Will my laptop run minecraft/terraria smoothly. Please help!?

Question

Hi, i made a post saying "Hi, im 14 and my birthday is coming up and i really want a decent gaming laptop for around 500$. I really only want to play terraria and minecraft. I want to play the games perfect on high-definition or whatever with no problems what so ever. I am not going to play Call of Duty or any one of those kind of games. I know little to nothing about laptops and that's why I am asking you guys. If you could leave any suggestions on what laptop to get and the specs, that would be great! Thank you." And got a reply saying i should get any laptop with 4 or more ram,intel processor, and a nvidia graphics card. I found a laptop with 6gb of ram, 750 drive capacity, BUT it has a amd/adi graphics chip and a amd radeon r5. Will that run terraria and minecraft smoothly on high definition. I also dont know if it has a intel processor. Tha laptop is a Toshiba - Satellite 15.6" touch-screen Laptop - AMD A8-series-6gb memory - 750 gb hard drive - jet black (not that it matters). Will it run the games smoothly? I am open to suggestions for different laptops. Thanks for the help!

The laptop i was talking about:http://m.bestbuy.com/m/e/product/specifications.jsp?skuId=7716338&pid=1219286766617

Answer 1

To be 10% Honest if you want a game like minecraft to run at top FPS lets say 60 FPS you will need to spend a good $750-1000 on a medium-high end laptop. This is due to the graphic card and processor speeds,obviously the more cores you have in your processor the smoother and faster it can process, the better graphics card you have the better visual you will see. Minecraft if very RAM needey so make sure the lapop you choose has AT LEAST 4GB of ram, you may get away with 3GB depending on the amount of processors.



Any Laptop at around 500$ will run Minecraft at medium settings , you may get around 25-30 FPS so it isn't too bad! Terraria needs a lot less you'll run that fine on a 500$ laptop.



The laptop you found is OK it may run minecraft at decent settings don't expect amazing FPS but you'll get decent FPS, may have to disable some settings such as clouds, bobbing, render distance. Terraria will run with almost no lag at all. The only worry about that laptop is the graphics card, but apart from that it should be fine :)



I would highly recommend a desktop, you will defiantly get more for your money, you can build a high end machine at low prices now a days due to constant upgrades in technology!

Answer 2

Graphics card isn't very good and CPU is to low. You will need at least 2.8 ghz

Mine craft gets bigger and bigger now days for full HD yo I'll need a pretty good laptop.

Answer 3

if you have ever heard of austin evans on youtube, he shows how to build good desktop pcs for around 300 bucks that run minecraft any laptop now days can run terraria though so your good