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I'm going to do some web browsing, office editing, Premiere, Photoshop, InDesign, and CS:GO (medium settings with a stable 150+ fps at 1024x768 would be great).

 

Would you suggest a 600 USD laptop or a 400 USD PC?

 

If so, please suggest what laptop or PC parts should I go to.

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6 minutes ago, djdelarosa25 said:

I'm going to do some web browsing, office editing, Premiere, Photoshop, InDesign, and CS:GO (medium settings with a stable 150+ fps at 1024x768 would be great).

 

Would you suggest a 600 USD laptop or a 400 USD PC?

 

If so, please suggest what laptop or PC parts should I go to.

that depends, what grade are you in? do you need to take your laptop to school.???

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Go for a laptop. Anything with a 940M or better (950M/850M/960M/860M) will work

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1 minute ago, salah2000 said:

that depends, what grade are you in? do you need to take your laptop to school.???

 

Well, I was stupid. I'll just go with a laptop then, since I'm gonna bring it to school. What's the best specced laptop for about 500~500 USD? Preferably 14 inches.

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1 minute ago, don_svetlio said:

Go for a laptop. Anything with a 940M or better (950M/850M/960M/860M) will work

what does he need a 940m for its just schoolwork

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1 minute ago, salah2000 said:

what does he need a 940m for its just schoolwork

 

Video-editing and CS:GO. Also, most of the laptops at the price range have 940M's.

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2 minutes ago, salah2000 said:

what does he need a 940m for its just schoolwork

Light gaming

 

4 minutes ago, djdelarosa25 said:

 

Well, I was stupid. I'll just go with a laptop then, since I'm gonna bring it to school. What's the best specced laptop for about 500~500 USD? Preferably 14 inches.

Personally, I'd highly recommend a Lenovo Y40 or Y700 14' edition. Those usually for around 700$ though so going further down to say a Lenovo Z50 with a 940M/840M (though 840M is roughly 15% slower) or a Acer V3 Nitro or Asus N550

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Celestial (Laptop 1) CPU:i7 4720HQ GPU:GTX 860M 4GB RAM:2x4GB SK Hynix DDR3Storage: 250GB 850 EVO Model:Lenovo Y50-70
Seraph (Laptop 2) CPU:i7 6700HQ GPU:GTX 970M 3GB RAM:2x8GB DDR4Storage: 256GB Samsung 951 + 1TB Toshiba HDD Model:Asus GL502VT
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depends, if you are going to be doing the work at school, than of course you need a laptop, but if it's mostly homework, get a PC, you'll get much more power and headroom for around $400~500

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A corme book is fine if you just need to do notes in the class room and it is cheap. 

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Acer Laptop Aspire E E5-573G-52G3 Intel Core i5 5200U (2.20 GHz) 8 GB Memory 1 TB HDD NVIDIA GeForce 940M 2 GB 15.6" Windows 10 Home 64-Bit http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=34-315-131

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