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Need help choosing between a few different laptops.

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Agentbolt

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My laptop recently got gifted to someone else, and I'm currently rocking a fairly pedestrian Inspiron M5030 with a AMD P360 and a Radeon HD4250 integrated card. I'd like to spend maybe 350-400 dollars upgrading to a slighty better laptop. I don't do much taxing, I'd like something that could play modern games even if everything is cranked down the the absolute lowest settings/resolution, and I tend to do a lot of flash heavy stuff (facebook games, hulu/netflix, etc...). At 400 bucks I'm seeing a bunch of identical black plasticy notebooks with horrible screens as well, so I'm not expecting anything fancy there either. I would like to stay away from 17 inch (shouldn't be much of a problem there) so it's at least theoretically luggable to Starbucks or whatever.

So far my search has come up with these two:

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/HP+-+Pav...&skuId=2715258

or

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Toshiba+...&skuId=2833077

The Pavillion has the interesting A-series Laptop which MIGHT perform better for gaming (Altohugh there's simply no reviews on the A4 processor, just the A8) but the Toshiba has the Sandy Bridge I3 which is borderline competent for games but also appears to have the much stronger processor. All I know for sure is the Athlon P360 I've currently got really doesn't seem like it's going to be viable for another year or two, which is how long I'd like have before I need to upgrade again.

Any consensus on a choice between the two, or anyone have another suggestion? I briefly checked out Woot's offering today but a 17 inch is not ideal and it's pricier than I'd like.
 
Well, according to this reference hurr the A4-330 is a few rungs above the Intel/HD3000 combo in the video department but at the same time is a lot lower than the Core i3 in the CPU department - in fact in the description it does say that it performs similarly to the Athlon II P340, a slower processor than what you currently own.

It looks like Llano's real competitive edge begins w/ the A6 units; I'd just say get the Toshiba - HPs are crap anyways 😛
 
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