Buying the wife a new laptop, but where to start?

AshB1989

AshB1989

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Hi all

I'm looking to buy my wife a new laptop, which she'll occasionally use to play WoW and The Sims. She'll also like to play GTA6 whenever it arrives...

I will also be using the laptop for occasional emails/bathroom design software, so it needs to be fairly powerful.

I'd like to spend around £1,200/1,300 if that's enough?

I have always used desktops, so don't know where to start when it comes to laptops - your advice would be massively appreciated.

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What about this? Is this any good? Can you get better spec/brand than this?

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Lenovo Legion 5 NVIDIA RTX 4070 16GB 16.0 WQXGA 240Hz i7-14650HX Gaming Laptop

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This also seems very reasonably priced?

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MSI Crosshair 16 HX NVIDIA 4060 16GB 16 QHD+ 240Hz Intel i7-14700HX Gaming Laptop

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I've ventured in and out of gaming laptops a few times and found Dell + Lenovo to be the good ones, reasonably cheap warranty extensions too.

Have a look at https://www.hotukdeals.com/

There's a very well priced Dell G16 Gaming for £1249, it has 32GB too.

The Lenovo Legion 5 you've linked isn't too badly priced.

I've had poor experience of MSI gaming laptops and so have friends, so I generally just discard them.
 
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Legion laptops are decent, I've had one in the past. You want to avoid laptops with low TDP on the graphics card. For example, it is possible for a 4060 laptop to be better than a 4070 laptop if the TDP on the 4070 is severely limited.
Legion are always up there with max TDP for the graphics card. The one you've shared looks decent.

You can also expand the RAM on the legion in the future if you wanted to. It takes some time prying off the back cover but its a simple enough task!

Edit: just read that it's 1x16gb rather than 2x8gb. So you'd definitely want to put in another 16GB stick to get the best out of the machine (for dual channel).

An alternative would be to just buy a cheap laptop for now to play WoW and Sims, and then sell it when GTA comes out which will be at least two years.

By then you can pickup a much faster laptop for similar money that will be able to handle it much better.
 
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ProStreet said:
By then you can pickup a much faster laptop for similar money that will be able to handle it much better.
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This is actually a great idea.

I just went to pull the trigger on the Crosshair, but then they tried to charge for delivery.... for a (close to) thousand proud laptop, almost feels cheeky.

I've aborted on that for now - see if anything comes up on Friday.

Can you recommend any 'cheap' laptops? I saw that Dell on the HotUkDeals, but it has an American keyboard, so bailed on that too.
 
AshB1989 said:
This is actually a great idea.

I just went to pull the trigger on the Crosshair, but then they tried to charge for delivery.... for a (close to) thousand proud laptop, almost feels cheeky.

I've aborted on that for now - see if anything comes up on Friday.

Can you recommend any 'cheap' laptops? I saw that Dell on the HotUkDeals, but it has an American keyboard, so bailed on that too.
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If you don't mind a 1080p display then you could go for the 4060 Lenovo LOQ 15IAX9 which you can pickup for around £699.
 
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