Author Topic: Laptops that handle shaders?  (Read 2358 times)

I am getting a laptop for school, and it's not Mac.

I just wanted to know if what kind of laptop model can at least handle medium shaders without any lag. It also needs to have good CPU.

Not sure if it's discontinued, but Acer Aspire Timeline X 4830TG is good.


There's no price range, but not outrageously expensive such as Alienware desktops.

Yeah give us a price range, honestly though a laptop that will run shaders will probably cost $1k, you would save your money better but buying a desktop since you can...oh wait nvm you're getting it for school, oh okay.

Please note the laptops I listed here are very expensive, they are probably very OP for something like Shaders for BL but I put em anyways to give you a choice.

I was looking around and the MSI GT70 (Price $1,357 )looks pretty good, the design a bit strange but you might like it, the keyboard also has a bunch of LEDs.

I nicer looking one is the ASUS G75VW, it has a much cleaner design (Price $1,400 shocker I know)


If these are too much money (it really is sorry about that) or you don't want to spend that much, I think any of the laptops in the High Performance category on HP will run shaders (although I would say to avoid Hp for gaming as their laptops get very hot, at least mine does). If you want a dell, look at the Dell XPS.

Welp I can only run minimum shaders on this Windows 8 but I'd not recommend it, because unless you're use to no num-pad then it's gonna be wierd and the F# keys don't work on games.

Welp I can only run minimum shaders on this Windows 8 but I'd not recommend it, because unless you're use to no num-pad then it's gonna be wierd and the F# keys don't work on games.
F keys work on laptops, you need to hold Ctrl an then the f keys. The reason for this is because the F keys are assigned to things such as volume and brightness and then the normal functions are Ctrl + F1

That's nothing compared to outrageous MacBook Retina Pros...The 15-inch one is starting from $2199.

Anyways, thanks for the suggestions, they look pretty good.

That's nothing compared to outrageous MacBook Retina Pros...The 15-inch one is starting from $2199.

Anyways, thanks for the suggestions, they look pretty good.
Well yeah because when you buy Macs you're basically just paying for their brand name. I think I would go for the Asus as it looks really nice.


Dell Inspiron N5110

It runs every game I've ever tried to play on it, including:

Blockland (Max Settings)
Garrys Mod (Max Settings)
TF2 (Max Settings)
Farcry 2 (Max Settings)
Half Life 2 (Max Settings)
And a bunch of other games. I have shaders on and it works perfectly fine.



I got mine for $600 last year. I got what I paid for.

F keys work on laptops, you need to hold Ctrl an then the f keys. The reason for this is because the F keys are assigned to things such as volume and brightness and then the normal functions are Ctrl + F1
No, I mean like, I want them to stop with the brightness and that stuff, so that they can work like normal keys, not brightness, volume and that crap.



Dell Inspiron N5110

It runs every game I've ever tried to play on it, including:

Blockland (Max Settings)
Garrys Mod (Max Settings)
TF2 (Max Settings)
Farcry 2 (Max Settings)
Half Life 2 (Max Settings)
And a bunch of other games. I have shaders on and it works perfectly fine.

[im g]http://www.minehardwares.com/items/9d2691cc9ad049c5fc2e811c943aa5d5.jpg[/img]

I got mine for $600 last year. I got what I paid for.

I find this incorrect. I have an Inspiron N7110
i7-2670QM
8GB DDR3
GT 525M

I cannot run Blockland Shaders on any higher than Medium without losing great FPS
I cannot any of the games above on maximum possible settings either. Hmm.

Are you sure you're running at the highest settings possible? Or just some high settings and the demanding features off?