I bought a laptop

[boyo1991]

Hey guys, I just wanted to share a quick Android related situation.

So the other day, I went to my local best buy. There was an Asus laptop that was on clearance due to being an open box. The problem the last person had? A tiny tiny insignificant scratch that was almost invisible to the naked eye. 4 GB RAM, yes a celeron processor, but 15+ inch screen (or thereabouts) and plenty of disk space.

At 200$ flat I fancied it a good deal.

So I brought it home, got it running, and started to download my... "Necessities" (games I planned on getting that would be suitable for the hardware). I've never been more disappointed in the speed even for simple games like hearthstone or even runescape. So I download ccleaner, clear up registry errors and BAM... Nothing changed

Something was defective I'm sure.

Long story short, I quickly began realizing I like using Android more than a pc. Especially when I wanted to play vainglory but knew I shouldn't because I just got this new laptop! (No, bluestacks was a nightmare for speed on this thing..)

Anywho, this is just my little story for Android enthusiasts

 

[AZgl1500]

I too bought an ASUS laptop that was open box, someone took it home, didn't like it, brought it back.

for the most part, it is pretty snappy, mine is a TP500L with a Touch Screen and it folds over 360* to make into a Tablet.
Win 8.1 ala Win 10 makes that imperative....

I formatted it and put Linux on it, even faster now.

 

[bcrichster]

I bought an ASUS laptop as well (i7 quad core + 16GB RAM), that thing is ludicrous speed compared to my Toshiba..

 

[kate]

a celeron processor,
I've never been more disappointed in the speed even for simple games like hearthstone or even runescape.

Gaming on a budget laptop with a Celeron processor wont go very well, even with low/mid-range games. Runscape needs an i3 for decent settings. The laptop probably doesn't have a good gaming GPU either.

 

[chanchan05]

This isn't a story about Android being better. This is simply a story of someone who is a little misinformed about laptop processing in general. Getting a Celeron CPU to run games and Windows is like getting a single core Android phone nowadays.

It's really the same thing. Get a <$200 laptop, and you get what you pay for. Get a $700 laptop or better, and you'll be able to play some mid range games. And even Hearthstone on a laptop uses more power than the same game on Android because you'll have to run it over Blizzard's Battlenet program.

 

[mikedt]

Late last year I bought a cheap Windows 10 tablet, only 2GB RAM, Intel Atom Mobile 1.6GHz quad-core CPU. I actually found for some gaming it does pretty well, runs Asphalt 8 quite nicely. Runs MS and WPS office no problems of course. I didn't actually buy it for gaming though, got it for lessons and for plugging into the TVs HDMI, for streaming movies, TV, etc.

The same tablet, Ramos i9s, also has an Android version. Windows 10 version is about equivalent of $200.
http://en.ramos.com.cn/showproduct.php?id=38

A few weeks later I did buy a new laptop as well, an Apple Macbook Air.

 

[Fox Mulder]

Celeron=slow.
I have one of those Atom tablets as well, it's ok for some basic applications and things that don't require much horsepower, but beyond that it's a dog. Fortunately I bought it as a toy and not for serious daily use.
There are good deals to be had if you look at refurbs of higher-end machines, I got my Dell i7 ultrabook for about half-price this way.
Anyway I think we're outside the realm of Android discussion here-

 

[Chelsie_Sweet]

I'm using an Asus but I don't let my daughter used it for gaming. I would expect it to be slow. For gaming, my brother is recommending a lenovo or a Dell laptop.

 

[chanchan05]

I'm using an Asus but I don't let my daughter used it for gaming. I would expect it to be slow. For gaming, my brother is recommending a lenovo or a Dell laptop.

Brand has nothing to do with slow or fast or whether it would be better for gaming.

I can get an ASUS ROG and it will be way faster and more powerful than a Lenovo Yoga. Just look at the laptop specs. In my example, the ASUS ROG would run latest gen i7 for laptops with mobile GTX graphic cards. The Lenovo Yoga would be running a Celeron with no graphic cards.

In the same way, getting a ASUS Transformer would be be a bad idea if your purpose is PC gaming.

The ASUS ROG line is specifically made for gaming, to go head to head with Razr, Qosmio and Alienware laptops.

 

[bcrichster]

I'm running an Asus ROG and really couldn't be happier. Slightly older than the newer Alienwares (a 2014 laptop) but at 1/3 the cost and 100 ×'s the capabilities, this thing is bad@$$. Worth the cost, but use this for Development & compiling. This thing has so much RAM that it doesn't use any swap at all for compiling, gonna reduce the swap a little bit soon

 

[SiaGarcia]

two months ago i bought Lenovo:

• Intel Core i3-4030U 1.9 GHz Processor
• 6 GB DDR3 RAM
• 500 GB 5400 rpm Hard Drive
• 15.6-Inch HD (1366 x 768) Display
• Windows 8.1

Not the coolest one, but i love it.

 

[boyo1991]

I knew what I was getting into with a celeron, but I think what i was getting at at this time (cuz I was a bit crabby no game would work on lowest settings I don't even remember fully) was that even if it worked just fine.. I wasnt as interested in it.. then again maybe I was just crabby lol. For the record altho jagex "requires" i3 or above, (laughably) for runescape, for this example I couldn't even play in the "min" settings. I guess to be fair i didnt have a clue about the graphics chipset... meh its done and over with now lol