Help finding same laptop as this one please?

Hellywelly

Hello

I am looking to buy a laptop for my son as a surprise. He plays Overwatch and wants to play it on laptop but as he is only young I'm not buying him a dedicated gaming machine. This will be his first laptop.
I found reviews for acer aspire e5-575g-57d4 online which appears to have grand
reviews on a number of sites and good price and it specifically says that games are playable on it but I cannot find an actual one to buy anywhere. Could anyone please recommend me something with the same specs that would be budget priced but could run his Overwatch for him as well as general browsing, using MS office etc. I'm brutal with the technical specs and really struggling with this.

thanks a million
Hellywelly

yeppydeppy

These are roughly the same spec:

http://www.laptopsdirect.ie/nav/pt/laptops/procgrp/core-i5-and-better/ramgr/8gb-and-above/ssdgroup/256gb-and-above/mc/48361?sortOrder=1

Alanstrainor

yeppydeppy wrote: »

These are roughly the same spec:

http://www.laptopsdirect.ie/nav/pt/laptops/procgrp/core-i5-and-better/ramgr/8gb-and-above/ssdgroup/256gb-and-above/mc/48361?sortOrder=1

Missing a dedicated graphics card which should be important to run any games.

Hellywelly

Thanks - could you suggest one that would be similar but would have that graphics card ? Please?

beauf

http://www.pcworld.ie/Product/asus-k501uq-156-laptop-grey/332638/396.0.0

940MX isn't a great gaming card though.

Hellywelly

Thanks beauf. I don't think he needs a great gaming machine (much as he may want one!) - just to be able to play overwatch on it occasionally. The Acer one that I had found reviews for said it would play games albeit not as great as a gaming computer would and thats fine. Thanks for finding the one above. Its out of stock on that site but I'm going to see if its available anywhere else in Dublin at the moment.

thanks

TerrorFirmer

€750 is a very high price for that laptop. For about 850 you'd get an actual gaming model laptop with a quad core i5 and a GTX1050, which would be about 3 times as fast.

What is the budget? You need to be spending a minimum of about €650-700 to be able to play Overwatch at a fairly reasonable level. The 940MX would be OK for low resolution and low settings. Next thing he goes to play something else and it will either not run or barely run and the laptop becomes somewhat redundant then.

I would suggest a laptop with an MX150 at a minimum - a lot faster than a GT940M, actually closer to a GTX950M which is significantly faster. PC Specialist for example sell a model with an i3-7100 and MX150 for €650 delivered to Ireland if you install the OS yourself (very easy to do from a USB stick).

Otherwise if the budget is below €650, might as well just buy a 2nd hand on Ebay/Adverts because all new laptops would be too slow for games.

The other thing is, is a desktop really out of the equation? Because you'd get a 2nd hand PC for about €250-300 that would be faster than a €6-700 laptop for games.

TerrorFirmer

How about this - €680 or so delivered to Ireland and way, way faster than that PC World one. He could run Overwatch at high resolution and high settings.

beauf

The issue with the cheap gaming laptops is they have poor non IPS screens and other compromises.

If you want a budget gaming machine buy a cheap desktop. There is no such thing as a cheap gaming laptop. The difference between a laptop that can play games at all, and one thats decent isn't that much. But non of them are cheap. You can make a cheap desktop usable for game much easier if it can take a graphics card. Even a cheap one.

TerrorFirmer

I have the above laptop and it's fine, good quality build and overall very solid. I play Battlefield 1 on it and it runs well enough, no issues with screen quality either. I would say for €680 there's no way you're going to get better and it would handle Overwatch very well. It is very cheap as far as 'gaming laptops' go (in the sense that there is no games out there it will not run - unlike the 940MX which cannot play a lot of the more intensive titles well even at low settings).

7th gen Kabylake i5 quad core, 8GB DDR4 and a GTX960M, which is pretty similar to a desktop GTX750Ti for €680 is a very good deal.