What laptop should I buy for OOTP 21?

[Mariner and Giants Fan]

Originally Posted by qcbandits

ssd is good for windows. Also good for high end gaming. Very negligible difference in ootp

Remember when we could watch MLB games, live!?

[qcbandits]

I was just watching the Cards and Twins today on my YouTube TV DVR. One of the last ST games before the world went to crap

[qcbandits]

Originally Posted by Mariner and Giants Fan

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I was more a fan of Alienware when they were their own company. Quality isn't as good now that they're a Dell brand

[Mariner and Giants Fan]

Originally Posted by qcbandits

I was more a fan of Alienware when they were their own company. Quality isn't as good now that they're a Dell brand

I have purchased Alienware laptops since before they were owned by Dell and I find them as good now as they were then. Maybe you were an extreme gamer?

[Mariner and Giants Fan]

Originally Posted by qcbandits

I was just watching the Cards and Twins today on my YouTube TV DVR. One of the last ST games before the world went to crap

Watching MLB with top games of the past and playing OOTP21! Not live but close

[qcbandits]

Originally Posted by Mariner and Giants Fan

I have purchased Alienware laptops since before they were owned by Dell and I find them as good now as they were then. Maybe you were an extreme gamer?

Not really.. I mean I used to play more PC games but it was stuff like Civ and Simcity. I just don't like Dell period. I'll take a Lenovo any day of the week

[qcbandits]

Originally Posted by Mariner and Giants Fan

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Watching MLB with top games of the past and playing OOTP21! Not live but close

I've got about 20 ST games on my DVR so I've been recycling them.. Watching Dylan Carlson show he's ready for the bigs!

[itsmb8]

Gonna hijack this thread a bit. Planning on seriously upgrading my setup this year, and want a PC, either a tower or laptop and use it as a docking station.

I already have a Early 2015 MacBook Pro, almost all my games are on my Xbox or PS4, but I wanna move most of them to PC (especially games like Madden and 2K). Would you guys suggest getting a replacement laptop (like a Zephyrus G14) or building my own tower? I feel like towers are probably more performance per dollar vs laptops, but you get the mobility with laptops.

Thoughts?

EDIT: Also, the main save Im planning on starting soon is pretty large, full NCAA, JUCO, and HS feeders from Dr. Park, all independents and foreign leagues, all facegens created with stats saved, so a lot of storage and RAM is needed.

[Charley575]

Honestly you don't need much to run OOTP. As of version 19 I was still able run it on an old Vista laptop I bought in '08. Now of course if you plan to run multi year sims and whatnot, you're going to want something with more memory and processing power. Depends on how you play. If you just sim a day at a time, you need very little.

[qcbandits]

Originally Posted by itsmb8

Gonna hijack this thread a bit. Planning on seriously upgrading my setup this year, and want a PC, either a tower or laptop and use it as a docking station.

I already have a Early 2015 MacBook Pro, almost all my games are on my Xbox or PS4, but I wanna move most of them to PC (especially games like Madden and 2K). Would you guys suggest getting a replacement laptop (like a Zephyrus G14) or building my own tower? I feel like towers are probably more performance per dollar vs laptops, but you get the mobility with laptops.

Thoughts?

EDIT: Also, the main save Im planning on starting soon is pretty large, full NCAA, JUCO, and HS feeders from Dr. Park, all independents and foreign leagues, all facegens created with stats saved, so a lot of storage and RAM is needed.

Absolutely a tower,
How much money are you wanting to spend? bc if you don't wanna spend a ton up front, you can buy a mid range tower with a i5 or i7 and upgrade on the fly down the road. That mid range tower will run OOTP perfectly and most games well and then become a beast as you upgrade. That's usually how i do it due to things i need to do around the house with the family. Definitely look at the LG Ultra wide monitors, they are absolutely incredible. Just start the game in windowed mode and then go full screen and drop back to windowed before you close the game.

My plan is to do the same thing.
I'll add a small SSD eventually run windows off of, another 8 GB ram and finally a better video card.

Honestly, the game you are talking about is gonna run fine with 8 to 16 GB Ram. Depends on the time frame you're looking at... I have mid range AMD A8 processor and I never have more than 30 seconds between days, usually closer to 15 seconds and I'm running an incredibly big league

[Mariner and Giants Fan]

Originally Posted by qcbandits

Not really.. I mean I used to play more PC games but it was stuff like Civ and Simcity. I just don't like Dell period. I'll take a Lenovo any day of the week

Ahh, so it's a Dell thing. I have used Dell extensively for 20 plus years and had very few issues, and this includes work and home. I actually think that the look of the Alienware computers (laptop and towers) improved when Dell purchased the company.

[qcbandits]

Yes it's definitely a Dell thing. The one Dell I owned was the worst machine I've ever owned

[Biggio509]

Originally Posted by qcbandits

SSD is good for windows. Also good for high end gaming. Very negligible difference in OOTP

Yep my setup is small SSD for booting up windows. Big hog traditional HDs for storage.