Ok i was at a pawn shop,and they are having a sale 50% off all laptops and they can be put on layway,just while i was waiting for them to finish up on some stuff for me i looked at 2 they looked exactly the same but one was $279.99(now $140)the other was 199.99(now $100)both were ASUS and the model was almost exactly the same.
All i was able to get of the model numbers were one was a X54H the other was a X54C i also know thney both had Pentiums in them.
One would be for me the other for my sister,all my sister really plays is DDO,but i game a lot i have tons of games,i do have a gaming pc,but i have to have it set up on the garage(it's not insulated or got drywall,and i live in texas lol) right now,but i want to be able to come in with out having to bring in my whole rig,i don't mind playing on lowest settings on a laptop,i just don't have a lot of extra money right now.
i personally don't have a great reference as i have a laptop a8 (much better), c2d w/ gma 950 (much much worse), but i would estimate that it could run most 2d games and maybe some 3d games on something like source engine
Just wondering how is it worse than the first 2 only one of the first 2 had more ram,and this has an i3 instead of a pentuim i thought the i3 was better(even more so with the i3 being 300-400mhz faster)?
Also i looked for AMD cpu's all i found(in my price range)was a bunch of E series apu's and 1 samsung with an A6,but they wanted $350(sale price $175)which was out of my price range.
There was one other that was in my price range that would of been great,it was an alienware mx15(that is all i know) they wanted $300(sale price $150),but the screen hinge was broken and would not hold the weight of the screen up.
It does not have to be decent at playing games,all i want from it is to be able to play a good bit of my games,and am fine with 800x600(or even 640x480)and lowest settings,i mainly just want it to be good enough to keep me from being bored when it is to hot in the garage(where i have to have my gaming rig set up),plus i bet it is better than my only other laptop(which was so crappy i felt i could not use it) which i gave it to my mom,it had a 2.3ghz AMD single core,2gb ram,and HD4250 graphics lol,if i had 4 tabs open in chrome,and nothing else runningit would slow to a crawl,and start to overheat,yes i tried cleaning the fan lol.
I have a gaming rig(FX-8150,16gb ram,7970),but i have to keep it set up in the garage,and it get way to hot out there,so i wanted the laptop so i could come in out of the heat.
Also the ones i posted are on sale at a pawn shop for %50 off and i am going to put it on lawaway,and the most i can afford is a total price of $150.
You talked about finding a laptop with an A6. I have an ASUS laptop with an A6-3400m in it and holy crap can that thing perform better than I thought it would. I'm able to run it at 2.6Ghz (1.2Ghz OC!) without adding more voltage using K10Stat. If you really need something to play games try and get the Samsung with the APU.
You could always save up some more money and get a laptop that is designed for gaming or snag a asus G74SX off criegslist I got one for 350 $ and it had intel I7 2600 a Nivida GTX 560M and 16 gigs of ram and it runs all the games I have tryed on it from BF3 to Metro2033 on high to medium at 1920x1080.