Need opinion on a laptop.

[dziire]

Hello,

Just found this from lenovo, I get it down to £386 when using the student discount on their website. I need your opinions, are i3's good inside laptops and does the 1.7 clock speed seem slow?

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Thanks!

 

[YoHey]

It won't really be any good for gaming to be honest, maybe some light graphics work.

 

[Napking]

What do you plan to use the laptop for? You said you were using a student discount, so is this for college? Do you plan to use it for gaming, as a media laptop, or just as a workstation?

As a general rule, unless you're doing highly intensive operations like gaming or 3D modeling, a processor's speed isn't going to be the main bottleneck. We've gotten to the point now where the most important part of a processor's usability is its heat efficiency. What that means, essentially, is that newer is better. This is a Haswell i3, so it will be nicely heat efficient. Again, whether or not the processor is going to be good depends on your intended use.

 

[rockie_]

On HD resolution will run a lot of games but may face stuttering since i3 4010U is relatively weak . i have i3 2350M 2.3GHz .

 

[dziire]

Originally I wanted to do gaming, but with my price limit its pretty much impossible. Yeah it's going to mainly be for work, movies and possibly light video/photo editing.

So you guys believe in the i3?

I must sound pathetic, but coming down from an i7 in my desktop feels so wrong!

 

[rockie_]

For everyday work i3 4010U is fine .
http/www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php

 

[Napking]

Agreed. This will do nicely for what you need it for. What's your budget for a gaming machine?

 

[dziire]

Agreed. This will do nicely for what you need it for. What's your budget for a gaming machine?

I wanted to spend up to £450 for a low end gaming laptop, I was also very picky though e.g. i5, 8GB RAM, dedi GPU and 1TB... Just need to take the fact that its impossible haha and probably more in the £550 region.

Thank you all for your help!

 

[rockie_]

i3 may overheat as mine . i fixed that by tweaking . For gaming Geforce 840M is preferable .

 

[GObonzo]

decent GPU but not very nice CPU. also running 5400rpm HD so also a downside.