I’d appreciate some assistance in finding a budget gaming laptop from a reliable source. I can pop into BestBuy (who enjoys that anyway!) or Canada Computers but are there alternatives? I’m look for something to play older games, like strategy games as wargames, but I’m not bothered about the latest games. I also want to do some development, likely using Eclipse+Java and also use docker-compose in VirtualBox. Maybe I’ll also mess around with Unity3 or the Unreal engine.
A reasonable spec is: 16 or 32Gb 512Gb+ SSD Decent discrete GFX card but not the latest Current or previous gen AMD or Intel 2+ USB 3 ports FHD monitor Nothing too heavy though I won’t be travelling Budget is probably $1100+tax
Is that reasonable? Thoughts and suggestions greatly appreciated.
I’m leaning towards a Lenovo Loq or Legion Slim 5 with an AMD chipset. I guess the Loq is the budget laptop and the Legion Slim 5 is the next step up. Is there a big difference in build quality between the two?
I think the Loq has the AMD 7840HS + RTX4050 and the Slim 5 has the AMD 7640HS + RTX4050, both have 16Gb of memory and 512Gb SSD (TLC). Realistically I don’t know if there’s a huge performance difference between the two.
So, tiny performance boost on the Loq vs the better build quality of the Slim.
Either pushes the budget by about C$200, so don’t tell the wife!! 😁