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[iron wolf]

Vulpesveritas, on 16 June 2012 - 11:33 PM, said:

Some people need the mobility, but where one can, you should get a desktop for gaming, end of story.
But for someone such as a college student who doesn't get to spend much time at home, or a traveler of some sort, you may want a laptop. And especially in the student prospect you may want the gaming bit.

Of course! And as exactly such a student, i do in fact have such a capable laptop. But its not an ultrabook - It's a regular, retail store bought (I guess the american equivilent would be best buy perhaps? ) 15.6 inch laptop. See, because when you buy regular mass manufactored laptops, you save cash and get more performance. When i look at (admittedly intel, since AMD haven't made any yet) Ultrabooks that cost $2000 brand new and have worse hardware than my <1kg heavier 16 month old $999 laptop, it makes me wince

[Vulpesveritas]

iron wolf, on 16 June 2012 - 11:59 PM, said:

Of course! And as exactly such a student, i do in fact have such a capable laptop. But its not an ultrabook - It's a regular, retail store bought (I guess the american equivilent would be best buy perhaps? ) 15.6 inch laptop. See, because when you buy regular mass manufactored laptops, you save cash and get more performance. When i look at (admittedly intel, since AMD haven't made any yet) Ultrabooks that cost $2000 brand new and have worse hardware than my <1kg heavier 16 month old $999 laptop, it makes me wince

Yeah... I'm not recommending an ultrabook to anyone really. Those 35w A10s don't fit in an Ultrabook anyhow, just the 17w A6s.... Anyhow.
I think you're misunderstanding the recommendation. $500-800 laptops that can play any game at 720p at decent settings, most games at 1080p at lower settings or above, and are more power efficient than getting something with a discrete GPU.
But yeah.

[ArcticFox99]

Vulpesveritas, on 17 June 2012 - 12:02 AM, said:

Yeah... I'm not recommending an ultrabook to anyone really. Those 35w A10s don't fit in an Ultrabook anyhow, just the 17w A6s.... Anyhow.
I think you're misunderstanding the recommendation. $500-800 laptops that can play any game at 720p at decent settings, most games at 1080p at lower settings or above, and are more power efficient than getting something with a discrete GPU.
But yeah.

Bingo, Good example i have my $1800 gaming tower for all my gaming needs but i do like to travel and sometimes having my gateway is a blessing, When i got it was $600 and came with a blueray player 500 gig 7200 RPM HDD and an AMD A8-3500 in it with an aditional dedicated 6650 card, Now to get the same level of hardware game wise with a blueray player in an intel build (at the time) the CHEAPEST i could find was well over $900 at that price i would rather pay $1200 and get an I7 laptop with a dedicated high end video card and even then i would end skimping on the blueray.

AMD laptops for what you pay on the mass production models with APU's in them are usually a lot cheaper for simular power to a laptop $200 more from team intel, Plus they go onsale far more often then intel laptops meaning your much more likely to save a LOT more money.

However if were talking $1k+ budget intel normally blows AMD out of the water no questions asked.

My 2 cent's take it as you will.

Edit for clairty.

Edited by ArcticFox99, 17 June 2012 - 04:07 PM.