Buying new laptop

[noldolante]

1. What is your budget?
300-400 Pounds

2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering?
17"

3. What screen resolution do you want?
any

4. Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop?
Portable as 17" can be
5. How much battery life do you need?
doesn`t really matter, will use it mostly like desktop pc, but still must be portable since I move from place to place often and might also need to take it to university

6. Do you want to play games with your laptop? If so then please list the games that you want to with the settings that you want for these games. (Low,Medium or High)?

Would be really nice to play The Witcher 3, even on the lowest graphs and resolution possible, Bioshock Infinite and Witcher 2 on Medium or Low (have no idea how big is difference between prices, but budget is pretty important, could sacrifice with a bit of graph quality)

7. What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop? (Photo/Video editing, Etc.)
Video Editing - Premier Pro. I guess it will run fine enough with these games being possible to play. I`m using it even now with my old laptop, which can`t handle them even on lowest (the Witcher 1 was struggling a bit)

8. How much storage (Hard Drive capacity) do you need?
Don`t need a lot. used to my 250 tbh.

9. If you are considering specific sites to buy from, please post their links.

10. How long do you want to keep your laptop?
dunno, but i don`t thhink it matters a lot. I will be fine with the one which can handle what I described for a while.

11. What kind of Optical drive do you need? DVD ROM/Writer,Bluray ROM/Writer,Etc ?
any which can handle discs. not improtant tbh.

12. Please tell us about the brands that you prefer to buy from them and the brands that you don't like and explain the reasons.
any brands as long as they are quality.

13. What country do you live in?
UK
14. Please tell us any additional information if needed.
Budget is important. Wasn`t planning to buy new laptop tbh, my old one is with me already for 6 years, almost like a family member. Simply it begun to malfunction, and it seems I`ll just have to buy a new one. So if I do buy a new one, let it be the one which can handle some better games and do some better performance with editing

 

[hang-the-9]

There is no way you can buy a 17" laptop that will run Witcher 3 in your budget, even on low. You need to about double it to start on those types of games on lower settings. If you are OK with used, look for a used laptop with a 860m/960m video card in your area, those should be about your budget but likely will have a 15" or so screen.

 

[noldolante]

What about 15"

 

[noldolante]

There is no way you can buy a 17" laptop that will run Witcher 3 in your budget, even on low. You need to about double it to start on those types of games on lower settings. If you are OK with used, look for a used laptop with a 860m/960m video card in your area, those should be about your budget but likely will have a 15" or so screen.

How about this one?
http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing/laptops/laptops/hp-17-p150na-17-3-laptop-black-10138203-pdt.html?srcid=198&cmpid=ppc~gg&istCompanyId=bec25c7e-cbcd-460d-81d5-a25372d2e3d7&istItemId=mlmrxilaq&istBid=tztx

Or this one Toshiba:
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/4246626.htm?CMPID=GS001#pdpFullProductInformation

Or Acer:
https://az-europe.eu/en/acer-aspire-es-17-es1-731-p6tb-intel-n3700-2-40-ghz-4gb-500gb-17-3-wxga-glossy-integ-graf-dvdrw-p1142379/e

Or Lenovo:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lenovo-G70-70-Pentium-Dual-Core-4GB-1TB-8GB-SSD-17-3-inch-Windows-8-80HW005UUK-/131603445071?_trksid=p2141725.m3641.l6368

Or this one with Intel HD Graphics 5500:
http://store.hp.com/UKStore/Merch/Product.aspx?id=N9S11EA&opt=ABU&sel=NTB&jumpID=ps_xeuz482n9f/sf:_sku:N9S11EA

 

[hang-the-9]

There is no way you can buy a 17" laptop that will run Witcher 3 in your budget, even on low. You need to about double it to start on those types of games on lower settings. If you are OK with used, look for a used laptop with a 860m/960m video card in your area, those should be about your budget but likely will have a 15" or so screen.

