Hey, techno geeks! I need your help.

My सलाह to आप 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 आप something that will support the latest games, या even many of the हाल का ones, either. You'd be looking at a laptop with likely a 512 mb graphics (maybe 1 gb if आप 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). भालू in mind that laptops are और expensive than desktops in terms of the specifications आप 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 साल पूर्व 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, आप can't expect much in the way of gaming out of laptops, unless आप 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 आप a good piece of advice. If आप want to find him a laptop that works for gaming for about $500, आप likely won't find anything.

However, for the sake of optimism, आप 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 अगला think आप 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 या higher. If not, see if आप can get one with RAM expansion slots so the computer can be upgraded.

I suggest looking here: link आप can खोजिए hundreds of मॉडेल of computers, specify price, performance, and et cetra.

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

If आप don't specifically want the gaming, and want a good laptop that will work for most purposes, then $500 is और than enough to get a good workable laptop.