Ultrabook Light Gaming: ASUS UX32VD or Lenovo Yoga 13

[Doboji]

I'm looking to pick up a 13inch ultra book for mostly business and a bit of MMO light gaming... I know the UX32VD comes with the separate Nvidia 620... but can the Intel HD4000 integrated do the job for the games I play or am thinking of playing?

Those are simply: Rift, EVE, Guild Wars 2, and WoW

Your thoughts, comments and suggestions are extremely welcome.

For reference if I go with the ASUS I end up with non-touch screen Ultrabook 500GB SATA, and it looks like 4GB of RAM... whereas the Lenovo would be a bit cheaper and get me the touch screen, a SS disk drive and 8GB of RAM...

 

[Doboji]

*posted this in the notebooks forum as well*

I'm looking to pick up a 13inch ultra book for mostly business and a bit of MMO light gaming... I know the UX32VD comes with the separate Nvidia 620... but can the Intel HD4000 integrated do the job for the games I play or am thinking of playing?

Those are simply: Rift, EVE, Guild Wars 2, and WoW

Your thoughts, comments and suggestions are extremely welcome.

For reference if I go with the ASUS I end up with non-touch screen Ultrabook 500GB SATA, and it looks like 4GB of RAM... whereas the Lenovo would be a bit cheaper and get me the touch screen, a SS disk drive and 8GB of RAM...



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[Nvidiaguy07]

*posted this in the notebooks forum as well*

I'm looking to pick up a 13inch ultra book for mostly business and a bit of MMO light gaming... I know the UX32VD comes with the separate Nvidia 620... but can the Intel HD4000 integrated do the job for the games I play or am thinking of playing?

Those are simply: Rift, EVE, Guild Wars 2, and WoW

Your thoughts, comments and suggestions are extremely welcome.

For reference if I go with the ASUS I end up with non-touch screen Ultrabook 500GB SATA, and it looks like 4GB of RAM... whereas the Lenovo would be a bit cheaper and get me the touch screen, a SS disk drive and 8GB of RAM...

vote here for the yoga. Just got one from best buy for 900 - you should see if that deal is still available. But for most games - and the games you listed, i think the hd4000 is good enough - check benchmarks.

Its also gonna be lighter, sleeker, and possibly better on battery life. Not postive since the UX32VD does look pretty thin, but the dedicated gpu has gotta have some downsides in addition to the performance bump.

I personally have always loved lenovo keyboards too, so that was a big factor when i bought this. Coming from a macbook air, I LOVED the trackpad and keyboard, so hopefully this will be almost as good.

 

[Enigmoid]

The 620m is a good bit faster. Those games will be playable on the hd4000 but the 620m (basically the same as the 630m) will be a good bit faster (40-50%).

 

[crab0]

You could install a SSD and more ram into the Asus cause its not totally locked down like most Ultrabooks. If its a hassle you don't want to deal with I'd rather have the ram and SSD as its not going to be a gaming PC but a PC that does a bit of gaming.

 

[nextJin]

wait for the summer releases?

 

[Doboji]

I ordered the Yoga and went with the i7 256gb SSD drive and 8gb of ram version..

 

[Ashenor]

See my thread here. I was looking at the Asus also, ended up going with Sony Vaio S13a, i am playing simular games, just recieved it last week.

 

[corkyg]

Moved from PC Gaming, and that results in two duplicate threads in the same forum.

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2304363

Combine 'em!