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They are similar, but the 840m has the edge on the M265. They're still pretty similar. As for A10 vs i7, the i7 has the edge but not by much if it's a ULV i7 (eg. 4500U), as those are barely above the ULV i5s.

Yes, make sure the memory is running in dual channel, so 4GB x2. From your description I deduct you're talking about the A10-7300. So, 1.9Ghz base clock with boost to 3.2Ghz, and 384 shader units running at 533 Mhz with boost to 654Mhz. I'd say 1366x768 is doable for newer well-optimized games...

At very low settings and resolution. Older games will be fine.

So I just bought an Asus T100TAS Windows tablet. Atom z3775, 2GBs of RAM, 32GBs of eMMC. Every time I do something CPU (and RAM) intensive when on battery, like running video on Chrome, or playing a game, the tablet just shuts down after a while. I have done a factory reset to make sure it...

Team Fortress 2. 90% of GOG's catalog.

This comment destroyed the entire article. My view exactly. Obnoxious ads are the cause of this (and because of them every site suffers from adblocking), and let me add one more to the list: Youtube video ads.

There are two toshiba laptops for 250€. One has a Pentium B960 with a Radeon 7610m. Good enough cpu performance, but an outdated gpu with no support for DX12. The other has an AMD A4-5000 with its integrated 8330 and a dedicated 8550m for dual graphics. Both have 4GB of ram. The gaming...

I am currently looking for a cooler, Asus branded laptop for web browsing, video and some light gaming. There is a new laptop (450€) with the i3 4010u (1.7ghz, no turbo, Haswell) and a Nvidia 820m. The CPU is modest but capable of the sort of stuff I want to play on it, namely: Team Fortress 2...