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Buying a Laptop with dedicated graphics

  • 14-01-2013 10:42pm
    #1
    Pabs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6 ✭


    Hey, just looking for some advise on buying a laptop. The budgets around 800 euro. I'm getting it through work so they require that I purchase it in a computer store or via an Irish website, its limiting but thats the terms!

    I was looking at a Lenovo 15.6" Y500-MBG2AMH (i5, GT650m) or a Samsung 550P5C Core i5. Both have an i5-3210M Intel Core i5 and a NVIDIA GeForce GT650M 2GB. This graphics card gets a good rating and one of my main reasons for my choice.

    Just looking for any advise on what to get, would like to get a laptop with an i5 and the GT650m, but if anyone has any advice, would greatly appreciate it:) other suggestions welcome as I'm not limiting myself to either one


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  • #2
    yomamasflavour
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 389 ✭✭yomamasflavour


    As buying though work can you write off the vat?
    Would give you even more to play with.


  • #3
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Higher end Samsung PCs are good IMO, and at your budget level you pretty much blow past your AMD options for a processor, which leaves you in the hop over to dedicated GPU. Best value I have seen so far in the US market, Price-to-Performance, was an ASUS Republic of Gamers 14" with all the necessaries and none of the fat: i5, 4GB Ram, and a 2GB GTX660M. Ran a little bit higher @ $999 (USD) but I'd be interested to see if you can't find it's european counterpart:

    http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Asus+-+14%26%2334%3B+Laptop+-+8GB+Memory+-+750GB+Hard+Drive+-+Black/6775259.p?id=1218806576744&skuId=6775259

    Usually for business though they make entirely different lines of GPU, like AMD Firepro and Nvidia Quadro, which are more geared at high-level rendering and 3D drafting, whereas Radeon and G-series are focused around gaming libraries (anti-aliasing, shaders, directX)


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