Which gaming laptop brand is better?
hi. any opinions on which brand is better for gaming laptops? Asus or Lenovo. I have been looking for months for a laptop cause mine is slow now and my price range is low so I am looking at asus tuf...
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@Aidenguy00 Among the three laptops you listed, performance should be about the same between the first and third. I'd definitely cross off the second one though: its graphics chip is only about half as fast, which is a very large gap in gaming. Still, you could do better.
To play Sims 4 on ultra graphics settings, you really do need a laptop with a dedicated graphics card. Even the low-end MX cards often can't handle ultra settings, although that depends to some degree on playstyle and what a person considers good enough performance. For the next faster cards, that means a gaming laptop, at least until you get into the £1,200+ price range.
You could get a non-gaming laptop with an MX card though. The fastest one Currys has in stock, at least in your price range, is the MX350, which should be able to handle high settings; beyond that, you could play with the various options to see which combination works best for you. This Acer has both an MX350 and a number pad:
These two are £800; the Zenbook has some weird feature where the number pad appears on the touchpad, if you're into that kind of thing. I don't think either of these are better than the one above; this is only if you happen not to like the first option for some reason.
The only other laptop with an MX350 I saw was this HP, but it doesn't have a number pad:
The MX250 is a little slower, but still significantly faster than an integrated graphics chip. The only good options I saw didn't have a number pad though.
Hi @puzzlezaddict, thank you for the detailed explanation for which non-gaming laptop would be best for me to play on the highest setting possible.
I am interested in two of the laptops you mentioned:
https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing/laptops/laptops/acer-aspire-5-a515-56g-15-6-laptop-intel-core-i5-512-gb-ssd-silver-10212833-pdt.html
https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing/laptops/laptops/hp-envy-13-3-laptop-intel-core-i5-512-gb-ssd-gold-10212904-pdt.html
As you have stated, they both have MX350 graphic cards so it is significantly slower compared to GTX 1650 which the Lenovo Gaming Ideapad 3 has.
After doing research about these two, I also came across another non-gaming laptop with a separate graphics card and that laptop has GTX 1050. As below:
Would this mean, this Acer Aspire 7 with GTX 1050 would allow me to play Sims 4 with Ultra settings unlike the MX350 laptops which would probably allow High settings?
And is this laptop better than the Acer Aspire 5 and HP Envy?
@Aidenguy00 The laptop with the 1050 is a gaming laptop, but that's not a bad thing, from my perspective at least. It should outperform the other laptops by a significant margin. I didn't mention it because I thought you weren't interested in gaming laptops, but it's certainly a good computer.
The MX350 is actually a sized-down version of the 1050. You get a smaller, lighter, less power-hungry graphics card; the tradeoff is you lose about 30% in performance. So from a gaming standpoint, a laptop with a 1050 is clearly the better option.
Right now, a 1050 can run all current Sims 4 packs on ultra settings, but maybe only barely, again depending on playstyle and other factors. Depending on how you play, you may always be able to use ultra settings, but there's no guarantee.
- @puzzlezaddict Ohh I see! On Currys, it's not in the gaming laptop section and it is with the normal laptop section so I didn't know it was a gaming laptop. It certainly doesn't look like one haha.
Yes, my mother doesn't like the Lenovo Ideapad gaming 3 since it is plastic and shows fingerprints but I think the Acer looks like a metal-painted body but still shows fingerprints as do most black laptops probably.
Now I will have to decide whether to choose between the Ideapad Gaming 3 or Acer Aspire 7. I am more leaning towards the Ideapad just because of the GPU as it's guaranteed that Sims 4 can run on ultra settings, whereas, Acer Aspire 7 isn't necessarily guaranteed but then again the build quality of the Acer seems better.
It's so difficult! Could you please weigh out the positive and negatives for the two laptops?@Aidenguy00 If we're talking about the Lenovo with the 1650, then that's a major positive for the Lenovo. The 1650 is about 40% faster in gaming than the 1050, so even if the Lenovo doesn't run games to its full theoretical potential, it's still going to perform a lot better than any laptop with a 1050.
I think the Lenovo has only 256 GB of storage, which is not a lot, even though it's more than enough for Sims 4. If you have plans to store a significant amount of data on the laptop, you might be better off with the Acer's 512 GB storage. You could of course buy an external hard drive, but that's not as convenient.
The processor and RAM are equal, and the laptops' cooling benchmarks are similar, so there's not much to comment on there.
Really though, this comes down to which laptop you like better. While it's great to have the best in-game performance your budget can buy, you're using the laptop for other purposes too, and that matters. I say this as someone with a MacBook Pro that I love: its gaming performance is nowhere near what I could have gotten for a comparably priced Windows system, but I'm on the Mac for hours every day and wouldn't trade it for a gaming laptop. I can still play fine, on a graphics card that's a little slower than the 1050. And yes, I do notice the difference, but on the other hand, I'm much happier when I'm doing everything else.
