Looking for a decent laptop!

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  1. Venom

    Venom Jozzeh's Kouhai Retired Staff Member

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    Hello people,

    I am looking for a laptop for College, CS:GO and YouTube. I want to hear from the pro PC gaming community. What you would suggest for me with a budget of £400.
    Primarily going to be used for College/Movies/YouTube. Just to clarify, gaming would be an added bonus :)

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    Yoda Genuinely crazy Moderator

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    Got mine for 700€ = 490.66326 GBP and I cant play CSGO with more than 40 frames.
    IMO you should stay away from gaming laptops.
     
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    Hello my friend, for £500 these days you could get a laptop that could run CSGO easily. I had a gaming laptop which cost me £700 and it was better than some of the best gaming PCs.
     
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    U should customize a Laptop instead. Easier to pick
     
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    Buy iPad
     
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    Yoda Genuinely crazy Moderator

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    gets the job done, yea
     
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    looks good doesnt it.

    SHOULD DO THE TRICK
     

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    Lenovo W530 was the model i had. A real badass laptop.
    Not sure if they made a newer model though. I think i read about a W540 model somewhere.
     
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    Yoda Genuinely crazy Moderator

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    doesnt seem to be waterproof doe :c
     
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    Koga73 kill @all Member

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    It was coffee though ;) a bit more thick and sticky.
    And that was actually the fifth time that i've spilled something on it. The problem i think, was that i was streaming while it happened, so i wasn't smart enough to turn the laptop off.. Stupid move
     
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    Venom Jozzeh's Kouhai Retired Staff Member

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    5th time. How does one spill stuff so much? :)

    Also I already own an iPad but does not do the job well enough.

    Currently My TOP pick for a laptop
     
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    Koga73 kill @all Member

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    What a deal! :D
     
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    with that money you could buy a pretty good laptop, or a 1/3 of a Macbook
     
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    400 pounds is not enough for a laptop that you want to play games on on higher graphical settings or a laptop that you want to last for more than 2 years. i'd suggest saving up another 200-ish pounds.

    when looking for a gaming laptop, you would want something with at least a quad core (don't even bother with dual cores on laptops) and a graphics chip better than a 950m or 860m. don't bother with 7xx series or AMD, you'll get either bad performance or you'll boil your legs. i had an AMD laptop and the heat they give off can actually give you weird circles on your legs which isn't good.

    for around €900 you can get some pretty decent laptops here in the netherlands (although it's always WAY better to get a desktop if you have spare components lying around (monitor, mouse, keyboard and sound), you pay for those when you buy a laptop aswell), but if you want something good that you want to last 400 isn't going to quite cut it.
     
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    Venom Jozzeh's Kouhai Retired Staff Member

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    As I said this laptop would be used for College work/ Youtube/anime etc. The gaming part would just be an added bonus, I already have a good PC to run games off of :)
     
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