Looking to buy new laptop?

I am in the market for a new laptop. Something I can use to surf the web, iTunes for music, nothing crazy, but still want something with a fast processor and decent graphics. Which models should I take a look at? Thanks

Hi motherof4kids,
That is a good question and there is a lot to consider. A lot of laptops should be able to help with your standard kind of school work (unless you are going to school for video editing, which you might need something more powerful) and also download music. When it comes to gaming, a good video card, memory and processor are probably the top things I look for. It also depends on how much you are looking to spend on your laptop.
League of Legends doesn't require a whole of graphics, however World of Warcraft can, depending if you want to run on Ultra or not. Without knowing exactly how much you are looking to spend, something I can recommend is to check out BestBuy.com and type in "laptop". When looking all "all laptops" you can narrow your search in the left hand column to specifications you'll need.
You can put your price range in there and then compare the specifications to WoW (since that will be the most resource heavy application you are looking to run). WoW requires a 1.3GHz process, 2 GB's of memory and a 32MB video card. More than this will certainly help the performance of your game.
I hope that this helps and gives some guidance and let me know if you have any questions.
Sean|Senior Social Media Specialist | Best Buy® Corporate
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Thank you for considering Best Buy for the purchase of your next laptop. As we start off the Back to School season you should start seeing the introduction of quite a few new models, and some that should be able to meet your need. With the way technology advances day to day, this shouldn't be impossible to maintain.
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Maybe Apple can buy Cedega like they did with Intel and provide games / games support for Mac then 90% of windows user's will switch.
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Poikkeus wrote:
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