I would advise against a cheap laptop for wow, gaming laptops tend to lack CPU to handle wow very well, atleast nowadays.
Wow eats like 90% of my CPU when it’s up, so my system is bottlenecked on the laptop, wavering from 49-60 fps.
I’m sure if you look somewhere like amazon and newegg you can find a good deal/sale. That’s how I got mine. I had a bit more of price range ability than you though. But I did see some cool deals where some laptops were 300 off in price.
I would also recommend getting a cooling pad for the laptop just incase. Those do come in handy on laptops that have that heating problem.
Ok, Hate amazon. The have a ware house section with some laptop. Best buy also has a warehouse section. Then you can try new egg and see what they have. The best option is go to a custom gaming company and see if can get one on install mends. You can get a decent computer that way. Stay away from digital storm, PC power and falcon as they sell crap.
You do realize we are talking about world of warcraft right? The game that came out over 15 yrs ago? Get outta here with your BS. A 1050ti and an i5 10k series processor is going to run wow just fine.
Have you tried raiding in yours?
You already bought it right?
Gaming laptops are usually around $1200-1500 and all that power usually comes at the expense of bad battery life. I have a 6 year old gaming laptop that I only use when I’m out traveling and it still plays WoW and other games just fine when I need it.
Buy a used one from someone who just upgraded to a 30x series laptop. They just came out so you should see a lot of very good option for used laptop in your area since people are getting rid of them.
Haven’t raided shadowlands on this new laptop. My i5 3k series, 950m 2 yrs ago handled BFA raids on med-high settings… this card is 2 times more powerful than the 950m. It will be fine. like I said … Let’s not act like this is BDO or cyberpunk k?
I bought a Acer Nitro because I’m very mobile. I can stream, play wow, and do all kinds of stuff with it. I put more ram in it and it was gravy. Yeah it could be better but it can run wow at high and I’ve done everything under the sun with it. I do look forward to getting a nice desktop soon! Good luck!
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wow that’s a good deal for what you’re getting. I miss costco sometimes, where i live now all we have here is sam’s.
It’s technically possible to find ~$700 “gaming” laptops, but they’re going to come at steep sacrifices in raw power. Even if you find something with a nice looking spec sheet, be prepared to deal with massive tradeoffs in other aspects of the machine — stuff like terrible screen, terrible keyboard, terrible cooling, and/or weak battery. Probably the most common problem is terrible build quality, where the laptop doesn’t hold up to even light wear and literally starts falling apart after 2-3 years (have seen this personally with friends’ Lenovo gaming laptops).
I live near and Air Force Base and always see young Airmen who bought high end laptops and never used them.
If you’re okay with the used market, I would suggest looking there and lowballing the crap out of people.
I picked up my Legion Y740 w/ 9750H, 1660 TI, 32GB RAM, 1TB NVME and 1TB SSD for $700.
Up your budget and get something like
https://www.newegg.com/black-lenovo-legion-5-15arh05h/p/1TS-000E-0P0D1