Which laptop is better for gaming.
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Thu Sep 05, 2013 10:55 pmby kikass1997
What one of the following laptops is better.
Acer Aspire M3 581TG
4gb DDR3 Laptop Ram
1366x768 Screen
Nvidia GeForce GT 640M 1GB
intel i5 3317k Processor
500 GB Hard Drive
Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
Windows 8 Pro 64bit
Dolby Home Theatre Sound
or
Dell Inspiron 1564
4GB DDR3 Laptop ram
Intel i3 330M
320 GB Hard Drive
Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
ATI Radeon HD 4300
Realtek Sound
please no flame wars about how laptop gaming sucks.
Re: Which laptop is better for gaming.
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Fri Sep 06, 2013 1:31 pmby Daffyflyer
Out of those two, the Acer, the GT640m is at least twice as fast, if not more, than the AMD 4330, plus the i5 CPU in the Acer is going to be a lot better too. I'd find the low resolution of the Acer screen annoying personally, but that's up to you (it's also quite hard to find laptops with good high res screens, we went for a Dell Inspiron 17R with a 1920 x 1080 screen and and a GT650M, it's a great gaming laptop and was <$1000, but it's big and heavy and has crap battery life)
Re: Which laptop is better for gaming.
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Fri Sep 06, 2013 3:07 pmby kikass1997
Daffyflyer wrote:Out of those two, the Acer, the GT640m is at least twice as fast, if not more, than the AMD 4330, plus the i5 CPU in the Acer is going to be a lot better too. I'd find the low resolution of the Acer screen annoying personally, but that's up to you (it's also quite hard to find laptops with good high res screens, we went for a Dell Inspiron 17R with a 1920 x 1080 screen and and a GT650M, it's a great gaming laptop and was <$1000, but it's big and heavy and has crap battery life)
The acer cost me about $1600 plus shipping because it was hard to find in Adelaide. thanks for the advice.
Re: Which laptop is better for gaming.
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Tue Sep 10, 2013 9:20 pmby xABSOLUTIONx
go Dell XPS, the same thing as Alienware just without the bells and whistles
Re: Which laptop is better for gaming.
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Mon Nov 04, 2013 10:55 pmby boyercam
Are you actually seriously thinking of playing automation on a laptop? I have a relatively good desktop computer and it struggles sometimes
Re: Which laptop is better for gaming.
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Tue Nov 05, 2013 3:08 amby deanwells1234
boyercam wrote:Are you actually seriously thinking of playing automation on a laptop? I have a relatively good desktop computer and it struggles sometimes
Inno why people are having troubles. I run automation on Medium graphics and medium aspiration on my 4 year old Intel i3 laptop. I have no dedicated video card and only 4 GB of Ram
Re: Which laptop is better for gaming.
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Tue Nov 05, 2013 12:46 pmby adamd
boyercam wrote:Are you actually seriously thinking of playing automation on a laptop? I have a relatively good desktop computer and it struggles sometimes
There are plenty of laptops around that give good gaming performance. If you look in the minimum requirements thread I posted specs of my laptop, which was a budget machine in it's day, which was years ago. It manages fine with the game, you just gotta be prepared to lower your settings and expectations a little at the lower end. As deanwells mentions, some of the integrated graphics now are managing to do pretty well, a far cry from the venerable Intel GMA 950.