Hey, techno geeks! I need your help.

My アドバイス to あなた is to go and look at laptops, for a start. Because you're in a different country, I don't really know if they have, necessarily, all of the same laptops they would sell in my country, nor would they be the same in pricing.

What I can tell you, however, is that $500 won't get あなた something that will support the latest games, または even many of the 最近 ones, either. You'd be looking at a laptop with likely a 512 mb graphics (maybe 1 gb if あなた stumble across a good deal), with probably 4 gb ram and a relatively decent cpu (these are the things that are most important gaming wise). くま, クマ in mind that laptops are もっと見る expensive than desktops in terms of the specifications あなた will get.

At the moment, the NZ dollar is equal to 66 American cents. Your $500 equals $754 in my country. All of the laptops I just browsed are about the specifications I just mentioned. For a further point, about a 年 前 I spent $2,000 on my current laptop, which is pretty decent, but still wouldn't play some of the latest games out.

In short, あなた can't expect much in the way of gaming out of laptops, unless あなた fork out a lot, sorry to say. But, still, it sounds like a new one would still be better than the one he's got, anyway, so it's definitely worth getting him a new one.

Let me give あなた a good piece of advice. If あなた want to find him a laptop that works for gaming for about $500, あなた likely won't find anything.

However, for the sake of optimism, あなた will want to look for something that has a video card separate from the CPU, so look for something that doesn't have an "integrated graphics card." The 次 think あなた want to take into account is try to get at least 4 GB of ram, but try your hardest to get one with 6 GB または higher. If not, see if あなた can get one with RAM expansion slots so the computer can be upgraded.

I suggest looking here: link あなた can 検索 hundreds of モデル of computers, specify price, performance, and et cetra.

However, don't try to hard. Your boyfriend uses a desktop もっと見る often for gaming for a reason, and that reason is getting a laptop that can handle regular gaming is probably going to cost あなた at least a couple thousand dollars.

If あなた don't specifically want the gaming, and want a good laptop that will work for most purposes, then $500 is もっと見る than enough to get a good workable laptop.