How about this one?
http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing/laptops/laptops/hp-17-p150na-17-3-laptop-black-10138203-pdt.html?srcid=198&cmpid=ppc~gg&istCompanyId=bec25c7e-cbcd-460d-81d5-a25372d2e3d7&istItemId=mlmrxilaq&istBid=tztx

Or this one Toshiba:
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/4246626.htm?CMPID=GS001#pdpFullProductInformation

Or Acer:
https://az-europe.eu/en/acer-aspire-es-17-es1-731-p6tb-intel-n3700-2-40-ghz-4gb-500gb-17-3-wxga-glossy-integ-graf-dvdrw-p1142379/e

Or Lenovo:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lenovo-G70-70-Pentium-Dual-Core-4GB-1TB-8GB-SSD-17-3-inch-Windows-8-80HW005UUK-/131603445071?_trksid=p2141725.m3641.l6368

Or this one with Intel HD Graphics 5500:
http://store.hp.com/UKStore/Merch/Product.aspx?id=N9S11EA&opt=ABU&sel=NTB&jumpID=ps_xeuz482n9f/sf:_sku:N9S11EA

I don't even have to open the links to know they won't handle new games, no laptop in the $400 range new price will run newer games at workable frame rates without a lot of modification. Either a mod for the game to lower quality past normal Low, or lowering resolution to 800x600 and running on Low. Even then there may be issues.

If you want to play Witcher 3 on a laptop, look for one with a 860m/960m video card. If you are OK with lowering graphics to lowest and possibly dropping resolution, an 840m/940m may do. An A8 chip won't cut it, A10 "maybe" but Witcher 3 wants a decent CPU so the A10 will have some slow downs and bumpy frame rates.

If you buy a new $400 laptop for games, you would have basically thrown away $400. $600 may do it with a sale item or a lower end brand like Acer. $800 is where you are getting to the range of laptops that can run games without annoying you with having to run at low and on lower resolution and with lag. That's about where the decent systems with a 960m video chip start.

 

[noldolante]

There is no way you can buy a 17" laptop that will run Witcher 3 in your budget, even on low. You need to about double it to start on those types of games on lower settings. If you are OK with used, look for a used laptop with a 860m/960m video card in your area, those should be about your budget but likely will have a 15" or so screen.

How about this one?
http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing/laptops/laptops/hp-17-p150na-17-3-laptop-black-10138203-pdt.html?srcid=198&cmpid=ppc~gg&istCompanyId=bec25c7e-cbcd-460d-81d5-a25372d2e3d7&istItemId=mlmrxilaq&istBid=tztx

Or this one Toshiba:
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/4246626.htm?CMPID=GS001#pdpFullProductInformation

Or Acer:
https://az-europe.eu/en/acer-aspire-es-17-es1-731-p6tb-intel-n3700-2-40-ghz-4gb-500gb-17-3-wxga-glossy-integ-graf-dvdrw-p1142379/e

Or Lenovo:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lenovo-G70-70-Pentium-Dual-Core-4GB-1TB-8GB-SSD-17-3-inch-Windows-8-80HW005UUK-/131603445071?_trksid=p2141725.m3641.l6368

Or this one with Intel HD Graphics 5500:
http://store.hp.com/UKStore/Merch/Product.aspx?id=N9S11EA&opt=ABU&sel=NTB&jumpID=ps_xeuz482n9f/sf:_sku:N9S11EA

I don't even have to open the links to know they won't handle new games, no laptop in the $400 range new price will run newer games at workable frame rates without a lot of modification. Either a mod for the game to lower quality past normal Low, or lowering resolution to 800x600 and running on Low. Even then there may be issues.

If you want to play Witcher 3 on a laptop, look for one with a 860m/960m video card. If you are OK with lowering graphics to lowest and possibly dropping resolution, an 840m/940m may do. An A8 chip won't cut it, A10 "maybe" but Witcher 3 wants a decent CPU so the A10 will have some slow downs and bumpy frame rates.

