Gaming PC/laptop/macbook

[audi321]

Hi all. My son’s PC has died today. Christmas coming up I’m thinking of an upgrade for him.

I’ll start by saying that although I know a bit about PC specs, I know absolutely nothing about games. All I know is he plays Valorant, FIFA and Fortnite and always seems to prefer smooth play and FPS.

He currently has a 1080ti and an old i9 cpu.

I’m thinking about a laptop this time for him as at least he can connect his monitor and also take it to school etc. But can these play games without spending thousands? Then there’s a MacBook option? But again can these play games well?

Budget I would say is around £1,000 max (although happy to buy second hand if it gets a better machine).

Thanks all in advance

[Bullett]

Laptops and Mac and generally not good gaming options especially at your budget.

£1000 isn't much for a gaming PC.

What's wrong with his existing machine? an upgraded GPU, more memory etc. might be a better value option.

[Zad]

What failed in the PC? That GPU will play most mainstream 1080 HD games, and the horsepower of CPUs hasn't changed hugely in recent years, most progress has gone into power efficiency for battery life.

You'll pay maybe 50% more for an equivalent specced laptop, and double that for a Mac.

[audi321]

Existing PC is at the limit anyways. The motherboard can’t take any better cpu and the gpu isn’t throttling it. It worked ok.

But it’s many years old and BSOD later and it’s throwing up some weird errors so could spend hours and money replacing stuff to find it’s the motherboard and just not worth it.

However, if you say £1k won’t get a laptop good enough (comparable to his current setup) then I might need to think again.

[Mr E]

Be aware that memory prices are currently very high.