$500 Laptop

[monjanger]

Well, my friend has been bugging me for hours on Skype about laptop recommendations. 

 

His budget is $500 

 

(No concerns about the following, ---> astetics, screen size, speakers, battery life, microphone) 

 

He wants pure performance, with no gimmicks.

 

He wants to play games such as LoL, CS:GO, and MapleStory, so nothing much.

 

I

[N_Bot]

1 minute ago, monjanger said:

Well, my friend has been bugging me for hours on Skype about laptop recommendations. 

 

His budget is $500 

 

(No concerns about the following, ---> astetics, screen size, speakers, battery life, microphone) 

 

He wants pure performance, with no gimmicks.

 

He wants to play games such as LoL, CS:GO, and MapleStory, so nothing much.

 

I

Is he open to DIY pc?

[Badger906]

"pure performance" you're not really going to get that for $500.. push to $800 and get the dell 7559 .. a lot of laptop for the money

[monjanger]

2 minutes ago, N_Bot said:

Is he open to DIY pc?

No, he has divorced parents and needs something portable. 

 

1 minute ago, Badger906 said:

"pure performance" you're not really going to get that for $500.. push to $800 and get the dell 7559 .. a lot of laptop for the money

I agree, but he has a $300 laptop that, until just recently, has been able to get the job done.

[Castdeath97]

1 minute ago, monjanger said:

No, he has divorced parents and needs something portable. 

 

I agree, but he has a $300 laptop that, until just recently, has been able to get the job done.

These were the best two I found:

 

A better display with a newer i5:

http://www.amazon.com/HP-Pavilion-15-6-Inch-i5-6200U-Processor/dp/B016ZOF9N2/ref=sr_1_2?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1454973386&sr=1-2&keywords=core+i5+6th+gen

 

A worse display with a older i7

http://www.amazon.com/Premium-Performance-15-6-inch-i7-5500U-DVD-SuperMulti/dp/B01A3M4B7W/ref=sr_1_3?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1454973333&sr=1-3&keywords=laptops&refinements=p_36%3A46500-51500

[Castdeath97]

4 minutes ago, monjanger said:

No, he has divorced parents and needs something portable. 

 

I agree, but he has a $300 laptop that, until just recently, has been able to get the job done.

Found this as well so far the best deal:

 

http://www.amazon.com/Acer-E5-573G-15-6-Inch-GeForce-Windows/dp/B012IBOCRU/ref=sr_1_6?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1454973635&sr=1-6&keywords=laptop&refinements=p_36%3A46500-52000

[Mason_Brasher]

Here use this - http://portablepicker.com/

 

And my brother uses this and loves it- 

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00O071UWQ/?tag=portablepicker-20

 

11 minutes ago, Castdeath97 said:

16 minutes ago, monjanger said:

No, he has divorced parents and needs something portable. 

 

I agree, but he has a $300 laptop that, until just recently, has been able to get the job done.

Found this as well so far the best deal:

 

http://www.amazon.com/Acer-E5-573G-15-6-Inch-GeForce-Windows/dp/B012IBOCRU/ref=sr_1_6?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1454973635&sr=1-6&keywords=laptop&refinements=p_36%3A46500-52000

But that is probably your best choice^

[DJ25380]

2 hours ago, monjanger said:

Well, my friend has been bugging me for hours on Skype about laptop recommendations. 

 

His budget is $500 

 

(No concerns about the following, ---> astetics, screen size, speakers, battery life, microphone) 

 

He wants pure performance, with no gimmicks.

 

He wants to play games such as LoL, CS:GO, and MapleStory, so nothing much.

 

I

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834321235
$415 USD at time of posting
here is an option with more VRAM for better looking games. It has the same CPU but the there are a couple of benefits this has other the other

Lenovo GPU:

Significantly higher effective memory clock speed	4,500 MHz	vs	1,800 MHz	2.5x higher effective memory clock speed
More memory	4,096 MB	vs	2,048 MB	2x more memory
Significantly higher memory bandwidth	72 GB/s	vs	28.8 GB/s	2.5x higher memory bandwidth
Higher memory clock speed	1,125 MHz	vs	900 MHz	25% higher memory clock speed

Acer GPU:

Higher clock speed	1,029 MHz	vs	900 MHz	Around 15% higher clock speed
Better floating-point performance	1,317 GFLOPS	vs	921.6 GFLOPS	Around 45% better floating-point performance
Higher turbo clock speed	1,085 MHz	vs	925 MHz	More than 15% higher turbo clock speed
Higher texture rate	41.2 GTexel/s	vs	28.8 GTexel/s	Around 45% higher texture rate

 

1 hour ago, Castdeath97 said:

Found this as well so far the best deal:

 

http://www.amazon.com/Acer-E5-573G-15-6-Inch-GeForce-Windows/dp/B012IBOCRU/ref=sr_1_6?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1454973635&sr=1-6&keywords=laptop&refinements=p_36%3A46500-52000

 

[Castdeath97]

 

7 hours ago, DJ25380 said:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834321235
$415 USD at time of posting
here is an option with more VRAM for better looking games. It has the same CPU but the there are a couple of benefits this has other the other

Lenovo GPU:

Significantly higher effective memory clock speed	4,500 MHz	vs	1,800 MHz	2.5x higher effective memory clock speed
More memory	4,096 MB	vs	2,048 MB	2x more memory
Significantly higher memory bandwidth	72 GB/s	vs	28.8 GB/s	2.5x higher memory bandwidth
Higher memory clock speed	1,125 MHz	vs	900 MHz	25% higher memory clock speed

Acer GPU:

Higher clock speed	1,029 MHz	vs	900 MHz	Around 15% higher clock speed
Better floating-point performance	1,317 GFLOPS	vs	921.6 GFLOPS	Around 45% better floating-point performance
Higher turbo clock speed	1,085 MHz	vs	925 MHz	More than 15% higher turbo clock speed
Higher texture rate	41.2 GTexel/s	vs	28.8 GTexel/s	Around 45% higher texture rate

 

 

The 840M is better than the R7 360, even with more vRAM the R7 360 can't beat the 840M.

 

And the R7 360 in the acer doesn't have 4GB it's the 2GB version according to newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834321235

[DJ25380]

On 2/9/2016 at 0:59 AM, Castdeath97 said:

 

The 840M is better than the R7 360, even with more vRAM the R7 360 can't beat the 840M.

 

And the R7 360 in the acer doesn't have 4GB it's the 2GB version according to newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834321235

Oh yeah in that case the Acer is much better, i didnt see that the VRAM there says 2GB