Opinions on a Cheap Gaming Laptop

[KypriAnansi]

Hello everyone, I would very much love someone to give me their opinion on good, reliable, gaming laptops that don't cost a lot of money. I just want a laptop so that I can play Aika Online, The Sims, and Minecraft. Those are going to be the main games I would be using it for. I would very much like some suggestions and please try to help me keep it under 700 dollars.

 

[Traciatim]

There is no such thing a a cheap gaming laptop. If you don't care about the settings of the game though, look at some of the AMD APU's like the A8's and A10's.

 

[ArtificialApple]

Long story short, you won't be finding a ''gaming'' laptop in that price range. Decent laptops with that label can cost at least $1000, and even then the components are built to save power (i.e. run off of a battery) so they won't be up to desktop specs. I'm sure there is a laptop in your range that can run these games, just don't expect maxed out settings on every game on the face of the planet.

 

[Tom Tancredi]

A Gaming Desktop PC normally starts at $700 from scratch, to play at 45FPS or better, 1080p (1920x1080) display, and High settings on any games.
A laptop can't eat the battery in 15 minutes, can't weigh 12 lbs or more, is in a very small confining case (the laptop design) and shouldn't BURN you when you touch it. Thus it costs 2X the desktop price to modify and make all the parts fit these demands, so normally $1200 or MORE is the price range. Now all the $249-$1000 laptops you see out there are generic ones with no dedicated video card normally, for the other 90% other people needing a laptop to just 'get online' or 'do some school work on". Cheaper on those models (like the APU suggested) means MUCH LOWER PERFORMANCE, because they are expecting you to do nothing more then Farmville, Youtube, and read websites.

SIMS is VERY HIGH DEMANDING game, so your talking , as mentioned, well over $1200 for a system capable of it. Ph and that $1200 lasts only 3 years before your laptop shows 'lag' as compared to now, then by year 5 you need to replace the whole thing because it can't play any current or recent titles.

If this is all sounding not good, then stick to consoles (10 years and still strong Xbox360 and PS3 now only $149 and plays current titles!)

 

[bacontoad]

OK, Given the amount of money you want to spend and the games you will be playing here are my recommendations:

- Lenovo Y410p, $789
- HP Envy 15t-j100, $729
- MSI GP90, $849.99

I know that none of these are under $700, but these are laptops under $900 that would give you some decent gaming. You can't really get a good gaming laptop this cheap. But I understand your budget.
I think the best bang for your buck you would find in this case is the $650 Lenovo G510, the one with the i7. It's cheap, and has power. Personally, I play Minecraft fine on my Asus T100, a tablet/laptop hybrid that was only $350 (Sale price, normally $400 i think).