Could someone recommend a laptop?

I'm looking for a cheap laptop (under £450) with a large amount of processing power.
I'm going to be using it for playing Minecraft mostly.
I'll probably move it about a lot,so a large 17 inch one isn't really an option.

Could someone recommend a laptop that is good for these things?

If you want a laptop that will be usable for gaming, you may want to save up a little longer. Last time I looked, you'd get a lot more gaming bang for your buck at the $900-1000 price point than at the $750 price point (~£450).

I was just thinking of a reasonable laptop that will run games quite fast while not being expensive or very heavy.

gollark8, on 26 February 2014 - 08:40 PM said:

I was just thinking of a reasonable laptop that will run games quite fast while not being expensive or very heavy.

You can't have the best of both worlds.

Opportunity cost.

I haven't tried any of these, I just found them, but they seem good:
http://www.amazon.co...d/dp/B00ECBU1KM
http://www.amazon.co...d/dp/B00HR6U4GU
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lenovo-G510-15-6-inch-Laptop-Integrated/dp/B00H525N4Y/
http://www.dell.com/...nspiron-15-3537

gollark8, on 26 February 2014 - 08:40 PM said:

I was just thinking of a reasonable laptop that will run games quite fast while not being expensive or very heavy.

As long as you don't care about super long draw distance, high quality graphics, or clouds (clouds lag the !@#$ out of my laptop). You can get a computer that can run Minecraft ok for around $400. At least at a place like Micro Center anyway.

I would have to say the MacBook Air. I would get the MacBook Pro, but it weighs a crapton when you move around a lot. If you want something that stays in one place (like on a desk) but that can easily be moved to your sofa or whatever, then get the MacBook Pro.

awsmazinggenius, on 28 February 2014 - 12:57 AM said:

I would have to say the MacBook Air. I would get the MacBook Pro, but it weighs a crapton when you move around a lot. If you want something that stays in one place (like on a desk) but that can easily be moved to your sofa or whatever, then get the MacBook Pro.

Apple is a bad choise for gaming, and he has a price limit WAY too low for a mac.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/X550CC-XO071H-15-6-inch-i5-3337U-Processor-GeForce/dp/B00GD98E64/ref=sr_1_3?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1393550900&sr=1-3&keywords=Laptop
This should do the trick.
It has a dedicated GPU.

Notice that it is also in the price range that I mentioned. It's about $960 USD as of this posting.

None of the options 1lann posted are all that great, for various reasons. Mostly due to low RPM hard drives, low CPU speed or lack of any meaningful graphical capabilities. I would also advise heavily against a Mac of any sort for gaming purposes.

I'd love to hear why people are choosing against the Mac for gaming. I have Parralels desktop on my Mac as well as a PC, and I really don't see any difference (although did get my Mac custom-ordered with a slightly faster CPU and some more RAM and that sort of stuff) except for the touchscreen in my actual PC (not an all-in-one, but an external touchscreen), but I don't really use that (I hate touch keyboards on an upright screen) except for drawing the gestures on my picture password, which is a feature I love.

Most games that are released are for Windows. Mac computers generally are intended for general office work, creative-type tasks, or entertainment. They're not usually built with hardware intended for gaming, so recommending a Mac to someone whose primary criterion is that it be good for gaming is not really sensible. There are some things that they do well, but gaming is not generally considered to be one of those things.

awsmazinggenius, on 28 February 2014 - 05:39 AM said:

I'd love to hear why people are choosing against the Mac for gaming. I have Parralels desktop on my Mac as well as a PC, and I really don't see any difference (although did get my Mac custom-ordered with a slightly faster CPU and some more RAM and that sort of stuff) except for the touchscreen in my actual PC (not an all-in-one, but an external touchscreen), but I don't really use that (I hate touch keyboards on an upright screen) except for drawing the gestures on my picture password, which is a feature I love.

As much as I do like Macs, Lyqyd is right. Macs aren't really designed for games. That doesn't mean you can't use them for games, but if this person is on such a tight budget then a Mac isn't really the best idea.

I do realize that, but I use Parralels desktop (there are your Windows games) and I custom-ordered my Mac. Despite others opinions, which I do respect, It's gonna be what I recommend.

Mac, incredibly expensive compared to equivelantly specced windows machine, which on a budget is entirely counter intuitive. Throw in that parallels is not free and also requires a copy of windows, and thats even more counter intuitive.

If the OP is only after minecraft as his only game, I got my laptop which is supposedly an ultrabook (Its slim yeah but at 14" isnt the tiniest thing in the world and isnt macbook air slim) for £430 I think. 3rd Core i3 dual core at 1.8ghz, 6gb of RAM, no dedicated GPU, runs minecraft just fine. Can get playable 40's to 60's on normal render (does seem to fluctuate depending on terrain, if anything it tends to float in the 50's on the surface most of the time), hell it often copes just fine on far render, although jungles and forests throw it off a bit but its playable considering its still over 20fps (alot higher on plains etc) and my old laptop could only achieve that on tiny :P/>. Minecraft isn't terribly demanding, its not lightweight but you dont need some hyper expensive alienware (urgh, hate alienware) to run it nicely.
I'd say just about anything with a core i3 or i5 should be able to give satisfactory performance regardless of a dedicated GPU being absent. Getting something that will 100% max the game will probably go out of budget.

Its an HP Sleekbook 14 that I have. 1TB hybrid hard disk (32gb SSD as cache), 6gb DDR3 RAM, intel i3-3217U. Only complaint is battery life, considering its labelled an ultrabook, 3 hours isn't great on the default power plan, going to get a second battery I think…

The other thing is to just get used to low frame rates.
I normally get around 20 FPS in Minecraft now, I'm just used to it.

Although, that doesn't even compare to my 4 FPS in Dayz on my PC…

oeed: On,y 20 FPS? I can get a hundred and something on my Mac. What hardware does your Mac have? Maybe the extra hardware I bought is a little OP.

1lann, on 26 February 2014 - 10:58 PM said:

I haven't tried any of these, I just found them, but they seem good:
http://www.amazon.co...d/dp/B00ECBU1KM
http://www.amazon.co...d/dp/B00HR6U4GU
http://www.amazon.co.../dp/B00H525N4Y/
http://www.dell.com/...nspiron-15-3537

All of those have Intel integrated Graphics.
One time I played with MultiMC, which had the bug that it uses the integrated graphics card sometimes, and it lagged like hell.

Also, the first one had 1.4 GHz, my old laptop with 2x1.7 GHz lagged with Minecraft Classic.


I'm using an Acer Aspire V3 - 771G - 53218G75 Maii:
8GB RAM, 2x2.5 GHz, good graphics, 700€