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[Lionsroar]

Yes, I'm raising the question of which laptop would be good enough and affordable to play MWO on. Yes, I have a desktop, a very good one that I recently built with the assistance of Lord Letto, Goose and the other gents in the hardware forums.

But I do a good amount of traveling and there is the general chaos and insanity that it is my life, well I would need 2 more desktops or a decent laptop.

I have an older Dell Inspiron 3250 laptop with an Intel i53210 2.5 ghz processor, 6 GB RAM, and no graphics card, just the Intel graphics stuff and this worked fine for a year or so but with all the upgrades to the game performance has dropped to under 10 fps and now crashes constantly. Of course if there was a inexpensive way to upgrade the current laptop enough I would go that route.

I'm not picky about screen size or most of the other features. I'm sure that any laptop that will play MWO will do all the other things that I need.

Budget, I would like to stay around $700 but understand that might not be feasible. But if I get over $1000 well I could build 2 desktops for that amount...

So, any suggestions? Is there a way to upgrade the laptop? Should I build 2 desktops? Or is there a decent $700 laptop that I can buy?

Thank you

[IronBones]

Umm...Googled this and well, here...
http://www.newegg.co...ategory/ID-3365

[Lionsroar]

Thanks, I've owned pretty much only Dell's, how is Lenovo? I know nothing about them

[Golrar]

Lenovo is the company that bought IBMs PC business in 2005. Have never used them beyond their Ideapad tablet. Lots of people say they are good. Can't beat the price.

[Lions Cub]

Would this one be able to play the game decently?

http://www.newegg.co...N82E16834152586

• NVIDIA GeForce GT 820M 2GB
  
• Intel Core i5 4200M (2.50GHz)
  
• 8GB Memory 750GB HDD
  
• 15.6" 1366 x 768
  
• Windows 8.1
  
• 15.08" x 9.82" x 1.27-1.48" 5.29 lbs.
  
• DVD Super Multi

[xWiredx]

Not really. I doubt you will find much better for $700, but at that price point if you want any kind of real performance for MWO you should look at desktops instead. A laptop capable of playing MWO at a decent frame rate isn't far out of that budget, probably $850 would be a reasonable lower limit (I spent $1000 and kind of wish I had spent about $1600, but my performance is pretty good all things considered).

The i5 has a low clock speed like my i7 has on my laptop. It does hold MWO back a bit, and means you're probably playing with low or medium particles at best (more likely low since the i5 doesn't have as many cores to do other work as the i7 does).

The 820M is a terribly weak GPU that the higher-end integrated Intel graphics can now match, which means it's almost a waste of money (almost, but not entirely, since that i5 won't have that level of horsepower). I'd go minimum 840M but if you want to turn any of the eye candy up at all, you'll want an 850M or better (and if it's the 850M, you'd want the GDDR5 one, not the GDDR3 one, which I couldn't find here in the US at all).

[MavRCK]

i posted before lenovo y50 is the best value out there at the moment

do a search

[Repasy Cooper]

ASUS K450LD works great for me. ASUS in general is pretty good brand.

Edited by Repasy, 02 March 2015 - 04:56 PM.

[Chocowolf Sradac]

On my Labtop I'm running a Nvidia 710m Card and a I5 Processor and I can average about 20-30 fps with Mechwarrior online so it's playable obviously not the greatest expirience

Here is the specs of my labtop I currently game with I am playing in the 64 bit client. Yes I'm aware it's certainly not the best setup on the market but it has handled everygame I've thrown at it so that's all I can ask for and it's in the OP's price range

Accer - V3 771G-6662

Operating System: Windows 8, 64-bit
Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-3230M, 2.6 GHz/3.2 GHz with Turbo Boost (3 MB cache)
Memory: 16 GB DDR3
Card Reader: yes
Storage: 1 TB
Display: 17.3" WXGA LED-backlit
Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 710M w/ 2GB VRAM
Communications: webcam, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth® 4.0
Input Devices: multi-gesture touchpad
Battery: 6-cell

Edited by Chocowolf, 02 March 2015 - 05:08 PM.