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looking for a laptop for light gaming and messing around at school

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  • Laptops
August 15, 2014 11:52:09 PM

1. What is your budget? Hoping to find something between $500-$700 unless something cheaper will work.

2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering? 15”-17”

3. What screen resolution do you want? At least 1366 x 768

5. How much battery life do you need? At least 4 hours.

6. Do you want to play games with your laptop? If so then please list the games that you want to with the settings that you want for these games. (Low,Medium or High)? Yes,
Must be able to run League of Legends, CSGO, Civ V

Hoping to also run these but it isn’t a big deal if it doesn’t.
Diablo III, Skyrim, Kerbal Space Program, Crusader Kings

7. What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop? (Photo/Video editing, Etc.) Not into it right now but I might consider getting into streaming on twitch.tv sometime. Would be nice if the laptop was powerful enough to handle that but not a big deal if it isn’t.

8. How much storage (Hard Drive capacity) do you need? Can probably get by on 500gb

9. If you are considering specific sites to buy from, please post their links.
Opinions on these? What sort of performance can I expect on high settings in LoL/CSGO/Civ V?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

http://www.amazon.com/Acer-V3-572PG-50X5-15-6-Inch-Touc...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

Anything cheaper out there that will work for the games I listed?

10. How long do you want to keep your laptop? Probably 3 years or so

11. What kind of Optical drive do you need? DVD ROM/Writer,Bluray ROM/Writer,Etc ? DVD

13. What country do you live in? USA

Going to be spending quite a bit of time on my college’s campus this semester and I want a laptop for taking notes in class and browsing the internet or gaming in between classes.

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