to store information, so they are significantly faster than hdds. You can if the laptop supports both. The benefit to the SSD is much faster performance and significantly faster start up times.

 

[Chandan Sondhi]

It's like a hard drive, but there are no spinning disks, it uses electrical signals and memory to store information, so they are significantly faster than hdds. You can if the laptop supports both. The benefit to the SSD is much faster performance and significantly faster start up times.

Thanks!!!! And how much do you think I should use? And can both(hdd and an ssd) be kept in the laptop I mentioned above(HP Envy 15)?

 

[CraigN]

You might have to find it in store and ask, or ask HP. It's a fairly slim chassis, so you may only have the option of one or the other. If that's the laptop you're going for, for all those purposes, you may just want to live with the 1TB or 1.5TB drive that it comes equipped with, as high capacity solid state drives are very expensive (~$500-600 for 1TB on SSD)