Playing and traveling has never been closer. Today you no longer need a good desktop PC to enjoy video games or editing, or any demanding task, anywhere. Therefore, it is important to choose well from the wide range of laptops on the market. And more if you go with a tight budget since it is not easy to achieve a balance between a tight budget and enough hardware for what you want to do. You have to know how to choose, without a doubt, and for that reason, we are going to help you choose one for less than a thousand dollars.
What to Consider?
First of all, there are several components that you will have to take into account when choosing a gaming laptop. The essentials are, in this order: the processor, the graphics, and the RAM. It is also very, very important, to check the ventilation and cooling since if you are going to play and the computer does not expel the air well through an efficient system, it will end up damaging the components in the medium-long term.
MSI Bravo
One of the most balanced options in terms of its components, and also in terms of price. The MSI Bravo 15 A4DDR-24715.6″ mounts a 2.9 GHz AMD ryzen_7_4800h processor that offers very good performance in the benchmarks, as well as an RX5500M graphics card that competes with Nvidia’s GTX 1650, being very similar in terms of performance.
This is completed by 16GB of DDR4 RAM and 512GB of SSD, which makes this laptop a more than a balanced device and at a good price since it starts from $929, but as we usually say, you can find it on sale for less.
Asus TUF Gaming
The Asus TUF Gaming range is very wide, more than a fan. It has the cheapest laptop on the market in terms of value for money to the most expensive possible. And they are reliable, resistant, with good specifications and good cooling to avoid those hot flashes. The cheapest of the range, the ASUS TUF Gaming Laptop, 15.6” can be found for around $1,143, and slightly less at some point of sale.
This model comes with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB Graphics, which although it is a bit old, works perfectly. Likewise, it mounts an Intel Core i5 10-300H and 16GB of RAM accompanied by 512GB of solid hard disk that will make this laptop a real beast in terms of performance and price.
HP Pavilion Gaming
We could close the podium with the HP gaming version. Like its competitors, a 15.6 ” screen and an AMD Ryzen 7 4800H processor, as well as an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650Ti graphics with 4GB of RAM, a little higher than the previously described models. To compete on equal terms, it also has 16GB of RAM and 512 SSD, and a very similar price, $969. It has such striking options as the RGB keyboard, a fast charge of up to 50% in 45 minutes, or front speakers.
