Hello
I'm currently looking for a laptop for my wife who uses it mostly for working with Office, internet, movies, etc. However, she also likes to play games like Sims 3 and Diablo III and other games (Siberia, Nancy Drew, etc).
Currently she has a HP from 3 years ago. http
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It handled Diablo 3 in single player pretty good. Sims 3 impossible to play even with the lowest possible settings when the game was more advanced. The laptop is about to die, so we need a new one urgently.
My main requirements are:
1- Handle games like Diablo 3 and Sims 3 with expansion packs running decently. Also Need for Speed series (no need to be the latest game)
2- Moderate heating knowing it may be long hours on during work or gaming (although we bought a DeepCool multicore x6 base with 4 fans these days for the HP)
3- Good quality of the components to stay alive in the next few years (I suppose this depends on the brand)
4- Not as noisy as that HP was. It sounded like a vacuum cleaner, and during videocalls that sound annoyed the receptor.
After a research I came up with these options (I know there are many, but there are things about processors and GPU stuff and I have no idea which is better balanced)
The price is set in Rubles cause we are in Russia. Starting from the highest till the lowest price.
(1)
18890 rubles
Lenovo IdeaPad V580c
i3-3120M 2500 mhZ
RAM 4gb (max 8gb) DDR3
GeForce GT 740M 2gb
320gb hard disk
battery life 6 hrs
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(2)
18699 rubles
ASUS K56CB
i3 3217U 1800 mhZ
RAM 4gb (max 8gb) DDR3
GeForce GT 740M 2gb
500gb Serial ATA hard disk
baterry life 3 hrs
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(3)
18470 rubles
Lenovo IdeaPad G580
i3-3120M 2500 mhZ
RAM 4gb (max 16gb) DDR3
GeForce GT 635M 2gb
1tb hard disk
battery life 4.5 hrs
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(4)
17690 rubles
Dell Inspiron 3521
i5 3317U 1700 mhZ
RAM 4gb DDR3
Radeon HD 7670M 1gb SMA
500gb Serial ATA, HDD
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(5)
16990 rubles
Dell Inspiron 3521
i3 3217U 1800 mhZ
RAM 6gb (max 8gb) DDR3
Radeon HD 7670M 1gb
750gb hard disk
battery life 4hrs
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(6)
16440 rubles
Lenovo IdeaPad P585
A10 4600M 2300 ghZ
RAM 6gb DDR3
Radeon 7660G SMA (don't know what SMA means)
1tb hard disk
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If there are more specifications you need to know you can ask me, I put the main ones cause the catalogs are in Russian.
By the way, I skipped options that included an Intel HD 4000 graphics cause as far as I know Intel cards are not as good as the ones in these laptops, is that right?
It would be great if you can rank these options (that's why I put the numbers upon each one) so that if they don't have it in the shop I can try to look for the next best option. If there is something
Sorry for the long post, but I would really like to buy a good laptop with a fair price that won't give us problems in the future, like this HP. Thanks a lot in advance!
Arturo
I'm currently looking for a laptop for my wife who uses it mostly for working with Office, internet, movies, etc. However, she also likes to play games like Sims 3 and Diablo III and other games (Siberia, Nancy Drew, etc).
Currently she has a HP from 3 years ago. http

It handled Diablo 3 in single player pretty good. Sims 3 impossible to play even with the lowest possible settings when the game was more advanced. The laptop is about to die, so we need a new one urgently.
My main requirements are:
1- Handle games like Diablo 3 and Sims 3 with expansion packs running decently. Also Need for Speed series (no need to be the latest game)
2- Moderate heating knowing it may be long hours on during work or gaming (although we bought a DeepCool multicore x6 base with 4 fans these days for the HP)
3- Good quality of the components to stay alive in the next few years (I suppose this depends on the brand)
4- Not as noisy as that HP was. It sounded like a vacuum cleaner, and during videocalls that sound annoyed the receptor.
After a research I came up with these options (I know there are many, but there are things about processors and GPU stuff and I have no idea which is better balanced)
The price is set in Rubles cause we are in Russia. Starting from the highest till the lowest price.
(1)
18890 rubles
Lenovo IdeaPad V580c
i3-3120M 2500 mhZ
RAM 4gb (max 8gb) DDR3
GeForce GT 740M 2gb
320gb hard disk
battery life 6 hrs
----------
(2)
18699 rubles
ASUS K56CB
i3 3217U 1800 mhZ
RAM 4gb (max 8gb) DDR3
GeForce GT 740M 2gb
500gb Serial ATA hard disk
baterry life 3 hrs
---------
(3)
18470 rubles
Lenovo IdeaPad G580
i3-3120M 2500 mhZ
RAM 4gb (max 16gb) DDR3
GeForce GT 635M 2gb
1tb hard disk
battery life 4.5 hrs
---------
(4)
17690 rubles
Dell Inspiron 3521
i5 3317U 1700 mhZ
RAM 4gb DDR3
Radeon HD 7670M 1gb SMA
500gb Serial ATA, HDD
--------
(5)
16990 rubles
Dell Inspiron 3521
i3 3217U 1800 mhZ
RAM 6gb (max 8gb) DDR3
Radeon HD 7670M 1gb
750gb hard disk
battery life 4hrs
----------
(6)
16440 rubles
Lenovo IdeaPad P585
A10 4600M 2300 ghZ
RAM 6gb DDR3
Radeon 7660G SMA (don't know what SMA means)
1tb hard disk
---------
If there are more specifications you need to know you can ask me, I put the main ones cause the catalogs are in Russian.
By the way, I skipped options that included an Intel HD 4000 graphics cause as far as I know Intel cards are not as good as the ones in these laptops, is that right?
It would be great if you can rank these options (that's why I put the numbers upon each one) so that if they don't have it in the shop I can try to look for the next best option. If there is something
Sorry for the long post, but I would really like to buy a good laptop with a fair price that won't give us problems in the future, like this HP. Thanks a lot in advance!
Arturo