If you buy a new $400 laptop for games, you would have basically thrown away $400. $600 may do it with a sale item or a lower end brand like Acer. $800 is where you are getting to the range of laptops that can run games without annoying you with having to run at low and on lower resolution and with lag. That's about where the decent systems with a 960m video chip start.

I have no idea what 860m/960m is. I have no idea where they stand. When I open stuff like graph card charts my brain switches off. I have no idea what is a10 cup. This is all Chinese for me. And once again, I said if witcher 3 is not gonna work, I'll be ok with witcher 2 and bioshock infinite. I have been told one trillion times that my current laptop won't handle Tetris, but it handled warrior within and many other surprising things including premier pro, so are u really deeply realistic or just llike others like to say the most convenient things?

The most practical and realistic thing I can do in this case is just to show these links of laptops available to me and ask for your opinion about video cards, because Radeon r5 says less to me then трехмерный галлографический гиперхроматром to u.

 

[hang-the-9]

I don't even have to open the links to know they won't handle new games, no laptop in the $400 range new price will run newer games at workable frame rates without a lot of modification. Either a mod for the game to lower quality past normal Low, or lowering resolution to 800x600 and running on Low. Even then there may be issues.

If you want to play Witcher 3 on a laptop, look for one with a 860m/960m video card. If you are OK with lowering graphics to lowest and possibly dropping resolution, an 840m/940m may do. An A8 chip won't cut it, A10 "maybe" but Witcher 3 wants a decent CPU so the A10 will have some slow downs and bumpy frame rates.

If you buy a new $400 laptop for games, you would have basically thrown away $400. $600 may do it with a sale item or a lower end brand like Acer. $800 is where you are getting to the range of laptops that can run games without annoying you with having to run at low and on lower resolution and with lag. That's about where the decent systems with a 960m video chip start.

I have no idea what 860m/960m is. I have no idea where they stand. When I open stuff like graph card charts my brain switches off. I have no idea what is a10 cup. This is all Chinese for me. And once again, I said if witcher 3 is not gonna work, I'll be ok with witcher 2 and bioshock infinite. I have been told one trillion times that my current laptop won't handle Tetris, but it handled warrior within and many other surprising things including premier pro, so are u really deeply realistic or just llike others like to say the most convenient things?

The most practical and realistic thing I can do in this case is just to show these links of laptops available to me and ask for your opinion about video cards, because Radeon r5 says less to me then трехмерный галлографический гиперхроматром to u.

Actually, I was born in Lithuania so I have no issues reading Russian LOL. If you are looking for a laptop, need to learn about what they are if you want to get the right one, if you don't know what a video card model is it's very easy to look it up, notebookcheck has some decent reviews of laptops and info on the video cards, a web search will probably lead you there. You can also look up reviews and system requirements for Witcher 2 or any game and see how the laptop video card and CPU can run it. If all you want is to see the game run and don't care about quality or how smooth it runs, the two A8 based laptops you linked would be faster than the ones with the Intel CPUs and don't think you will find anything better in the price.

If you look at my profile, I have about 1,000 "best answer" selections in video cards and laptops, so yes, I know what I am talking about.

 

[noldolante]

I don't even have to open the links to know they won't handle new games, no laptop in the $400 range new price will run newer games at workable frame rates without a lot of modification. Either a mod for the game to lower quality past normal Low, or lowering resolution to 800x600 and running on Low. Even then there may be issues.

If you want to play Witcher 3 on a laptop, look for one with a 860m/960m video card. If you are OK with lowering graphics to lowest and possibly dropping resolution, an 840m/940m may do. An A8 chip won't cut it, A10 "maybe" but Witcher 3 wants a decent CPU so the A10 will have some slow downs and bumpy frame rates.

