FishCraftLabs

If you just want something to play games on, don't get a laptop. You spend more and get less. Unless you really want or need the mobility a laptop offers, there's no reason to impose those limitations on yourself. Instead, get a desktop. KSP needs a fast CPU, and seems to scale best with single threaded performance. That means you want an Intel processor. Since you don't seem to care about other games, you could probably get away with the integrated GPU on Haswell. This means you can get the top of the line CPU, even on your restricted budget. Spend $200 on the CPU, $80 on the motherboard, $40 on the memory, $100 on a HDD, $40 on a PSU and $25 on a case will get you a pretty nice computer, starring the Intel Core i5-4570, and fit within your budget. Of course, you have to build it yourself, and Windows is going to cost you another $60-$80 unless you can get a copy cheaper (students can often get it cheap or free through their university).

Flight Log: Chief Engineer Robert H. Kerman Flight Result: Exceeded Engineering Tolerances Another failure. Chalk it up to Subject, err, Pilot, 47A’s incompetence. 6A through 6F were all just as bad. I’m beginning to think my comrades in the Kerbal Space Center’s Engineering Department may be the only ones competent enough to actually operate these machines. And if you think I’m going to get anywhere near one of those deathtraps, then you’re just as dim as the rest of our Subjects. I mean pilots. Subject 47A was given a simple task, pilot the experimental FishCraft One SSTO to Low Kerbin Orbit. Spend two days measuring the effect of cosmic radiation on unprotected Kerbals, and return to land at Kerbal Space Center for further “studyâ€Â. While the first several minutes of the mission went as planned, Subject 47A failed to throttle down the turbofan engines before the designated 22km cutoff point. At 22.5km, the craft underwent an asymmetrical flameout, cartwheeling out of control and exceeding engineering tolerances shortly thereafter. Recovery operations are underway, though 47A’s remains are almost certainly lost to us. The failure of the mission can only be attributed to Subject 47A. As a result, we are billing his surviving family members the entire cost of the rocket, launch operations and recovery effort. In the unlikely event they are unable to produce the $347,000,000.00, we have arranged for them to pay off their debt in our employ as test Subjects. Pilots. I mean Pilots. Dictated but not read Robert H. Kerman