Comment by dangrossman

Comment by dangrossman 2 days ago

$200 on eBay will get you a used laptop with a Core i7, 16GB RAM and SSD; essentially the same specs as my year-old $1000+ laptop, other than having a newer generation CPU. It'll play many brand new games at 720p or better and acceptable framerates.

I still use an original Microsoft Surface Pro pretty often, and can barely tell the difference between using it and that year-old PC for web browsing, document editing, and tablet-style gaming. The Surface Pro came out in 2013.

rdujdjsjehy 2 days ago

Would you say that your laptop can get 120fps on non-minimal settings while playing the current Call of Duty? What about Grand Theft Auto V or Overwatch?

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dangrossman 2 days ago

I don't get 120fps on non-minimal settings with a PlayStation or Xbox, yet 150+ million people do all their gaming on those consoles (including almost half of Overwatch's player base according to some polls). That's not the test.

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- rdujdjsjehy 2 days ago
  
  Would you say you can get 60fps on non-minimal settings on the current call of duty then?
  
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  sulandor a day ago
  
  probably not, and you know, because aaa-shooters are typically made for push the boundaries.
  the point was that most things are playable and the list is only getting longer
  
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