I don't think I've seen a 19 inch one...who would want such a thing though? Might as well go for a desktop.
I'm probably gonna install Spec Ops: The Line on my desktop (along with the two you posted above if I win)...as my laptop is having quite a number of issues...still trying to optimise it for Dota 2 at the moment.
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19 inch isnt that bad. I had one until it died and I loved it. It was a glorious beast that roared in terror every time it started to load a game that required a lot of power to run. It burned my legs like fuck it got so hot... I wonder why it died.
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Well when you can buy a desktop with an i7 and a gt 550m with 8g of ram for $400 let me know. (I know it's a laptop card, but imagine it as something with equal performance in a desktop.) Oh yeah, I can play games for that low price wherver the heck I want. You can't do that so easily with a desktop.
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You can easily get a Thinkpad on the cheap. This Dell M4500 with an i7 920xm, 8GB of RAM, Nvidia Quadro 1800M and 1080p screen set me back £370 a year ago. The mini-SSD, space for two additional hard-drives, two expresscard slots and magnesium body are pretty ace. Even now, building a similar desktop would be pretty tough.
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I have one that's close - a five year old 18.4 inch laptop.
Core 2 Duo 2.2GHz, Nvidia 240m, 4gb RAM.
In order to play BF3 I literally have to open task manager, close everything (explorer, origin, themes, security center, firewall, antivirus), set BF3's priority to Real-time, and play at 640x480.
Still fun though.
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Im not gonna hate like half these other...haters. I couldve found you something cheap that is phenomenal like I just did, but regardless of how good the laptop is, or how much it cost, Im happy you can play games. I was in the same boat months ago with an intel hd. It feels great to be able to do something, and Im sure you feel the same. Oh, and go laptops!
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Thanks alot for the offer! I got the laptop for $400, which I think is pretty cheap. My situation requires a lot of moving around for school, thus the portability of a laptop. Of course its not as strong, but you buy things based on your needs, gaming is sort of an afterthought. I'm glad I could talk to someone who has been in a similar situation, its rough gaming on a laptop, not only performance-wise, but some look down on you as well
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Yeah, you'll get a lot of hate, but it doesn't matter. Even on my intel hd I could play bioshock infinite and some other great games, and as long as I can play what I want to and I get a good deal, Im happy no matter what they say. Also, Im like you, i love the convenience of a laptop. I don't get why people hate on them if I can play the same games they can, but whatever.
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AMD Radeon HD 8650G is pretty good for integrated graphics and performs almost as good as my 5 year old Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 with a nVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT
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Laptops up to 18.4" are popular, anything beyond is harder to get. However, you can get laptops up to 22" (that's the largest I heard of), but the price might not justify the purchase. They are made for specialists who need both a laptop and a large screen or high resolution.
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I saw a laptop that I think was 21 inches at the shops once, it was a MONSTER. I have no idea why anyone would want a laptop so huge when desktops generally give you more bang for your buck and a laptop of that size would be so heavy it sort of defeats the purpose of being a laptop (portability).
If you don't like win8 you could always downgrade to 7. Your laptop sounds nice, though. I had a Pavilion once, but this is going back 5-odd years and it was a 13-inch fairly low end 'multimedia laptop' so hardly comparable. I liked it though, it had nice form factor and did everything I wanted it to, until it became outdated of course.
I have a 2011 MBP now which yeah, definitely doesn't run the latest AAA titles, but I usually opt to buy those on xbox. My laptop plays most things at an acceptable framerate, but Deus Ex: HR, Alice: Madness Returns and Tomb Raider definitely don't play nice. There are probably more things in my library it won't play but I havent tried yet. I play a lot of Sims, and my Sims 2 game takes about 10-15 mins to load purely because of the massive amount of mods I put in it. I hope one day to own some crazy supercomputer that'll run TS2 and TS3 + all the extras I could ever want without lag, haha.
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Yeah, but the bigger the heavier, and toting around a heavy laptop all day is definitely not desirable. Any laptop I've bought, size/weight has been a factor because I knew I'd be carrying it around all day.
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$400 canadian dollars, but it was on sale for almost 50% off, and they sold out within a day. You need to do your research, but if you don't mind compromising, you can get one that plays decently, but be prepared to change the settings on many games
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You probably know it, but it doesn't hurt to mention: Look at graphic cards first, they are most often bottleneck for games in laptops. Laptops with decent GPUs like Nvidia 660GT are not expensive if you compromise the rest of the specs (i3 will be enough anyway, it's not like many games support more than 2 cores, and most i5s in laptops have just 2 cores as well, unlike their desktop counterparts). You also don't need more than 4 GB of RAM, but investing in 8 GB is wise, it's cheap enough and in the not-so-far-away future might be useful. Don't look at laptops below 15", their specs are too low for the price asked (even 14"). You should be able to get a good gaming laptop for about 500€.
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I just bought a brand new laptop especially for gaming on the go/college shit, I don't think there's anything in my library that I am hoarding, it can handle everything up to Far Cry 3 on Ultra =] (and nope it's not 19" =P )
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That processor is pretty bad :/
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html
Not saying you got ripped off or anything, the laptop is worth 400$ right now and the 50% off sale was just a big hoax to get people to buy a 400$ laptop, thinking they would get 800$ performance. Well, no, you just bought a 400$ laptop that is worth 400$. You can get a laptop with i7 Quad Core for 800$...
Also, I just checked your old i5-2410M vs the new A10-5750M and there's barely any difference in PassMark. I guess the GPU and Ram is better though.
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Well all things considered laptops of today for todays prices are miles better than what they used to be.
The notion that gaming laptops aren't as good as desktops obviously still stands but no where near the "you can't game with a laptop" statements.
You might not play the latest games with max graphics but 1-4 year old games depending on the model are quite good. So if you don't expect a 100 FPS on every game laptops for gaming can be a reasonable purchase. You will be behind a desktop but your range of games is still big.
The ability to have a "bad desktop gaming computer" with you easily anywhere is quite amazing.
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I just finished transferring stuff as well as installing the programs I need onto it, just in time for school. It is a HP Pavilion with:
AMD Elite Quad-Core A10-5750M
AMD Radeon HD 8650G
8 GB RAM
An upgrade from a Sony Vaio CB with a i5-2410M and Intel HD 3000 inside, nice to finally be able to play games in DX 11, though not always with a smooth frame rate. Pretty excited to try out those games I previously couldn't play. While there are things that bug me, like the keyboard and windows 8, I'll just have to get used to them in time.
Well, seeing as I was looking for an excuse to do so, here are some giveaways of games that my previous laptop had difficulties running, nothing special, but fun nonetheless (Note, $30 contributor required)
Really rough on my computer, had to play on a small resolution
Couldn't play this one, barely capable of running anything using DX 10
So it would be awesome if you guys gave me your opinions on the switch, or a list of games that you're hoarding but can't play due to computer limitations. On a random side note, has anybody seen a 19 inch laptop? I know they exist, but I've never seen one, sounds like a contradiction.
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