Best budget laptop for girlfriend!

[moe_8]

Hello awesome people! I need your help to help me choose a laptop for my gf. She's a designer/student (uses Adobe PS & ILL) and a light gamer (Overwatch, Sims, indie games). I was looking to get her the best performance/price laptop and I found a lot of options. Ideal price would be around 300 but is hard to find a good one at that price. Please help me crossout some of the options in mind:

Acer Aspire E5 ($510): i5-5200u, 8 GB, 1TB HDD, GeFor. 940M, Win 10.
Acer E5 ($460): i5-6200u, 8 GB, 256 GB SSD, GeFor. 940MX, Win 10.
HP Notebook 15 ($460): i5-6200u, 8 GB, 1TB HDD, Intel HD 520, Win 10.
Acer Aspire E5 ($430): i5-7200u, 4GB, 1TB HDD, Intel HD 620, Win 10.
Asus F556 ($415): i5-6200u, 8GB, 256 SSD, Intel HD 520, Win 10.
Acer Laptop R5-571T ($400): i5-6200u, 8 GB, 1 TB HDD, Intel HD 520, Win 10.
HP 250 G5 ($360): i3-5005u, 8GB, 1 TB HDD, Intel HD 5500, Win 10.
Acer Aspire E5 ($350): i3-7100u, 4 GB, 1 TB HDD, Intel HD 620, Win 10.
Lenovo Ideapad 110 ($290): i3-6100u, 4 GB, 1 TB HDD, Intel HD 405, Win 10.
Lenovo Ideapad 110 ($260): AMD A4-7210, 4 GB, 1 TB HDD, AMD Radeon R3, Win 10.
Asus Chromebook Flip C100 ($260): Rockchip Quad-Core, 4 GB, 16 GB SSD, Mali-T764, Win 10.

She likes to chillout in bed before sleeping so a laptop with convertible and touchscreen options would be fine. Cheers!!

 

[jaguarskx]

Ignore the Asus Chromebook. Windows programs cannot be installed on it.

The best laptop for playing games is the Acer E5 for $460 with the 940mx. Since your GF like to use the laptop in bed tell her that the laptop has to be placed on a hard surface to that the vents do not get blocked. Otherwise it can cause the laptop to overheat especially when playing games and that can cause permanent damage.

 

[moe_8]

Thanks bro!! Any opinion on Asus F556 or Acer Laptop R5-571T? Cheers!

 

[jaguarskx]

Both of those laptops lacks a dedicated graphics chip. While the nVidia 940mx is not considered a "gaming GPU", it is a lot more powerful than the Intel HD 520.