{"id":10122,"date":"2024-01-10T11:18:15","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T11:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/?p=10122"},"modified":"2025-12-26T11:41:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T11:41:00","slug":"a-gaming-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/a-gaming-laptop\/","title":{"rendered":"A gaming laptop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Shall I get a gaming laptop? Yes, I know I want to and my experience of playing BG3 on my working machine, was poor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Here’s some pages and links, the reviews<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Best for Baldurs Gate 3<\/a> from pcguide, includes the min and recommended spec. They point at Acer, Lenovo, and MSI, whom I have not heard of before. About MSI<\/a>!<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. I also found this, Best gaming laptop<\/a> from PC Gamer, who recommends a Lenovo and Best gaming laptops compared<\/a> from GamesRadar, who doesn’t look at HP\/Lenovo, but does look at the Alienware range. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Is Lenovo better than HP?<\/a> from laptop outlet. And good old intel vs AMD<\/a>, looks like Intel today or whenever this was written.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. This explained <\/a>how to understand the video card names and capability.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    I need W10 (or newer) but the following hardware is recommended, Processor: Intel i7 8700K \/ AMD r5 3600, 16GB RAM, Graphics: Nvidia 2060 Super \/ RX 5700 XT (8GB+ of VRAM) & 150 GB of SSD space, which given people are shipping 512 GB SSD, at the cheaper end, is a bit tight! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    I made a short list<\/a> at Currys. Having looked at some HP laptops, I chose to look at couple of Lenovo’s & a couple of MSI systems. I went to visit my local Curry’s and decided I wanted\/needed a bigger screen, but the 17″ screens become very expensive. My final list consisted of a Lenovo Legion Slim 5 and an MSI Stealth 16<\/a>, which was on special offer. So I got the latter, I think because the screen technology is better and it was on special offer. The good news is that it comes with a two years manufacturer’s warranty, a back lit keyboard, and a fingerprint reader, which I wanted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\t