Laptops that are not expensive / capable of running high end games?

If you can wait a month....do it. Black Friday deals.

 

1) A bottom of the line laptop will have a low end AMD processor or a celeron processor (that is what it has been the last couple years). They are made with cheap parts and bare minimum specs. But again, if you only want to surf the web and write some papers in Office, play flash games and watch netflix, this will work for you. Nothing wrong with it. Ive used them for years, but now I am at the point where I need a machine that is reliable and I don't want to wait a full minute for excel to load.

2)I know you're specifically mentioning one game, however you are mentioned lower end laptops running 'games'. There are graphic intensive games like flash and runescape, then more mid level like WoW, then games like BF3.

3) Price points are not important. Its about specs and quality. A $900 Levono is not the same as a $900 Asus. The Levono will give you better specs but at a lower quality. You very well can get a $700 Levono that might make Titanfall playable, but if its poorly made (eg: poor air circulation), you will literally burn up the laptop, or it will break or malfunction over time.

Back to those cheap BlackFriday laptops; My first one had very poor circulation. If I ran the computer under any load (all it took was something with flash), the keys would get extremely hot. After awhile, the underside started turning brown from the extreme heat. I didn't care because I paid $300 for it. I would be quite upset if it was a much more expensive computer.

 

Titanfall wont be the so called "graphical beast" people in this thread are claiming it will be ( Unlike Killzone Shadowfall and Ryse). Its a cross-gen game that looks more like a Call of Duty type game than BF3 as far as graphics go.

 

If I were in your situation I would wait a year until titan fall is release on the PS4 and use that $600 on other PS4 games.

 

Seriously, Titanfall looks like Call of Duty MW2...

This ain't even Crysis 1 level.

 

Why not start a thread titled "Gorgeous models who will have sex with schlubby guys who aren't millionaires?"

 

You do know Lenovo is IBM right? And that its prob the only brand I would touch other than apple for a laptop....... A Lenovo of the same price as an Asus will be poorly made? LOL If there is any Laptop this the OP could buy that could even come close to being a good deal it be a Lenovo....Yet you pretty much recommend him out of one? Wow, talk about the blind leading the blind.....

 

It's hard to get a cheap laptop that will do gaming justice if you want to get any where near high end graphic settings. As others have mentioned, you would get a lot more bang for your buck with a desktop, and it would be upgradeable in the future. But if you are set on going budget gaming laptop this article has some suggestions:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7242/choosing-a-gaming-laptop-backtoschool-2013-edition

As for the black friday sale idea, black friday items aren't all low spec items they are looking to dump, but the problem is they only have a very limited selection of the higher quality items they advertise, so you are looking at camping out over night to be near the front of the line just to have a chance there. Of course there are usually online black friday sales on amazon, newegg, ect, and another cyber monday sale on the following monday that you could check out too, but you are fighting with even more customers for their limited stock of the best items.

 

Lenovo is not exclusively IBM. Lenovo is a chinese company that bought IBM ... and if im not mistaken, they do not even use the IBM brand anymore. My point is if you're going to be running some serious games, whether on low settings or not, don't get a low quality build.

 

A laptop is a terrible terrible investment even under the best of circumstances.

You will be far far better off getting a desktop which you can upgrade over time.

With a laptop you will spend more, usually twice as much as least for the same performance, and get far far less, with a much shorter lifespan and much less reliability.

 

Come on now, this is just ridiculous.

A land line headset is cheaper than a cell phone as well... I think you see where I'm going with this.

 

It depends. The budget door busters suck. but there are some higher end ones that go on sale.

 

Yeah, your ONLY advantage is portability. The question then is, is that portability worth twice the price and a much shorter lifespan, as well as lower performance?

My own personal answer has always been 'No'.

If I need portability,a cheap laptop is fine because the things I need to do PORTABLY do not need high-end specs. On the other hand, my high-end I-7 that is now over three years old is STILL blazing fast and fully capable of handling anything I throw at it, including high end games.

 

No, they are far more expensive, AND you don't have the ability to replace/upgrade individual components like you can on a desktop. For example, I can put a new video card in my desktop, which can improve the performance tremendously. You cannot do that on a laptop. If a power supply goes bad, I can pop a new one in there for $40. You cannot do that with a laptop. If my screen goes bad, I can but a new 23" 1080p monitor for as low as $99. You cannot do that on a laptop.

The list goes on.

Now I don't hate laptops, I have one myself but it is a cheap one and that was all I needed for when I HAD to have portability.

You just have to figure out what your number one priority is. If portability is your number one priority, then yes, you need a laptop. But if you don't NEED your primary computer to be portable, then you can better spend your money on a desktop.

The computer industry loves nothing more than people buying in to the silly notion that a portable should be used for your main computer, because it makes them a TON more profit, but it does not particularly benefit the customers.