If you buy a new $400 laptop for games, you would have basically thrown away $400. $600 may do it with a sale item or a lower end brand like Acer. $800 is where you are getting to the range of laptops that can run games without annoying you with having to run at low and on lower resolution and with lag. That's about where the decent systems with a 960m video chip start.

I have no idea what 860m/960m is. I have no idea where they stand. When I open stuff like graph card charts my brain switches off. I have no idea what is a10 cup. This is all Chinese for me. And once again, I said if witcher 3 is not gonna work, I'll be ok with witcher 2 and bioshock infinite. I have been told one trillion times that my current laptop won't handle Tetris, but it handled warrior within and many other surprising things including premier pro, so are u really deeply realistic or just llike others like to say the most convenient things?

The most practical and realistic thing I can do in this case is just to show these links of laptops available to me and ask for your opinion about video cards, because Radeon r5 says less to me then трехмерный галлографический гиперхроматром to u.

Actually, I was born in Lithuania so I have no issues reading Russian LOL. If you are looking for a laptop, need to learn about what they are if you want to get the right one, if you don't know what a video card model is it's very easy to look it up, notebookcheck has some decent reviews of laptops and info on the video cards, a web search will probably lead you there. You can also look up reviews and system requirements for Witcher 2 or any game and see how the laptop video card and CPU can run it. If all you want is to see the game run and don't care about quality or how smooth it runs, the two A8 based laptops you linked would be faster than the ones with the Intel CPUs and don't think you will find anything better in the price.

If you look at my profile, I have about 1,000 "best answer" selections in video cards and laptops, so yes, I know what I am talking about.

 

[noldolante]

One thing is to be able to read and the other is to understand what it is. I also can read Radeon R5. Anyway, 1000 best answers or not, I bought this one: http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Search/searchTerm/Toshiba+C70D-C-121+Satellite+17.3+Inch+8GB+1TB+Laptop.htm and Bioshock Infinite and The Witcher 2 works fine on medium (with the witcher on lowest resolution which is still quite nice). The Witcher 3 seems to be working on the very lowest -_- no matter what the producers say (and they always over exaggerate to make people buy more expensive shet) . Haven`t tried yet playing all the game, only the very beginning and fps is fine. Playable. Of course I very appreciate your wish to help, especially since it`s for free and you don`t get anything from it, but still I almost listened to you, and this advice could have cost me 400 more pounds..

 

[hang-the-9]

From my point of view you wasted 400 on a laptop that barely will play the games you want, from your point of view you saved 400 by not getting a faster system LOL There are way too many people that come on here asking how they can replace the video card or CPU in their laptops because it's too slow, I was trying to keep you from the same fate in the future.

 

[noldolante]

From my point of view you wasted 400 on a laptop that barely will play the games you want, from your point of view you saved 400 by not getting a faster system LOL There are way too many people that come on here asking how they can replace the video card or CPU in their laptops because it's too slow, I was trying to keep you from the same fate in the future.

Did u even read my initial topic? I said: Would be really nice to play The Witcher 3, even on the lowest graphs and resolution possible, Bioshock Infinite and Witcher 2 on Medium or Low (have no idea how big is difference between prices, but budget is pretty important, could sacrifice with a bit of graph quality)

And: 10. How long do you want to keep your laptop?
dunno, but i don`t thhink it matters a lot. I will be fine with the one which can handle what I described for a while.
And: 14. Please tell us any additional information if needed.
Budget is important. Wasn`t planning to buy new laptop tbh, my old one is with me already for 6 years, almost like a family member. Simply it begun to malfunction, and it seems I`ll just have to buy a new one. So if I do buy a new one, let it be the one which can handle some better games and do some better performance with editing.

What's not clear about it? My laptop died. I didn't want to buy new one, but I had to. I don't want to go over 400 pounds. I don't care about future needs, I'm not planning to play witcher 4 and 5. I'd be happy if it would handle witcher 3 at least somehow. If not - I'd be happy if it would manage witcher 2 and bio shock at least somehow. Dammit man.... -_-