So, I'm looking for a new laptop and I was wondering, since I'm a bit out of my league when looking for said laptops, what the Escapist would suggest.
When it comes to what I want, I'm not particularly picky. Basically, I'm a console gamer, but have fallen in love with minecraft. I would love, if I could get a PC that was not only able to play minecraft up to full specs, but was able to play it, and function really well with a mod such as GLSL shaders for minecraft. Not only would I like good enough graphics to be able to play this with said mod at really high settings, but I would also like the flexibility to add other things to the laptop itself, both in and out of minecraft.
Seeing as that's basically all I would really play game-wise on the laptop, I'm not looking particularly hard on a gaming laptop either (mainly because they have such terrible battery life). The reason battery life is a problem is because I'm about to go to college and I would like something portable that I can take notes on as well that would survive possibly up to four hours without needing charging of any sort.
As far as money, I'm not particularly minding cost right now. My parents are subsidizing the cost with five hundred dollars (the rest will be up to me) so I'm possibly looking at anything between five hundred dollars and a thousand five-hundred dollars (while I would still prefer not to quite get up that high in cost, I will go there if that is my only option).
Could somebody assist me and what I should really be looking for? Keep in mind, I am totally out of my league on this one, I'm a musician and not a technician so perhaps even a description of some of the main specs I would be looking at would also be very informative and I would really appreciate the description.
If you really don't feel like doing some extra research, could you just tell me what type of laptop you own and what you're able to do on it? Thanks in advance!
When it comes to what I want, I'm not particularly picky. Basically, I'm a console gamer, but have fallen in love with minecraft. I would love, if I could get a PC that was not only able to play minecraft up to full specs, but was able to play it, and function really well with a mod such as GLSL shaders for minecraft. Not only would I like good enough graphics to be able to play this with said mod at really high settings, but I would also like the flexibility to add other things to the laptop itself, both in and out of minecraft.
Seeing as that's basically all I would really play game-wise on the laptop, I'm not looking particularly hard on a gaming laptop either (mainly because they have such terrible battery life). The reason battery life is a problem is because I'm about to go to college and I would like something portable that I can take notes on as well that would survive possibly up to four hours without needing charging of any sort.
As far as money, I'm not particularly minding cost right now. My parents are subsidizing the cost with five hundred dollars (the rest will be up to me) so I'm possibly looking at anything between five hundred dollars and a thousand five-hundred dollars (while I would still prefer not to quite get up that high in cost, I will go there if that is my only option).
Could somebody assist me and what I should really be looking for? Keep in mind, I am totally out of my league on this one, I'm a musician and not a technician so perhaps even a description of some of the main specs I would be looking at would also be very informative and I would really appreciate the description.
If you really don't feel like doing some extra research, could you just tell me what type of laptop you own and what you're able to do on it? Thanks in advance!
