hp 15 is 250$ on walmart rn, best budget deal

gaming laptops are heavy @2.5kg, if u plan carrying it on lectures go with non gaming one which are 1.6-1.7kg and if u’ll get good cpu its integrated graphics could prolly run those games at 60 fps

yes! my laptop used to do that, replaced thermal paste with gelid gc-extreme and temps dropped 20+C. before that brought laptop to a shop for paste replacement, they probably had some crappy paste that didnt do much and thought my laptop was going to toast. turns out just need a quality thermal paste and not some no name brand

there is acer aspire 3 going for 250$ with ryzen 7320u, cant go wrong with that

considering standalone ram upgrade prices, 30$ for 8gb more ram is fine. what about display quality? srgb %?

do yourself a favor and replace hdd with any 20$ ssd. u will feel like u bought new laptop.

just watch yt vids of select laptop running your games and see how it runs

aspire 3 with 128gb ssd is up on amazon for 250$ and u can seap in 500gb ssd for 30$ more. that deal is bad

had 10 yo aspire 5. would last 10 more if i did not break it myself tbh

stock thermal paste is probably dead and fan keeps kicking in full blast to try and cool down the chip. my temps dropped 20+ degrees after aplying quality thermal paste so try it out

focus on graphics and make sure ram is upgradeable

externals are noisy, connection is clunky, not a fan