If you want to play a graphics intensive game such as the total war series id suggest doing it on a desktop. Yes laptops work as previously sated and mine does as well. But a desktop with a decent cpu and a good graphics card are relatively cheap especially if you build them yourself ;) I built mine about a year ago and I run a EVGA GTX 650 Ti and I can run it on highest everything. I suggest getting a desktop my friend
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