[SOLVED] Best Gaming laptop under $500?

[jstorm5678]

Hi all, mostly new here

Parents want to get me a decent laptop for my graduation, but the price point is about $500. Does anyone know of any good "gaming able" laptops that could handle games like dark souls, skyrim, maybe witcher at around 40fps at that price point? Just looking for usability, don't need anything fancy.
Thanks.

 

[Phaaze88]

No... just no.
Look at it like this: build a gaming desktop around that budget. To yield the laptop equivalent(performance) of that desktop will cost like twice that.

IMO, a decent gaming laptop starts around 1500USD range. The really nice ones are well over 2000.

 

[maxamillionfeettall]

You won't get a system with a dedicated gpu, the best you could do would be a ryzen 5 3500u or there abouts. It won't game great, but it'll still play some things.

 

[jeffroberts1]

Well, its hard to share the specific laptop because there could be increase in the price of the laptop because of tax rate and low supply because of COVID-19

And as per my experience a good gaming laptop would cost your more than $1000/-

But you can find some best recommended laptop under $500 from the below list

1. Acer Aspire 5 - Details
2. Lenovo IdeaPad 3 - Details
3. ASUS VivoBook F512DA - Details
4. Lenovo Chromebook C330 - Details