Buying a laptop

smash822 · June 23rd, 2009, 05:47 PM

Hey, i am buying an laptop for school and would like it to play games like bf2 and cod4, i found a pretty good priced and im trying to stay below 650ish and if i have to buy a refurbished one thats fine with me, but this is the one i have in mind, HP Pavilion dv7-1245dx. can anyone tell me if that will meet the standards of bf2 and cod4. Thanx.

EXreaction · June 23rd, 2009, 06:31 PM

That laptop is not going to do any gaming at all.

You simply are not going to find a gaming laptop at under $650. $200 more and you can get a lower end gaming laptop.

smash822 · June 23rd, 2009, 07:22 PM

so is there any gaming laptops you would recommend that range somewhere around 700, the highest i can go is probably 800 tho, its going to be part of my birthday present so whne i go to school i have a laptop and my mother is only going to spend about 400 at most ad i gotta pay the rest and i dopnt have alot of money.

smash822 · June 23rd, 2009, 08:11 PM

ok so i found this laptop on tigerdirect. and sorry for all the inconvienence, i dont know very muc about laptop. so how is this one ASUS G50VM-X1 its refurbished at the price of 769 us.

EXreaction · June 23rd, 2009, 08:38 PM

That would play most games decently.

I'd be leery of a used laptop though, it likely has poor battery life unless that was replaced when they refurbished it. Expect to be required to have it plugged in for >2 hour use or >30 minutes of gaming.

sunnets · July 9th, 2009, 08:32 PM

I have a sugestion for you, you can just check different websites which selling different kind of laptops for special purposes. For example as I know for Games Memory and Graphic Cards are pretty important.
There are lots of websites out there if you want to try them out, some of them are NewEgg.com, fry's.com and techtobuy.com
I hope it could help

RandomNameHere · July 9th, 2009, 10:32 PM

I'd recommend just getting a cheap dual core laptop with good battery life for school.

You'll notice with laptops that are designed for the gamer that they are bulky, have HORRIBLE battery life and are hot and loud. I speak from experience I've got an Asus gaming laptop that I bought for "school" like two years ago.

It was just waaaay too inconvenient to carry around and the battery could only last about one class.

Thats why now I've got one of those netbooks for school $400, lightweight and 10 hours of battery life.

Just safe until you can get a gaming desktop.

ihaveacrappydell · July 10th, 2009, 03:02 AM

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Originally Posted by RandomNameHere

I'd recommend just getting a cheap dual core laptop with good battery life for school.

You'll notice with laptops that are designed for the gamer that they are bulky, have HORRIBLE battery life and are hot and loud. I speak from experience I've got an Asus gaming laptop that I bought for "school" like two years ago.

It was just waaaay too inconvenient to carry around and the battery could only last about one class.

Thats why now I've got one of those netbooks for school $400, lightweight and 10 hours of battery life.

Just safe until you can get a gaming desktop.

Yeah, TBH gaming laptops are rubbish. Like what Randomnamehere said, they are heavy, bulky, and overheat easily. And not to mention, incredibly expensive. I made that mistake, and brought a Dell Inspiron 1720. Its not a full gaming laptop, but I decked it out to have all the best parts. Its crap, it is heavy, big, bulky, the battery sticks out at the back, its also really hot, and I spent way to much money on it. Really your better off getting a $400 standard laptop that is lightweight and easy to move around for school, and then save up and buy yourself a desktop that will be able to play cod4, bf2 and much more for less than you want to spend for your gaming laptop.