Zwift what laptop

gusm41

I'm looking for a new laptop that will work fairly well with Zwift. Any recommendations?

okgo

Any that meet the spec I guess, its not that intensive I don't think

I run it on a macbook air - well, I ran the trial, I found it pretty dull so won't buy it.

Tjgoodhew

I am no IT expert but after Zwift failed to run on my laptop (5 year old Dell) i had a word with my IT guy about buying a new laptop that would meet requirements.

Turns out the graphics card needs to be relatively powerful which rules out cheap laptops.

From having a quick look anything in the £350 + range seemed to meet the minimum

gusm41

Thanks for the info i was looking for middle of the road specs, can anyone recommend a laptop?

RutlandGav

If you can wait a couple months, the new Intel Skylake chips with Iris graphics look interesting. They'll use the emerging memory standard , DDR 4 instead of DDR 3, which might make things easier if you want to upgrade down the road. Iris graphics + DDR 4 should give graphics performance equivalent to a modest discrete graphics chip.

penski

As others have said, its the graphics card in the laptop that will determine how well Zwift runs (assuming you haven't opted for a terrible CPU). Anything with 'Onboard / shared' graphics will be inferior to something with a dedicated GPU.