05-07-2015, 01:25 AM
This looks satisfactory for your purposes. Unfortunately, the GeForce 940M in it looks roughly half as powerful as the GTX 860M in the Lenovo I linked earlier, so I can't say for sure how well it would run newer games like Skyrim. I would guess it would be playable at worst.
I was able to find a newer version of the Lenovo for sale on Amazon though for only $830: Amazon.com - Lenovo Y50
Unless you have a significant amount of gift cards, this may be cheaper and better equipped specifically for running games. My friend who got the older model of this said it runs Skyrim wonderfully, and it has an 8GB Solid State Drive as a nice bonus. However, this Lenovo has no DVD drive, so you have to buy an external DVD drive to hook up to it if you install games from DVDs. If you use a digital platform like Steam, that may be a non-issue.
Either the MSI or Lenovo should run TQ just fine, but your chances of running newer games on higher settings are a fair bit better with a GeForce 860M or 960M than an 840M or 940M.
It may not hurt to look around a bit more either, but from what I can see poking around, the selection of gaming laptops under $900 still looks very small.
I was able to find a newer version of the Lenovo for sale on Amazon though for only $830: Amazon.com - Lenovo Y50
Unless you have a significant amount of gift cards, this may be cheaper and better equipped specifically for running games. My friend who got the older model of this said it runs Skyrim wonderfully, and it has an 8GB Solid State Drive as a nice bonus. However, this Lenovo has no DVD drive, so you have to buy an external DVD drive to hook up to it if you install games from DVDs. If you use a digital platform like Steam, that may be a non-issue.
Either the MSI or Lenovo should run TQ just fine, but your chances of running newer games on higher settings are a fair bit better with a GeForce 860M or 960M than an 840M or 940M.
It may not hurt to look around a bit more either, but from what I can see poking around, the selection of gaming laptops under $900 still looks very small.