Anyone have any recommendations for a budget friendly laptop to play hearthstone comfortably? been trying to look thru last years clearance models but I have never owned a gaming laptop only desktop for WoW 10 years ago.. Thanks
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Iâm very interested in hearing the answer to this as well. I would be curious how people feel on PC vs. Mac for Hearthstone.
My ancient Microsoft Surface seems to be straining!
just make sure it has a dedicated gpu and youâre fine tbh, gaming laptop isnât gonna do much for you compared to desktop but hearthstone is lightweight, smt like surface is lol bc integrated gpu. laptop deals r**dit page should have you well covered.
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As said, make sure it has a dedicated GPU so it can play most games, including Hearthstone.
I bought an ASUS TUF A15 back in 2022 for AUD $1400 and itâs my daily driver for gaming, streaming, video editing, etc. Thereâs probably an updated version of that now.
Just donât go too budget and regret it when you canât play your games.
The forum telepaths, perhaps, who know where you live? 
Oh, and also â whatâs your budget.
People buy gaming laptops for mobility or portability, as well as more compact sizes, not better value or performance.
You must be joking.
Even my gaming RTX 4060 (laptop) is feeling some stress from HS â more than from some older actual video games, perhaps.
Not all discrete GPUs are equal, likely, not all intergated ones are basic, besides, it very much depends on which games you want to play.
If itâs just HS, I wouldnât bother with graphics, which are often ugly and low-quality even on high settings anyway, more or less anything would do, including some ordinary integrated GPUs.
PS
Speaking of the aforementioned issue: here comes the âEveryone lives in 'Muricaâ guy, is that it?
PPS So, to sum up, the three questions Iâd put forth are: where does the author live (for some tips about the local market, perhaps), whatâs the budget and what other games does (s)he intend to play on a gaming laptop or what other tasks to do?
Besides, there are other matters, such as what the desired screen size is and so on.
iâm running on a 3060 rn while iâm running ~10 containers and 100 chrome windows youâre doing something fundamentally wrong with your computer.
also runs fine on a surface pro 6 if itâs the only thing youâre running, iGPU from 8 years ago.
if youâre outside of america and have a decent budget, current recommendation is asus zephyrus g15, thatâs really outside the scope of this forum though isnât it?
trollers gonna troll, gl with the fish.
(edit: youâre literally trying to troll this person from actual advice, which is dedicated GPU > internal GPU 99.993% of the time)
(edit edit: you successfully trolled me into losing my casual game give yourself a pat on the back thatâs the kind of person you are, grats)
Oh, lookee, an internet guru lecturing somebody. 
And this person speaks of something âfundamentally wrongâ on a computer.
I could point out another piece of unwanted software, though, albeit less malicious, perhaps, i.e. just bloatware, not spyware etc: itâs called HS. 
No. When speaking of a âbudget purchaseâ, itâs more or less a starting point for a conversation.
Error margin and how it is calculated? 
Oh, and yeah, thatâs some advice â especially for just playing HS.
Btw, dGPUs are mostly for dedicated gamers or certain tasks â as far as I remember some reports with data, the vast majority of PCs out there (both stationary and mobile, I think) run on iGPUs just fine, of course. PS Thereâs also been this recent hype, with some companies actively pushing so-called âAIâ toys, bells and whistles on every machine, hence all those NPUs, GPUs and such even for ordinary consumers, but frankly, itâs not really needed for most cases.
Iâd be surprised how the bulk of people here compensate for their cluelessness with excessive self-confidence and arrogance, but⌠I wasnât born yesterday, itâs nothing new.
Yeah, the whole world, including all the Sparky Elves in it, revolves around you solely and does nothing but, say, scheme in order to make you lose your game.
Iâve been writing quite a bit about big babies with such a self-centred worldview (canât be bothered to dig it up this time, though), but you know what, you deserve a special prize. 
I nominate your for the biggest baby on these forums, or something like it.
budget friendly is just dell laptops. You can find good ones around 750-1,200 range that have dedicated gpuâs. They all will play HS just fine. This game doesnât really require much of a pc to play it.
i mean it took me less than a minute to read all that so i hope it took you less than a minute to put it together.
dGPUs are reliably performant longer than iGPUs. if you want it to run games for more than ten years, get a dGPU. if youâre using an external monitor, get a dGPU.
also get 32 gigs of ram lol.
if you have to choose between 32gb ram and a dGPU at a price point, go a revision earlier.
this is a setup that will run games like hearthstone for the next 15 years, at < $100/year right?
if thatâs out of your budget, prio 16 gb > dGPU < both, reuse all previous advice.
anything past that is out of scope for battlegrounds forums.
For HS? Are you serious here? Rhetorical question, I guess.
I mean, HS is notably heavy on resources and prone to leaks (for example: Refund me my legend please - #11 by SparkyElf-2852) â maybe âthanksâ to the Unity engine, I dunno, but that heavy? Or are you just trying to play an internet genius⌠again? âGet an EPYC and a data-centre class GPUâ â âjust becauseâ, yeah.
Ye-e-e-eah, and how exactly is it going to help me run, say, RenâPy games for more than ten years? Or the Infinity Engine classics?
What?
You know why AMD has started to integrate some basic GPU even in desktop Ryzen processors? Exactly that you can plug in a monitor there just in case.
Dunno if the game in question will last that long , but other than that â finally, a concrete proposition. For it, neither of what you mention is needed or has been needed for about ten years of its existense, and itâs not like graphics are impressive, anyway, even with a gaming GPU (despite being resource-heavy, yes). In fact, Iâve often noticed quality issues, bad rendering of fonts and other artifacts like that.
Thus, the relevant question to the topic-starter still stands: what other tasks or games are expected to run on that laptop?
Where on Azeroth is that?
Iâd like to say itâs a Mercenaries forum, but it clearly says, âHearthsoneâ.
the readers are certainly benefitting from your word salad attempts to provide dedicated 1:1 support to no one 