Advice on Hardware

[Dystopia]

How many FPS with what resolution? Just curious.

[thesummerqueen]

I have no idea, honestly. It runs on medium pretty smoothly, and I don't get into the specifics past that.

[Lemonvariable72]

Too late, guys, I already pulled the trigger on it. I'm currently playing on medium settings for Skyrim on a Dell Inspiron. By the time I want to play whatever is beyond Unity, I'll have saved up for another laptop - I typically don't buy things when they first come out, especially when buying on Steam, because of how buggy they can be, and because of price. It'll be a couple years.

And IATIA, that's an incredibly fanboyish and unnuanced view of other brands.

Dell inspirons are good laptops. I had one that fell down a flight of stairs and stood up to it. It wasn't great on the hardware side though but it was a 07 model.

[Dystopia]

It's really frustrating that laptops aren't upgradable because my Sony Vaio has a pretty decent CPU, the GPU is the only drag and an upgrade would allow for much better performance for games up to 2012/2014

[thesummerqueen]

Dell inspirons are good laptops. I had one that fell down a flight of stairs and stood up to it. It wasn't great on the hardware side though but it was a 07 model.

I got the laptop when I was still in school and only using it for photography. At the time, I had been using the xbox to game. Steam and I have a much closer relationship now, and I feel like if I'm going to bare my tits and my wallet for It time and again, I should do it in a more enjoyable manner.

[Jackalope]

Dell inspirons are good laptops. I had one that fell down a flight of stairs and stood up to it. It wasn't great on the hardware side though but it was a 07 model.

I got the laptop when I was still in school and only using it for photography. At the time, I had been using the xbox to game. Steam and I have a much closer relationship now, and I feel like if I'm going to bare my tits and my wallet for It time and again, I should do it in a more enjoyable manner.

I so want to throw in a "pics or it didn't happen" here. :p

[thesummerqueen]

You've seen enough of my tits in days past in Area 69.

[Jackalope]

You've seen enough of my tits in days past in Area 69.

Nah, I read A69 for the articles. :p

[Tonus]

So I guess what I'm asking is: does anyone have one of the Acer Aspires or experience with one to let me know if the pros and cons are real?

I can't help with info on Acer laptops as I have never owned one. I just replaced a dead laptop with an MSI GP70 with an i5 CPU, 8GB ram, an 840M GPU and a 5400RPM hard drive and it handles Skyrim (with about a dozen mods, including the ones that increase terrain textures) and Saints Row 3/4 moderately well at 1080 resolution. The model you are looking at has enough of a GPU upgrade to eliminate any performance issues, and that's before you get to the faster primary disk and CPU.