Hi there, I’m needing to replace my antique laptop and wonder what to get to replace it. I’m looking at an Acer Aspire 3 15.6 i7 8gb 2TB. It doesn’t need to be amazing but I’m wondering if it will run at a reasonable quality. Cheers
I am going to assume you mean:
- Acer Aspire 3
- 15.6" Screen
- Intel Core i7
- 8GB Memory
- 2TB Hard Drive
But you have omitted several important details.
- What kind of GPU are you getting in that.
- Is that a 2TB traditional hard drive, or a 2TB SSD hard drive?
- Which model of the Core-i7?
Additionally, you should be looking at 16GB RAM nowadays. 8GB is very “bargain basement”.
Hi there, it seems to be Intel Iris GPU with a traditional hard drive as far as I can tell. Should I be aiming for something with more RAM then?
You want a laptop with a dedicated GPU for gaming. Plus SSD. I am kind of surprised somebody is selling laptops without SSDs. If you want us to take a better look at the laptops make sure to state the exact model number and specs. They tend to have lot of minor variations but sometimes they are pretty critical.
Greller is on the point here.
That laptop, as described would be OK for general purpose, but not really for gaming due to the lack of a dedicated GPU. Thats not saying it can’t play games, what its saying is that it can’t play games well.
Gaming performance would likely be very unsatisfactory.
Thanks guys; it sounds like I need 8-16G RAM then? With GPU (is that the graphics card?) and SSD.
For context, it’s a HP pavilion I’m replacing whuch has 6G RAM and a i3-2330M CPU using Windows 7 so it barely creaks along just now.
If I attach a link for any others I see in my price range would you be happy to give your opinion?
Feel free, though I am not that much of expert in gaming laptops.
8 GB for WoW alone is enough but it doesn’t leave much headroom for future so depending on budget I would consider 16 GB or least making sure that the laptop’s memory can be expanded at the later date. This is no longer a given even with PC laptops.