Weary Ghost

Thanks, that was really useful info.

Thanks for the heads up! Oh, that was my current laptop I was using as comparison, and I'm done digging around inside it. >.>

Ok, so to cover something i see come up a lot when searching the topic: I have a desktop, it's fine. I need a new laptop. It's not specifically for SL., I just really want to be able to use it for that as well. 😛 I have been trying to look up posts and gather info on my own, but I have a sluggish brain that makes reading a lot of technical jargon ans specs listings exhausting, so I figured I'd hop in here and ask. I want a laptop that can run SL fairly well. I don't need ultra graphics and shadows, and I don't spend much time in very high lag areas. I figured trying to compare it with my current laptop would be helpful in deciding, but I don't have a firm enough grasp of these things to really know what difference to expect in performance. My current laptop runs SL "fine...ish". I keep the graphics on low, or medium if I'm feeling daring. It lags quite a bit. My current, soon to be demoted laptop is an Asus Notebook F550J, and these are the specs I could dig up: i5-4200H 8GB RAM Nvidia Ge Force GTX 850M 500GB HDD I found a laptop I can afford (refurbished), it's an Acer Aspire 5 with the following specs: i7-8565U, 8th gen. 16 GB RAM Intel UHD Graphics 620 512GB SSD I know dedicated graphics is preferred, but can the RAM and i7-core kinda.. make up for it? Can I expect a big difference in performance between these two?