Choosing new laptop (~£550 budget)

[darthvadar]

I have been researching laptops around £500-£600, for light gaming, statistical modelling.

I have been looking at PC Specialist, for £589 I can get the following:
i5 4210M
8GB RAM
500GB HDD
GT 840m (GDDR 3)
1366x768 screen (The upgrade to 1080p comes with a GTX850m but it costs £98)

What I'd like to know is: Is there an AMD equivalent spec which will perform similarly since AMD is usually cheaper. (I'm not sure at this price point AMD would give me better performance)

Thanks

 

[dhvd79a]

Doing some quick searches it looks like you would need a minimum of a a10-5750m to get similar but slightly worse performance. New prices for that appears to be slightly lower, at least converting USD to GBP.

 

[velo3100]

I personally would stick with the gt 840m as nivida has generally better drivers support for games than amd. As for the stats modelling, I have no idea which cpu is better as I am not in that field.