Please help me figure this out. I have looked at the specs for Minecraft, but I am so tired of looking back and forth, maybe you guys can help me. I am a mother of a 12 year old boy who is addicted to Minecraft, lol. I would like to make him mobile by purchasing a notebook or laptop for Christmas. Will this one do the job, and if so at what settings to fully optimize his game play experience.
HP 2000-2b16NR ,AMD E1-1200, 15.6" Screen Display, Notebook With 4GB Memory, 500GB Hard Drive, Windows 8 ~ this is what I'm looking at: http://www.frys.com/product/7367804
I understand there's a way to update the driver to make Minecraft work in Windows 8, but need to know if this notebook has what it takes to do the rest.
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Minecraft's specs are...weird. That laptop has good memory and storage, but the processor is pretty bad. Staying at that price range, here's one that meets all the specs (and has Windows 7, so no trouble there).
The specs on this one (or any comparable one) should be strong enough to run Minecraft at average settings. To get to the super amazing fancy settings, you're running towards closer the price.
Please save a good laptop for a college kid and get the poor kid a desktop. If your though set on a laptop i reccomend any lower to mid end Toshiba. Any Sattelite series laptop is good The C870, S850, and P850 are decent. the C870 is the most budget friendly. if you want power vs price the S850 is best bargain for decent power and the P850 is the pricest but best power
Well, my son was wanting a laptop specifically for Minecraft, but I can see that our budget just isn't going to get him what he wants right now. He certainly doesn't want a laptop that won't play Minecraft. We may have to ask Grandpa for help for this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834215389 per Odiefrom's post, if anyone else is in agreeance that this would be sufficient. He has a desktop, and it lags with Minecraft. I will have to go into his room and mess with the settings to see if I can get it to run better for him, or just go back to letting him use my pc in the living rm... Just trying to make the best out of very limited funding. Thanks all for your help so far.
This would actually be much better for $30 less: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834131323
The laptop Odiefrom recommended has a much weaker graphics processing unit making it perform significantly worse in nearly any game out there, including Minecraft. Acer is one of the manufacturers that isn't known for their quality, so I suggesting avoiding his suggestion, I'm actually quite certain that he doesn't know a whole lot about computer hardware.
The laptop for which is provided a linked to should be at least close to maximizing the game settings with a decent framerate, compared to his which would run it on quite average settings at best and even still achieving a lower framerate.
The Samsung linked here by jppk1 is a pretty good one, better than the one that I turned up in a quick 2 minute browse of newegg.com. It should be able to run Minecraft fairly well.
The Samsung linked here by jppk1 is a pretty good one, better than the one that I turned up in a quick 2 minute browse of newegg.com. It should be able to run Minecraft fairly well.
Actually, fairly well might be an understatement. It might run it max/almost maxed.
Please save a good laptop for a college kid and get the poor kid a desktop. If your though set on a laptop i reccomend any lower to mid end Toshiba. Any Sattelite series laptop is good The C870, S850, and P850 are decent. the C870 is the most budget friendly. if you want power vs price the S850 is best bargain for decent power and the P850 is the pricest but best power
Not sure what people are talking about a laptop for MC not being in your budget range, Minecraft is not a difficult game to run at all.
Due to some coding *things* in Minecraft...it has a lot of optimization flaws and hitches. Nothing against the game, it just could be more efficient with the resources it uses. Because of this, it takes more resources to do less in the game. That's where it becomes "hard to run".
Due to some coding *things* in Minecraft...it has a lot of optimization flaws and hitches. Nothing against the game, it just could be more efficient with the resources it uses. Because of this, it takes more resources to do less in the game. That's where it becomes "hard to run".
It's also due to people expecting it to run on 7-year-old computers perfectly, whereas with a game such as BF3 or Metro 2033, it's very intensive but people expect it to be intensive, and don't try to run it on a P4.
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It's also due to people expecting it to run on 7-year-old computers perfectly, whereas with a game such as BF3 or Metro 2033, it's very intensive but people expect it to be intensive, and don't try to run it on a P4.
That's a very valid point. People don't think of how much memory it uses because of the pixelized graphics, but the millions of blocks and all their data values and positioning and everything that are present at all times are enough to be difficult on a computers, and that's with just standing still and doing nothing.
Due to some coding *things* in Minecraft...it has a lot of optimization flaws and hitches. Nothing against the game, it just could be more efficient with the resources it uses. Because of this, it takes more resources to do less in the game. That's where it becomes "hard to run".
When Notch made the game he was pretty bad at programming. Hate me if you want, everyone knows it's true.
