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  • I’m in pretty much the same boat. My past 2 laptops have been dell inspirons with a touchscreen. I use the touch screen for game programming to make sure touch events work. The one I got was $500, but probably should have gone a bit higher.

    It has a i5 processor 16gb ram, 1 tb ssd. It does indeed run tf2, guild wars 2, and other not graphically intensive games. I’m satisfied and it does work well, but below are some of the negatives of my new laptop vs my old.

    It’s missing key backlights, a fingerprint to unlock, and the bodyvis much more plastic and feels not as secure as my wife’s lenovo.

    Be sure to check out pics for keyboard arrangement. My new laptop has a numberpad…which is nice, but the arrow keys got shrunk which is not nice for programming.

    Be sure to check where the trackpad is. Centralized is better. My new one is more to the left and my wrist hits it when playing tf2 and I do occasionally get some movement from my wrist in game, but not much.

    I picked money up from amazon.





  • I play a lot of games with my 10yr old daughter. Here are some of what we liked:

    -Any lego game(there are sooo many and they often go on sale)

    -trine series, much more puzzley

    -sackboy a big adventure

    -brothers a tale of two sons

    -it takes two

    -portal 2

    -degrees of separation

    -putty pals

    -ibb and obb

    -toodee and topdee

    -bleep bloop

    -battle block theater

    -chariot

    -pikunuku

    We also loved going through the monkey island games. They are not mumtiplayer but they are slow point and click games that we bounced ideas off one another.





  • My daughter and I have played through quite a few games. Here are our favorites:

    • ANY LEGO game, we have played through many of these
    • The TRINE series. They are fun puzzle platforms
    • portal 2 co-op. There is a campaign and other maps on the workshop
    • brothers: a tale of two sons. Sit right next to each other and share the controller
    • Unraveled 2, puzzle platform errors
    • It takes two is an amazing game from EA.
    • sackboy: a big adventure
    • battle block theater is a fun romp
    • bleep bloop
    • degrees of separation, mostly fun there was a few annoying puzzles, but many can be skipped
    • guacamole is a nice battle platformer
    • ibb and obb is a very unique puzzle platformer
    • octodad is pretty great fun
    • pixel junk monsters is a tower defense style co op game
    • putty pals is a fun if childish looking game
    • spelunky is a rogue like
    • toodee and topdee is a fun puzzler

    Those are our favorites!