SC2 can nicely work on it, so guess it's fine. Though, it's like 4-5 years old technology. Today's reasonable choice would be around modern generation of i7 with 16 mb of 1600mhz ram. And main hard disk should be SSD, even though it's still a bit more expensive than it should be. Though, with that amount of ram, there won't be much difference with HDD in 99% of working time.
As always, the purpose of the device must be answered first, before we can consider if it is "good" or "bad", as those are relative terms. It also depends on your budget.
In general, the following hold true:
1) For your hard disk, you will want a SSD in a laptop. This is because laptops in general are not meant to hold large amounts of data, because you can place such data on either an external hard disk, a desktop computer or upload to a cloud/data storage provider such as Google Drive, Dropbox, etc. Furthermore, SSD have VERY low power usage, which is important for laptop battery life. And finally, their performance for day to day use is superior, in all scenarios except streaming a large file sequentially (basically movies).
2) For main memory/RAM, you will want at least 8 gigabytes, as to have breathing room to run multiple memory intensive applications, such as a web browser, a game and the editor, at the same time. You usually can expand this after the fact, although at this current time, as we transition to DDR4 memory, the price for memory is at the top of its curve and quite unattractive at this time (I purchased 32 gigabytes of DDR3 memory for half the going price about 2 years ago).
3) For your CPU, if you intend on doing gaming only, I would suggest getting the fastest dual core cpu possible, due to the fact that games rarely use more then 2, so speed matters more then number of cores. However, if you intend to use any professional application of any kind (AutoCAD, matlab, etc.) a quad core is more useful since those applications scale to the number of cores quite well, but that is also in intensive application, large simulations or computations, etc.
4) For the GPU, if you are planning on gaming or doing modeling, you will want a discrete GPU from Nvidia or AMD. Intel integrated are fine for desktop work, and low end gaming, but are rather weak, and thus not useful for any demanding game at any setting above low.
It does have a GPU, the Core i3 series has an integrated GPU on die with the CPU, I believe it is the Intel HD4000 series GPU. Totally adequate for low end gaming, but of course has issues for any high texture game, due to the shared main memory making the memory bandwidth very bad.
It does have a GPU, the Core i3 series has an integrated GPU on die with the CPU, I believe it is the Intel HD4000 series GPU. Totally adequate for low end gaming, but of course has issues for any high texture game, due to the shared main memory making the memory bandwidth very bad.
Sadly I wish it was the 4000 which is kind of a bare minimum buts its actually the GMA which is fair worse. I meant more of an actual dedicated card for graphic since bascially everything now has integrated. Either way this is likely not the machine he's looking for. Keep in mind too starcraft is a cpu heavy game.
Hello everyone I hope all of you have a great holiday season and an incredible New Year. I need to help you. Please, anyone, suggest the best laptop under 1000 euros. Which is the best use for home and gaming.
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Good for what purpose? For office? yes. For gaming? Definately not!
Also u did not told us what type of Harddrive is included, is it SSD or HDD?
Finally: what is the purpose of your Question?
@WesMan00: Go
Seriously? Most tablet specs are better than that. There not even a gpu. Horrible pos.
SC2 can nicely work on it, so guess it's fine. Though, it's like 4-5 years old technology. Today's reasonable choice would be around modern generation of i7 with 16 mb of 1600mhz ram. And main hard disk should be SSD, even though it's still a bit more expensive than it should be. Though, with that amount of ram, there won't be much difference with HDD in 99% of working time.
As always, the purpose of the device must be answered first, before we can consider if it is "good" or "bad", as those are relative terms. It also depends on your budget.
In general, the following hold true:
1) For your hard disk, you will want a SSD in a laptop. This is because laptops in general are not meant to hold large amounts of data, because you can place such data on either an external hard disk, a desktop computer or upload to a cloud/data storage provider such as Google Drive, Dropbox, etc. Furthermore, SSD have VERY low power usage, which is important for laptop battery life. And finally, their performance for day to day use is superior, in all scenarios except streaming a large file sequentially (basically movies).
2) For main memory/RAM, you will want at least 8 gigabytes, as to have breathing room to run multiple memory intensive applications, such as a web browser, a game and the editor, at the same time. You usually can expand this after the fact, although at this current time, as we transition to DDR4 memory, the price for memory is at the top of its curve and quite unattractive at this time (I purchased 32 gigabytes of DDR3 memory for half the going price about 2 years ago).
3) For your CPU, if you intend on doing gaming only, I would suggest getting the fastest dual core cpu possible, due to the fact that games rarely use more then 2, so speed matters more then number of cores. However, if you intend to use any professional application of any kind (AutoCAD, matlab, etc.) a quad core is more useful since those applications scale to the number of cores quite well, but that is also in intensive application, large simulations or computations, etc.
4) For the GPU, if you are planning on gaming or doing modeling, you will want a discrete GPU from Nvidia or AMD. Intel integrated are fine for desktop work, and low end gaming, but are rather weak, and thus not useful for any demanding game at any setting above low.
@hobbidude: Go
It does have a GPU, the Core i3 series has an integrated GPU on die with the CPU, I believe it is the Intel HD4000 series GPU. Totally adequate for low end gaming, but of course has issues for any high texture game, due to the shared main memory making the memory bandwidth very bad.
Sadly I wish it was the 4000 which is kind of a bare minimum buts its actually the GMA which is fair worse. I meant more of an actual dedicated card for graphic since bascially everything now has integrated. Either way this is likely not the machine he's looking for. Keep in mind too starcraft is a cpu heavy game.
On other note Wesman what is your budget?
Hello everyone I hope all of you have a great holiday season and an incredible New Year. I need to help you. Please, anyone, suggest the best laptop under 1000 euros. Which is the best use for home and gaming.