Looking for new laptop with dedicated GPU

[xdeadpool]

1. What is your budget?
$500
2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering?
14 or 15
3. What screen resolution do you want?
Any res would be fine
4. Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop?
Both 😀
5. How much battery life do you need?
Any battery, the longer the better.
6. Do you want to play games with your laptop? If so then please list the games that you want to with the settings that you want for these games. (Low,Medium or High)?
New games with any settings and resolutions, as long as it's playable.
7. What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop? (Photo/Video editing, Etc.)
Online music producing, a bit of video editing.
8. How much storage (Hard Drive capacity) do you need?
Any HDD is fine.
9. If you are considering specific sites to buy from, please post their links.
maybe Amazon, Ebay, etc. As long as it's reliable.
10. How long do you want to keep your laptop?
Well obviously as long as possible.
11. What kind of Optical drive do you need? DVD ROM/Writer,Bluray ROM/Writer,Etc ?
DVD+-RW
12. Please tell us about the brands that you prefer to buy from them and the brands that you don't like and explain the reasons.
Any brands like HP, Asus, Lenovo, Acer, Dell,etc.
13. What country do you live in?
Vietnam. I want to buy it online and have it shipped here.
Please recommend some really good budget laptops, my old one is not powerful enough and it keeps crashing. Thanks a lot !! 😀
UPDATE: Integrated graphics would be fine if it's really cheap, at least Intel HD3000 or HD4000. The GPU is the main thing but the budget is very important as I'm very short on money right now

 

[C12Friedman]

I really dislike being the bearer of bad news but I haven't found even a refurbished laptop with dedicated GPU in that price range. I have found some refurbished units around $700 that feature a dedicated GPU.

There may be hope for your current laptop, I'll suggest looking for disassembly instructions on YouTube for your laptop model (iFixit and Laptop-Repair may also be helpful for this) and give the laptop a thorough cleaning. You might even look into replacing the thermal compound while in there. Often, constant crashing can be traced to overheating and cleaning the laptop out may give it just a little more life and buy you enough time to increase your budget a bit.

 

[xdeadpool]

thanks for the suggestions! I was looking at these:
HP Pavilion M4 1001TX with i5 3230M and GT730M around $660
Dell Inspiron 3537 with i5 4200U and HD8670M around $600
Asus K450CC with i5 3337U and GT730M around $600
Acer Aspire E1 572G NX.M8KSV.002 with i3 and HD8670 around $450
Asus K551LN-XX317D with i5 4210U and GT840 around $700
Dell Inspiron N5537C P28F003-TI34502 with i3 4010U and HD8650M around $520
They are so cheap that makes me wonder if they're really geniune

 

[xdeadpool]

And also, refurbished laptops would be fine as long as the sellers are reliable