Best laptop for around £500

[Dylzan]

Hi, I'm going to university this September and am looking to purchase a laptop sometime soon. My main requirements are a decent quality screen and a comfortable keyboard for typing. I'd prefer it to be 15 or 13 inches and have battery life of around 6-8 hours preferably. It'd also be nice if it had some sort of gaming capability, nothing massive but the capability to run games such as GMod or TF2 would be nice. I hope I'm not asking too much but would compromise if I have to. Thanks.

 

[velo3100]

I would go with one of the acer aspire v3 models. They should be able to handle the games that you have said. But you may take the hit on battery life.

 

[robmak3]

Not a solution:

I would go with one of the acer aspire v3 models. They should be able to handle the games that you have said. But you may take the hit on battery life.

I'm looking for a laptop around the same price. It seems like this acer only comes in one model for USD $1100 on acer's US website.

 

[velo3100]

Well thats not true as I found these 2 laptops and they are both under his budget:
http://az-europe.eu/en/acer-aspire-v13-v3-371-77nk-i7-4510-2-00ghz-8-gigabytes-500-gigabytes-8gb-sshd-13-3-fhd-integ-graph-p692532/e?gclid=CMDx5oy8gsUCFULJtAodzVYAow
http://www.very.co.uk/acer-v3-572-intelreg-coretrade-i5-processor-6gb-ram-1tb-hard-drive-wi-fi-156-inch-laptop-silver/1458147463.prd?aff=google&affsrc=acquisition&cm_mmc=google-_-PLA+-+Electricals-_-Electricals+-+Computers+-+Laptops-_-_63938667418&k_clickid=d13b01d5-58fa-4a3d-8a96-60528c5a27c0&kpid=16543003&gclid=CJTP35u8gsUCFSkGwwodq7AA0Q

One has a more power cpu and a ssd cache and the other has a weaker cpu but more storage. You can choose which one you prefer.

Not a solution:

I would go with one of the acer aspire v3 models. They should be able to handle the games that you have said. But you may take the hit on battery life.

I'm looking for a laptop around the same price. It seems like this acer only comes in one model for USD $1100 on acer's US website.