Which Windows Laptop Is The Best For MSFS?

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Which Windows Computer Is The Best For MSFS?

Hello everyone! In order to run MSFS, I was attempting to run it on a Mac with Boot Camp and it just wouldn’t work for me. I am looking into getting a Microsoft laptop for the holidays, and I would like to know which laptop you think it’s the best out of the ones I have below. I have a link and I prefer to stay on the cheaper side. I would like 256GB, in the Microsoft Surface Go seems to be the best for me right now. I would like to know if you guys have any other ideas or thoughts that I should consider when buying a new laptop. Since I cannot include a link in my post, I will show the link in the photo. Thanks.
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How much money are you looking to spend? The surface go you’ve mentioned doesn’t meet the minimum specs for the Sim, if you want to run it you have to look into something with dedicated graphics. And unless all you’re looking to do on this machine is fly around then I’d say to have a look at some larger ssds or laptops with both an SSD and HDD

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I would prefer not to go crazy, something under $800 to keep it reasonable (for a computer at least)… 900 tops or so. What would be a laptop good for it. While I know what desktop is better, a laptop is better for me because I can use it for it to be portable as well.

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I do like this option… From Dell. I found it on a recommended list for laptops that run well with MSFS… what do y’all think about this?

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Not a terrible choice but I think those come standard with 8gb of RAM, assuming you’re in the USA i’d be looking into an Acer Nitro 5, Newegg has a few with 16gb RAM and 512GB SSDs

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Would this be the one you are talking about?

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yeah, just make sure to shop around, look for the 16GB RAM variant, I feel like running with 8GB will give you too many problems

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Thank you so much for your help. I really appreciate it. I assume this is what you are talking about?

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Yeah, there’s a whole category of them, so just look around and see which one best suits your price range

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I got a Nitro 5 (before I hand considered using it for MSFS).

Put another 1TB m.2 drive in it, + upped the ram to 32GB (somewhatt of an overkill)
Also got a Cooling Tray … Its going to get “HOT” running the GPU flat out.

It’s adequate on a 27" HDMI Monitor @ 1080

Since I already had it before I got MSFS, it was (to me) worth thrown a couple of hundred Dollars at it, rather than get a more powerful Desktop.

Maybe in a year, when MSFS runs better and the new MBs & Video cards come out .

One thing to watch out for with the Nitro 5. It 's Bios does NOT support legacy Booting.
Only UEFI
That came as a shock & an annoyance to me … but it is what it is.

I also had to update the Bios, to get the 2nd m.2 drive to be recognized and run.

It’s not the most recently released laptop !!