Our house was broken into about a month ago and among the things stolen was my sons laptop. This was my old laptop with an Intel Core2Duo processor and nVidia graphics card.
Since he is heavily into Hit Film and Vegas software, and since Hit Film won't even run on the Intel integrated graphics that are on all the i3,i5 and i7 budget laptopsI replaced it with an HP quad core A8 with ATI graphics. It cost me all of $500.
I am amazed at how fast this little laptop is. The Windows 7 performance index is actually a higher number than my i7 quad core with nVidia graphics! For anyone on a budget, the AMD/ATI systems provide pretty competent systems for a fraction of the price of Intel/nVidia combos.
Since he is heavily into Hit Film and Vegas software, and since Hit Film won't even run on the Intel integrated graphics that are on all the i3,i5 and i7 budget laptopsI replaced it with an HP quad core A8 with ATI graphics. It cost me all of $500.
I am amazed at how fast this little laptop is. The Windows 7 performance index is actually a higher number than my i7 quad core with nVidia graphics! For anyone on a budget, the AMD/ATI systems provide pretty competent systems for a fraction of the price of Intel/nVidia combos.