Laptop for playing Minecraft anyone?

mwddrwg

'Morning all,

Friend of mine is looking for a laptop which can play Minecraft online smoothly. I've tried Minecraft on my laptop (4GB RAM, shared graphics, Intel i3) but it always seems to not be as smooth as on my PC which has a dedicated graphics card. Almost unplayable on the laptop really.

So, which laptop spec would you recommend for Minecraft and is a dedicated GPU essential?

Many thanks all

Cisco001

What is your budget?

althas

Basics - as much RAM as possible so you can allocate this in minecraft itself. And I found thats a dedicated GPU made it better. My laptop could not cope with it really either and that had a shared GPU

mwddrwg

Cisco001 wrote: »

What is your budget?

Budget is no more than £300 I gather. I suspected that a seperate GPU would be required for the best experience on a lappy. Thanks for your advice.

Cisco001

mwddrwg wrote: »

Budget is no more than £300 I gather. I suspected that a seperate GPU would be required for the best experience on a lappy. Thanks for your advice.

I don't think there is one with dedicated GPU within your budget. Good luck with your search.

Bollotom

I have a Toshiba Satellite with 8 Gb which seems to handle Minecraft quite well. I haven't noticed any slowing, lag or corrupt graphics. On the other hand I've only tinkered with it. :cool:

neilwoods

best to double that figure to £600, to just play minecraft

grumpycrab

See this thread http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/asus-x552cl-sx037h-laptop-i3-6gb-ram-save-laptops-299-97-free-delivery-weekend-deal-2032962

However, I don't know much about the referred to dedicated graphics GT 710M