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PC or laptop???

  • 20-11-2014 6:34pm
    #1
    Sicky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 50 ✭✭


    Hi All, Should Santa bring a laptop or PC to an 11 year old who wants to start out gaming? Is a budget of 500 unrealistic? Any makes/models advice would be greatly appreciated.


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  • #2
    Azza
    Moderators Posts: 5,580 ✭✭✭Azza


    PC, they are much better bang for your buck. You can get a decent PC for €500 provided you build it yourself. Unlikely you will get a good gaming pc pre built for €500.


  • #3
    Generic Dreadhead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,870 ✭✭✭✭Generic Dreadhead


    Santa should either ensure the girl has NO ACCESS to the internet on such a device :P ..... or he should get her a Wii U with like 4 games and let her enjoy the last few fleeting glimpses of her childhood :o


  • #4
    Sicky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 50 ✭✭Sicky


    Thanks All.
    I should have said we already have tablets, Chromebook,
    Wii & Xbox 360.
    Any advice please??


  • #5
    Kiith
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 23,282 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kiith


    Laptops generally aren't good for gaming, unless you are planning on spending a lot of money. You'll get far more bang for your buck with a desktop machine.

    I'd suggest asking the lads over at the Pc Building & Upgrading forum to put a spec together for you. Hardwareversand will build it and deliver it to you, almost ready to go. You'll just need to install Windows.


  • #6
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Desktop all the way. Birthday and christmas presents for the next five years can then be minor upgrades.

    It can be like two presents wrapped into one, if they like lego they can spend christmas day putting it together.


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  • #7
    Sparkles78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 97 ✭✭Sparkles78


    Sorry for jumping in on thread, my 15yr old has been looking for a gaming PC for a while now, I couldn't understand why as he already has a ps4 & a laptop (shows how little I know) I thought they would cost about €1000, is it possible to get one built for half that price? There's nothing else he wants or needs for Xmas so I'd love to do this for him. Any advice? I could get the specs off him.


  • #8
    braddun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,221 ✭✭✭braddun


    a laptop will be fine for 11 year old


  • #9
    Skerries
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,710 ✭✭✭✭Skerries


    braddun wrote: »
    a laptop will be fine for 11 year old

    not for gaming
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  • #10
    CruelCoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,468 ✭✭✭CruelCoin


    OP, Kids are falling over themselves to play Minecraft.

    I suggest that you go look at the minimum specs for that and design a pc around them.


  • #11
    Techniques07
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 821 ✭✭✭Techniques07


    Sicky wrote: »
    Hi All, Should Santa bring a laptop or PC to an 11 year old who wants to start out gaming? Is a budget of 500 unrealistic? Any makes/models advice would be greatly appreciated.

    Definitely a pc. I used laptops for gaming for 3 years. I went through a laptop a year because they would overheat from playing for a few hours every day or something else would go wrong. Each laptop cost €600 and was decent for gaming. Eventually I decided it would be cheaper to build a pc myself and spent €800 on one 2 years ago. It's still going strong and playing new games on high settings.

    Maybe you should post here LINK and ask them what they would build for what you're willing to spend. The guys on there will tell you what kind of pc you can get.


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  • #12
    Mike Litoris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,541 ✭✭✭Mike Litoris


    PC no question but you'll need another few hundred for something thats a bit future proof. A decent gaming laptop will cost a bomb.

    Check adverts for a something second hand.


  • #13
    Sierra Oscar
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 8,601 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sierra Oscar


    Its also much easier to upgrade a desktop incrementally over time.


  • #14
    Cravez
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,031 ✭✭✭Cravez


    Also to keep note of, not all games are optimised for laptop GPU's. An example recently was 'The Forest' ran fine on Desktops but completely stuttery on high end laptops. While they fixed the optimisation for laptops GPU's for this game, it may not always be the case so for other games so a Desktop is definitely the way to go.


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