gaming laptops are much more expensive than a gaming pc. i think with that budget you wont be able to get a strong gaming laptop. But if its just for wow then both should work fine, since wow does not require very strong computers. the biggest problem is that after a year they might sound like some airplane trying to take off because its trying to stay cooled
Both of those laptops don’t look bad, they’ll do fine but be ready after around 2-3 years to witness the nightmares when FPS will drop and as Oldmanbarry said it will start to make some noises. And GTX 1650 is miles better than 1050 so consider getting 1650. 1050 is too outdated for today (need at least 1050 TI).
I see your point about the 1050, but also see disk space. With Windows installed, you will be pretty crowded just fitting WoW onto 128GB when there’s a patch coming and taking up space. Yes, you can maybe plug in an external disk to do some shuffling around, but it’s very messy.
Indy, that’s one tradeoff you’re looking at. 128GB of disk is just about enough to run WoW and almost nothing else, unless you also get an external disk and do a lot of copying on and off.
The 1050 will work, for BfA at least, but will become insufficient a lot faster than the 1650.
You’re right but with Shadowlands and future expansions coming 1050 will become outdated super fast. WoW now takes around 66 GB , we can expect 10+ GB when Shadowlands hits, Windows 10 is at least 20GB so he still has a little bit of space for couple games.
Get this.1650 is much much better than 1050, its close to 1070 pc performance.Laptops in general have been very close to pc perfomance recent years thanks to pascal architecture ( 1xxx series) .
You can get a monitor + keyboards and sit on a desk , hook up the laptop to it.Sitting in a laptop can be very painful on the back for long gaming sessions
Another thing to consider would be a cooling pad for the laptop so as to help keep it cool, given the tight space and lower air flow to remove heat as quickly vs a pc.
Also, if choosing the Lenovo, ill hazard a guess it is a M.2 SSD with an empty slot for a 2.5". If this is the case, it would be worth getting an additional drive to hold your games and Data storage.
Yeah, AMD sucks, that’s the difference.
I used AMD for countless laptops and my first real PC build.
Then I swapped to an i5-4690k a few years back, and it was soooo much better, and it wasn’t benchmarking any higher than the AMD I had in my first PC build, they were the same generation, competitors at the same time to one another.
AMD relies on it’s many cores / threads, where an intel CPU has fewer cores but each core can handle more.
WoW doesn’t utilize multi-cores very well.
It’s simple, for £500-£750 you’re settling, you’re not going to get a great laptop for current games. It will be fine, just not GREAT. Laptops are expensive and limited.
You want an intel i5, preferably Skylake chips.
And a GTX 10XX series GPU.
Personally I’d just get the DELL you linked, it looks exactly as I’d expect for the price range.
if you have a budget of that money, why not just wait a couple of months and buy a better PC/Laptop?
Better wait abit more and buy something reliable and lasts than not to wait and buy something that won’t last, it’s even cost effective as new gen stuff will last longer.
Right now AMD has as strong cores and more of them making I9-9900K close to being dethroned.
It does, especially with DX12. Yet you don’t need a 8-12-16 core CPU for it (although 8-core is now the de-facto standard for a desktop).
You have to compare specific AMD CPU vs specific Intel CPU (like two in the same price range). Right now Intel still have “best” i9-9900K CPU for gaming at the high end but anything cheaper is usually an AMD win, and if you are on a budget AMD will deliver way better performance. In laptops (gaming) Intel chips will still be king, in ultrabooks there are some mobile Ryzen options - those are worth considering if you want something ultralight without dedicated GPU (non-gaming laptop) - pick a well reviewed Ryzen based laptop or an Intel based with Nvidia MX250/150 mini-GPU with same good reviews (thermals!)
Intel is better than AMD but everytime Intel launches a new processor you are usually required to get a new motherboard for it. But this is generally a problem for High-End Desktop (PC) builders who want to upgrade their builts.
Now, on the technical side, Intel single core performance is better than AMD’s. And AMD processors tend to have more processor cores and threads but Intel still out performance them in most if not all games. TL; DR, AMD is a good budget processor especially if you need multi cores and threads for cheap, but if you want the best go for Intel processors.
I have a slightly higher spec version of this system (Mine came with an i7-8750H, and a GTX 1060) and it runs WoW without any problems. The only bottleneck I initially came across was with games with very high RAM usage, since it ships with an 8GB set, but that’s something that’s incredibly easy to upgrade if you ever find that you need to.
The main thing I’d caution you about from my personal experience, is that the fans aren’t necessarily the greatest quality, and can wear out quite quickly if they’re not properly looked after.
Hopefully whatever you go for works out for you. I know there’s a bit of a stigma around gaming laptops, but as long as you make sure to do your homework and choose a solid device then you’re unlikely to run into any serious problems. They tend to get worse press than they really deserve.
