Need help with choosing a laptop.

[Giganizer300PRO]

Hello there.

 

I need help with choosing a laptop.

I am looking for something portable (obviously...) that can run some games with low requirements.

My budget is $500.

I want it run games like Minecraft and some other.

Screen size does matter, but I want something normal, not too small and not too big.

Shape doesn't really matter, neither do the looks, I just want best bang for the buck hardware.

Thanks for your help.

[ZaBoss]

The Lenovo G50-45 

Specs are 

• AMD A8-6410 2.0 GHz Processor
• AMD Radeon R5 Graphics
• 6 GB DDR3 RAM
• 1 TB 5400 rpm Hard Drive
• 6-hour battery life
• 15.6-Inch Screen
• Windows 8.1

[KemoKa]

Toshiba Satellite S855D-S5120
AMD A10-4600M

Radeon HD7660G
750GB HDD
8GB DDR3-1600 (supports 16GB)
6-cell battery (8 hours on an SSD - upgradeable to a 9-cell
15.6" screen
Windows 8.1

This is my laptop. This is my own personal machine that I have actually (ab)used for a year. It's a tank, it never breaks down, it never complains, it just ploughs through everything I tell it to and goes about its day, and it turns MAGICAL if you throw in an SSD. General I/O, USB 3.0 (one of which is available for charging a phone or tablet while turned off), USB 2.0 for compatibility, Gigabit Ethernet,

Take the HDD out, put it into an optical bay HDD enclosure and just slot it straight back into the laptop. Perfect.

It's a capable laptop for pretty much anything the average user could possibly want. I can max out TF2 and Star Confilct on it, which is pretty nice for a consumer-grade laptop, and it plays Minecraft pretty darn well, too. Beats the hell out of Intel HD4000 graphics (I have tested this). Other than that, I've done things to this laptop that should really be against laptop rights if they had them. For instance, I plugged it in, set it on a benchmark run and slept with it to keep warm and it WORKS, it actually keeps my bed warm and doesn't break down or throttle. It has a hole burned clean through the chassis from a soldering iron. I accidentally left it there during a project and the laptop went about its merry day while its ass was on fire. I regularly encode videos on the go on it, which isn't a good idea on a mobile CPU because of the throttling, but this just gets on with it.

It's my favourite all-round consumer-grade laptop at the moment, because it's just so reliable. My next laptop will be a decent gaming laptop for sure, but I will almost certainly keep my Satellite as a Linux machine.

 

[Guest DollarPC]

Acer Aspire E5-571G-38VF

• Intel Core i3-4030U 1.8 GHz Processor (3 MB Cache)

4 GB DDR3L SDRAM500 GB 5400 rpm Hard Drive15.6-Inch Screen, NVIDIA GeForce 820MWindows 8.1, 7-hour battery life

 

 

 

Acer Aspire E5-411G-P717 14-Inch

• Intel Pentium N3540 Quad-Core 2.16 GHz Processor (2 MB Cache)

8 GB DDR3L SDRAM1 TB 5400 rpm Hard Drive14-Inch Screen, NVIDIA GeForce 820M  [VIEW FRAMERATES]Windows 8.1, 7-hour battery life

 

HP TouchSmart 15-g014dx 15.6-inch Touchscreen Laptop

• AMD Quad-Core A8-6410 Accelerated Processor

AMD Radeon R5 graphics [VIEW FRAMERATES]4GB DDR3L SDRAM500GB 5400RPM Hard Drive15.6-Inch ScreenWindows 8.1

 

Theres like 60 more here-

https://laptopninja.io/finding-the-best-gaming-laptops-under-500-dollars/

[Probenja]

Anything with Intel HD 4400 graphics or higher will run Minecraft fine, search for ones without optical drives as they are usually lighter and thinner.

[Shally]

Anything with Intel HD 4400 graphics or higher will run Minecraft fine, search for ones without optical drives as they are usually lighter and thinner.

Please don't ask for other people to search for something you want....

 

EDIT 

Thought you we're the OP