First up, I know a lot of people build and I'm sure it's better, it's just I can't really be bothered, and I want the portability of a laptop. I plan on buying a laptop with a 1TB HDD, 8GB of RAM (DDR3) and an N2815 INtel Celeron Processor. It's 1.86 Ghz (but can be improved to 2.13Ghz). Would this be able to run Minecraft at a high framerate? Also, what are my chances of being able to run Skyrim? Think that might be a long shot though.
Laptop Specs - good enough?
Guest
A 2 ghz processor is more than enough to run skyrim and minecraft if you want a computer to play games on i would highly recommend you focus more on the graphics card/integrated graphics that desktops and laptops come with. Also to be honest integrated graphics isn't what you want for gaming. Desktops with pci video cards are always the best. A lot of amd cpus come with integrated graphics also.
Keith
A laptop has a hardwired Video Graphics Card so remember if it is not up to specs you are stuck. Unless you can find an External USB device.
Skyrim Specs: (Video Graphics is where most machines fail the test)
You Do need a machine that meets these requirements for Skyrim.
Recommended
-Windows 7/Vista/XP PC (32 or 64 bit)
-Quad-core Intel or AMD CPU processor
-4GB System RAM
-6GB free HDD (Hard disk drive) space
-DirectX 9.0c compatible NVIDIA or AMD ATI video card with 1GB of RAM: Nvidia GeForce GTX 260 or higher; ATI Radeon HD 4890 or higher
-DirectX compatible sound card
-Internet access for Steam activation
Avoid Windows 8 if you plan to play olde games not programmed especially for it.
Mikel