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 Post subject: Re: What laptop should I buy
PostPosted: September 13th, 2011, 11:37 am 
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If you want to game at all besides RS you're looking in the wrong place, especially since three of four listed have integrated graphics. Just get a cheap laptop for school and/or portability. Save money for building a nice gaming computer later on.

As much as a gaming laptop would be nice you really don't want to be lugging around a 17" laptop (you have one listed), I'd even say 15" might be too big. Also where are the Intel based laptops? Intel generally has lower power consumption and therefore longer battery life.

I assume a Mac laptop is out of the question?


I can tell you now, my 15" absolutely kills my back when I'm lugging it around with all the essential bits (power cord, mouse, etc) too. But then again most gaming laptops are used as desktop replacements.

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 Post subject: Re: What laptop should I buy
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Oh, I carry my laptop in a bag by hand. It has a strap for when I need two hands so I can carry it on my shoulder, but not for long.

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PostPosted: September 15th, 2011, 6:27 pm 
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Took the suggestions I recieved from you guys and made a new list of options.

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PostPosted: September 15th, 2011, 7:38 pm 
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With the new options, I would go with number 5, hands down.

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PostPosted: September 16th, 2011, 7:09 am 
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I'm discounting the 17" just due to the size X-D

Here's a nice review of the A8-3500M that has both synthetic and real-world tests (be sure to look at the A8-3500M with discreet 6630M, as that is close to what the one you're looking at has). Several pages, but I know Just Cause 2 can really kill a lower-end system. Check out StarCraft 2 and other games as comparisons to what you'd be playing at. Just note that all of the systems, excluding the 17" one, have a max resolution of 1366x768, so the 1600x900 and higher resolution benchmarks are moot for you.

One major thing that would tip me toward many of the other options is that they offer Optimus (need Intel+Nvidia for this) technology, allowing the laptop to switch between integrated and dedicated graphics on the fly. This would save battery, but allow you to have better performance when you needed it.

Looking like the first Acer with the 5470 is a bit weak on the GPU side.

310M on the Samsung is also a bit weak.

The 520M on #4 is pretty decent, able to play quite of current games a bit at decent settings.

The 330M on the Acer with the touch screen is quite nice as well, somewhere near the 520M in terms of performance.

Given all of the options, you'd probably be limited by the GPU power you've got in the system, rather than CPU. That being said, I'd have to recommend either #4 #5 or #6. All of these would do quite well gaming (at least according to their benchmarks of games that are currently released). I'm not sure if the AMD A8 will use an Optimus-esque technology to switch between the integrated graphics on the chip and the dedicated 6650m that it has, but if it did it'd be hard to say no.

Given the choices of 4, 5, 6, you could compare the features to see which one fits your needs the best. But they're all pretty similar, minus the touch screen on #6. On a laptop, I don't know how much that'd be used, except perhaps with Windows 8 if you plan on upgrading.

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 Post subject: Re: What laptop should I buy
PostPosted: September 16th, 2011, 3:03 pm 
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I'm not sure if the AMD A8 will use an Optimus-esque technology to switch between the integrated graphics on the chip and the dedicated 6650m that it has, but if it did it'd be hard to say no.

Looked around and it looks like does have that ability, also found out that you can use crossfire on this laptop which uses the power of the integrated GPU and the dedicated GPU at the same time. Considering the integrated GPU is not as bad as the other ones i've seen it will probably be a decent boost.

So I think I have finally made my decision.
5. Acer Aspire AS5560G-SB448 LX.RNZ02.022 AMD A8-3500M Quad-Core 1.50GHz CPU GPU

Thanks again for your help paul and thank you to everyone else for your comments/advice!

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 Post subject: Re: What laptop should I buy
PostPosted: September 24th, 2011, 7:09 am 
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Got my new laptop 3 days ago.
Only played MW2 multiplayer so far and it ran very well on max settings with anti-aliasing on.

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PostPosted: September 26th, 2011, 3:02 pm 
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Well, since the laptop has been purchased, I guess I'll close the thread. Let me know if this is in error :)

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