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Hi, I'm going to start college very soon and need a laptop, I bought a lenovo yoga 2 11inch with an i3 about a week ago and realized it's slow as balls and basically unusable for anything but notes. So I was wondering what you guys could recommend for a good small laptop for around 600$ that is decently fast and can handle light gaming (the yoga struggled with the binding of isaac if there were more than 4 enemys on screen). Thanks in advance.

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Could you give some names of games that you would like to play?

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MacBook airs start at $899, but refurbs can be found for less, and on eBay for even less.

 

Small, light, the HD 5000 is strong enough, especially at a small laptop's resolution- my brother played Tomb Raider on Ultra at 23FPS, which is very respectable for integrated graphics (on med-high, it was well above 30).

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MacBook airs start at $899, but refurbs can be found for less, and on eBay for even less.

 

Small, light, the HD 5000 is strong enough, especially at a small laptop's resolution- my brother played Tomb Raider on Ultra at 23FPS, which is very respectable for integrated graphics (on med-high, it was well above 30).

$900 != Around $600

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Hi, I'm going to start college very soon and need a laptop, I bought a lenovo yoga 2 11inch with an i3 about a week ago and realized it's slow as balls and basically unusable for anything but notes. So I was wondering what you guys could recommend for a good small laptop for around 600$ that is decently fast and can handle light gaming (the yoga struggled with the binding of isaac if there were more than 4 enemys on screen). Thanks in advance.

The Lenovo Y40 is a bit of a stretch at $750 but it's worth the extra cost IMO

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I would say screw gaming and get a surface 3 to be honest. Just save for a proper gaming desktop afterwards

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Did you do a fresh install of Windows on your Yoga? Usually that can make a massive difference with all the bloatware installed on new machines. I would go for anything with an i5 that has HD4400 or HD5000 graphics. Maybe upgrade to the Yoga 2 13 with an i5.

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Did you do a fresh install of Windows on your Yoga? Usually that can make a massive difference with all the bloatware installed on new machines. I would go for anything with an i5 that has HD4400 or HD5000 graphics. Maybe upgrade to the Yoga 2 13 with an i5.

It was brand new with a fresh install already on it I'm going to return it tomorrow to help pay for the new one.

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