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se7en

Right off the assembly line
Guys Please help me out.

Which one should I buy?

Samsung Series 5 Ultrabook (The one with AMD processors) - 40K
HP ENVY 4 ( i3 Ivy Bridge) - 47K

I just want my laptop to be lightweight and should give good battery life.I will only use it to watch movies,surf the web and a do a little bit of coding.Any other suggestions are also welcome.Thanks a lot.
 
nikufellow

nikufellow

In the zone
yomanabhi said:
1) What is your budget? (INR or USD)
50-55K

2) What size & weight consideration (if any) would you prefer?


  • Mainstream; 15" - 16" screen
  • Desktop Replacement; 17"+ screen




3) Are there any brands that you prefer or any you really don't like?
Not a brand freak

4) What are the primary tasks will you be performing with this notebook?
Purely Gaming

5) What screen resolution(s) & type (glossy/matte) would you prefer?
want matte screen....as i don't want annoying reflections

6) Anything else you would like to say?
Local Purchase in chandigarh
Want to play heavy games like Call of duty: Black ops 2, Crysis 2 etc

Want a powerful gpu ...to play heavy games
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well get this Samsung NP550P5C-S05IN Ultrabook ( Intel Core i7-3630QM/8 GB /1 TB HDD/ Win8/ Nvidia Graphics GeForce GT 650M- 2GB/15.6 Inch) - Buy Laptops Online @ Lowest Prices | Snapdeal
should be available locally for much less !
 
topgear

topgear

Super Moderator
Staff member
another point to note is the BR combo drive .. btw, on FK's spec page the lappy has linux but acc to dell's website it comes with win 7.
 
©mß

©mß

Journeyman
Does Sony Vaio SVE1513CYNB has bluetooth?
I am planning to buy it soon.
So, I am a little bit confused here.
 
101gamzer

101gamzer

Ambassador of Buzz
ankitkr091 said:
How is this laptop for gaming ??


Dell Inspiron 14R 5421-TOUCH (Intel Core i5 3337U - 4GB RAM- 500GB Hard Disk Drive- 14 Inch HD Touch Screen- NVIDIA GeForce GT730M 2GB- Windows 8 Single Language 64-Bit) (Silver) - Buy Laptops Online @ Lowest Prices | Snapdeal


It has i5+gt 730m..
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'U' CPUs is not for gaming its good for travelers and if your into gaming get an 'M' processor and decent GPU.
 
U

unsetld

Broken In
1) What is your budget? (INR or USD)

20k - 30 k INR

2) What size & weight consideration (if any) would you prefer?
Mainstream; 15" - 18" screen


3) Are there any brands that you prefer or any you really don't like?
a. Like: Lenovo , Sony , Toshiba , Samsung (Don't want any type of chrome os ), Acer , AMD
b. Dislike: Dell , Ibm , HP and Intel


4) What are the primary tasks will you be performing with this notebook ?

1. Ms office
2. Autocad latest version
3. Vmware
4. Internet Browsing, skype, online voice and text chatting.
5. If sometimes playing mid level games
6. Every Day computing



5) What screen resolution(s) & type (glossy/matte) would you prefer?

good screen and excellent resolution and especially very very cool for the eyes because i have high index spects.


6) Anything else you would like to say?

1. Excellent battery life and battery backup

2. I am going to install windows 7 ultimate but it should be able to run windows 8 smoothly.

3. Good navigation controls and good keyboard.

4. It should not have any hardware and software problems

These are the points which i know that a good laptop should have and if i am missing any point please remind me...


Question:

"Will a 64 bit os is best or 32 bit os ??? ( i think that there is shortage of 64 bit software )"?

Thank you.
 
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Vivek Ananda

Right off the assembly line
i bought samsung 300e5v-s02in which has processer intel i3 3120m recently and to my surprise the windows experience for processor is just 4.9 to which i was expecting 6.9 as per many reviews. also the Geekbench 2.4 score was just 2700 as opposed to the scores of over 5500 for the same processer users. then i noticed that the clockspeed of the laptop never goes beyond 1200mhz(specification says 2.5ghz). i'm worried what's the cause of it . please help me out

P.S-the reported benchmarks are done in high performance mode and i also disabled power saving mode in BIOS


here are some info about my processor

General Information :
Real Frequency : 1197.39
Multiplier : 12x

Low/High Multiplier : 12
Northbridge Voltage : 73
Multiplier Locked : Yes
Marketing Frequency : 25
Highest Performances : Unspecified
Energy Maximized : No



Front Side Bus Informat
Bus Speed : 99.77 MHz

Turbo Mode : No



Turbo Technology :

Efficiency ratio (max.)
TDP Limit : 35 watts

O/C Bins : None

Ratio 1 Core : 25

Ratio 2 Cores : 25

Ratio 3 Cores : 25

Ratio 4 Cores : 25

Min. Power : 24 watts



Initial Frequencies :
Frequency : 2500 MHz

Bus Speed : 100.00 MHz



Frequency Control :

Core #1 : 1197.38 MHz

Core #2 : 1197.42 MHz



Control Clock Frequency :

Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST) : Yes-disabled
C1E - Enhanced Halt Mode : No
Dynamic FSB : Yes - Disabled
Dynamic Acceleration (IDA) :No
Turbo Mode : No



Thermal Information :

Thermal Design Power : 35 W

Core Power : 16.76 W (estimat
Thermal control TM1 : Yes -
Thermal control TM2 : No

Thermal Control Circuit : No
Digital Thermal Sensor : No

Clock Modulation (ODCM) En: No
 
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topgear

topgear

Super Moderator
Staff member
disable all power saving features from bios and set your windows to run in max performance mode and run the laptop from a wall socket instead of battery power and see the result.
 
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Vivek Ananda

Right off the assembly line
topgear said:
disable all power saving features from bios and set your windows to run in max performance mode and run the laptop from a wall socket instead of battery power and see the result.
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Thank you for your response, but the reported benchmarks are done in high performance mode and i also disabled power saving mode in BIOS
 
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