Light gaming laptop

[12345690]

1. What is your budget? $400-$500

2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering? 14"-15"

3. What screen resolution do you want? I don't really mind about the res.

4. Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop? preferably portable

5. How much battery life do you need? Anything above 4 hrs is fine.

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)? Yes, WoW and World of Tanks mostly. Low is fine

7. What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop? (Photo/Video editing, Etc.) Web Surfing, E-mail mostly.

8. How much storage (Hard Drive capacity) do you need? Anything above 320GB is fine.

9. If you are considering specific sites to buy from, please post their links. None in mind.

10. How long do you want to keep your laptop? 2-3 years

11. What kind of Optical drive do you need? DVD ROM/Writer,Bluray ROM/Writer,Etc ? DVD ROM/Writer

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. No specific brands.

13. What country do you live in? USA

14. Please tell us any additional information if needed. I only plan to play mmo's and rpg's (World of tanks mainly). Maybe some fps, but I don't need an expensive gaming laptop. If it can run the game fine on low, then its good enough.

 

[Avro Arrow]

I'd definitely recommend an AMD A8-based laptop for that. You will want to avoid Intel graphics and at that price point, all Intel-based laptops will be using that gawd-awful Intel HD 3000 graphics processor at best. Believe me, if you're doing ANY gaming at all, you want to avoid Intel graphics at pretty much all costs.
Here's the tomshardware review of the AMD A8-3500M:
http/www.tomshardware.com/reviews/a8-3500m-llano-apu,2959.html
Here's an almost identical to mine (this one is a tad faster than mine) for $500:
http/www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834215258
This thing can even play Skyrim at medium settings, so you know everything else will be ok. Read the review, remember that the ones doing the review are generally more qualified than we lowly forum posters (which is why they do the reviews and we just post).

 

[Tibbs01]

^Good advice. I think this is a solid machine as well for your needs:

http/www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834246328

 

[12345690]

Wow thanks to both of you guys! Both of these fit my description exactly and even exceed my expectations. Now my only problem is choosing between those two...

 

[12345690]

Best answer selected by 12345690.

 

[Avro Arrow]

Thanks for the best answer! I saw the Lenovo offering as well. The A6 and A8 are essentially the same on the CPU side but the A8 has the superior GPU side. The fact that it's $50 less doesn't hurt either...lol