So I'm poor and in college. And I want to get a decent gaming rig, but I need a laptop cause I'm never in one spot to use a desktop. So here's one that I can afford, does anybody have any idea if it's great or horrible?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834215404

I've done a little research, and I think it's good enough for me. I don't need to stream while I play, or run 1000 things at the same time, or run the newest games at max settings. I just want to run tf2 at a good fps, and be able to play some other games at decent settings.

Yo man I've been playing on an Acer Aspire for the past year. The graphics card on the one you linked is better than the one I have in my acer. I run Diablo 3 at almost max settings. And for tf2 I get like 150 fps with maxframes. If you're ballin on a budget then it's a good buy

Cool, good to know. I'm also considering buying a refurbished one so that I can get a GTX card for ~850. Does anyone have some advice for buying a refurbished comp?

Anything besides Compaq is good.

get a student discout on a macbook pro and get applecare.

u wont have to worry about anything as far as repairs and itll run every game out right now on high with steady fps

dual boot mac and windows, or triple boot with linux if you need it too and its the ultimate laptop.

anyone who says macs arent worth it clearly never had one. ive had mine since senior yr of high school and i just graduated college and it still runs beautifully with 0 $ put in due to warranty

flame wrote:

get a student discout on a macbook pro and get applecare.

u wont have to worry about anything as far as repairs and itll run every game out right now on high with steady fps

dual boot mac and windows, or triple boot with linux if you need it too and its the ultimate laptop.

anyone who says macs arent worth it clearly never had one. ive had mine since senior yr of high school and i just graduated college and it still runs beautifully with 0 $ put in due to warranty

In the interest of not starting a war, I'll only say that an apple product for a poor college student probably isn't the greatest recommendation.

I own a macbook pro from mid-2010.

It can run most games on mid (except tf2/skyrim) with decent fps but you can expect extremely high gaming temperatures (85 - 90 degrees celsius with both fans near 6000 rpm). Honestly, the poor cooling on macs should be enough to deter somebody from buying them.

Most programs that I've used for school (R, Matlab, emacs) run much better on windows than on mac os. Theres nothing apart from the OS and supposed "high-quality" build of macs that set it apart from any other
computers, and the cost of a macbook really doesn't justify those features.

I'd recommend acer as well.

I have a macbook pro from 2009 right now, got it as a graduation gift from the folks. The problem is my hard drive is dying (for the third time) and the applecare warranty just ran out. It runs tf2 at ~40fps constantly with a bare-bones config, and can run skyrim sorta at low settings.

As much as I like my mac, I'm gonna need a new comp soon, and I'd like it to be able to run games well and for less than a mac.

As for refurbished comps, does anyone have any advice? Like a particularly good website (or bad one to avoid)? I've been seeing quite a few on newegg, amazon, and ebay. At the moment I've been seeing a lot of Asus laptops w/ a GTX card going for ~800-1000, refurbished. That's a little bit higher than I wanted to pay, but I think I'm willing to spend that since it'd be a solid comp. Unless anyone has something bad to say about refurbished laptops...