Looking for laptop to run MS Flight Simulator 2020

[lukemc1980]

Hi,

I am looking looking for a laptop that will run the new Microsoft FS 2020 ideally for <£600 or so I have looked up the minimum specs:

Ryzen 3 1200 or Intel Core i5-4460 CPU, a Radeon RX 570 or GTX 770 GPU, 8GB of RAM and 150GB of HDD space.

And the recommended specs which is probably closer to what I would want:

Ryzen 5 1500X or Intel Core i5-8400, 16GB of RAM and a Radeon RX 590 or GTX 970 GPU

Just asking for some advice before I buy as I do not want to spend money on a new laptop to find out it will not run FS2020!

E.g. would this ACER Aspire 5 run MSFS2020 reasonably:

** No competitors **


It has a Ryzen 5 4500U processor which seems to meet the recommended CPU spec, 8GB of RAM which meets the minimum spec, 512GB of HDD space which seems fine, it is Windows 10 which is fine, the GPU appears to be an NVIDIA Ge Force MX150 which has 2GB of VRAM which appears to meet the minimum but just want to check if the GPU for this one is OK if not can you recommend anything else?

Luke

 

[wedrum]

great 1st post enjoy your ban

 

[Nononame]

great 1st post enjoy your ban

Perhaps to be a bit more helpful than this, you cannot link to other websites, so you might be better to remove the link. The forum is paid for and supported by overclockers so asking about competitors is against the rules.

As for the laptop linked, it might run it but the experience will be horrible. Buying a pc a minimum specs and you are on a hiding to nothing. You could build a better pc for 600 quid (not what you asked, I know) but really you need to spend a bit more on a laptop to have a better experience...

 

[heatonpkmassive]

600 Quid? No chance.

 

[MagicBoy]

OP - you should read the forum rules

£600? Nah. MX150 is basically a GT1030, a GTX970 is significantly faster. You are looking ~£800 for one with a sensible graphics card like a GTX 1650.