Is this laptop any good for gaming?

Yes and no, you can play most games on it at low settings. But do not expect Crysis 3 or Metro Last Light or that sort of thing to run on it.

It does not have a discreet card, which is necessary for any sort of decent gaming.
 
you wont be able to play gta well at all since it only has half a gig of vram.call of duty probably at medium settings, minecraft will probably run okay. its not really designed to be a gaming computer
 


It has no VRAM whatsoever. :pfff:
Its an APU and has video allocated RAM. Wish can be increased in size to up to 2.5GB in most cases if the BIOS is not locked on that feature.
 
i knew it was an apu, and from what i understood the one in that laptop has 512 megs. i didnt realize it wasnt called vram, i knew that it was taken from system memory. as for increasing the size of the allocated memory all of the branded laptops i have seen (dell hp and my own mac lol) i was unable to increase the size in bios. although i know that it just depends on the specific laptop
 


Good, keep in mind VRAM is A LOT different from the RAM used by an APU, VRAM implies better performance thanks to lower latency and higher bandwidth, so don't use it unless it on a discreet GPU.
 


oh thanks for setting me straight lol :)
 


No problem. 😛