Laptop for Minecraft? This one?

chaddythebear

Will this laptop be ok to play Minecraft on?

It is £280 which is probably more than I would have like to spend, but it is second time lucky, as it is unplayable on a netbook I recently bought (And since sold)

Thanks in advance

Johnmcl7

You haven't linked to the laptop specification or detailed it - we clearly need that before we can comment.

John

4Fingus

You need to look at the benchmarks for the graphics card really. Minecraft is not too intensive but with a budget of £280 I doubt you'll get anything that has good performance. This is especially the case if you are thinking of joiing internet servers.

This site will help http://www.notebookcheck.net/Computer-Games-on-Laptop-Graphic-Cards.13849.0.html

CoreDefect

Price range depends on if you are looking to buy brand new. If so, £280 will be pushing it for decent specifications.

My last laptop cost me £150 from eBay. Was a refurbed model but had very good specs for the price. It ran Minecraft quite well, with just the odd drop in FPS.

Just thought i'd mention that you don't need to spend a fortune to have a playable game of the good ol' MC.

chaddythebear

Sorry, link never appeared in first post

Please search for this

TOSHIBA C850D-100 Dual Core 8GB 320GB 15.6" HDMI USB 3.0 DVD W7


It is for my son for school stuff, and Minecraft obsession, my own laptop is much worst spec than this and would say works to a degree, bit laggy I suppose, would just value some advice from people that
know more about it.

Not bother tbh if laptop is new or other, as long as there is some kind of warranty, preferably 12 months

cheers

GunJack

if that spec won't play minecraft, I'll eat my shorts.... the one I refurbed for Mini-Gun #2 is a lesser spec than that and it plays minecraft just fine.....you should be able to go easily below £150 for a refurb or around £200-£220 on argos ebay outlet if a 12-month warranty is important to you.

adonis

I don't know what operating system you will be using, but minecraft won't work on windows 8
link

Johnmcl7

adonis wrote: »

I don't know what operating system you will be using, but minecraft won't work on windows 8
link

It works fine in Windows 8, that link refers to Windows 8 certification for the app store - that means you won't be able to buy Minecraft through the Microsoft store which isn't really much of a loss.

John

Johnmcl7

chaddythebear wrote: »

Sorry, link never appeared in first post

Please search for this

TOSHIBA C850D-100 Dual Core 8GB 320GB 15.6" HDMI USB 3.0 DVD W7


It is for my son for school stuff, and Minecraft obsession, my own laptop is much worst spec than this and would say works to a degree, bit laggy I suppose, would just value some advice from people that
know more about it.

Not bother tbh if laptop is new or other, as long as there is some kind of warranty, preferably 12 months

cheers

According to the spec, that machine has an AMD E1-1200 processor which I wouldn't recommend for Minecraft as it's a processor aimed for low power use so its performance isn't great.

John

chaddythebear

Update,

Spent more than I had planned (£330), but managed after hours and hours of web browsing a pretty decent purchase:-


Product Features

Screen size (Inches) 15.6
Operating system Windows 8
RAM (Gigabytes) 6
Hard disk capacity (Gigabytes) 1
Processor brand Intel Core
Processor series i5-3210M
Number of USB ports 3
Weight (kg) 2.48
Graphics card brand Intel HD Graphics 4000
Type of hard drive SATA

chaddythebear

Johnmcl7 wrote: »

According to the spec, that machine has an AMD E1-1200 processor which I wouldn't recommend for Minecraft as it's a processor aimed for low power use so its performance isn't great.

John

Thanks, think what I finally got should be good?