Spec me: Cheapo Laptop

Omaeka · 18 Aug 2017 at 14:32

Preferably brand new, my Toshiba Satelite is an absolute warrior but it's coming close to the time to put her out to pasture.

My laptops are used exclusively for Twitch/Youtube/Netflix/720 or 1080p video files etc.

If it could play low end games like Runescape '07, Diablo 2, Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale blah blah blah and idle smartphone-tier games like Clicker Heroes that would be an amazing bonus.

Budget is £200 because I'm a tight arse and I'm putting stock in laptop tech being far superior than 10 years ago.

Appreciado!

PiKe · 18 Aug 2017 at 14:35

You would be better off looking on the MM, you won't get much for £200 new.

Omaeka · 18 Aug 2017 at 14:40

Are you sure? I've seen laptops around for £200 with i5 CPUs and what have you. I'm just absolutely clueless on laptop brands so not sure what to get.

Would it be against the rules to link home use laptops from other sites when OcUK only sell high end gaming laptops?

EDIT: The laptop range with the atom processors have the grunt to run DOOM at 15fps with onboard. I'm not looking to game on it though but I think that's a testament to what you can get for your £.

Biz.Kid09 · 18 Aug 2017 at 16:56

Anything with i5 and more than 4gb ram will be fine, whatever you get if you have the cash then 100% get an SSD, no matter what the specs are in the laptop. The key difference for speed will be SSD.