Gaming laptop recommendations pls

ethansmum

I play alot of farmville , and now my family have decided that enough is enough they want the family PC back. We have a Dell which seems very reliable, I have a budget of about £400 (Although thats not set in stone, I will pay much more for the right lappie). I believe that farmville is graphics intensive so thats my main concern. Any suggestions would be gratefully received, thank you!

poppy10_2

Any modern laptop will be able to run farmville without breaking a sweat, it's really not that 'graphics intensive'. It even plays well on a netbook, which is very underpowered.

x.nukke.x

Hi ethansmum,

Yeh i definitely agree with poppy10! Farmville is not worth spending a lot more money on a good gaming laptop. Gaming laptops would be more for people playing something like World of Warcraft every day, and even normal laptops will run this perfectly fine.

As poppy10 mentioned, a normal laptop or a netbook would suit your needs perfectly.

JasX

Plus as a general rule 'gaming' and 'laptop' usually are best kept separate unless you

1. fancy spending £1000+ on a laptop
2. are also happy for said laptop to be obsolete for high end gaming within 18mths-2years with no possibility of upgrading

Fortunately farmville requires negligable graphics/processing power so you can go and look for a bog standard dell type laptop for a reasonable price (£350 - £600) that'll likely last you a good few years (ie 3.5 - 5 yrs +)

Hammyman

Farmville isn't graphics intensive. It'll run quite happily on an old Dell Latitude D610 and there's tons of those on Ebay. for around £120-£200 depending on the HDD and memory.

Fuzzy_Logic_2

ethansmum wrote: »

I play alot of farmville , and now my family have decided that enough is enough they want the family PC back. We have a Dell which seems very reliable, I have a budget of about £400 (Although thats not set in stone, I will pay much more for the right lappie). I believe that farmville is graphics intensive so thats my main concern. Any suggestions would be gratefully received, thank you!

You don't need a high end graphics hungry beast to play Farmville it is only a browser based game with no need for separate graphics card like a gaming PC should have.
Any newish laptop with integrated graphics should play this without any problems. You should be able to find something suitable for a lot less than the £400 budget that you have. Try Currys on Comet online and look at their refurbished ones, you can get some really good deals there. Good luck!

ethansmum

Excellent, thank you very much your posts have been very helpful. Thanks for taking the time to answer