Recent content by jacobian

Get all of this for $700? Bwahahaha. That's exactly the problem with today's PC industry. Decent screen and GPU in a 700 dollar laptop? A real diamond in a rough. Personally, I'd check if HP has it's Black Friday/Monday sale on for the Envy laptops. There was a model with HD screen (I think...

Some time around holidays my brother got an Acer V3 machine with quad core Haswell i7 CPU, 17 inch 1080p screen and GeForce 750M graphics for about $930 from Amazon. The thing is wicked fast for what he runs. Nice build, slightly bulky, but that's his main desktop "rig".

Start with HP Envy 15z-j100 customization on HP's web site. The base price is $530. Upgrade the CPU from AMD A8 to A10, the screen to 1080p, and graphics to Radeon HD 8750M. The final price is $730. It's barely there budget-wise. However, to be honest, I'd wait until you can spend $800-900...

For 400, I think you should aim for a portable with a 35watt TDP Core i3 CPU with either HD Graphics 4000 or 4600 (4600 is better), 4GB of ram. The 15watt TDP models will be slower, but with better battery life, noise emission, and weight. AMD's A10-5750M dominates Intel's Sandy and Haswell i3...