Hi all, daughter asking me for advice (lol) about a laptop for one of the her kids for school work. Easy enough but also wants to play games - not grapic hungry ones but Roblox and Minecraft are a must. I suggested a PC as per Kizz in the other thread, but that's not practical as she'll need it to be portable.
They've looked at this one which is on offer and have asked if it'll do the job....
Noticed it's got Intel Iris XE as the "graphics" ... any experience on weather this will be up to the job? I'd have thought Roblox and Minecraft don't need loads of fancy shading/rendering because they look fairly blocky, but don't want to say yes and it's a turkey. Only certain turkeys are good for Xmas.
Might as well add my own 'please help' to this. Prefaced with me knowing very little about computers other than google searches and finding rankings for processors, cards etc. to get a vague idea.
My laptop is now over 6yrs old, the OS isn't going to be supported much longer and the battery is pretty much shot so time for a new one.
Don't tend to do much with it - usual microsoft packages, play around with a very simple bit of CAD and a little bit of gaming but not top end new releases. However, I do tend to try and overegg it to future proof it a bit and am willing to spend a bit more for something a bit better, so budget around £500 but would maybe go £600 if it was a huge upgrade.
As an idea for gaming, I was looking at a game on Steam with these specs
So found three potential laptops, from cheapest to most expensive. Only the bottom one met the recommended spec for the game, middle one the minimum and top one failed due to the RAM.
Hi all, daughter asking me for advice (lol) about a laptop for one of the her kids for school work. Easy enough but also wants to play games - not grapic hungry ones but Roblox and Minecraft are a must. I suggested a PC as per Kizz in the other thread, but that's not practical as she'll need it to be portable.
They've looked at this one which is on offer and have asked if it'll do the job....
Noticed it's got Intel Iris XE as the "graphics" ... any experience on weather this will be up to the job? I'd have thought Roblox and Minecraft don't need loads of fancy shading/rendering because they look fairly blocky, but don't want to say yes and it's a turkey. Only certain turkeys are good for Xmas.
We got this for our lad last year. After Currys told me I’d need to spend over £500 on something that would run Minecraft and Roblox! Anyway, we took a chance on the basis this comes with Minecraft included (after a download) so must support it. It runs both games, albeit not as sharp or fast as his Xbox. For the price it’s decent and he can do all his educational stuff on it too.