I won't be playing any other games.
Must be £450 or less. (don't tell me to pay more, i know its not going to be amazing)
I need a laptop that will run Minecraft with mods and football manager?
#2>> £449 http://www.amazon.co.uk/...00HRUSWM4/
Toshiba with i5-4200M HD Graphics 4600 fairly low battery life 4GB 500GB
#3>> £400 http://www.currys.co.uk/...3-pdt.html
Acer with A10-5757M 8650G 6GB 1TB
£398 http://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/Lenovo-Flex-59390888_1536134.html
Lenovo Flex 14" i3-4010U HD Graphics 4400 4GB 500GB
#1>> £440 http://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/Lenovo-G510-59406141_1536151.html
Lenovo with i5-4200M HD 4600 4GB 1TB
£370 http://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/LENOVO-G505-59386031_1492692.html
Lenovo with AMD A4-5000M AMD 8570M 4GB 500GB
£380 http://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/ASUS-X552-X552CL-SX037H_1504033.html
Asus with i3-3217U GT 710M 6GB 500GB
£400 www.saveonlaptops.co.uk LENOVO-Z585-MAD6BUK
AMD A8-4500M 7640G 8GB 1TB
CPU scores and graphics ranks. Higher cpu score is faster general processing
i5-4200M 4175
A10-5757M 3241
A8-4500M 2694
i3-4010U 2514
i3-3217U 2286
A4-5000 1894
www.cpubenchmark.net cpu_list.php
lower rank is better graphics for gaming power
8650G 192
8570M 209
HD Graphics 4600 216
GT 710M 220
7640G 250
HD Graphics 4400 252
http://www.notebookcheck.net/...849.0.html
The lowest combination of graphics and CPU can play Minecraft even with mods very well
http://www.game-debate.com/...quirements
Football Manager 2014 needs higher graphics than HD 4400
http://www.game-debate.com/...quirements
But the minimum CPU is fine. So, Lenovo Flex is not good enough.
Lenovo with A8-4500M 7640G is not quite at recommended level either.
The Asus is close with i3-3217U Geforce 710M
An i5-4200M HD 4600 by either Lenovo or Toshiba brands with 4GB RAM.
Gets you the strong CPU and enough graphics power for Football Manager at full settings.
The Acer gets lower CPU and more graphics
The Lenovo with AMD A4-5000M AMD 8570M is not as good, but is adequate in graphics and cpu.
I would go with the Lenovo with i5-4200M just to get the terrabyte size HDD and is £9 less than the Toshiba. The Acer is third choice. The others will not handle gaming as well.
If you spent more, to about £480 or so, there were other choices I ignored.
Sorry for the format of this - I needed to find the potential laptops, and then evaluate them.
Laptops with 4GB RAM, can generally be upgraded to 8GB at a later time.
http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/parts/memory/#s=301600&t=9&xcx=0&v=1350&z=4096&sort=a9
£31 or so, for a 4GB stick currently. You need to match what is in there using speccy and belarc
www.belarc.com
www.piriform.com/speccy
free versions.
That is to get speed, voltage, timing as CAS 9 or CAS 11 to match the 4GB stick
It should be 1600 MHz 1.35V ram SODIMM 204 pin