Absolute best laptop under $600

[mrfluppers]

My friend wants to buy a laptop for school and light gaming, what is the absolute most powerful laptop for under $600? no brand preference, at least 768p display res.

[TArthur99]

http://bestlaptopsworld.com/best-laptops-under-600/

[Rolling Potatoe]

For 600 and under youll only get dual core cpus with hyperthreading and a gtx 940mx.

 

If you add 100$ you can have a proper gaming laptop with a quadcore and a gtx 1050 https://www.amazon.com/Dell-Inspiron-i5577-5328BLK-PUS-Gaming-Laptop/dp/B06XFG7157/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1507419333&sr=8-4&keywords=inspiron+15+gtx

 

Thats around 4x the performance in gaming 

[genexis_x]

3 hours ago, Rolling Potatoe said:

For 600 and under youll only get dual core cpus with hyperthreading and a gtx 940mx.

Wrong. A 4c8t 8250U and MX150 GPU can be found. Acer Aspire E14/E15 (not recommended), Acer Aspire 5

[ErrystioT]

Well, right now at your current budget, this should be good (http://www.microcenter.com/product/481303/aspire_5_a515-51g-52r1_156_laptop_computer_-_black). Acer Aspire 5 with i5-7200U (7th gen unfortunately but still quite capable), 8GB DDR4 RAM, 256GB SSD and Nvidia MX150 GPU (the main selling point). If you want the one with 8th Gen CPU, there's this (https://www.amazon.com/Acer-i5-8250U-NVIDIA-GeForce-SF314-52G-55WQ/dp/B0746P25QX) Acer Swift 3, it's $730 as of this writing though, but boasts a smaller body with 14" instead of 15.6" in the Acer Aspire 5 (good for portability) and i5-8250U, the rest of the specs are same regardless

[Imglidinhere]

Why are people posting to a thread from literally two years ago!?  

[genexis_x]

56 minutes ago, Imglidinhere said:

Why are people posting to a thread from literally two years ago!?  

No idea

[Darkseth]

On 10/8/2017 at 1:15 AM, mrfluppers said:

at least 1080p display res.

Fixed.

 

You. Do. Not. Want. 768p.
Trust me on this one  especially, since those 768p Screens in Laptops are usually TN too, so they have pretty much the by far worst screens you can possibly buy.

[DarkEnergy]

What is going on here. OP asked this question 3 YEARS AGO. Two of the given answers are from accounts created on the same date and the answers are in the same format.