Good CPU vs good GPU vs good APU?

ankushkool

ankushkool

Youngling
Good CPU vs good GPU vs good APU? 15k - 25k

The title clearly states the confusion i am in, as i wont get all of these in low price so need help to decide! :-D

1) What is your budget? INR 15k to 25k

2) What size & weight consideration (if any) would you prefer?: 12" to 14"

3) Are there any brands that you prefer or any you really don't like?
a. Like: NA
b. Dislike: HP/Compaq/Dell

4) What are the primary tasks will you be performing with this notebook?
a) Browsing
b) documents (including heavy pdfs)
c) image editing (Photoshop)
d) Occational Multiplayer gaming (Mostly Quake 3, CS, AOE 3, Fifa etc)


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


6) Anything else you would like to say?
a) Good battery life
b) Low heat and noise


Here are few options i am looking at:
Lenovo X Series X120E/ AMD APU Dual Core / Radeon HD 6310 (19k)
Asus X43 X43U-VX083D /AMD Fusion APU Dual Core/ Radeon HD 6250 (19k)
Toshiba Satellite C640-I4016 /Ci3/ Intel HD Graphics (23k)
Samsung NP305-U1A-A02IN /AMD APU Dual Core/ Radeon HD (model not sure) (22k)
Samsung NP-305-UIA-AOA / AMD Brazos/ Radeon HD (model not sure) (23k)
Asus X Series X44H /2nd Gen Ci3/ Intel HD Graphics 3000 (23k)


***Anyone using AMD APU dual core? it better than Ci3???
 
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Monk

Monk

Journeyman
AMD Dual core isn't good as i3. In fact comparison between two cannot be justified.
AMD Dual can be compared to Intel Atom.

Best laptop for you:
X44H-VX025D / Core i3 / 2 GB / 500 GB / Free DOS.
 
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captain_volt

Broken In
you should extend your budget by 2000.. and get asus x53TA with AMd quad core apu with discrete gfx. great laptop in this price....
 
coderunknown

coderunknown

Retired Forum Mod
^^ as he said. X53TA.

also E350/E450 trails Pentium Dual Core in processing power. you'll need a good mix of processing power + GPU. 2nd gen Core i3 too will handle your task but they lack graphics power.
 
Monk

Monk

Journeyman
Flipkart is being very notorious with its pricing, for some odd reason they have increased the price of X53TA to almost 1K!
 
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ankushkool

ankushkool

Youngling
X53TA (although its really good) is not only over my budget but also has 15.6 screen which breaks the deal...

As i said gaming will be very occational... portability and battery life is what i am looking for :)

X44H-VX025D seems a good choice... any other options... something that is not listed on Flipkart :p
 
Monk

Monk

Journeyman
please suggest! sud i go for Pentium Dual core @ 21k or i3 at 24k???
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Got this from another forum.

Well here are the primary differences --

1. cut down L3 cache, 1MB lower in the Dual core vis-a-vis Core i3
2. lack of Intel HD Graphics 3000, might not mean much, but lack of this means lack of a lot of Intel specific advantages like -- Intl QuickSync.
3. Hyper-Threaded cores and the lack of it in the Pentium Dual-core, again not a deal breaker but overall better for mobile work.
4. Comparision Chart Between Dualcore vs Intel i3, rest of the comparison charts for further refined combing of details for you Sire.
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Clearly you should go for i3, since its a better & newer processor. It will be a better buy keeping future in mind.
 
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ankushkool

ankushkool

Youngling
Thanks a lot, that helped a lot :)

so now i think the best one to go for amoung these is Asus X Series X44H :)
 
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$$Lionking$$

$$Lionking$$

In the zone
ankush - the one with pentium dual core will blow your socks off with its performance.. that dual core -is faster than phenom II X2 running at 3GHz in a desktop version.

The i3 notebook has 1st gen i3. go for Pentium one.. it will do all your work nicely...
at the end of the day it doesnt matter how much cache you had or did you have multi threading or not - what matters is how well you can do ur work... njoi! :)
 
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