onson Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 I'm looking to buy a laptop for the purpose of playing Skyrim and creating mods with the Creation kit. Not trying to run the game on Ultra or anything, Budget I guess is 1000 to 1500 maybe? I've never had a laptop so I'm not familiar with what a "decent " one should cost. I'm also unfamiliar with the mobile graphics cards performance. Also, aren't laptops officially "unsupported" for most games ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staind716 Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 I currently use a Toshiba X505-Q887 laptop for just about everything and am extremely happy with it. Not only is it the most bad*** looking laptop in my opinion, it also has great performance. I play a lot of different games with no problems at all. Mine is also a year and a half old so there are newer versions available. Just go to Toshiba's site for all the specs on newer models and check it out. The only other thing I would highly recommend is a cooling pad with any laptop you decide on. All laptops run at pretty high temperatures and this will help tremendously. Oh, and get ready for all the laptop haters out there to start talking trash. I run my Skyrim game on ultra with high shadows, ENB ssao, and over 100 mods so don't listen to the garbage about laptops can't run Skyrim decently. From what I've seen from a lot of posts my lappy has better performance than a lot of the desktops people are using. Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SubjectProphet Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 Don't buy Alienware these days. I bought one when they first came out, and it runs smoothly, no FPS hits or anything. Nowadays, they suck. An Acer looks pretty good. My roomate has one, and he can run Skyrim with around 60 mods and on ultra, and still get some stable performance and FPS. And it's a pretty cheap laptop too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onson Posted February 9, 2012 Author Share Posted February 9, 2012 I dont know if i've ever heard anything good about alienware, lol. There seems to be a common theme of " looks great, poor quality"..I also hear a lot about " laptops dont run games good", thats why I'm looking for personal experience recommendations from people. That Toshiba does look pretty good btw.That model is on Ebay new for about 1200$. Dont know if thats a good deal or not at this point because I just started shopping around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dambuster Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 You have a bigger budget so no point in going this low but my Acer with integrated Intel HD Graphics run Skyrim on medium/high settings at around 35 - 45 fps with plenty of mods including some high res textures. It cost me about £350 so that's around $630. Which is pretty cheap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onson Posted February 10, 2012 Author Share Posted February 10, 2012 You have a bigger budget so no point in going this low but my Acer with integrated Intel HD Graphics run Skyrim on medium/high settings at around 35 - 45 fps with plenty of mods including some high res textures. It cost me about £350 so that's around $630. Which is pretty cheap. Thanks, I'm trying to get an idea of performance vs cost so that helps. It's difficult to know exactly how a game will run on a particular machine until you actually run it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pingonaut Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 Got an alienware about 2 years ago. It looked great until the number keys broke, the lighting on the keyboard displayed the wrong color and it couldn't run FarmVille.Don't get one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SubjectProphet Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 Again with my advice: Don't buy alienware these days. They were awesome when they first came out, that's my version, very stable and great quality. You could find one on Ebay or something like that. Worth it, but like I said, only the early versions were good. Anything with Intel graphics chips is a good computer for games. Intel does good work in graphic cards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tejano2828 Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 I got an Asus G74 and it plays Skyrim on max settings for hours with no problem, read the reviews you can get onefor about 1,300 on amazon. GOod luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
direelite1134 Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 I got an Asus G74 and it plays Skyrim on max settings for hours with no problem, read the reviews you can get onefor about 1,300 on amazon. GOod luck I have the g73sw-a1, that i got for $1850 in may, and I only run at high35-50fps, 20-35fps on ultra, i didnt think they were that different? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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