Budget casual gaming laptop

[steveg]

Looking to get a new laptop for my dad. Mainly uses it for office type tasks, sketchup, web browsing and some light gaming - minecraft and maybe a few other older games.

 

Max budget is £600. At the moment I'm looking at this https://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/hp-victus-15-fb0002na-amd-ryzen-5-8gb-512gb-rx-3050-144hz-fhd-15.6inch-wind-6p0w4ea/version.asp

 

It looks to be the best value, I just need to confirm it can take another 8gb memory stick in the future, as this may be the only thing that lets it down.

 

Any other suggestions within budget?

[Omega_NL]

Looks to me like the best deal for under £600 without a sale price. Saw this MSI prestige for £650 with 3050Ti: https://www.amazon.co.uk/MSI-Prestige-A12UD-036UK-Notebook-RTX3050Ti/dp/B09RPV72FX/

 

Might be a idea to wait for Black Friday this year if you can, or maybe look for something for £750 if you can find a way to claim the VAT back?

[steveg]

Thanks. Don't think there are any legal ways I can claim the vat back :-)

[HTCPCP]

The ideal situation would be to try and find something with a better tier GPU, as the 3050 laptop GPU can be a bit under powered (as can the 3050ti too) and will come into problems with some games due to only having 4gb VRAM. That being said that seems like quite a good deal (as long as there is a spare SODIMM slot and they haven't soldered the RAM on!)