All around Laptop

[Lexseroth 17]

Heyo, can you guys recommend a laptop thats good on the day to day schooling  type of workloads as well as light to mid gaming within the past 18months?.. my budget sits at around $400-$500..

[themctipers]

used macbook pro retina 13" 2013/2014

 

it won't game that well, but it has the battery life, it has the CPU performance, it has a beautiful 16:10 display, and it has a decent keyboard with an amazing trackpad

 

also NVMe SSD

[emosun]

1 minute ago, themctipers said:

but it has the battery life

4 year old battery

also...... apple....ew

[themctipers]

Just now, emosun said:

4 year old battery

also...... apple....ew

replaceable. pretty sure they didn't glue it in in 2013/2014.

 

apple is quite nice. get out of your hole.

it has it's flaws, but these older ones that don't have faulty gpus or keyboards are quite nice.

[Lexseroth 17]

3 minutes ago, themctipers said:

used macbook pro retina 13" 2013/2014

 

it won't game that well, but it has the battery life, it has the CPU performance, it has a beautiful 16:10 display, and it has a decent keyboard with an amazing trackpad

 

also NVMe SSD

That sounds great and all, but a little too outdated for me... and not a fan of Apple

[BecauseRussia]

Something that can game for that price is going to be hard to find, if you can wait, I would until we start to see more Intel+Vega laptops come onto the market.

[themctipers]

1 minute ago, Lexseroth 17 said:

That sounds great and all, but a little too outdated for me... and not a fan of Apple

they're not 15w ultrashit cpus

they're usually 28w for 13" and 45w for 15". ivy and haswell are still fine for most things, for office, for school work , for very light gaming

[ShadySocks]

AMD A10 laptops are nice, good for esports games. The battery life isn't too good though

[emosun]

4 minutes ago, themctipers said:

they're not 15w ultrashit cpus

they're usually 28w for 13" and 45w for 15". ivy and haswell are still fine for most things, for office, for school work , for very light gaming

I like how he said he doesn't like apple , and I also don't like apple...... but you're like , still going . lol

The majority of earth doesn't prefer/use apple computers so you'll have to live with that.

[themctipers]

3 minutes ago, ShadySocks said:

AMD A10 laptops are nice, good for esports games. The battery life isn't too good though

i have a10 8700p

oh no

 

that is god awful

1 minute ago, emosun said:

I like how he said he doesn't like apple , and I also don't like apple...... but you're like , still going . lol

The majority of earth doesn't prefer/use apple computers so you'll have to live with that.

just saying perf is good enough

ivy/haswell ain't that bad for regular usage, its a shame that not many more companies configure TDP to be higher than 15w because U CPUs really choke at 15w

[Lexseroth 17]

Is there any laptop on the Haswell to Skylake that hits that price point?