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Hello,
I have decided to buy an inexpensive laptop to bring with me on holidays or when I go to visit parents. I do not intend to run dungeons while on it, but I want to do some crafting and gardening. What kind of specification I should be looking at?
Since laptops come as a packaged deal...most generally they all come with standard 4g of ram...most the video cards are 7600 ati and higher. And 90% of them come with windows 8 which is fine.
Just don't buy anything built before 2012 and you'll be ok.
If it's cheaper than 350$ I'd be skeptical.
To be honest you should be able to pick up one fairly cheap that will allow you to play all aspects of the game just fine. I spent £600 on one just before release and it plays just fine.
Go ASUS for gaming laptops IMO, shop around.
If you REALLY are only planning on using the laptop for crafting and gardening, just about any modern laptop should work, since gardening and crafting don't really rely on needing smooth FPS to dodge attacks or clutch heal. But let's be honest. You'll be on crafting and hear that something else is happening and want to join, and suddenly that cheap laptop is going to have a very rough time during your dungeon, or cry in agony trying to load everyone in Mor Dhona. For my case, I got an Acer laptop with an A10 processor with Radeon 7670 dedicated graphics. It has some framerate issues on 8 man content, and running Crystal Tower (Syrcus Tower) last night, it had a real hard time keeping up. This was on laptop low level graphics settings.
My laptop was $550 on sale at Newegg. If you are sure that all you want to do is crafting and gardening, just about any laptop should work, even if a bit sluggish. If you want to be realistic, you'll probably need a bigger budget.
honestly I have done dungeons and primals on an MS Surface Pro (first gen) and while not amazing it runs ok so I am sure any laptop made in the last couple years with a dedicated graphics card (or intel HD 4400 graphics chip) could run this game just fine
For compairison
CPU: i5 3317U 1.7GHZ
RAM: 4GB
GPU: Intel HD4000
plays the game in 1280x720 at medium settings well enough not amazing but definitely works
I have an Lenovo y510p that I picked up for under 800 US dollars on newegg. Rips through the game like nobody's business. If you want a gaming laptop that won't break the bank, take a look at Lenovo's ideapad line. I love this notebook - it's great for making the game portable. Of course my desktop rig destroys it, but if you want a cheap notebook that actually games, Lenovo is the way to go.
My specs
i5-4200 2.5ghz
sli GT755's
6gb ram
Win 8.1
Thanks for all of the advice!
Lenovo are famously expensive just like HP. Remember its not the name on the outside that makes it run lol.
Mine is an Asus but its the elusive quad core (very rare) modified up to 8g ram. Cost $495
Might want to stay away from Toshiba though. Haven't looked at them recently but they tend to use the least amount of graphics possible making them useless after a year.