Good Laptop for 500-700

Eric4753

Eric4753

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My friend recently got into company of heroes 2, and heroes and generals. He is looking for a good laptop for around 600 bucks, I've looked every where on newegg and amazon, but I wanted to see what your opinion on a good laptop would be for him. He wants a laptop because he travels for work and he hates windows 8!

Thank you,
Eric
 
Well, most laptops are going to come with Windows 8.1 now. It's only usually the business ones and refurbished ones that might come with 7 instead, and they're not usually good for gaming (I'm guessing that is what he interested in if he likes Company of Heroes).

Check this one out - it has Windows 8.1 but if he is really that desperate for 7 he can buy it and install it himself: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...0&cm_re=core_i5_laptop-_-34-231-960-_-Product

It's $700, but your thread title mentions '500-700' so I assumed it would be OK. ;)
 
The ASUS machine runs at 2.7GHz. Newer CPUs have multiple clock speeds. This one has 1.7GHz if it chills and 2.7GHz when the work comes.
 
Eric4753 said:
the game requires a 2.0 ghz processor would that still work?
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Yeah it should be fine because the i5 will go to 2.7GHz when it needs to. It's the graphics card that matters most (usually) and that machine has a decent one.
 
Yeah that laptop should run it fine. Also Windows 8 is pretty good, it's just jarringly different for people that have been so accustomed to what Windows has been for the past decade.
 
Also note that the 2.0 GHz requirement is based around the E4400 Core 2 Duo. As newer implementations are faster per-clock this isn't a direct comparison of clockspeed anymore.

You would want to be most concerned about which graphics card is bundled with the laptop.
 
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