Locke 06
Sayonara, bye bye~
1500 is pushing it; I'm comfortable spending 1250ish, but I'd say the range I was looking for was 800-1300 (I no don't know very much about laptops). I don't need high end graphics in my games, but it shouldn't impede the game experience, which is why SFV was my benchmark. Playing a 60fps fighting game at not 60fps is unplayable. Science software ranges from Matlab to video tracking to looking at electrophysiology recordings with thousands of data points and comparing them. I don't know how powerful a computer needs to be to run these efficiently, but i5-quad processors seems to be sufficient with enough ram. Rendering large image files accurately is important, but I'm not an artist or need anything of that quality.
Running melee/gamecube games at normal quality and frame rate would be nice. I'm moving a lot, as in I am going to move for school, travel to conferences, take my computer to work and back home. I don't think a dedicated gaming desktop is worth it for me, because having data in multiple places is a headache I'd try to avoid. I'd rather just have a monitor that I could hook it up to if I needed it.
Thanks for the advice. I'll look into the things you talked about. As an aside, one of my smash friends keeps getting mad at me for spamming Falco ftilt whenever I randomly get Falco. I know the frame data is good, but I can't put my finger on why the move is actually so good as a poke.
Running melee/gamecube games at normal quality and frame rate would be nice. I'm moving a lot, as in I am going to move for school, travel to conferences, take my computer to work and back home. I don't think a dedicated gaming desktop is worth it for me, because having data in multiple places is a headache I'd try to avoid. I'd rather just have a monitor that I could hook it up to if I needed it.
Thanks for the advice. I'll look into the things you talked about. As an aside, one of my smash friends keeps getting mad at me for spamming Falco ftilt whenever I randomly get Falco. I know the frame data is good, but I can't put my finger on why the move is actually so good as a poke.