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[Solved] $500 Laptop

Forum Laptops & Notebooks : General Discussion [Solved] $500 Laptop

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1. What is your budget?
$500
2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering?
Don't care
3. What screen resolution do you want?
High would be nice, not required
4. Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop?
Desktop replacement
5. How much battery life do you need?
Not much, always plugged in
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)?
Enough to play League of Legends well. High would be preferable but medium is cool too.
7. What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop? (Photo/Video editing, Etc.)
Not much, steam videos.
8. How much storage (Hard Drive capacity) do you need?
Not much, 200gb
9. If you are considering specific sites to buy from, please post their links.
Doesn't matter
10. How long do you want to keep your laptop?
A few years, but doesn't need to keep up with games
11. What kind of Optical drive do you need? DVD ROM/Writer,Bluray ROM/Writer,Etc ?
Dvd ROM
12. Please tell us about the brands that you prefer to buy from them and the brands that you don't like and explain the reasons.
I like Dell. I've had my old Dell laptop for about 5 years and it hasn't given me much trouble.
13. What country do you live in?
United states
14. Please tell us any additional information if needed.
That should be it. It just has to play league of legends and stream video

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Best Laptop for 500$ i think,

(lenovo IdeaPad Z575 (129929U) Notebook AMD A-Series A6-3400M(1.4GHz) 15.6" 4GB Memory DDR3 1333 500GB HDD 5400rpm DVD±R/RW AMD Radeon HD 6520G)

429.99$

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6834246302


Just Use the rest of the cash and get some more Ram or something.


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andrewcarr wrote :

You should get an AMD A CPU. Any of these should work.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 20A-Series





+1 on that! Best for Laptop's under 600$.

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That's the one i was trying to find on newegg and it's gone, Nice to see it their though +1 on that find!

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http://www.tigerdirect.com/applica [...] 95266119-2

that looks promising, I don't know much about laptops tho, could somebody give me an estimate of the fps this could get with league of legends?

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It seems ok in gaming. Most games play on medium. Good for the price.
http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] ,2959.html

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