Shopping for Laptops

[baratron]

My Macbook Pro is officially no longer at the minimum spec for Elder Scrolls Online, so I need a new computer. Since Apple don't make laptops with sufficient graphics capabilities for gaming, I'm being forced back to a PC. I am not very happy about this and will be keeping my Mac for work purposes, most likely

Comments

[softfruit]

It sounds amazing. Though I'm a lousy judge as my laptops are more like £200 a pop.

250G when you used 240G with work stuff though: how big is the work side of things? Can you like right-click on a work folder and see how much disc space it comes to? It would make me nervous but then I store stupid amounts of old nonsense.

I'm not good on how much of games is held locally and how much online these days, and I'm guessing the win 7 to win 10 upgrade won't involve too much bloat from the OS.

[lovingboth]

Yep, that's 10x what I'd spend on one :)

If I had to have a laptop to play games on, I would definitely be looking at ones with an AMD APU. I have one in the desktop (and in JA's desktop) and I am amazed at what they'll for so little money.

For number crunching, they're slower than Intel, but in (my) real life, I can't notice the difference: they're all 'fast'. Graphics wise, though, they're the equivalent of an Intel and a good video card. On a single chip.

Translation

[lovingboth]

'Gaming' = 'expensive'.

'Extreme gaming' = 'very expensive'.