Help with buying a laptop

[Rabbicats101]

My mom asked me to look into getting a laptop for my sister.  The price point we're looking for is around 600 and i'm not too educated on laptops so I was wondering if anyone knows what to look for and what to avoid when buying.  She wants a touch screen and she does play games like Minecraft and The Sims so it will need to be able to run those pretty well, but mostly it will be used for web browsing, word processing, and movie watching.  Any advice or product recommendations are greatly appreciated.  I'm in Canada too so it will need to be something I can order from within the country.

[BonBon Scott]

Is that Whoopi Goldberg?

[Rabbicats101]

Yes lol

[Johannes_Lazor]

A laptop with AMD and atleast 4gb RAM is usally pretty solid.
But intel also work but it wont perform as well in games.

Edited July 13, 2014 by Johannes_Lazor

[qwertywarrior]

Is that Whoopi Goldberg?

yeah

 

op please change the pic to something decent

[Katsu-K1L]

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834231687

Good lookin

6 gigs of ram enough for linus like browsing

[qwertywarrior]

a dual core haswell chip

or an AMD APU (midrange) will be good enough

[BonBon Scott]

yeah

 

op please change the pic to something decent

 

 

Oh looky here, a Whoopi Goldberg hater.

jk

[Johannes_Lazor]

a dual core haswell chip

or an AMD APU (midrange) will be good enough

AMD would be a better choice since she play a bit of minecraft.

I have both a AMD laptop(about 500 bucks) and a intel laptop(about 700 bucks) and the AMD laptop perform better than the intel in games.

[©D0n7H8M3™®]

how about a 500 pc with a 100 monitor straped to it?

[Rabbicats101]

how about a 500 pc with a 100 monitor straped to it?

 

She already has a computer. This is just for taking on trips and being able to do school work around the house and at school.  Stuff like that

[Johannes_Lazor]

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834231687

Good lookin

6 gigs of ram enough for linus like browsing

The Intel 4000 graphics is not that good in minecraft. i have a similar laptop from HP but with intel 4200 graphics and it barely get past 30 fps with minecraft turned down to lowest.

[Rabbicats101]

AMD would be a better choice since she play a bit of minecraft.

I have both a AMD laptop(about 500 bucks) and a intel laptop(about 700 bucks) and the AMD laptop perform better than the intel in games.

 

Yeah there are a million different laptop CPU's out there so I have no idea how any of them perform.  I usually just look for which has the highest number 

[©D0n7H8M3™®]

She already has a computer. This is just for taking on trips and being able to do school work around the house and at school.  Stuff like that

she could learn the responsability of caring for a computer if my house were burnin down the first thing i would grab is my 34kg computer 

[Johannes_Lazor]

Yeah there are a million different laptop CPU's out there so I have no idea how any of them perform.  I usually just look for which has the highest number  

 

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834317734

This seems good but it is slightly over the budget.

This will be able to play games such as minecraft and the sims without any problems.

Or this one, It should have similar performence but doesnt have a touch screen.
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834313719

Edited July 13, 2014 by Johannes_Lazor

[Rabbicats101]

 

 

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834317734

This seems good.

This will be able to play games such as minecraft and the sims without any problems.

 

 

Wow that's a great price for the spec.  I'll look into that one.  The second one looks good as well, but doesn't have a touchscreen which is one of the main things she wants.  

[qwertywarrior]

Wow that's a great price for the spec.  I'll look into that one.  The second one looks good as well, but doesn't have a touchscreen which is one of the main things she wants.  

if u missed his edit

buy this instead

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834313719

 

that APU has a much better GPU

[Johannes_Lazor]

if u missed his edit

buy this instead

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834313719

 

that APU has a much better GPU

Yes, But it doesnt have a touch screen.

One of the "requirements" was a touch screen.

[Rabbicats101]

Yes, But it doesnt have a touch screen.

One of the "requirements" was a touch screen.

 

How much better is the integrated GPU?  It might be worth seeing if there's a touchscreen laptop with that CPU.

[Johannes_Lazor]

How much better is the integrated GPU?  It might be worth seeing if there's a touchscreen laptop with that CPU.

Im not 100% sure but i would guess on about 5-15% better since the laptop with better graphics have 6gb RAM instead of 8gb.

[Rabbicats101]

Yeah i'm not sure she will notice.  Thank you for the recommendations.  The Lenovo Flex seems to have gotten the thumbs up from mom so we're going with that.

[qwertywarrior]

How much better is the integrated GPU?  It might be worth seeing if there's a touchscreen laptop with that CPU.

the touch screen laptop has 128 cores (shaders or what ever AMD is calling them) 

and the other one has 384  (handy list)

so its around 3 times faster

 

if u really need a touch screen keep searching

if u still havnt found one with an AMD cpu

the intel 4600 GPU is around 10% slower so its still great