First post but long...can't find reviews of a laptop I am looking at with the lowly i3 cpu.
I have an M11X laptop I basically take on business trips around the UK and just use it in the evenings on overnight stays to play games mostly. The only think I never liked about it was it is a bit too small but it is better than having to play games on a phone or something.
However it just endured a rather hefty fall down some stone stairs and has been bodged up before after road trip knocks and bumps and to cap it all off, I think the HDD is dead. Rather than even spend money on a new hard drive I think I have had my monies worth, the spec is Core 2 Duo SU7300 which can run OC'd to 1.73 (I never did though to save battery), a 500GB drive, 4GB ram and an Nvidia 335m.
I've been looking at Ultrabooks or 13 and 14 inch laptops but they seem to be pretty pricey but I checked out the Acer M3 in a shop near where I was today. The review on here says the screen isn't great quality...but it looks better than my M11x and is bigger. Despite the same res.
Basically this Acer M3 is the i3 model with the 640m (Kepler).
I have some questions if anyone can answer them.
1. Will the CPU be too slow for the GPU (i3 2367, Sandybridge 1.4GHz with HT) ? Is it likely to be crap in games ?
2. How can the GPU (when coupled with say an i5 or i7) perform so well even with a quite poor ddr3 memory setup and under 30gb/s bandwidth ?
3.Would I be better off spending the same on an i5 with a lesser GPU ? (there is a Lenovo with an i5 but a 6470 GPU)
I can't spend any more then £500 and want new...most laptops at this price come with way less than a 640m, hence my interest in the Acer, IF the cpu isn't too slow, the next model up with an i5 is out of my budget.
thanks
I have an M11X laptop I basically take on business trips around the UK and just use it in the evenings on overnight stays to play games mostly. The only think I never liked about it was it is a bit too small but it is better than having to play games on a phone or something.
However it just endured a rather hefty fall down some stone stairs and has been bodged up before after road trip knocks and bumps and to cap it all off, I think the HDD is dead. Rather than even spend money on a new hard drive I think I have had my monies worth, the spec is Core 2 Duo SU7300 which can run OC'd to 1.73 (I never did though to save battery), a 500GB drive, 4GB ram and an Nvidia 335m.
I've been looking at Ultrabooks or 13 and 14 inch laptops but they seem to be pretty pricey but I checked out the Acer M3 in a shop near where I was today. The review on here says the screen isn't great quality...but it looks better than my M11x and is bigger. Despite the same res.
Basically this Acer M3 is the i3 model with the 640m (Kepler).
I have some questions if anyone can answer them.
1. Will the CPU be too slow for the GPU (i3 2367, Sandybridge 1.4GHz with HT) ? Is it likely to be crap in games ?
2. How can the GPU (when coupled with say an i5 or i7) perform so well even with a quite poor ddr3 memory setup and under 30gb/s bandwidth ?
3.Would I be better off spending the same on an i5 with a lesser GPU ? (there is a Lenovo with an i5 but a 6470 GPU)
I can't spend any more then £500 and want new...most laptops at this price come with way less than a 640m, hence my interest in the Acer, IF the cpu isn't too slow, the next model up with an i5 is out of my budget.
thanks
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