When Notch made the game he was pretty bad at programming. Hate me if you want, everyone knows it's true.
Anyone who hates you for that statement is ignorant. Notch has admitted it himself. If you look at some of the old code still in Minecraft, it's of a more basic form. There's nothing wrong with this, except that this is the reason 1.5 is shaping up to look like an overhaul heavy update, and the reason that the Mod API is being postponed -- the engine isn't in its stable, well coded state that it needs to be.
And it's written in Java, which isn't necessarily the best language to use for games.
Urg...as it's becoming refined, it's becoming better for games. There's starting to be a push to move away from C++ (traditional game programming language) to Java due to how it handles memory. The main problem is the Garbage Collector, which there's tricks emerging in the JVM to manually call the GC which release memory more frequently causing less lag spikes of death...yeah, I'm a nerd (and a game developer that uses Java :D)
Due to some coding *things* in Minecraft...it has a lot of optimization flaws and hitches. Nothing against the game, it just could be more efficient with the resources it uses. Because of this, it takes more resources to do less in the game. That's where it becomes "hard to run".
But that is really not the case, as I have run Minecraft on some pretty terrible PCs as a test.
Most people exaggerate, everyone on this forum seems to. I work on PCs for a living so I can say as a fact with absolute certainty, that MC is not as hard to run as people make it seem.
HP 2000-2b16NR ,AMD E1-1200, 15.6" Screen Display, Notebook With 4GB Memory, 500GB Hard Drive, Windows 8 ~ this is what I'm looking at: http://www.frys.com/product/7367804
I understand there's a way to update the driver to make Minecraft work in Windows 8, but need to know if this notebook has what it takes to do the rest.
powered by the AMD E1-1200 Accelerated Processor and AMD Radeon™ HD
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834215389
The specs on this one (or any comparable one) should be strong enough to run Minecraft at average settings. To get to the super amazing fancy settings, you're running towards closer the price.
The Samsung linked here by jppk1 is a pretty good one, better than the one that I turned up in a quick 2 minute browse of newegg.com. It should be able to run Minecraft fairly well.
Actually, fairly well might be an understatement. It might run it max/almost maxed.
Not sure what people are talking about a laptop for MC not being in your budget range, Minecraft is not a difficult game to run at all.
I think we could swing this one if anyone agrees that it would run Minecraft. What about Toshiba Sattelite model# C875 - S7303: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Toshiba+-+Satellite+17.3%26%2334%3B+Laptop+-+4GB+Memory+-+500GB+Hard+Drive+-+Satin+Black/6952832.p?id=1218816233087&skuId=6952832&st=Toshiba Sattelite model C875 - S7303&cp=1&lp=1
http://techonbudget.com/laptops/samsung-core-i3-black-friday-laptop-bundle-for-350
Due to some coding *things* in Minecraft...it has a lot of optimization flaws and hitches. Nothing against the game, it just could be more efficient with the resources it uses. Because of this, it takes more resources to do less in the game. That's where it becomes "hard to run".
It's also due to people expecting it to run on 7-year-old computers perfectly, whereas with a game such as BF3 or Metro 2033, it's very intensive but people expect it to be intensive, and don't try to run it on a P4.
That's a very valid point. People don't think of how much memory it uses because of the pixelized graphics, but the millions of blocks and all their data values and positioning and everything that are present at all times are enough to be difficult on a computers, and that's with just standing still and doing nothing.
When Notch made the game he was pretty bad at programming. Hate me if you want, everyone knows it's true.
Anyone who hates you for that statement is ignorant. Notch has admitted it himself. If you look at some of the old code still in Minecraft, it's of a more basic form. There's nothing wrong with this, except that this is the reason 1.5 is shaping up to look like an overhaul heavy update, and the reason that the Mod API is being postponed -- the engine isn't in its stable, well coded state that it needs to be.
Urg...as it's becoming refined, it's becoming better for games. There's starting to be a push to move away from C++ (traditional game programming language) to Java due to how it handles memory. The main problem is the Garbage Collector, which there's tricks emerging in the JVM to manually call the GC which release memory more frequently causing less lag spikes of death...yeah, I'm a nerd
Most people exaggerate, everyone on this forum seems to. I work on PCs for a living so I can say as a fact with absolute certainty, that MC is not as hard to run as people make it seem.Lets not start this logical fallacy again, hmm?
This has been proven time and time again to not be true, and not the reason for MC's performance issues.
The pure fact is that Notch is a terrible programmer, and MC is still a "test game". That is literally it.
Someone finally agrees! No matter how much the game gets updated, it's still a tech demo and always will be a tech demo. Like Slender a way.