What's the best laptop I could get new or refurbished for

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>>60506316
>Europa Universalis IV

The recommended specs on steam are pretty damned low.

>Intel® Pentium® IV 2.4 GHz or AMD 3500+

>NVIDIA® GeForce 8800 or ATI Radeon® X1900, 1024mb video memory recommended

does a moderately new nvidia integrated graphics stand up to an 8800?

I wanna say yes but I don't really know.

>>60506874
The computer at my house and my uncle's laptop have everything necessary but the graphics card and many of the thinkpads I was looking at also didn't meet that requirement I believe.

>>60506316
literally anything with an intel hd 2000 or better.

>>60506908
Thanks, is there anything I should look out for that would make Linux harder to operate? I've never owned my own computer before. I'm looking at refurbished thinkpads right now so I'd imagine there wouldn't be any major issues.

>>60506972
idk what a thinkpad is.

minimum specs you want
-1.5 ghz cpu clock speed
-intel hd 2000 equivalent (really fucking old intergrated gpu by the way)
-2 gb ram

150 bucks new. you can get it for less than 100 on craigslist or ebay or refurb

>>60507021
>idk what a thinkpad is.
Have you ever been on /g/ before?

>>60506972
You shouldn't have any issues.

I got a t420 the other day and haven't had a single driver issue with linux yet. But I am still using a babby distro.

>>60507062
not until i saw a banner ad for it ten minutes before I posted here.

>>60507156
So a t420 can run EU4? Huh.

>>60507268
no no no, that's not what im saying, ive never heard of, nor played the game in question.

What I was saying is that there was no problems hardware wise running linux on it.

>>60506850
it's whatever I want it to be, cuck, and there's nothing you can do about it

>>60507317
Not OP btw.

>>60507282
Someone else in the thread implied that but I'm not sure he even knows what he's talking about.

Any specific models?