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I'm not sure where to put this so I'm just going to put it here, my sister would like a laptop that she can do her university homework and also do a bit of light gaming, things like civ 5. She wants to spend £500.

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I'm not sure where to put this so I'm just going to put it here, my sister would like a laptop that she can do her university homework and also do a bit of light gaming, things like civ 5. She wants to spend £500.

Lenovo y40

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Lenovo y40

not quite under the limit of 500.

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not quite under the limit of 500.

500 gbp = $830 USD

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OP, if your sister can increase the budget by about 100 euros, you'll get way better performance-per-dollar. If not then Acer has some laptops with a dedicated GPU, but they're not worth the price IMO, which is the point of my first statement.

I'm using GBP or £

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