Annoying question about buying.

[KanagiF]

Hi all. Lately I've been trying to find a decent laptop to purchase so I can do stuff while I'm not at home. Money however is the biggest issue. I've seen some decent laptops for y'know $600+, but I'm trying to see if I can't find something cheaper. Nothing amazing - 16"~+ screen, prefer 1080 resolution. Can handle games like Dragon Age(Graphics aren't top-notch but not terrible) , League, maybe WoW - Older stuff. I'm not picky. But I'm hoping to stay low like 300-400? Which sounds like it isn't much but considering how out of date the requirements I have are... I dunno.

Anyone have any suggestions? I don't need a camera or any of that kind of stuff. I've been looking but I tend to keep accidently knocking the price up.

Edit: Looking around I can't find 1080 for that price at all, so any decent resolution will be fine.

 

[WR2]

But I'm hoping to stay low like 300-400? Which sounds like it isn't much but considering how out of date the requirements I have are..

1080 resolution resolution and gaming for $300~$400?

At your price point the best you might find is a refurb 1600x900 Llano laptop. Something like that be OK?

 

[KanagiF]

1080 resolution resolution and gaming for $300~$400?

At your price point the best you might find is a refurb 1600x900 Llano laptop. Something like that be OK?

I don't really have any issue with refurb, but yea. I've been seeing that if I want 1080 I won't be getting it for that price - I don't need 1080 anyone. It's just a laptop. Not 100% familiar with Llano, but that sounds fine.

EDIT: Oh wow, looking at new-egg apparently laptops haven't really dropped in price like I had figured. 13" 900res laptop with a 1.7GHZ processor, and dedicate card is running $400 for refurb... That sounds very high, since the original Asus I was looking at was fairly beasty at only $800

 

[WR2]

The Llano replacement - Trinity - is just days away from going on sale.
But like there are NO Llano notebooks for sale on NewEgg that aren't refurbs. Which surprised me.

TOSHIBA Satellite L775D A6-3400M(1.4Ghz) & Radeon HD 6520G
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834214664

 

[KanagiF]

The Llano replacement - Trinity - is just days away from going on sale.
But like there are NO Llano notebooks for sale on NewEgg that aren't refurbs. Which surprised me.

TOSHIBA Satellite L775D A6-3400M(1.4Ghz) & Radeon HD 6520G
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834214664

Wow, that's pretty nice for the price. Is that a good graphics? I don't know Radeon's numbering system sadly. I should really start learning it.

I'll have to take a look at some of those Trinity, and Llano refurbs then. Interested to see 'em.

 

[WR2]

It's respectable for the price.
I think the CPU portion (1.4Ghz) of the APU holds the graphics back in a lot of games.


Radeon HD 6520G review
http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-HD-6520G.55734.0.html

 

[jaguarskx]

The HD 6520G is pretty decent for an integrated graphics core. But it can't really compare to a decent discrete graphics card and it's too weak to play games at 1600x900 resolution so you will need to drop that down to 1366x768.

 

[Tibbs01]

Here are a couple of options to consider:

http://outlet.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/outlet_us/LenovoPortal/en_US/catalog.workflow:item.detail?GroupID=445&Code=43952DU

http://outlet.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/outlet_us/LenovoPortal/en_US/catalog.workflow:item.detail?GroupID=445&Code=439724U

Edit: Benchmark for the gpu's etc.: http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-HD-6570M.41479.0.html

 

[Sephypoo73]

^ A lenovo with an i3+ dedicated graphics for under $500 is a steal.

 

[dudewitbow]

i dont think theres new laptops on sale for anything sub 500 with a dedicated gpu. the lowest i can only recall of is the lenovo z575 which has an hd6650m which sells for 500$ on the spot.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834246328

 

[KanagiF]

http://outlet.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/outlet_us/LenovoPortal/en_US/catalog.workflow:item.detail?GroupID=445&Code=0993XF9

Is this as stupidly of a good deal, as I think it is? i5 + Dedicated for $480?

Both virtually out of stock. 🙁