Looking for cheap laptop

[Kudrel]

Hello everyone I'm currently helping my cousin, she has twins and is looking for laptops. both are boys their colors are blue and red. she has and limit of about 400 or 200 per laptop, I'm going to say around 300 each. 

[TheAndroidSentByCyberlife]

What do you need to do on them?

[Kudrel]

They like to game with mine craft and team fortress  I expect they will evolve soon.

[RadiatingLight]

nothing good can be had for that price. buy used?

[Kudrel]

Or refurbished I'm hoping for a good deal on cyber Monday or black friday.

[Electronics Wizardy]

4 minutes ago, Kudrel said:

They like to game with mine craft and team fortress  I expect they will evolve soon.

For that price, id get something like a used dell e6420 or thinkpad t420. These should play tf2 and minecraf just fine.

 

EDIT: these are also very durable, so a few drops won't kill them and they have spill proof keyboards.

[GDRRiley]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834294731 this should do ok with intel hd 4000 8gb of ram and a 256gb ssd. 

[Kudrel]

5 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

For that price, id get something like a used dell e6420 or thinkpad t420. These should play tf2 and minecraf just fine.

 

EDIT: these are also very durable, so a few drops won't kill them and they have spill proof keyboards.

Thanks you guys, do you think I should wait until black Friday to try and get a cheaper or better one?

[Electronics Wizardy]

3 minutes ago, Kudrel said:

Thanks you guys, do you think I should wait until black Friday to try and get a cheaper or better one?

If you giving it as a gift and can wait, might as well, but i don't think there are normally lots of price cuts on used stuff.

 

Id also check ebay and craigs list. You can sometimes fine these for about 100. Put a ssd and more ram in and your got a great laptop for about 200.

[GDRRiley]

I have a laptop with hd 4000 if you want me to run some benchmarks for you.

[Kudrel]

5 minutes ago, GDRRiley said:

I have a laptop with hd 4000 if you want me to run some benchmarks for you.

Yes please

[GDRRiley]

Just now, Kudrel said:

Yes please

ok give me a while as it is updating. The only thing diffrent is that it is a quad core mobile so it may not perfor exactly like yours or I may mess up and run it on the dedicated gpu. 

[SukaroBlue]

an hd 4000 can run portal 2 pretty well so tf2 should run off of it fine.

[GDRRiley]

Sorry will have the benchmarks in about 30min. windows had to update and so does tf2

[GDRRiley]

at 1600x900 12 chunks, fast on an amplified world got about 40-50fps while staring off into the distance and about 100 when blowing up TNT. 

TF2: 1366z768 so native for that laptop: high everything no AA filter is trilinear and multicore rendering is on; 50-75fps a little studer at some points but fine otherwise.