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.

  • YurkshireLadOP
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    1 year ago

    Damn I just realized I need to check to see if the Slim 5 or Loq can support an extra internal SSD and another 16Gb of memory. I may want to install Linux onto a separate SSD, and then dual boot between the two.