Hey, techno geeks! I need your help.

My 조언 to 당신 is to go and look at laptops, for a start. Because you're in a different country, I don't really know if they have, necessarily, all of the same laptops they would sell in my country, nor would they be the same in pricing.

What I can tell you, however, is that $500 won't get 당신 something that will support the latest games, 또는 even many of the recent ones, either. You'd be looking at a laptop with likely a 512 mb graphics (maybe 1 gb if 당신 stumble across a good deal), with probably 4 gb ram and a relatively decent cpu (these are the things that are most important gaming wise). 곰 in mind that laptops are 더 많이 expensive than desktops in terms of the specifications 당신 will get.

At the moment, the NZ dollar is equal to 66 American cents. Your $500 equals $754 in my country. All of the laptops I just browsed are about the specifications I just mentioned. For a further point, about a 년 이전 I spent $2,000 on my current laptop, which is pretty decent, but still wouldn't play some of the latest games out.

In short, 당신 can't expect much in the way of gaming out of laptops, unless 당신 fork out a lot, sorry to say. But, still, it sounds like a new one would still be better than the one he's got, anyway, so it's definitely worth getting him a new one.

Let me give 당신 a good piece of advice. If 당신 want to find him a laptop that works for gaming for about $500, 당신 likely won't find anything.

However, for the sake of optimism, 당신 will want to look for something that has a video card separate from the CPU, so look for something that doesn't have an "integrated graphics card." The 다음 think 당신 want to take into account is try to get at least 4 GB of ram, but try your hardest to get one with 6 GB 또는 higher. If not, see if 당신 can get one with RAM expansion slots so the computer can be upgraded.

I suggest looking here: link 당신 can 검색 hundreds of 모델 of computers, specify price, performance, and et cetra.

However, don't try to hard. Your boyfriend uses a desktop 더 많이 often for gaming for a reason, and that reason is getting a laptop that can handle regular gaming is probably going to cost 당신 at least a couple thousand dollars.

If 당신 don't specifically want the gaming, and want a good laptop that will work for most purposes, then $500 is 더 많이 than enough to get a good workable laptop.